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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 43m

Israelis are hostages. But Palestinians are prisoners.

Language matters. But, two years on, apparently it still doesn’t to many mainstream media outlets.

What a failure it has been.

A news alert text from Sky News. It says:
Lists of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners to be released under swap deal have been exchanged, Hamas says.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1h

The vast majority of the country has no idea how out of control ICE is right now. Yes, there's reporting on ICE raids and protests, but most people are not seeing photos and videos of horrific incidents like this, or the apartment building raid.

If most people did know they'd be horrified.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 19h

One of the things that brings me the greatest despair in authoritarianism is watching people react to state violence the way they react to domestic violence.

By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.

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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 43m

All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11h

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2h

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 2h

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 2d

Growing up in evangelical churches in West Texas, it was taken as a given that the End Times would involve agents of the federal government hunting and rounding up Christians, brutalizing them, and humiliating them publicly before tossing them into concentration camps, or elsewise disappearing them.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 2h

some ppl who said this to me later asked me to help them write their cover letter, resume, edit their answers for applications.

Ppl who feel the same now are stealing the books and stories I wrote, which I used my knowledge of English lit to write, because cash.

Oh no we can't write email so hard!

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 3h

Don’t listen to anyone who minimizes the threat of a government that “only” wants to tighten the authoritarian surveillance noose for “some” people. THATS ALWAYS HOW IT BEGINS YOU FASCISM ENABLERS.

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 3h

On social media and their website, the Liberal Democrats have claimed “Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID”.

But this isn’t the case, and we can’t find any evidence the Prime Minister said it was.

Digital ID won’t be mandatory for ‘everyone in the UK’ – Full Fact

The Liberal Democrats have claimed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said everyone in the UK will have to have digital ID, but that’s not the case.

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 3h

this is the guy responsible for the decimation of trans healthcare

this is a good example of how ppl refuse to acknowledge that transphobia causes problems

if there'd been pushback on him then we wouldn't be here now

the government used us trans ppl as a blueprint now they're using it on others

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h

Just as we are beginning to understand the biochemical basis of this horrendous condition, the government appoints the man perhaps most responsible for the mischaracterisation of ME/CFS – Simon Wesseley - to its *overdiagnosis* commission. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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corey jae white 🏳️‍⚧️ @coreyjwhite.com · 5h

Lesbianism - it just works!

Peta (It's spooky time 🎃) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ptchronic.bsky.social · 12h

Happy International Lesbian Day!

Bathroom wall graffiti that says, "Try lesbianism"

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 9h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 6h

Medical institutions treat trans people as a population to surveil, manage, and dissect, rather than as people to assist or treat with basic dignity.

Typewriter Skeleton @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 6h

Oslo University Hospital caught using trans patients' journals for research purposes:
- Without the patients' consent to participate in research
- Affecting minors
- 1700 of them
- Taking highly sensitive information from said journals

This is a HUGE breach.

Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social · 9h

Tidligere i år meldte vi et forskningsprosjekt til redelighetsutvalget ved OUS og UiO.

Nå er forskerne felt for alvorlige brudd på forskningsetiske normer.

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 6h

meant to say that the third chapter of "Might Is Right" on cannibalism is discussed here

www.twitch.tv/videos/25826...

reactionaries have not changed in 100 years

(someone please bug us to get the article of this episode actually posted on our site before Saturday when the podcast is released)

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 13h

hey my Internet and Electricity are getting shut off soon

please send tips

i begged for extensions and threw money at it to knock the bills down as much as possible but now these guys are like 'hey you gotta pay up or shut off time "

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 11h

Following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, organizers have vowed that they will continue “to sail until Gaza is free.” They’ve already announced that the next mission will send a thousand ships to Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/glob...

Global Sumud Flotilla vows to keep sailing ‘until Gaza is free’ following Israel’s interception of over 40 of its vessels

Following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, organizers have vowed that they will continue “to sail until Gaza is free.” They’ve already announced that the next mission will send...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

Gaza aid flotilla says Israeli forces 'attack convoy', intercept boats reut.rs/46ECX6w

Gaza aid flotilla says Israeli forces 'attack convoy', intercept boats

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said on Wednesday its vessels were "under attack" by the Israeli military, which intercepted several boats sailing toward the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 12h

Yesterday.

"alaa_hathleen

The occupation forces arrested my cousin, Khaleel Al-Hathaleen, the head of our village council."

www.threads.com/@alaa_hathle...

#BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #Israel #IsraelNews #MiddleEast #MiddleEastNews #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews #Zionism

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9h

Fascinating report just released by DropSite which reveals that David Frum, while working on a profile of an Israeli ambassador to the United Nations for the Atlantic, was also shadow-writing speeches for that same ambassador.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Amano Jack @amano-jack.bsky.social · 21h

Just in case someone missed this detail:
Wells Fargo used the ICE orks to clear out a building of lawful residents to make a buck

Again, a military terror purge was carried out with naked children in handcuffs for the benefit of Wells Fargo execs

A corrupt corp that will bleat at any reciprocity

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 22h

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · Mar 22

the problems you suffer from are too big for you to solve

the steps you can take to push back against these problems are too small and ineffective to actually solve them. you'll suffer terribly even for trying to push back

do it anyway

it's coming regardless

so choose your hill, and hold it

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 8h

happy international lesbian day (Oct. 8) to all who observe

Peta (It's spooky time 🎃) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ptchronic.bsky.social · 12h

Happy International Lesbian Day!

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Gina Warren @gina-warren.bsky.social · 11h

People I reached out to in 2015 (Ohio, Oklahoma, Kentucky) also confirmed these ideas & more being fed to them from pulpits. Not to fear monger, just please be aware & stay safe!

Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 2d

Growing up in evangelical churches in West Texas, it was taken as a given that the End Times would involve agents of the federal government hunting and rounding up Christians, brutalizing them, and humiliating them publicly before tossing them into concentration camps, or elsewise disappearing them.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Jun 7

The first secret police organization in fascist Italy—the precursor to the German Gestapo—was the OVRA, the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism.

Those who fear-monger about "Antifa" are walking directly in Mussolini's footsteps.

Background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVRA

A design reading "Anti-Fascism is Self-Defense"

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 9h

You can also read some other people’s analysis, if you prefer.

web.archive.org/web/20230326...

queersatanic.com/the-costs-of... (includes archive)

www.jezebel.com/satanic-temp...

www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

queersatanic.com/the-satanic-... (roundup)

www.riverfronttimes.com/news/the-sat...

Schism – The Satanic Temple, a Lawsuit, and the Necessity of Clear Minded Settlement

In this article we will explore the details of a lawsuit (United Federation of Churches LLC v. Johnson et al., Case No. 2:20-cv-00509-RAJ) filed by the United Federation of Churches LLC, better known ...

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