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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

If they can’t get a judge, I bet they can find a notary!!!

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

They sure are making it obvious that there’s something in the Epstein files that they don’t want us to know about!!!

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 4h

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for an eighth day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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Donna White @dmhwhite.bsky.social · 8h

🏴‍☠️ Black Caesar was a famous Black pirate who joined Blackbeard's crew on Queen Anne's Revenge.

Legend surrounds his earlier chapters - African royalty deceived into slavery before a chance escape allowed him to terrorise the Florida Keys. #BlackHistoryMonth > www.britannica.com/story/black-...

Colour image of suggested depiction of Black pirate known as Black Caesar. A Black man with black hat, wearing gold hoop earrings and wearing a burgundy jacket and white tunic with brown belt with brass buckle worn as sash to hold a sword. He is stood aboard a boat with ropes and waves seen in the background.

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly good for him!!!

Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

Right wingers: “the Bible says gay is a sin therefore we can’t allow gay people to have equal rights, also we want to force everyone to follow (our interpretation of) biblical law regarding abortion and birth control”

Also right-wingers: “love thy neighbor? What kind of libtard woke shit is that??”

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

Starbucks does a nondenominational holiday cup: right-wingers shit themselves over an imaginary “war on Christians”

Guys in military fatigues with the backing of the state mace a Christian pastor for protesting things that go against his religious values: crickets from right-wingers!

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

“God will judge them” maybe so! I sure hope there’s some cosmic justice to the universe.

History will definitely judge them, and contemporary courts should as well lest we all suffer the judgments of history and god for failing to exercise our power to hold them accountable here and now.

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 2h

“Abuse” is not a swear word or a slur. Unnecessary censorship is annoying, stop that.

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 3h

Also if it’s minor and you don’t want anyone to worry why are you saying you need EVERYONE to pray for her? Be for real, drama llama!

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Cae, but Spooky 🎃👻🪦 @caedmonfaith.bsky.social · 3h

14 sent this to me and I’m cackling

Text reads: “mpreg” “mpreg” okay but what about mabortion? Do you not care about providing basic healthcare needs for our kings? One step further; what about fpreg? No I don’t mean normative pregnancy you uneducated buffoon I mean taking a trip to scissor town and coming back knocked up. What about that, huh?? Get woker.

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 3h

RIGHT like WHO IS SHE HARMING if she gets off on being a woman???

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May “Bunny” Peterson 🦄 (Mostly Updates ) @goddessblade.bsky.social · 4h

IMO the most egregious thing about AGP theory is how deeply FAKE the whole panic is based on the evidence.

If gendered self-arousal as a trait exists, SO WHAT? There’s no evidence linking it to any kind of bad behavior—the connection is entirely engineered by conjecture and transmisogyny!

Alice In Wunderland @aliceinwunderl3.bsky.social · 1d

I also just do not think that being aroused by the idea of a being a woman is a murderous arousal and the only reason for that connection is a patriarchal obsession with elevating manhood, as the fuckor and never the fuckee, as the greatest state any human can achieve.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if you needed another reason to stop using spotify:

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis

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Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h

Uggggghhhhhhh

(Getting off Spotify is on my plans list! I just have more pressing concerns to allocate my “figure out a whole new system” spoons to first and know that going without my playlists in the meantime would absolutely fuck my mental health)

Redshift @redshiftsinger.bsky.social · 4h

I’m glad Dolly’s alright but I’m calling bs on “didn’t mean to scare anyone”. One does not post about being “up all night praying” over a minor health matter unless one intends to be dramatic. 😒

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 4h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4h

Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Mike Johnson is holding Congress out of session for two reasons: number one, so that way there are no negotiations; and number two, to cover for all the pedophiles on Epstein's list...They're covering for pedophiles and dropping your healthcare coverage."

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 4h

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Euronews @euronews.com · 8h

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

Solar power named the world’s cheapest energy source

Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11h

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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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Hazel Domain @hazeldomain.bsky.social · 4h

Anyway if you’re in Maine take a minute and go vote to preserve voting.

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