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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2h

Haha I’m a lifetime member. Joined in 2017. Here’s a pic from a drive in 2020. Join me & tell fascists to eat our collective ass: www.dsausa.org

Comedian, London UK
Rob Delaney joined DSA

I joined DSA because I'm angry that workers live hand to
mouth and
and go bankrupt from medical debt while billionaires, aided by the government they've bought, stoke division and steal from me and you. Enough. (Also I love my fellow man; that's you)"
Join today at dsausa.org/join

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, that’s @propublica.org! This Newsroom Is Looking For Its Next Big Tip on the Train

This Newsroom Is Looking For Its Next Big Tip on the Train — Streetsblog USA

Investigative journalists at ProPublica are betting that the next big tipster is riding the rails right now — and reaching out to find them.

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James @sirjamesa12.bsky.social · 16h

Women's rights is a labor issue part #1143143201092431798.

California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 18h

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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California Fast Food Workers Union @cafastfoodunion.org · 18h

BREAKING: Burger King workers are on strike in Oakland due to pregnancy discrimination.

The store cut our coworker’s hours because she is pregnant and asked for accommodations to ensure a safe pregnancy. 🧵

#UnionsForAll

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

That's Jack Posobiec of pizzagate fame sitting at this table with the president, attorney general, FBI director, and DHS secretary.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 23h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 23h

1,000+ people currently imprisoned in Louisiana were convicted by split juries — ruled unconstitutional in 2020.

Yet the state Supreme Court has declined to grant new trials, and lawmakers have repeatedly denied a reexamination of their cases.

With @veritenews.org

An Unconstitutional “Jim Crow Jury” Sent Him to Prison for Life. A New Law Aims to Keep Him There.

Five years ago, the Supreme Court decided that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional. But for this Louisiana prisoner — and hundreds of others — “tough on crime” state leaders have ensured t...

www.propublica.org

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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 2d

If the right accuse the left of something (terrorist sympathising, communism, antisemitism etc) the media will ask the left to defend themselves from that charge.

If the left accuse the right of something (racism, fascism, colonialism), the media will ask the left to justify that charge.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

P.S. I've been updating docs.blacksky.community based on questions and feedback so check that out.

Thanks again to the folks who trust us and contribute the funds that allow to continue pursuing this mission of providing communities with autonomous, safe spaces.

Gonna get back to work now 👨🏾‍💻

Introduction | Blacksky Documentation

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 1d

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

Guys like this is exactly why phrasing like “stay woke” came about

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Anti-woke crusader Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

Pete Hegseth praised DEI and working with Democrats while at Harvard, report says

www.independent.co.uk

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Actually, I think the far-right is accurately identifying an existential issue.

So many of the most vehement far-right were either heavily bullied or did the bullying.

Teaching empathy to the next generation is fundamentally at odds with conservative political philosophy.

That's why they hate it.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

wtf is wrong with these people

NYT: A Campaign to 'Bring Back Bullying'

On social media, some are arguing that bullying deserves a second look. Trolling or not, the push seems to reflect a general turn away from sensitivity.

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 2d

I'm conflicted between capturing a ocean moonrise and a barn owl I already took a decent picture of.

Euthyphro @euthyphro.bsky.social · 2d

Full moon rising

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

who could forget when TFP published a totally dishonest hatchet job on a youth gender clinic from a bilious transphobe that (again) turned out to be bullshit, and she refused to take that down too prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

The Useful Idiots Fueling the Right-Wing Transphobia Panic

Today on TAP: Prominent center-left journalists were swindled by obvious nonsense about a St. Louis gender clinic.

prospect.org

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2d

NEW in Bolts: We just released our guide to November’s elections. Now it’s your turn: ask us anything about this busy election cycle.

What’s on the Ballot this Fall: Send Us Your Questions

We just released our guide to November’s elections. Now it’s your turn: ask us anything about this busy election cycle.

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COYOTE @coyotemedia.org · 2d

Check out our new series of spotlights on Bay Area worker coops! In our first installment, @soleilho.com drops in on the 50-year-old Rainbow Grocery Cooperative in SF to find out what makes it work — and to hear some tasty lore (including a fistfight over what color to paint the store building! 👀)

Bay Area Co-ops: ‘A Bunch of Weirdos’ Run a Grocery Store

Staff at San Francisco’s Rainbow Grocery reflect on collectivity, retail personhood, and an aesthetic disagreement that ended in a fistfight.

www.coyotemedia.org

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

The real reason why Bluesky is failing so bad at moderation is simply because they're scared of congressional investigations by Republicans and having to spend millions on lawyers they they don't have to defend against it. It's all political and about self preservation.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

A really dumb thread pretending to find out about a key issue of content moderation that has existed forever. Users who technically follow the rules but cause substantial real world harm to users and others off platform, i.e. the Libs of Tiktok problem.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/cont...

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 2d

For the first time in history, DSA has 80,000 members in good standing! Tens of thousands of new members have joined the last year alone. In the face of rising fascism, a US-backed genocide, and an escalating climate crisis, socialism is the only path forward. 1/3

DSA Members in Good Standing -- 80K and Counting! Join today! dsausa.org/join Line graph showing number of members in good standing rising from 50,000 in October 2024 to 80,000 in September 2025.

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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.com · 2d

How Debt Collectors Spin Riches from Zombie Home Loans www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

A new investigation from Bloomberg using exclusive #DDoSecrets exposes how debt collectors and the housing industry take advantage of people

How Debt Collectors Spin Riches from Zombie Loans

Bloomberg News obtained a trove of internal records from one debt collector that reveals how the industry uses large bills and threats of foreclosure to blindside homeowners across the US.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

NEW: After paying for hotel rooms to shelter homeless people, Seattle deliberately left them vacant.

By the end of 2024, taxpayers were spending $4,200 a month per empty room at a time when thousands of residents were without a roof over their heads.

Seattle Spent Millions on Hotel Rooms to Shelter Unhoused People. Then It Stopped Filling Them.

Early last year, the city signed a $2.7 million lease extension to continue using a hotel’s rooms as shelter space. Yet despite committing to pay the rent, the city stopped sending people there.

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 3d

I'd vote for him

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

More than 800,000 Uber and Lyft drivers in California will be able to unionize under a bill that has now been signed into law.

The law also requires the corporate giants to bargain with these workers in good faith.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people.

But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no.

By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com

Alaska Vowed to Resolve Murders of Indigenous People. Now It Refuses to Provide Their Names.

When the nonprofit Data for Indigenous Justice filed public records requests with the Alaska Department of Public Safety concerning cases it had investigated, the state rejected them.

www.propublica.org

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