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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 20h

British prosecutors will appeal against dismissal of terrorism charge against Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh. Read here why the British state is so desperate to silence @kneecapceol.bsky.social:

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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Kevin (Des) @jambodes.bsky.social · 1d

Not to forget that Avon and Somerset Police are still "investigating" Bob Vylan, months after the supposed "outrage".

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 1d

I regret to inform you this only applies to the white, male, powerful, rich, connected, and Christian

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 1d

I regret to inform you this only applies to the white, male, powerful, rich, connected, and Christian

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 1d

RIP CBS, such as it was

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

you are no longer allowed to have imposter syndrome.

not after this bari omgwtf weiss situation.

you're literally not allowed to feel imposter syndrome ANYMORE

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 1d

“Given these actions against Kneecap and ongoing efforts to censor the group, it’s essential to ask: Why are governments so scared of the spread of decolonial speech?”

@nicolefroio.bsky.social answers this question effectively in this must-read on censorship and the revolutionary potential of music

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Federal agents have been intimidating us over our reporting since June. Attacks on the press didn't start this month.

In the last several weeks, we've witnessed a horrifying escalation of violence against protesters, neighbors, anyone who comes near these agents. They are out of control.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

Liberals will appease the fascists before allowing you to protect yourself or community from fascist violence.

The mayor is doing the fascists job for them by curtailing our first amendment right to protest

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 1d

NEW! from @nicolefroio.bsky.social: The reason governments, universities, and other public institutions across the world want to quash pro-Palestine speech—including art and music—is because they understand the danger it poses to life as we know it. Which is all the more reason to say it louder.

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

In light of the sentencing of P. Diddy, I want to re-share @freeblackgirl.bsky.social's piece on how the court case would've gone differently if we valued sex workers as a society:

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If We Valued Sex Workers, the Outcome of the Diddy Trial Would Have Been Different

What if Diddy’s victims were protected by labor laws instead of relying on the lack of justice of a sexist trial?

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

On Friday, we brought back Spooky Flytrap Fridays, and @sesmith.lol dug into the recent growth in queer and trans horror that explicitly explores the experience of living in a marginalized body--and what that has to do with millenials' inability to buy homes.

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Housing Haunts Me

If only getting a mortgage was as easy as opening a book.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

Best cure for Sunday Scaries? Catching up on what The Flytrap has been up to. First up, @sesmith.lol on how talking about mentally ill people in the wake of mass shootings is a feature of eugenics and populational control: the-flytrap.ghost.io/mental-illne...

Will the Real Crazy Ones Please Stand Up

Dismissing things we don’t like as ‘insane’ is doing the oppressors’ work for them.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

Also, given that Bad Bunny hosted SNL again (does he LIVE THERE now?), here's @nicolefroio.bsky.social's analysis of his latest album: the-flytrap.ghost.io/deb-tirar-m-...

“DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is Bad Bunny’s Latest Decolonial Text

Bad Bunny’s new album places loss at the center of tropical paradise, elucidating vacation spots as colonial constructs.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

For @prismreports.org, co-founder @nicolefroio.bsky.social spent months speaking to pro-Palestine workers in the humanitarian aid field to better understand why calling what's happening in the Gaza Strip a g3n0cid3 is so difficult.

prismreports.org/2025/10/02/g...

Why don’t humanitarian aid groups call it a genocide?

Humanitarian aid and global development groups want to appear neutral, experts say, but many are funded by governments that do not recognize Palestine as a state

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

Also this week, for Religious Dispatches, @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social dug into studies that indicate youth trust in media institutions is at an all-time low: religiondispatches.org/rarely-is-th...

Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning conspiracy theories on their phones?

Cell phone bans in K-12 institutions were a hot topic this back-to-school season. All 50 states and D.C. have instituted some version of a cell phone ban at the state or district level. These bans are...

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 2d

Honest to god, pun both intended and not intended, it is about time that SOMEBODY who understands UK evangelicals and their much more complicated relationship with politics than their US Christian nationalist brethren, started commenting. Because otherwise it’s all bullshit.

(That person is not me)

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3d

For those who take a niche interest in the Americanisation of UK rightwing politics, formerly Tory-linked student group Turning Point are increasingly going down the Charlie Kirk-type evangelical path.

[Not the point, but I love the idea of 2025 Soho being some hotbed of sin]

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 7d

Requiring media literacy classes for teens could be a great idea—but if “media literacy” means teaching that the reporting in The NY Times and Fox News is unbiased, then not so much

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Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · 7d

being the editor means no one can stop you from making dumb GWB jokes in the headline

the latest from @religiondispatches.org by @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social on why "media literacy" falls short in addressing the infowars for democracy

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Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning conspiracy theories on their phones?

Cell phone bans in K-12 institutions were a hot topic this back-to-school season. All 50 states and D.C. have instituted some version of a cell phone ban at the state or district level. These bans are...

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 2d

And you clearly didn’t read my article or the report the relevant part of it was based on (which prescribes precisely this counterproductive version of “media literacy) education

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 2d

And you clearly didn’t read my article or the report the relevant part of it was based on (which prescribes precisely this counterproductive version of “media literacy) education

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 3d

They teach evangelical kids that it is good to “lie for Jesus”...that it is ok to deceive if the goal is Christian domination

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Old but still relevant, unfortunately chrisstroop.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/c...

#ChristianAltFacts, or, how the Christian Right Broke America

Christopher Douglas’s article “The Religious Origins of Fake News and ‘Alternative Facts,'” published yesterday on Religion Dispatches, is a must read for anyone who wants t…

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 3d

wild to see a Western president say this after listening to scholars say this for over a decade lol

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 4d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 4d

Happy Spooky Flytrap Friday!! You know what's spooky? The housing market! @sesmith.lol writes about how they are haunted by buying somewhere to live and how that millenial trend has spawned a new housing-related horror genre in literature: the-flytrap.ghost.io/housing-haun...

Housing Haunts Me

If only getting a mortgage was as easy as opening a book.

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Island of Reil - medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome @islandofreil.bsky.social · 5d

#NoTrueChristian

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · Jun 18

It’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people.

But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person.

Denial makes things worse

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rowan ward 🏳️‍⚧️ @rogueclown.bsky.social · 6d

according to a post from the Berwyn-Cicero Rapid Response Network this morning, ICE is abducting people from the Wal-Mart next door to Hawthorne.

ICE should not exist. this should not be happening anywhere. and now it's happening right next to a place that's been my second home for a dozen years.

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 6d

Bingo (see what I did there?)

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