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Lauren McKenzie

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Anti-capitalist elder millesbian 💜 the only way to save ourselves is to save each other ✨i am 40 now✨ “Deranged Online Leftist” 💕🍍 @acab4cutie.top

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 19d

This happened under Biden.

I need y’all to stop pretending like this is just a Team Red issue.

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · Jan 16

Imagine still believing that America is the land of the free when they’re doing this to a journalist at a press conference

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 7h

“ICE agents” are cruel, vile dipshits desperate to hurt anyone they can get away with hurting.

Laws won’t stop them. We have to.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 7h

Well this says a lot about where we’re at, doesn’t it

Photo of armed men shooting pepper spray at a priest

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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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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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 7h

“for Israelis”

Oh fuck off

The costs of Israel's longest war, for Israelis

Israelis are paying heavy costs for the longest war in their history: a mental health crisis, trauma, unprecedented division during wartime, animosity abroad and apathy for Palestinian suffering.

www.npr.org

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 17h

Alright that’s enough internet

Off to learn React hooks and Bootstrap and Typescript

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Please do something just for you today. Get yourself a little treat, or go look at some trees, or whatever people do not in the desert lol

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 17h

Fucking hell did they?

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 17h

Gaza is facing its darkest phase: starvation, isolation, and relentless attacks. Families are losing everything, children are at extreme risk, and aid is blocked. We cannot look away.

Yousef Aljamal reports from July of this year.

This Is the Worst Phase of the Gaza Genocide

With aid deliveries being limited severely since March, Palestinians are facing extreme levels of starvation, isolation and murder by Israel.

inthesetimes.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19h

“Conversion therapy” is a euphemism for child abuse, and every mainstream medical and mental health organization has rejected this practice for decades. There is no evidence that it does anything besides harm children. It is one of the few subjects where there is an overwhelming medical consensus.

Conversion therapy is universally opposed as harmful by major medical organizations, including (but not limited to) the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, American Medical Association(AMA), American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association (APA), and the American School Health Association.
Links: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/medical-experts-lgbtq-people-agree-conversion-therapy-is-no-replacement-for-health-care

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 17h

I’m sorry

WHAT

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 17h

Wait what

Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 19h

Hello again @aaron.bsky.team.

Does Bluesky has a special contract with thehive.AI where thehive.AI won’t use Bluesky users posts for their GenAI?

Or is Bluesky actually feeding every user post (Art & Writing) to a GenAI system that profits off of copyrighted material not intended for it?

James Dreben @jdreben.omg.lol · Jul 3

What’s up with this… Is 1) The Hive really being used, and 2) using images here for generative AI? Pretty bad look if true

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 19d

This happened under Biden.

I need y’all to stop pretending like this is just a Team Red issue.

Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · Jan 16

Imagine still believing that America is the land of the free when they’re doing this to a journalist at a press conference

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 17h

Why is fighting back against a genocidal monster considered a war crime to you?

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 17h

When a people fight back against a genocidal regime, that’s not a war crime, sir.

Also, please stop quoting the “over 67,000” figure when that probably doesn’t even cover the murdered children.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes, I don’t want to post the horrible things ICE Gestapo r doin cuz I feel Taco n his Cult want us 2 post it 2 scare Americans. So, I try to balance the posts w Taco Terror n the other side of what’s happening w protesters. #portland #iceout

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 21h

I need people to stop referring to conversion "therapy" as something that's been discredited or doesn't work. That's like saying torture is "discredited" or doesn't work. That they don't work for their stated purpose is secondary to the fact that they DO work for their REAL purpose: