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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 3h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Peggy Carter next to Steve Rogers in Captain America. I'll let you decide which is the founder and which is the girlfriend.

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The Sasha @thesasha.bsky.social · 55m

Mood

Linette🌻 @ohtiniestplanet.bsky.social · 1h

it's been a rough year

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 4h

Woo hoo!! Get yours here:

drive.google.com/drive/folder...

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Jill BSky @jilles.bsky.social · 1h

PA! Heads up!

Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 1d

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 10h

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katherine // it's TIME FOR ☃️🧑‍🎄🎁🎄 @netkitten.net · 8h

i hope zohran and brennan make american girl doll shoes together on stream

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Washington State Department of Health @doh.wa.gov · 8h

Washington's #WIC program is still operating.
Please continue to:
✅ Use your benefits as usual
✅ Attend your appointments
✅ Access services like nutrition education & breastfeeding support
⚠️ Due to the federal shutdown, some local WIC clinics may temporarily close, but many will remain open

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 7h

This is a terrific book and here's a great chance to pick it up without making Bezos richer.

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 13h

oh hey if you’ve been meaning to pick up Horror For Weenies, Bookshop is having an anti-prime day free shipping sale (also a slight discount on the book!): bookshop.org/a/293/978168...

Horror for Weenies: Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

Everything You Need to Know About the Films You're Too Scared to Watch

bookshop.org

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Dec 14

"we have community moderators here, that's what distinguishes us!"

Cool, where are they?

"Oh, they're deactivating because we literally told kiwi farms and libs of tiktok that it is open season on them"

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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 7h

When Cuomo talks about rebuilding on the same site, what he's actually promoting is the isolation and dehumanization of incarcerated people, and a degree of spatial insulation that allows abuse to continue unseen.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 6h

stopped in at the twisted spine in Brooklyn to sign some books, in case there's anybody who wants a hello sunshine but won't be at con!

bookshelf with signed books including 4 hello sunshines

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The Sasha @thesasha.bsky.social · 4h

Also have an amazing tine

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The Sasha @thesasha.bsky.social · 4h

A few hours later “we are going to waiting for Godot but not for a few hours”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

no they're LITERALLY exaggerating this issue. there is absolutely no data backing up their claims. ffs just say that!!

NBC news: The discussions come as Trump has sought to deploy National Guard troops in several major cities — including Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon — saying they’re needed to reduce crime and protect Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials from protesters. Critics have said that the Trump administration is exaggerating issues in those cities.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 8h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 6h

Look, I never want to say people shouldn't run.

But if you spent $90 million and lost by twenty points... can you maybe use your expertise to help someone else run?

Democrat Amy McGrath launches comeback bid in seeking the seat of retiring Sen. Mitch McConnell

Democrat and retired Marine aviator Amy McGrath has entered the Senate campaign in Kentucky. She vows to be a “bulwark against authoritarianism” in launching her campaign Monday.

apnews.com

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Congresswoman Sara Jacobs @sarajacobs.house.gov · 6h

It’s day 8 of Trump’s Shutdown and there are two things we still haven’t seen here on Capitol Hill:
1. House Republicans
2. The Epstein Files

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6h

Pretty sure Eleanor Roosevelt is dead

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 7h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 5h

A study of nearly 300,000 people published today in the New England Journal of Medicine found “that last season’s 2024–2025 mRNA COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 7h

If you've fallen down inflammation-type wellness circle rabbit holes, hmu for a @motherjones.com essay I'm working on. My email is [email protected]. I can you your first name only.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 5h

There is one central, core truth to hold on to:

Most Americans don't actually know most of what's happening. But they still don't approve of the slice they do know about.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 7h

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 1d

No matter how this corrupt SCOTUS rules, this will still be true.

Mel🏳️‍🌈 she/they universal healthcare now @knownforms.bsky.social · 1d

Conversion "therapy" is abuse. It's torture. It's sexual assault and rape. Period.

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Jillian Whitton 🏳️‍⚧️, rising @jillianw.bsky.social · 5h

"I would want my legacy to be: If it ain’t right, fucking fix it, whatever it takes. I’d want to be remembered for trying to do the right thing and care for all people."

A legend and an inspiration.

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The DC Homos @dchomos.com · 1d

Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Has Entered Hospice Care

www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Stonewall Veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Has Entered Hospice Care

The transgender rights activist had previously been hospitalized for more than 10 days.

www.them.us

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 11h

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

Screenshot of IngramSpark impersonator's contact form, with chat window where scammer sales rep "Travis Clark" claims that "We are Ingram Spark's hands-on services department. You will be able to find our information here: https://www.ingramsparkbookpublishers.com/

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