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Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · Aug 28

Everything is awful.
Except dogs.

This is Poppy. She is lying on her back with the hugest smile. She says thank you for the belly rub.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 2d

This is Boksil. She is reaching levels of cozy previously unheard of. 12/10 a trailblazer (IG: with_bokdanji)

a small cream colored dog stares up at us. this is Boksil, swaddled in a grey robe, and tucked underneath a thick blanket on a bed. her little paws poke out of the robe's sleeves, and her toe beans are in full view. her tiny pink tongue mlems from her grinning mouth.

a higher angle of Boksil. a small yellow pillow rests beside her for scale, and her eyes are closed peacefully as she rests swaddled under a white blanket, looking very cozy.

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Joshfrai @joshfrai.bsky.social · 6d

Don't turn away.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 6d

"The following day, reports described the building’s hallways as strewn with 'toys, shoes and food,' with doors 'blown off their hinges' and 'holes left in walls.' In one room, per @blockclubchi.bsky.social, zip ties sat on the floor beside blood stains and baby shoes."

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building

ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.

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Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 6d

So you’re insuring the MOST vulnerable group will be MORE vulnerable. To protect this??

A screenshot of the article with the following text highlighted: “This week ICE raided an apartment building and removed everyone from the building only to ask questions later, according to local media reports. "They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," one neighbor, Eboni Watson, told ABC7. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.’”

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 6d

I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up.

At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT?

WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.

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Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 8d

I refuse this.

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Remembering Jane - Jane Goodall Institute USA

1934-2025 Remembering Dr. Jane Scientist. Conservationist. Humanitarian. Dr. Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and UN Messenger of Peace, was a remarkable example of courage and conv...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 10d

"God is Change,
And in the end,
God prevails.
But meanwhile…
Kindness eases Change.
Love quiets fear.
And a sweet and powerful
Positive obsession
Blunts pain,
Diverts rage,
And engages each of us
In the greatest,
The most intense
Of our chosen struggles"

— Octavia E. Butler, 'Parable of the Sower'

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Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 24d

And this horror happens and I don’t see a peep about it anywhere.

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Black Student Identified As Trey Reed Found Hanging From Tree At Delta State University

Cleveland mourns the loss of student Trey Reed. Find out more about the shocking events that unfolded at Delta State University.

whereisthebuzz.com

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 24d

So the white dude from Fox News said we should kill mentally ill homeless folks, he apologizes and they’re good; @karenattiah.bsky.social posts an accurate quote and says she’s not in the mood to mourn and gets bounced.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24d

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson

By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26d

This horrifying. Every MSM outlet that continues on X should confronted with the conduct of this disgraceful owner who they legitimize with their presence.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 26d

Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk.

I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.

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Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 25d

What the... !!!!!!

Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 27d

This is an amazing piece. Thank you @cwarzel.bsky.social.

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 27d

Wrote about the week. How the shooter's ID didn't appear to matter to ppl. How the discourse takes place in very same spaces that incubate/perpetuate hate & violence. How shooters now know that their acts will be flattened, analyzed, argued over & amplified. How all of this feels so dark & poisonous

Something Is Very Wrong Online

Our political conversations take place in very same spaces that incubate and perpetuate unthinkable violence.

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Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 27d

This cannot be as haunted as our country right now. I'll take it in exchange for this hell.

Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 27d

We're surviving, hopefully on the road to thriving. I hope you're there already!!

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Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 27d

So hard for me too! It was the joy and togetherness amidst the extreme difficulty that I remember with such fondness.

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 28d

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Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 27d

They have no idea what's really coming for them.

Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 27d

I mean it *is* legit terrifying

Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 27d

I sponsored Jeff way back in the day! And then I got to meet him. And so did my (back in the day) 6 year old daughter. Also later my (back in the day) son and I got to hang out with @jeffsharlet.bsky.social the human. Some of my favorite days of all time.

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Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 28d

Jeff Sharlet! The dog, not the @jeffsharlet.bsky.social for whom he was named. My lips are sealed on whether Jeff the human could also benefit from this training.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28d

if you know anything about any of the things, i'm marisakabas.04 on signal

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29d

I’ll have some words to say about the Charlie Kirk assassination tonight on @allinwithchris.bsky.social & here are a few preliminaries: open.substack.com/pub/slowcivi...

The Struggle is Long

On Charlie Kirk and resisting the momentum of civil war

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 29d

Enough.

CNN @cnn.com · 29d

JUST IN: Three people are in critical condition after a shooting at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to St. Anthony’s Hospital. https://cnn.it/46fImzg

At least 2 students shot at a Denver-area high school, authorities say | CNN

At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

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Tim @bio-tim.bsky.social · 29d

Quick reminder that the Utah legislature passed laws requiring public Utah universities to allow guns on campus.

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Tracy Pizzo Frey ❌👑 @tpf.bsky.social · 29d

My 15 year old son sent me that video saying it is the only thing on all of his feeds. Thanks, social media. Keep up the great work protecting kids.