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Yo Gabapentin @yogabapentin.bsky.social · 1d

Claude AI’s logo is unironically Kurt Vonnegut’s butthole drawing

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11h

If you strike me down, I shall become more dead than you can possibly imagine

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder how much they believe what they say. Does he actually think some billionaire is bankrolling anarchists?

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 3d

You might need to trade your soul to create a work of art like that

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 3d

Please help Hasan by donating if you can, or sharing.

Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 4d

Life after losing everything isn’t easy. Every day brings new responsibilities, new costs — but your kindness helps me keep my family fed and hopeful.🙏
Please Donate if you can. ❤️‍🩹
🔁 Share if you care.

Donate to Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives., organized by Natalie taffal

Deep within the alleys of Gaza, a life story full of pain and challenges unfolde… Natalie taffal needs your support for Help Hasan & Duaa Rebuild Their Lives.

www.gofundme.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Apple has removed an ICE tracking app that allows users to report ICE activity nearby from its App Store.

The removal came after a direct demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 5d

It's so much better than the ones from tech companies

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 6d

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Prince with “Slave” written on his face, in protest of his unfair recording contract, including lack of ownership of his master recordings.

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 6d

Operation Desert Storm was also going on then, and there was a revival of yellow ribbon propaganda going on. I'm guessing that was the specific instance that inspired the lyrics. There were also yellow ribbon trading cards. desertstormcards.com/ama-desert-s...

AMA: Operation Yellow Ribbon Trading Cards

AMA focused a series of desert storm trading cards around the Operation Yellow Ribbon movement, honoring all of the personnel of the Coalition.

desertstormcards.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 7d

The point of most education is to beat the conscience out of young people who, left to their own devices, will do the right thing and shame adult “educators”

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7d

Middle schoolers walked out
www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/l...

Des Moines Public Schools students walk out in protest of Ian Roberts' arrest by ICE

Hundreds of students from Iowa's largest school district left their classrooms Sept. 30 in protest of Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts' arrest by ICE.

www.desmoinesregister.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 9d

This is true and also we should never accept that Trump v. United States is a valid precedent. It's not and as many justices should be removed and/or diluted with more seats and/or jurisdiction stripped as may be necessary, and eventually the repudiation of it should be codified by amendment.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d

fun fact that while trump v. us says that the president cannot be held criminally liable for using his core powers, this does not extend to his officers

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 9d

Please help Hasan if you're able

Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 17d

I don’t want my children to feel that I’m helpless.
Even though we lost everything in the genocide, I try to smile with them… to show them that better days will come.😓

Every donation tells my kids:
“You matter. Someone out there cares about you.” ❤️‍🩹

Please Donate or Share 🙏

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 10d

Hello, Sarah. I'm so sorry for what you are going through. I hope the attacks end soon.🇵🇸

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Planet Eater @unicrongalactus.bsky.social · 10d

Please help Israa out if you can

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 11d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Moaz. Moaz is 20 and is trying to complete his studies for university where he hopes to be a doctor. He’s been displaced and is living in a tent with his parents, grandmother and siblings Mahna, 25, Mahmoud, 22, Youseff, 16 and Ali, 12.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12d

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21d

Come on folks let's help our friend Abo Jameel and his family. Donate or share please

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 21d

To appeal to which voters?

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 21d

lol new clown car just rolled up

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 28d

Barrack Obama, DNC leaders etc are going to publicly cry a lot more about this violence than they ever have about any snipers, bombings or lynchings in Gaza.

“Violence has no place in America!” they will say, on their way to the Raytheon shareholders meeting.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 27d

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 27d

“Go forward knowing that, sooner rather than later, the great avenues will open again where free men will walk to build a better society.” — Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 27d

On this day in 1973, Salvador Allende’s democratically-elected socialist government was overthrown in a military coup led by the US-backed fascist Augusto Pinochet.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · Sep 2

The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering

Euronews @euronews.com · Sep 1

About two-thirds of patients who were flagged by the AI stethoscope as potentially having heart failure did not actually have it.

AI stethoscope can detect heart issues in 15 seconds, UK doctors find

About two-thirds of patients who were flagged by the AI stethoscope as potentially having heart failure did not actually have it.

l.euronews.com

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