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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 16h

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 16h

Don't tell Palestinians not to have hope or that the ceasefire deal is doomed.

They know what Trump is. They know what the Occupation is. They live under Occupation every day. We're not doing them any favors telling them what they already know.

Let them have hope. We all need it. So do they.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 18h

Has there ever been an example of a country descending into a fascistic “war against the left” where the country didn’t really have a functioning left?

Because the U.S. hasn’t had a left wing with any institutional power or major media presence in decades.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17h

it always blows my mind when these people act like “the left just calls everyone nazis” these days and it’s like no. we’re calling nazis nazis! there just happens to be a lot of them in and around the government these days!

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 18h

More history from this Nazi adulated by the Trump team. These are explicit, proud Nazis who scream and cry and call every referee they can find when you quote their Nazism back to them.

Multiple tweets from Nazi Jack Posobiec in 2016 making "jokes" involving the Nazi code "1488."

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Adam H Johnson @ahjohnson.bsky.social · 17h

I wrote about the Bari Weiss take over of CBS News as part of a broader trend away from the pretense of liberal institutionalism into a genuinely post-reality tabloidism, marked by AI slop, unsophisticated Trumpian-Likudite propaganda and consolidation of traditional and social media.

The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 19h

The tabloid-ification of CBS News is a marked escalation in our trend towards AI-driven confectionary reality: by @ahjohnson.bsky.social

Bari Weiss and the post-liberal media order

The tabloid-ification of CBS News is a marked escalation in our trend towards AI-driven confectionary reality.

therealnews.com

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 17h

Honest to god the biggest scam in America right now is whatever Dem consultants are being paid

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 19h

Durbin on whether Democrats can use reining in ICE in Chicago as a precondition to rein in the government says “can’t do that. It’s gotta be health care all the way.”

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 2d

A little-known process that requires insurers to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

External reviews are one of the industry’s best-kept secrets, and only a tiny fraction of those eligible actually use them.

By @deldeib.bsky.social

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 2d

1950’s style clip art of a woman winking. Written beneath: Only dickheads and fascists use A.I.

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 2d

From Gaza, A message for the Global Sumud Flotilla and the world

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 2d

The ruling class doesn't seem to understand that food aid isn't provided for our benefit, it's to protect them.

Mural of Lenin with the quote, "Every society is three meals away from chaos"

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists

Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

www.middleeasteye.net

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 6d

So no Dems or major news media are going to treat the more than a thousand people disappeared from Alligator Alcatraz as a story worthy of persistent pressure?

Got it.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 6d

Just as an aside Bluesky has addressed exactly zero of the concerns raised by the open letter to them about their treatment of Palestinians including the one basically set up for them to have a PR win- providing their TOS in Arabic

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ACLU @aclu.org · 6d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 6d

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation.

Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

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Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
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Published Oct. 2, 2025, 3:24 p.m. ET

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 7d

Deeply disappointed to hear that the Israeli Navy illegally stopped the Global Sumud Flotilla 75 miles off the coast of Gaza. This was a non-violent mission to break the IDF’s horrifying siege and deliver food and medicine to those who need it most.

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 8d

⚠ In short, the ICE officer who was LOUDLY relieved of duty Fri. for violently shoving a woman to the ground last week, was QUIETLY reinstated yesterday. Today, ICE agents at the SAME facility sent a journalist to the hospital.

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Watching from the cheap seats @vapeynj123.bsky.social · 7d

Please help if you can!!!
chuffed.org/project/1285...

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 9d

✨ 3000 only to reach the final goal! ✨

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety

I'm helping my friend, Ruaa Naji, raise funds to help her family survive.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 8d

Shame on the Italian government!

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Bob Vylan playing in front of the Israeli embassy for 24 hours @cyberstalin.bsky.social · 9d

Every day is a good day to support Ruaa

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 26d

If you support Palestinian rights we are extremely close to our goal!! less than 5k to go. please pitch in, my family in Gaza is large and we all need to eat, get medicine and survive the genocide & starvation . Help us evacuate to safety we beg you donate 50 its mean a life to us 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

We are in urgent need of protection and a safe place to live. We’re raising support to help us escape danger and rebuild our lives in safety. Every contribution, no matter how small, brings us one step closer to security and hope. 💛
kindly give :
#BringRuaaHome #SafetyForRuaa #HumanitarianAid

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Deny, Defend, Depose (Carl Nyberg) @carlnyberg312.bsky.social · 9d

Amplify this please.

The capitalist media has gone along with fomenting racism largely to stave off cuts to police spending.

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 9d

one of the weirder parts of this wave of total surrender of core civil liberties is there is no fucking reason for it. no world war 2, not even a 9/11. we're just bored and mad

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 9d

Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry: "Tonight, we're sending the Department of War a request to send the National Guard, asking them to deploy the National Guard here in Louisiana into our cities like New Orleans and Baton Rogue and others."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9d

apnews.com/article/food...

When food banks need bread, 900 home bakers answer the call

A Seattle-area nonprofit group called Community Loaves donates home-baked bread and cookies to food banks in four states.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 9d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Watching from the cheap seats @vapeynj123.bsky.social · 9d

I lost my queues. I have to settle for minding my peas and zees.

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