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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 2h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

Just seeing this now. Please support if you can.

Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 2d

I need some help. Got laid-off on Friday: unannounced budget change + my position was first cut, so it was a total surprise. Thanks to a tax status loophole my employer manipulated, I cant get unemployment. In short im SOL

Anything you can give would be huge
Venmo: Vicky-surge
Cash: $VickySurge1312

A cardboard bankers box sitting on top of an office chair filled with assorted odds and ends as I cleaned out my desk

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vinkayem.bsky.social @vinkayem.bsky.social · 1h

Every time you think she might be human, she finds another insane level up!! Just incredible to watch!

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 13h

Wish Johnson cared enough about pregnant people to worry about the hospitals that will turn them away for fear they’ll be prosecuted for performing basic medical procedures.

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Rewire News Group @rewirenewsgroup.com · 12h

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention. - @angryblacklady.bsky.social

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White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10h

"Energy dominance," you say?

As of this year, *China is exporting more clean-energy technology than the US is exporting the dirty stuff*.

The future is green energy & China, not the US, is set to dominate it.

China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance

China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.

www.bloomberg.com

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 18h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

The most fundamental political debate of our time: You are integrated into and have responsibility for our complex, imperfect society vs. Nuh-uh.

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Hydra @hydragoon513.bsky.social · 1d

#HOLOctober day 7: School
#シオンの書物 #イラスト #digitalart

Murasaki Shion sleeping at a desk in a classroom.

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Hydra @hydragoon513.bsky.social · Nov 23

Gonna pin my commission info just to be sure that I have it on here. I also have requests open on my Pixiv #commissions
ko-fi.com/hydraluna
www.pixiv.net/en/users/121...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 18h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 13h

Here we see Stephen Miller (left) explaining to a woman that she'll never get his Lucky Charms

Image of a very short Miller talking to a blond woman as they walk on grass

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h

The consensus of macroeconomists globally is that the techbros and Trump are driving the markets towards a Crédit Mobilier-type meltdown in which they will profit massively, but the financial system will be devastated. www.ft.com/content/fe47...

IMF and BoE warn AI boom risks ‘abrupt’ stock market correction

Kristalina Georgieva and UK financial stability watchdog say valuations are closing in on dotcom bubble levels

www.ft.com

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Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · 15h

The best part of how Portland is handling this is they’re not only protesting, but also angering the goose steppers by not taking them seriously.

Pretty genius. Because even ICE & the national guard don’t want to be displayed as that asshole fighting people in cute costumes.

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vinkayem.bsky.social @vinkayem.bsky.social · 13h

This⬆️

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 17h

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Is this a new version, or the last time they tried it?

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vinkayem.bsky.social @vinkayem.bsky.social · 1d

Cats are considerably more likely to be the cause of death!
(I just made that up based on my own orange menace)

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

Even if Democrats end up back in the White House they will start babbling about unity and moving forward and no one will go to jail for any of this shit. So yeah. She doesn't fear any consequences because Democrats have given her no reason to

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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vinkayem.bsky.social @vinkayem.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely not 2025, you f all the way off!

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Bonita ⚖️🏳️‍🌈 @bkj741.bsky.social · 1d

Example of the stupidity of our healthcare system.

I have cancer. The cancer medication I take causes high blood sugars. Insurance approved insulin to address high blood sugars, but denied the needles required to administer the insulin.

It took 6 weeks to get the needles approved. 6 weeks

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