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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 4h

first of all, sports are only segregated by gender to protect men.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6h

I wasn’t prepared for most of today’s WH “round table” but I was *most* not prepared for the allegation that there is a secret cabal of homelessness and housing nonprofits who fund leftist “muscle”

Closed captioning: embedded contestion with the
homeless, housing nonprofit

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 6h

My new book, THE FLESH KING, is out now. Click the link and you can read a free excerpt. THE FLESH KING is available any damn place you get your books.
www.patreon.com/posts/flesh-...

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 10h

the businesses that use relatively new data collection/collation technology to sell products strongly prefer if demographics are neatly segregated & tend to have a material interest in encouraging people to see themselves as in-or-out members of specific affinity groups in limited quantity

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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 4h

Antifa.

a black and white photo of a woman 's face with a hat on

ALT: a black and white photo of a woman 's face with a hat on

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 4h

I honestly think Stephen Miller being such a shrill little bitch is a major obstacle to wearing down the people’s morale, people dont get intimidated into shutting up when Big Brother is furiously screeching that he’s not three apples tall

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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 4h

Antifa.

a woman is walking down a dirt road with her arms outstretched and says `` i have confidence in sunshine . ''

ALT: a woman is walking down a dirt road with her arms outstretched and says `` i have confidence in sunshine . ''

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 6h

Anyway, happy birthday to the girlfriend of the founder of antifa, who today celebrates 111 years fighting fascism! 🥳

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axolotl lovely / fka frog k ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 6h

"there should be a following list without the implication of endorsement" cowardly, disgusting mindset. all of my followers love me unconditionally and are 100% complicit with anything i do. if i commit a crime they should be punished for it as much or more than me. it's called community

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E.M. Anderson | the author too hot for BlueSky @elizmanderson.com · 4h

*raises hand* administrative assistant to antifa, I take minutes at all the meetings

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 5h

Antifa Culinary Specialist, present and accounted for.

Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6h

Since we’re clearing the air, I might as well put out something I’ve been concealing for a very long time.

I’m the Vice President of Antifa (Western Continental Division)

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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 4h

a question is a sword / an answer is a wand

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 14h

"Oregon national guard serves 2 purposes. 1 to defend America and 2 to protect Oregonians. So by serving in this mission they would be protecting any protestors at the ice facility" is what Brigadier General Gronewold said, explaining what the deployment of the Oregon national guard would look like.

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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 11h

This is the part where a lot of bluffs get called.

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 15h

this is a good thread that finally reckons with the more primordial politics at play. there is a long, rich research tradition in conflict studies about the behavior of and strategy towards influencing audiences - by state security forces, by non-state armed actors. they all apply in the US now.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 15h

for some reason literal touching grass works if and only if I touch it with the soles of my bare feet

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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 15h

social media is a wonderful place to extrude a bumper sticker tulpa and watch it collide with the other strangers' bumper sticker tulpas. It's more of a particle accelerator than anything human

Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 16h

Sick and tired of California copying Oregon's homework, badly, and then taking all the credit. They're not even left-leaning! The whole state is a theme park built up by the tech industry!

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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 16h

"Gavin Newsom" is a funny way to spell "Tina Kotek".

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 22h

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

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.

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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 16h

This was all so easily predictable. Nine years of bracing for this exact moment. Everything around us follows like a math equation from that golden escalator. It's barely survivable, if and only if we pick the right moment. Listen to the right people.

Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 16h

There is a target on my back and I want to see the bullet coming so at least I can scream before I die. When it goes quiet, the anxiety and stress gets worse, not better.

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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 16h

I am genuinely surprised he's not just bombing random American cities by now.

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Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 16h

ohhh taking away all the palliatives made my symptoms worse. uh oh

Zephyr of Spiders 🕷 @warmwestwind.bsky.social · 23h

Resistance tactics are working. Now we need to get proactive. What battles is our enemy unprepared to fight?

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 23h

That vision:

Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 1d

From what I've seen reported his 'nuanced vision of the military's purpose' was the same one that Arlo Guthrie reportedly said to the military psychologist at his physical when he was called up for the draft.

Four paragraphs of the lyrics of Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant" (1967), from a Google search, including typos copied below with a couple of the typos fixed:

Came to talk about the draft.

They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street, where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected, neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. 'Cause I wanted to look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York, and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I walked in and sat down and they gave me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the psychiatrist, room 604."

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL, " and he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't feel too good about it.

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