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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

the Bajoran version of the Bechdel test is “do two named women talk to each other about something other than murder” and I love “Deep Space Nine” because it fails almost every episode

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 12h

The GOP has lost The Oregonian.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 18h

that's right

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 18h

stylish, practical, brave, good: www.404media.co/the-surreal-...

The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog

Say goodbye to the Guy Fawkes masks and hello to inflatable frogs and dinosaurs.

www.404media.co

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Unpresidented Brass Band @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social · 1d

We will be going to Clark county jail tonight to support our band member and the others who are being held there after arrest yesterday.
Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed. There will be music 🙂🎺

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

You can just share my video from me instead of sharing a screen recording of my video from a content farm account that isn’t on the scene btw.

amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 1d

Sam Altman, crawling right up to the edge of saying "AI will never do anything that can really be considered actual productive work" and staring at it with perpetually wet, unseeing eyes.

And then mumbling "all the poors *might* have to die" before shedding his skin and swallowing it like a toad.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 2d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 2d

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 2d

I saw these posts, and for a brief, exquisite moment, I thought that maybe It Had Happened Today.

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Cayman Pumpkins @caymanwent.bsky.social · 3d

We often like to think of the US government as a stately, bureaucratic affair but we currently have an unpaid military forming breadlines while the unitary authority builds a lavish ballroom and you realize things haven’t progressed much since the Romanovs

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Thiel has never been accused of being a Thing Understander.

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 4d

Yea fuck this keep it closed down come hell or high water

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 4d

I like how it looks like a bunch of happy cartoon animals have chased the goons up a tree

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 4d

This is awesome.

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wendy copium @alicebennett.bsky.social · 4d

every time i see those inflatable animal costumes in portland i think of the david graeber essay “on the phenomenology of giant puppets”

davidgraeber.org/articles/on-...

On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets Broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture

What follows is an essay of interpretation. It is about direct action in North America, about the mass mobilizations organized by the so called “anti-globalization movement”, and especially, about the...

davidgraeber.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 6d

Stephen Miller froze after mentioning “plenary authority.”

… but what is plenary authority?

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 5d

And their less data-dense counterparts, presbiterians

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 5d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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45th Parallel Gomorrahn Storytelling Brigade @45thabsurdist.bsky.social · 5d

Irrelevant fun fact: the Constitution once had an emoluments clause, to prevent the president from using his position to enrich himself in a way that would be corrupting to the public interest of the office. Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

Anyway...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 6d

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

6a E Mark.mp4 - 6a E Mark - Frame.io

next.frame.io

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 5d

Not for nothing but if you're high profile and need to flee the US, don't tell anyone in advance. It's also most certainly better to leave via a smaller land border crossing and catch your flight from Canada or Mexico. Much less ability for the feds to prevent you from leaving that way.

David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 5d

“I’ll kill you in front of your students.”

This is just one of the death threats that has driven @mark-bray.bsky.social to try and flee the US.

But at the airport last night, after checking in and clearing security, his booking mysteriously disappeared

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 6d

A healthy democracy, where the leader and his followers spent a week threatening the destruction of the UN because the president fucked up an escalator briefly, and we all just moved on largely because the president was busy invading his own people’s territory in part because he got mad at a tv

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