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Ally (in Blueskyland) @allybfraz.bsky.social · 34m

Cheaper, more reliable, and you didn’t have to get to the airport a half a day ahead of your flight to wait in a TSA line either. Sigh.

Sarah Colonthree (fragile!) @sarah.transsexual.gay · 1h

Zoomer here did flights used to be more reliable?

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Ally (in Blueskyland) @allybfraz.bsky.social · 1h

This is … disgusting. And deeply disturbing. Idk what else to call it besides evil, tbh.

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1h

“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols.

The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

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Luv 💜 @luvamistoole.bsky.social · 2d

With SNAP/EBT cuts looming I highly recommend downloading this app! Basically restaurants and other food businesses will have available bags of random food they don’t wanna waste for ppl to buy for hella cheap! This has saved me sooooo many times when I only have $5 and need some food.

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David Beard @dabeard.bsky.social · 5h

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

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Leon English @leonenglish.bsky.social · 2h

If anyone knows the house handing out drugs on Halloween please forward me the address

1440 @1440daily.bsky.social · 11h

Police are warning parents to carefully check their kids’ Halloween candy because some fake treats look like real candy but contain THC or hallucinogenic mushrooms. 🧵

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h

"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.

He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."

Rep. Clay Higgins:

There are 22 million American households receiving SNAP benefits for groceries, at $4200 per year on average.
Try to get your head wrapped around how many pantries you can stock with $4200 dollars in properly shopped groceries.
Any American who has been receiving $4200 dollars per year of free groceries and does NOT have at least 1 month of groceries stocked should never again receive SNAP, because wow, stop smoking crack.

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Ally (in Blueskyland) @allybfraz.bsky.social · 1h

Makes me mad as fire!

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Ally (in Blueskyland) @allybfraz.bsky.social · 1h

The only person “smoking crack” here is Clay Higgins if he thinks $4,200 a year ($350 a month) is “stocking pantries” in this current economy with groceries costing what they cost. “WOW” is right.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana blames SNAP recipients for not stockpiling a month's worth of food.

He ends his tweet with "stop smoking crack."

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PJ Harvey Dent (but spooky, scary) @bsakat.bsky.social · 6h

They sure as shit did. And the army tested new-fangled biplanes on the Blair Mountain strikers by bombing the shit out of them. Known "hero" Billy Mitchell led that sortie.

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 6h

They hanged the people who got us the 8-hour workday.

Count Otter Poppula 🧛🏼 Sr., III @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 7h

If people actually understood how willing our government is to go to war with its own people simply for demanding equal rights, I think a lot more of us would be ready for war.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 6h

They hanged the people who got us the 8-hour workday.

Count Otter Poppula 🧛🏼 Sr., III @peezkyweezky.bsky.social · 7h

If people actually understood how willing our government is to go to war with its own people simply for demanding equal rights, I think a lot more of us would be ready for war.

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Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 7h

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

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Ally (in Blueskyland) @allybfraz.bsky.social · 6h

Because we have fascists and pedophiles who will stop at nothing to retain power running our country and, apparently, nobody is capable of doing anything to stop them 🤷🏻‍♀️ maybe we should try the monarchy back on for size after all, idk.

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 1d

Hey reporters 👋 I’ve been monitoring Nick Fuentes & the groypers since 2019.

Please feel free to reach out if you’re writing about his appearance on Tucker Carlson. I’ve helped dozens of reporters contextualize Nick & his movement over the years.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 13h

The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

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headless horseDan @etbeeegood.bsky.social · 1d

all out of Marry Me chicken but I can make some Leave me the fuck alone pork chops

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 1d

Congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social, who was indicted today for protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility: "We've been punched, dragged, thrown, shot with pepper balls, tear gassed, rubber bullets from snipers on roofs going into local businesses windows."

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

There is not a single day that goes by that i don't think about the vast majority of Americans reading below a sixth grade level

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been thinking a lot about a new kind of polling I’d like to see. We have polling that measures public opinion, which is obviously important, but I’d love to see a little more empirical work on public knowledge: what do voters know about politics and policy?

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Ally (in Blueskyland) @allybfraz.bsky.social · 1d

DHS and Elon not realizing they are actually the Orcs in Tolkien’s world would be funny if not for, ya know, everything else.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):

An image of a passage from the Return of the King, in which Robin the Hobbit Shirriff explains that 'the Chief' (Saruman) has coopted the shirriffs and uses them to lock up or beat people who protest is tyranny - and he always wants more shirriffs, "with all these new rules."

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Ally (in Blueskyland) @allybfraz.bsky.social · 1d

Police standing by while men in plain clothes drag off a screaming woman is exactly what I’d expect from the police - but I am fucking FLOORED this happened in an airport, a place that will literally have you locked up on 5 federal charges for acting even slightly foolish.

Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · 1d

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

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Ally (in Blueskyland) @allybfraz.bsky.social · 1d

I had no idea they remade The Monkey this year. Good lord.

Where has this year gone? What had been going on??

Ally (in Blueskyland) @allybfraz.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t believe how many people are still reading and watching hunger games sequels after whatsherface ended the original trilogy the way she did. Fuck her and all that noise lol.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

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