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truthbytwoheart @truthbytwoheart.bsky.social · 6h

Please consider helping a disabled artist of Indigenous descent this Indigenous Peoples Day!

truthbytwoheart @truthbytwoheart.bsky.social · 9h

#IndigenousPeoplesDay $1427’s needed now for food & other basics incl accessibility tools. Please share!
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Wooden sign decorated by me with a swirl pattern.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 8h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 6h

Seriously they don’t even have agreement on disarmament much less who runs gaza

This is going to collapse faster than the right side of trumps mouth

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 6h

Biden and Clinton too fucking braindead to look two weeks ahead when Israel is bombing again and deporting palestinian hostages instead of releasing them and israeli billionaires are making gaza land deals with kushner

“Congratulations on the peace deal” you fucking choads

Disappear from politics

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 5h

Well, the bagpipes don't come out very much anymore except for playing the older stuff live.

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 5h

"Well acktually"

a woman in a black shirt is making a funny face while standing in front of a white board .

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 7h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 6h

Four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park.

Forest Park cemetery workers recount traumatic clash with ICE; mayor calls for crackdown to end

‘If this is happening to me, a U.S. citizen, what are they doing to the other individuals?’

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 7h

Bluesky is broken because the main Link is missing

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 6h

Korn wouldn't be the band that it is if Jonathan Davis hadn't gone to Highland High in Bakersfield and been in the bagpipes band 😭 I can only imagine what it was like for you, the one time I was on the Highland campus in Bakersfield in the 90s thankfully no one was practicing!

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maraleia @maraleia.bsky.social · 6h

I'm convinced that Joe Biden is the reason why Donald Trump never went to prison.

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 7h

“It’s okay, you look like a Nazi.”

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 20h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 6h

Elite solidarity is so funny

Axios @axios.com · 7h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 6h

Blue No Matter Who, amirite?

Axios @axios.com · 7h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 6h

You guys need to fuck all the way off into the goddamn gulf of america and keep walking

Holy fucking shit

Axios @axios.com · 7h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 22h

Can I get some eyes on this please? 💕💸

Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 23h

Mutual Aid Request
Hi everybody! I need help with groceries. Not just for myself, but I am scheduled to get my not narrow rear end into the kitchen and do some mutual aid cooking for the homeless and need ingredients for that. Help? 300. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 22h

Nothing received yet, please help! 💕💸

Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 23h

Mutual Aid Request
Hi everybody! I need help with groceries. Not just for myself, but I am scheduled to get my not narrow rear end into the kitchen and do some mutual aid cooking for the homeless and need ingredients for that. Help? 300. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 21h

2 hours, nothing received yet. $0/$300. Please help a Cherokee/Chicana get groceries this week for Indigenous People's Day and to cook 10 meals Saturday for the Los Angeles homeless community! 💕💸

Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 23h

Mutual Aid Request
Hi everybody! I need help with groceries. Not just for myself, but I am scheduled to get my not narrow rear end into the kitchen and do some mutual aid cooking for the homeless and need ingredients for that. Help? 300. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 20h

Update I: Now at $15/$300, thank you so much! Please help one of y'alls Indigenous girlies get groceries for herself and make satisfying meals for 10 Angelenos in need! 🪶 💕💸

Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 23h

Mutual Aid Request
Hi everybody! I need help with groceries. Not just for myself, but I am scheduled to get my not narrow rear end into the kitchen and do some mutual aid cooking for the homeless and need ingredients for that. Help? 300. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 20h

Update II: Now at $35/$300, thank you so much! I describe what the menu is and what I am planning to include with the meals I am making for Los Angeles' homeless community further in the thread. 💕💸

Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 23h

Mutual Aid Request
Hi everybody! I need help with groceries. Not just for myself, but I am scheduled to get my not narrow rear end into the kitchen and do some mutual aid cooking for the homeless and need ingredients for that. Help? 300. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 19h

Standing at $35/$300 after an hour, please help if you can! We have some time where the mutual aid meals are concerned but I have to be able to grocery shop by Friday. Friday I'm making the banana pudding, then early Saturday morning I have to make the casserole and get the packaged salads. 💕💸

Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 23h

Mutual Aid Request
Hi everybody! I need help with groceries. Not just for myself, but I am scheduled to get my not narrow rear end into the kitchen and do some mutual aid cooking for the homeless and need ingredients for that. Help? 300. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 18h

This is stalling, nothing received in 2 hours. Please help. Standing at $35/$300. 🪶 💕💸

Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 23h

Mutual Aid Request
Hi everybody! I need help with groceries. Not just for myself, but I am scheduled to get my not narrow rear end into the kitchen and do some mutual aid cooking for the homeless and need ingredients for that. Help? 300. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 17h

Stalled at $35/$300 for three hours now, please help! 💕💸

Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 23h

Mutual Aid Request
Hi everybody! I need help with groceries. Not just for myself, but I am scheduled to get my not narrow rear end into the kitchen and do some mutual aid cooking for the homeless and need ingredients for that. Help? 300. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts

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Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 16h

Stalled at $35/$300 for four hours now. Can we please get this unstuck? 💕💸

Annaleigh Watts 🇲🇽 @annaleighmaria.bsky.social · 23h

Mutual Aid Request
Hi everybody! I need help with groceries. Not just for myself, but I am scheduled to get my not narrow rear end into the kitchen and do some mutual aid cooking for the homeless and need ingredients for that. Help? 300. 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts

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