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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 3m

"Word & Deed"

Trump offers long-promised pardons to some 1,500 January 6 rioters
www.npr.org/2025/01/20/g...
AND
www.cnn.com/videos/us/20...

ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 8m

Umm...
The foundational truth of the republic is/was in fact "No Kings"

"Antifa types" as opposed to fascist types ? You betcha.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26m

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 11m

If the car is pretty empty, an accessible #4 is nice for a relaxing lean it's also pleasant on the out door part of the F train in Bklyn

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 25m

This is a mf thread. 💜📚🧵🔥

Also, I have ordered speculative fiction from @atthisarts.com

Highly recommend
#Lit #BookSky #SpecFiction #Afrofuturism #SpeculativeFiction

Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · 14d

All October, Atthis Arts is celebrating Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we hope you'll join us! We're going to start with a *spark*. This one is a must-read. Go get it. Incendiary by Gerald L. Coleman.

Incendiary: Poems & Essays

Poems & Essays

bookshop.org

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Philadelphia Jazz Legacy Project @phillyjazzhistory.bsky.social · 42m

After many years of fighting - Thank you Ravi Coltrane, Anthony Tidd, and Mark Christman for continuing the fight to restore the Coltrane House! share.inquirer.com/WLpD5t @aminhnow.bsky.social #Coltrane #Jazz #Philadelphia

John Coltrane’s endangered Strawberry Mansion home is finally being restored and revitalized

The jazz legend bought the house at 1511 N. 33rd Street and lived there until 1958. Fires, demolition, and legal troubles have long threatened its survival.

share.inquirer.com

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Allison F @ablington.bsky.social · 25m

they sure are getting away with a lot despite being so bad at everything

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 24m

Supreme Court: "We have to give black people a sandwich"
Louisiana: "Fine. What about a Po Boy?"
Supreme Court: "Or, you know, we could drown black folks in the river."
Louisiana: "WE ARE ALL FOUR DROWNING BLACK FOLKS IN THE RIVER!"

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 47m

this idiot talking point doesn’t make any fucking sense, but, boy, they’re real shook about what the special birthday boy is gonna see on television this weekend

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Allison F @ablington.bsky.social · 1h

I know he means artsy drama club lesbians when he says "blue hair" but in reality these rallies are attended by octogenarian gray tinted Blue Hairs

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 36m

And so she's Yes King ?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 40m

Lisa McClain refers to No Kings as "the I Hate America rally"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 41m

yeah this is a Problem if people ever stop believing

if Google or Meta never gets AI revenue to the level they expect they’re still tied to the advertising money faucet, they’ll be fine

if OpenAI’s profits never materialize we are in some shit

(xAI is, well, tied into the Elon Bullshit Machine)

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 1h

this is one of the best articulations of the AI bear case I've read

most of the AI companies are also massively wealthy and profitable hypercorps, but OpenAI specifically is a bomb planted at the heart of the American stock market helpfully labeled "this is a bomb"
prospect.org/power/2025-1...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

prospect.org

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 40m

"ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother,"

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 50m

“‘I have not seen them cross the line yet,’ Johnson said flatly, waving off examples of shattered windows, detained veterans, and non-criminal deportations that have sparked protests nationwide.” migrantinsider.com/p/mike-johns...

Mike Johnson Says ICE Hasn’t “Crossed the Line.” The Country Disagrees.

From Chicago to Los Angeles, ICE raids are breaking windows, families, and trust — but not, apparently, the Speaker’s conscience.

migrantinsider.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 46m

We’re already seeing the right spring into action to normalize calling Black people monkeys.

www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · 1h

Bob Holden yelling about transplants but saying "in line" instead of "on line." SMDH

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1h

It’s kind of incredible how badly every conservative in the city is filling their diaper with rage about Zohran over anything and everything. People struggling to get into a trendy restaurant? In New York? Must be communism!

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 59m

An aside : Mike Lee is unfit for office.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1h

Newsom’s press office cited my story from last week (well an aggregation of it.)

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 1h

I used to focus on left versus right. Now I’m much more worried about the money at the top. But while it might seem strange to say it, I think this is a hopeful way of looking at the world that opens the door to coalitions that seemed impossible before. My first for the @newrepublic.com:

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 1h

This Day in Labor History: October 15, 1990. President George H.W. Bush signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, finally providing a path forward for some of the Cold War’s most exploited workers, Navajo uranium miners, to get some compensation, but even here this did not work well.

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 1h

Look ! Dance Parties !!

(Also organizers NOT all secret & incognito under layers of out of state LLCs & too weird to be identified by name.)

Fitzsimon @fitzsimon.bsky.social · 1h

‘Safety first’: Salt Lake City’s No Kings protest changes its plan utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/10/15/s...

‘Safety first’: Salt Lake City’s No Kings protest changes its plan • Utah News Dispatch

Salt Lake City's No Kings protest is changing its plans from a march to a rally, citing safety concerns following a shooting in June.

utahnewsdispatch.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

By now, foreign governments must have put their least effective and competent spies on the job of spying on us. It's just too easy.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 17h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 1h

Trump takes livelihoods

KUER @kuer.org · 1h

As part of Weber County’s larger employer, IRS workers make up a good portion of the patrons of downtown Ogden businesses — when they’re working.

The shutdown is a mixed bag for Ogden IRS workers, but restaurants feel the pinch

Federal workers make up a good portion of customers at downtown restaurants. With furloughed workers spending less, business owners are worried.

buff.ly

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David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 11h

Cox is going to pack the court.

I've said it before—Cox is happy to do almost anything the legislature wants, but he's very conscious of appearances so they have to sell him on some veneer of an excuse he can parrot to the media. In this case? "He's giving the court more resources"

Cox said Tuesday he may now support a dead proposal from earlier this year to expand the number of justice on the Utah Supreme Court. The Utah Constitution says the court must have "at least five" justices.

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 11h

The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated - Leo Tolstoy

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