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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

Honestly, so much of our struggles can be summed up this way, but we might make abled people ~uncomfortable~ and ~scared about the inevitable failure of their bodies~.

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1h

It is always about their feelings. Not our deaths.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

i'm just a little independent journalist but i don't think the credibility of your reporting should be dependent on access to a paid government mouthpiece

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 3h

The sharks have mechanized cavalry, we're going to need a bigger boat!

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 3h

As planned

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 18h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

Ruba has been volunteering this whole time and trying very hard to continue her studies- she just started this fundraiser because she didn’t see any other options

Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ruba. Ruba is 23 and has been studying to be a pharmacist. She has been living in tents with her family since this all began and her home was destroyed, this includes her niece Tulin, 8 her nephew, Mohammed, 4 and her father who is ill.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 1d

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care.

Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park.

His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho

The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 18h

Someone should get her a history book and a mirror so she can learn about how well appeasement and collaboration w/fascist white supremacists works out for those who do so especially when they look like her.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 23h

Turns out most people don't really like being invaded

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 1d

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

When the choice is fatness in remarks about him one can surmise those making the remarks find fatness more objectionable than the evil he has done/is doing.

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

Mac & cheese

Eraserhead

Take Me Home, Country Roads

Cakes de los muertos 💀, ETQ @aielcakes.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand.

Yogurt.

Neverending Story

Bohemian Rhapsody. (I like Queen, don't fucking go there. But that song makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.)

The Cambrian Mammal @naraoia.bsky.social · 1d

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand

Peppers that aren't hidden.

Not a movie, but it'll be a long time before I'm able to rewatch Andor s2e8 (complimentary)

While we're on Star Wars: that iconic opening theme 😅

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Biological Riley @biologicalriley.bsky.social · 1d

This was so much fun to record!

Queers of Time Podcast @queersoftime.bsky.social · 1d

New episode is out, wherever you listen to podcasts!

In which Camille has a new obsession (yes, KPop Demon Hunters), but since none of their co-hosts got to watch it, they brought @biologicalriley.bsky.social to chat about how queer that movie felt. Enjoy!

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh it’s time for our weekly remonstrance:

FATNESS ISN’T IMMORAL YOU FUCKING FUCKS

ICE, Trump, et al are not evil because they’re fat. They’re evil because they hurt people.

All you’re doing is reinforcing hurtful stereotypes and I do unfollow and block when I see it.

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

Balko is a exemplary model for how to do journalism. This is episode one of his new series Collateral Damage on the US' disastrous War on Drugs.

This is the story of the killing of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston by ATL narcotics unit, how it happened and how they conspired to cover up killing her.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

And not just any reporter. Radley Balko's reporting has gotten an innocent man off death row. He's broken multiple major stories about huge scandals. He goes in-depth on the ground with tons of local sources. Dismissing his detailed debunking as Weiss did is something no serious journalist would do.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 2d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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nic.tattoos @nicterhorst.com · 1d

I'd somehow missed this petition!! Maybe you did too

Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 1d

CANADIANS!! The official petition started by a member of Parliament to fight back against payment processors' censorship of legal content is only open for a few more days. Make sure you've signed it: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

SWITCH TO TIDAL TODAY

YOU CAN TRANSFER YOUR PLAYLISTS WITH THE LINK BELOW

IT IS EASY, THE SOUND QUALITY IS BETTER, THEY HAVE MUSIC VIDEOS, AND THERE'S NO GESTAPO ADS

tidal.com/transfer-music

Ben Hart, Gender Archivist @pavlovforgoths.com · 1d

Found out that Spotify is running ICE recruitment ads, if you need another reason to quit using it.

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 1d

Four heartbreaking excerpts from this piece about the people whose lives have been made a living nightmare by heartless tyrants.

As they wait, they worry about how they’ll survive when winter comes. Most days, Deybis visits local food pantries and looks for discarded items in alleys and on street corners that they can resell. A few weeks ago, they sold their daughter’s bed to help pay the rent.

“We’d rather be in Venezuela with our family than suffer here,” he said.

Pérez said her daughter was the family’s main motivation to come; the girl had been born with a heart defect and needed surgery they could not find in Venezuela, where hospitals operate through power outages and have limited capacity for advanced surgeries, not to mention supplies.

“We didn’t come for the American dream, or for a house, or for some life of luxury,” said Pérez. “What we wanted is for our daughter to live.”

But as the months pass without an answer from the CBP Home program, Chicago doesn’t feel safe, either. This fall, the Trump administration zeroed in on the city for immigration enforcement, sending in the U.S. Border Patrol. Pérez recently downloaded another app that tells her whether there’ve been sightings of federal immigration agents nearby, and she watches videos of other immigrants getting arrested. One day in September, a federal agent shot and killed an immigrant in a nearby suburb. Pérez wonders if she might die, too.

They share their mother’s anxiety. On their walk home, Pérez’s daughter leaned over her brother and chided him for speaking Spanish in public. The girl said her teacher had warned her that federal agents might be listening.

It reminded Perez that she now needs to leave the U.S. for the same reason she came: her children. She plans to register yet again on the CBP Home app.

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 2d

Nor’easter bunny. #art

A rabbit person walks against the wind as leaves blow past. His long scarf trails behind. Graphite and white pencil on toned paper.

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Not Like This @brotherbuddha.bsky.social · 2d

One Saturday night pizza inspired by @mostlybree.kitrocha.com pizza making.

A pepperoni and cream cheese pizza fresh out the oven. Some of the cheese and pepperoni on top are crisped up and the crust is golden brown. One small section of the cheese has flowed over the crust and down onto the pan as it melted while cooking in the oven.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2d

when i was being examined for my senior coxing licence in Oxford, she asked if I'd ever been in a boat crash, I said yes, she asked what I happened, I said "a manatee tried to mate with the shell and it capsized then broke in half" and she did not know how to respond to that

🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 3d

I love students so much

On this day
7 years ago
Kerry
Oct 11, 2018
*student giving presentation on her work on a wildlife rescue team*
Student: manatees are really dangerous because they weigh 1000 pounds and lose all awareness of their surroundings when mating

Other student: *under breath* oh wow same

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