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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 9h

a show I would love to see

Leslie Levings @leslielevings.bsky.social · 13h

My next show, Insides, will be opening in just a couple weeks at Stranger Factory gallery!

Promotional image for an art show featuring a sculpture of a lizard-like creature in six pieces with tangled red rope between them. Text says: new works by Leslie Levings presented by Stranger Factory. November 1st through 30th. Opening reception November 1st 2025, 11am-4pm. strangerfactory.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 18h

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 21h

New print/sticker: You’re either walking toward greenness or away from it.

Made for our local bookist, Storyhouse, who hosted Melissa Febos reading from her book, "Dry Season".

This line stuk to my chest. I drew it as a forest, dark, dense, alive, with the path lit gold. Verdancy as a compass.

a drawing of writching green leaves, golden flowers, a red bird, a yellow bunny, and a glowing road around the framed words, "You are either walking toward greenness or away from it. Melissa Febos, Dry Season"

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 22h

we lay here so long we'd become the flowers #halloween #art

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

yet to make friends with a crow #halloween #art

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

Another good time to remind people that “tear gas” is a term of copaganda that police, the military, and its manufacturers use to obscure that it is a dangerous chemical weapon internationally banned for use even in warfare.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 1d

Danny DeVito

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 4d

*wolf kisses* #halloween #art

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Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Frazetta shirtless outside in an armchair, posing with his palette and the original art for the Fire & Ice poster. Behind him Eleanor Frazetta poses in a bikini on a Honda dirtbike.

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, you're part of their territory though! Ours are too entranced with the local grocery dumpster to visit

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

New work up today as part of TELEPHONE, a global chain of 1,395 artists passing creative messages from one to another. It’s proof that connection can still happen in this strange age of isolation. telephonegame.art

Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 1d

yet to make friends with a crow #halloween #art

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2d

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 3d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

the inflatable costume thing is an extremely smart tactic

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2d

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 2d

something in the woods is watching #hallowen #art

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 8d

Years ago I went through a phase of putting chicken legs on ... stuff?
Everything I've ever made has always been a bit absurd and self-indulgent.

For example: here is a breakfast radish on legs, which I made of wool and wire.

Photo of an object in front of a plain white background. The object is a soft-sculpture made of wool. It's a breakfast radish in red and white with white roots growing out of the bottom and big leafy dark green leaves growing from the top. It's also in a bird pose and standing on two bright orange chicken legs. It's an odd animal.

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 2d

I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!

If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.

drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

Hand holding a black and white illustrated zine of two people holding signs that say “we marched! Now what?”

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 2d

First the basics: The vast bulk of physical and sexual violence in our society is *not* perpetrated by strangers, but by people who know each other. Obscuring this fact is a critical feature of copaganda in the news. People are shocked to hear it. Why?

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 2d

Part of why, in comms work, we always recommended saying the Whole Thing; slang, abbreviations, and acronyms allow people to stop thinking about what’s actually at stake.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Bird 🌲 @nepeteaa.bsky.social · 2d

common yellowthroat in the morning glories 🍁💛🪻

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone know who is working on countering ICE recruitment of people of color? I'm wondering if there's a current issue campaign focused on this that has also enlisted artists and cultural workers.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.

Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.

www.nytimes.com

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Cat Rocketship @catrocketship.bsky.social · 2d

something in the woods is watching #hallowen #art

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