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Jennifer Van Goethem @jennvg.bsky.social · 1m

He even and/or'd it and the clown just saw the one word and vapor locked.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5m

My guy wrote a whole nuanced and practical description and his only response was “not racism” lol

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7m

Notice how the mention of race totally closed his mind to any other information.

Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 8m

They are innovating in the field of stupid like you wouldn’t believe

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♎ jentrification @jentrification.com · 4h

y'all have to know that some people believe that we are getting our just desserts for moving 'too fast' and being 'too different.'

we've 'disrupted' their lives and now we must pay.

En Buen Ora - "Hell Çid" 😈 @enbuenora.bsky.social · 4h

And both Manchin and Sinema are completely fine if not happy with how things turned out.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 30m

Sharing again because, yeah.

Inquest @inquest.bsky.social · 2d

"Gender is a technology of work, and we don’t get free by securitizing little enclaves of gender oppression." @reproutopia.bsky.social on why asking the state to punish *more* in the name of helping women is always going to be a losing bet.

Leaning In to State Violence - Sophie Lewis interviewed by Aya Gruber - Inquest

In ‘Enemy Feminisms,’ philosopher Sophie Lewis engages with the feminism of racists, colonizers, fascists, cops, and jailers to better understand what a truly liberatory politics needs to look like.

inquest.org

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zellieimani.bsky.social @zellieimani.bsky.social · 35m

Oh, they still big mad over this one.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 35m

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 47m

Shootings at Alcorn State University and Jackson State University on Saturday bring the death toll for this weekend's shootings across five Mississippi counties to nine, with at least 15 injured.

Other shootings hit three Mississippi high schools on Friday night, including two homecoming games.

Nine Dead, at Least 15 Injured in Shootings Across 5 Mississippi Counties

Six people are confirmed dead and at least 12 others injured in three separate shootings in Mississippi on the night of Friday, Oct. 10.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 37m

I didn’t want to believe it myself.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 42m

Nope

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 54m

Yeah just saw the sexy pickles and y’all hellbound for sure

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 55m

But you gotta understand that if a white woman does it , repeatedly and only when insulting Black achievements even in the age of Google , research and Chat GLT especially since Twitter is unseaechable

She’s just spunky or she’s “learning”

Them admitting it was a strategy doesn’t matter

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 58m

One of the reasons trolling has gone from the online margins to the center of our political discourse is due to the insistence that targets of trolling have the obligation to ignore it rather than pushing back against people being deliberately offensive towards marginalized people.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 56m

It’s also straight up racism and misogynoir .

They admire how Bari Weiss was able to use “white womens millennial writing “( as a style ) to abuse her way it millionaire money and prevent them as a collective from facing accountability

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

Pretty straightforward admission this set of writers are producing work with the intent and purpose to “trigger the libs” in order to gain stature among their peers.

Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 1h

Ratio me. It’s a badge of honor. Oooooo yes I like it when you ratio me. Ooh now ratio me harder yessss. Now ratio me while the neighbors watch. Ok now wearing that costume. Yessss.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 58m

One of the reasons trolling has gone from the online margins to the center of our political discourse is due to the insistence that targets of trolling have the obligation to ignore it rather than pushing back against people being deliberately offensive towards marginalized people.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 58m

One of the reasons trolling has gone from the online margins to the center of our political discourse is due to the insistence that targets of trolling have the obligation to ignore it rather than pushing back against people being deliberately offensive towards marginalized people.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

They’re not willing to be crude but the motivation and logic is exactly that of the reactionary right they swear they’re in opposition to

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

Pretty straightforward admission this set of writers are producing work with the intent and purpose to “trigger the libs” in order to gain stature among their peers.

Danielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 1h

Ratio me. It’s a badge of honor. Oooooo yes I like it when you ratio me. Ooh now ratio me harder yessss. Now ratio me while the neighbors watch. Ok now wearing that costume. Yessss.

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Offshoot Journal @offshootjournal.bsky.social · 1d

“They’re not trying to impose dictatorship from a position of strength, they’re trying to impose it from a position of weakness, and fear. So that’s why I said we have to build an alternative, radical force.” offshootjournal.org/ungovernable...

Ungovernable: An Interview with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin

Author and independent writer William C. Anderson interviews veteran organizer and former Black Panther and political prisoner Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin on the current political crisis, fascism, and rising relevance of Black anarchism.

offshootjournal.org

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

You know the song

A sign near a fire pit reading “take me home country roads” with West Virginia written in the shape of the state of West Virginia

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Chryon priestess to Janus d^=.=^b 🏳️‍⚧️🏴🏴‍☠️🍉🪽🪶🚲✋🪬🤚🧿🦊🍄🧚‍♀️🐌🦋🪾🍀🌲☠️ @witchesink.bsky.social · 1h

Its incredible how much of history and how little of learned history is affected by purposeful famine

@cnni

CNN International

This New York student won a $250,000 prize for his research on the devastating microorganism which caused the Irish Potato

Famine cnn.it/2FyefcU

Reply:

Calling the Brits a "devastating microorganism" is a little weird, but I'll take it.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

We’re really getting robbed out here.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 18h

The $5 footlong has become the $6 six inch. I don't even eat Subway and I still think it's time to knock all this shit over

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Throwing a few ducks but Dak can do this all day.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Blue can’t keep tiptoeing to the line

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

Building connections, lifting people up and providing when they need help, protesting and protecting each other, using our collective pressure to move politicians, it’s mass politics.

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