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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 4h

You ever comment on an influencer's outfit post so they send you all the details but every single piece is like $350 so you just throw up

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, you should quit to save your immortal soul.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 6h

Every day at noon, no matter how busy, Johny Merida Aguilar left his construction job and hurried to his 5-year-old son's school to feed him. His son has brain cancer and generally only accepts food from his father.

Merida Aguilar was arrested by ICE in September and faces deportation to Bolivia.

He was caring for his 5-year-old son with brain cancer. Then he was detained by ICE.

A court has temporarily blocked Johny Merida Aguilar's deportation to Bolivia.

www.inquirer.com

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brosaleigh @brosaleigh.bsky.social · 4h

I love when the thick foggy haze of having a crush is lifted by one too many events and you can finally see the whole situation clearly, it’s like “woah sorry how long was I out?!”

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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 13h

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 5h

ICE is the only federal agency with an explicitly evil agenda from word one. You're not going to get some mythical moral whistleblower to turn on them because every person who signed on did so with the explicit, joyous expectation of inflicting harm upon those they see as unhuman.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 6h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 5h

ICE is the only federal agency with an explicitly evil agenda from word one. You're not going to get some mythical moral whistleblower to turn on them because every person who signed on did so with the explicit, joyous expectation of inflicting harm upon those they see as unhuman.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 6h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 6h

Heidegger, Pound, Webern, Jung all supported the Nazis.

fascism is a moral error, not an intellectual one. being educated isn't a prophylactic.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10h

One year ago today in the New York Times.

In remarks about migrants, Donald Trump invoked his long-held fascination with genes and genetics.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10h

I see we're doing another round of liberals going "wait why are all the writers at The Atlanta defending Nazis, this doesn't make sense"

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9h

"...we’re living in a period of time right now where we’re going to have to figure out how to live together... we’ve all got very different opinions."

The "didn't know, don't care, and trans people are tantamount to pizza toppings to me" excuse we've come to expect.

deadline.com/2025/10/keir...

Keira Knightley “Was Not Aware” Of ‘Harry Potter’ Boycott Before Joining Audiobook Cast

While many of her peers boycott the 'Harry Potter' universe, Keira Knightley appears to have avoided the fiery discourse around the franchise.

deadline.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9h

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9h

If you can stomach it, the director of The Woman in Cabin 10, Simon Stone, had a far, far worse answer, equating trans people to annoying children.

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Kristen Immoor @kristenimmoor.bsky.social · 11h

Enjoyed the New Yorker interview with Tim Curry, a free-wheeling conversation in which there were several sensitive questions about his paralyzing stroke. But oh my goodness, why was there no follow-up at all to this staggering answer? www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Screenshot of text from the interview:

You’ve always been an incredibly physical performer: your strut during “Sweet Transvestite” in “Rocky Horror,” or the way you run around unfurling the mystery at the end of “Clue.” Do you still feel that in your body? Does that live somewhere in you still?

I think it does, but it’s angry. My mobility is angry to get out. But it’s not happened yet. I do a certain amount of physical therapy. I did a whole bunch of it at Cedars-Sinai, and I got very close, I think, to walking. That was tantalizing. For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw. And I have a visiting physical therapist now, but I can only really do exercises from my bed, which is pretty pathetic. It’s not going to get me walking, I don’t believe.

[I have underlined the sentence "For insurance reasons, I had to withdraw."]

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10h

Terrified he died but delighted that it’s just him talking about cocaine

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 10h

Tim Curry was a 20-something stage actor living in London in the seedy, sex-drenched 1970s when he auditioned for a new B-movie musical called “The Rocky Horror Show.” In a new interview, Curry discusses the cult classic, David Bowie, Studio 54, and more. http://nyer.cm/Z9RkgrI

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 9h

"...we’re living in a period of time right now where we’re going to have to figure out how to live together... we’ve all got very different opinions."

The "didn't know, don't care, and trans people are tantamount to pizza toppings to me" excuse we've come to expect.

deadline.com/2025/10/keir...

Keira Knightley “Was Not Aware” Of ‘Harry Potter’ Boycott Before Joining Audiobook Cast

While many of her peers boycott the 'Harry Potter' universe, Keira Knightley appears to have avoided the fiery discourse around the franchise.

deadline.com

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Spooky Leelz @leilza.bsky.social · 11h

The cats are plotting to kill me again

Two black cats laying on steep wooden steps

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10h

"But they always say things I really like about those uppity transgenders" 🤔

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 11h

I have rounded up everything going on re: rainbow crosswalks in Texas. Galveston became the first city to remove theirs this week. Houston and Austin say they'll get rid of theirs, and San Antonio and Dallas are holding firm: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

These Texas cities are getting rid of rainbow crosswalks

"If this really was about traffic safety, there would be data."

www.chron.com

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10h

Jfc

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 12h

Every JD Vance interview:

REPORTER: The president literally declared war on Democrats to military leaders. Do you agree?

JD VANCE: Umm haha what I DISAGREE with is Chuck Schumer telling the American people they have to give their cars over to immigrants. But you wont report it!

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10h

I see we're doing another round of liberals going "wait why are all the writers at The Atlanta defending Nazis, this doesn't make sense"

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 12h

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

Sally Jenkins post with a link to whatever awful Atlantic piece about Bari Weiss reading "Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of
@theatlantic.com
is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. "

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 12h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10h

One year ago today in the New York Times.

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 13h

Or they hired an "artist" for cheap who conned them and they were too stupid to know the difference

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