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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 1h

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 18h

Canadian Tire will start selling iconic Hudson's Bay blankets, donating proceeds to Indigenous fund.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Canadian Tire will start selling iconic Hudson's Bay blankets, donating proceeds to Indigenous fund | CBC News

Canadian Tire acquired HBC's intellectual property, including the striped blanket design, earlier this year for $30 million as part of the wind down of the retailer.

www.cbc.ca

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 4h

Daily Express political correspondent Christian Calgie called for Zarah Sultana to lose her seat (legitimate politics) then agreed with an X interlocutor it would be "even better" if the Birmingham-born British Asian Muslim MP were to be deported (illegitimate prejudice). He has since apologised.

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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 19h

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 20h

I guarantee you he wants to do this because someone showed him the "Arc de Triomphe" in Paris and it made him think of "Arc de Trump," and now he wants one in Washington.

To understand Trump, you must think like a 5-year-old.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21h

President Trump is seeking to build a triumphal arch on a Washington roundabout to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary next year. Trump showed models of the proposed arch at a fund-raising dinner on Wednesday for another of his pet projects, a White House ballroom. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Donald Trump, in a dark suit and red tie, holds up two small white models of a triumphal arch, looking down at the one in his right hand. A headline reads: "Trump Unveils Plans For Triumphal Arch In Washington." Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 19h

The sudden appearance of all these Trump administration accounts on Bluesky is ominous. They're not here in good faith and they're not here to troll.

They're setting something up. It likely has to do with a coming attack on Bluesky.

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 1d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 1d

I've an online pal, Wayne, who digs up BEAUTIFUL Victorian ink bottles from the rubbish dumps of yore.
Wayne:'Got some new gear, want to look?.'
Me:'Does the Pope poo in the woods?'
Some of the gear👇
There'll be more tiny posy-making mental health kits in my Etsy shop soon, dispatched in time for🌲

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"Technologies purchased by ICE in recent weeks include spyware that can hack into smartphones remotely and cellphone location software that can enable the tracking of a phone’s movements without a court warrant..."

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 11h

I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.

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DHCooper @dhcalifornicus.bsky.social · 5h

I loved the Daw covers when I was haunting used bookstores as a kid.

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Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday's Word Count = 1,168

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 8h

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

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Anna Gvarishvili @annagvarish.bsky.social · 1d

Mariam Mekantsishvili, a single mother of a six-year-old, was arrested today by the regime in Georgia in connection with the #GeorgiaProtests. Notably, just two days before her arrest, she was seen speaking with Elina Valtonen, OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, on Rustaveli Avenue. 1/2

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Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 8h

Nice young family, house haunted, their kid is taken supernaturally, they call in comic relief ghost hunters, then a psychic who tells them a monster on the other side has their kid, so one of the parents enters the other side and gets the kid back.

Joseph Fink @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 17h

Watched Poltergeist for the first time since I was a kid, and boy Insidious ripped off the plot beat by beat huh

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 17h

They joined Bluesky because they can’t live without your attention. They don’t want to govern, they don’t even really want to “win” in a conventional sense, they just want to play online all day owning libs and it drives them crazy when they lose access to your one wild and precious life.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @nytimes.com, did you change your headline, and change "Islamophobic attacks" on Mamdani to just "attacks," because Elise Stefanik and the GOP bullied you into it? Really? Why are they no longer Islamophobic attacks, as your headline originally and correctly stated?

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Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · 1d

John Fetterman was supposed to be the guy who didn’t play politics like everybody else. Hoodie, tattoos, plain talk. But now here he is carrying water for Breitbart, amplifying a study in the laziest way possible so it can be weaponized against the left.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

The British Empire committed unspeakable horrors and genocide to get their hands on spices now their descendants are so racist they think mayonnaise is too spicy.

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 14h

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

Jess Gill
@jessgillO3

I've never had curry or a kabab and don't intend to.
British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones.
Also, our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala we only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism.
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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 22h

Walking amongst you all, USA.

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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 9h

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 8h

If the government wanted to spy on Bluesky users they wouldn't need official accounts to do that, those are only here to get people in trouble for posting dumb shit at them

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Scouse Git @scouse-git.bsky.social · 1d

I'd be far more impressed if he confessed, apologised, came clean about how many other Epstein girls he abused, and waived any immunity from prosecution. Fucker is still a "Prince", and still lives very comfortably. He's above the law and will never face any serious justice.
#EpsteinFiles #FuckAndy

Prince Andrew gives up royal titles including Duke of York after 'discussion with King'

In a statement, the prince says:

www.bbc.com

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 8h

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings

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