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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 2h

Happy Harpers Ferry Raid Day to those who commemorate.

Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 5h

I understand the critiques of these sort of actions from the left, but what I think they don’t appreciate enough is how mass protest serves as both a training ground for those already engaged and a permissive activating space for those on the fence.

Táíwò’s point here speaks to both.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...

Why Protests Should Be Promises

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

time.com

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 6h

This rules, actually. Thanks for sharing.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 8h

this doesn’t seem great!

‘I got older and became a communist’: Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful’s raw views on politics, war, and police | CNN Politics

Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer, now disavows posts he made years ago, saying they came from a time when he felt disillusioned and angry and expressed those emotions online.

www.cnn.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 18h

this is how your email finds me

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 18h

🚨The war on Antifa has begun, with the FBI canvassing informants for insights on the group, scrutinizing financial records and gathering intelligence on left-wing affinity groups, sources tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/inside-the...

Inside the War on Antifa

Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 23h

I personally think it’s a bad idea to return people of color and anti-racists back into the hands of revanchist Confederate apologists and white supremacists.

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 1d

It’s crazy how good he is at politics

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

The antifa concept can be traced to Arditi del Popolo movement, an Italian anti-fascist group that was founded in 1921 for the purpose of defending working-class people and institutions from the assault of Mussolini’s blackshirts.

From 1920s Italy to 1930s Palestine to 1980s Ska Scenes, Antifa Has Many Faces

A historian discusses past anti-fascist organizations and practices in light of Trump’s effort to criminalize “antifa.”…

truthout.org

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 1d

Resurrecting the quota system from 1924

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

asylum but only for racists apparently www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 1d

I choose to believe the Pope, as a diehard Sox fan, is talking shit to a Cubs fan here. And I’m all for it.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

"The president is illegitimate and should be removed from office" is the minimum pitch for anyone nominally opposing him

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 1d

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 1d

I’d like to thank Republicans for drawing way more attention to these protests than would have been given had they chosen to ignore them. Streisand Effect in full swing.

See you all out there on Saturday.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 1d

Little brother,,,I am trying to grade exams

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 1d

It’s going to be very funny when all this collapses around them and torches the global economy while we’re left holding the bag. Hilarious.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

www.axios.com/2025/10/14/o...

Sam Altman says OpenAI will allow erotica for adult users

"As part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow...erotica for verified adults."

www.axios.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 1d

Call me impressed.

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 1d

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 2d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 2d

Not at all surprising that these are the products of a decade of Trump’s corrosive effects on civic and social norms.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 2d

He stopped at Salt River Bay on St. Croix to refill his water supply, mistaking it for a freshwater estuary. Instead, he found hostile Arawak people who by then were more than familiar with his depredations on Hispaniola. They attacked the landing party and forced them back to sea.

VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 3d

The only part of the United States Columbus ever stepped foot in is Puerto Rico.
. He was never on the mainland. Go ahead, look it up!

Columbus landed in PR on November 19, 1493, during his 2nd voyage, naming it San Juan Bautista (after John the Baptist).
He also did a brief visit to St. Croix.