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GenesisJam 𝙞𝙨 𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 BREAKDOWN! @genesisjam.bsky.social · Jul 21

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Alex @exceptionerroralex.bsky.social · 2d

VEHICULAR MAN(NEQUIN)SLAUGHTER

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Alex @exceptionerroralex.bsky.social · 2d

oh shit double event

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Alex @exceptionerroralex.bsky.social · 2d

the shipbuilding goes crazy i love it so much

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Chloe Rae @chloeraeuwu.bsky.social · 3d

How it feels being trans in the US rn

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 5d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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brady @apocalypsiswtc.bsky.social · 15d

67. Line of sight nightmare

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 4d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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seldum 🔥 @seldum.bsky.social · 5d

they told me i could never drive a grain harvester on a giant loop but i always prove the haters wrong

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Irish 🏳️‍🌈 @castironirish.bsky.social · 4d

Just more reasons that I am never voting for Newsom. Pay attention Libs, Newsom is unelectable, and you need to come to terms with it NOW.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4d

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 4d

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

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🖤ଘ🐮つ━. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁˖ . 🌈⚧️ بسكوته @biscywitch.bsky.social · 26d

she gets competative in tug of war

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Alex @exceptionerroralex.bsky.social · 4d

freaking tryhard

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 4d

A lot of people wonder how companies like IBM, Ford, Coca Cola, and General Electric got away with supporting Nazi Germany in their genocidal war.

This is how. Companies have always taken profits, wherever it comes from, no matter what atrocities they are enabling. Fascism is built on corporations.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 4d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️‍⚧️ @kiraculous.net · 4d

you can't abuse your rights. you can abuse privileges, such as driving, and those priveleges can be taken away. what makes rights rights is that they are not supposed to be able to take your rights away. they're trying their damnedest to tho, that's the fight we've always been in.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 4d

Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson's full statement, in which she says she will sign an EO permitting protest "only at the safety zone located at the ICE facility on Beach Street," is up on the village's website.

"There are too many protesters abusing their right to protest," Thompson says.

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Alex @exceptionerroralex.bsky.social · 4d

oh hell yeah

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onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 7d

#SaveSpeech
Democrats that need to be reprimanded for cosponsoring KOSA:

J. Hickenlooper- CO
A. Klobuchar- MN
B. Lujan- NM
B. Schatz- HI
M. Hirono- HI
G. Peters- MI
J. Fetterman- PA
R. Blumenthal- CT
C. Schumer- NY
M. Hassan- NH
M. Kelly- AZ
P. Welch- VT

[more names + links continued below]

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Gaz @nyazsche.bsky.social · 5d

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 13d

This is where all the money is coming from. Saudi Arabia funds Elon and Thiel, Musk buys Twitter, Thiel buys Bari Weiss and tells her to make an outlet, that becomes "The Free Press", as a pitching ground for astroturfed ideas of the wealthy against the poor - and now Saudi Arabia controls CBS.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15d

A quick note about money and comedy and power.

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

On a more serious note, Collins thinks the Riyadh lineup reflects something dire about both American politics and the bifurcated woke-versus-anti-woke comedy scene. Collins says there’s “a lot of money” behind enticing anti-woke comics to shill for the political project on the right. “I also like money, but I think getting hundreds of thousands of dollars to tell jokes for 10 minutes about ‘airline food is bad’ is actually illustrative of a much larger thing: The stuff that’s getting greenlit is not necessarily popular with the populace. It’s popular with rich people who are sick of being yelled at in the media. They are using some of these people as vehicles for whatever the comedy equivalent of greenwashing is.”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5d

ICE in Chicago detained two people (that we know of) for filming them today, a cyclist and a neighborhood rapid responder. This in addition to tear gassing another neighborhood and brandishing weapons at rapid response—both things that have also already been going on for weeks.