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Doodlecats @doodlecats.com · 38m

Cats really have this mastered don't they?

A cartoon crew cat laying on their back, very relaxed. they're surrounded by blue and there's pale text saying Take It Easy

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

Straight-up racial profiling.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Dr Michelle LaRue @drmichellelarue.bsky.social · 8h

Adelie penguins porpoise because it's efficient and it allows them to breathe while they are hurrying to wherever they are going which in this case was back to the colony at Paulet Island
🧪🌍🦑🦉

Full shot of dozens of Adelie penguins porpoising out of the water with an ice shelf in the distance

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 9h

nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

170 years ago, the US Army massacred a Lakota village. Their plundered belongings are now back in Nebraska

170 years ago, the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village near Lewellen, Nebraska. Dozens of items plundered from the dead were recently returned to tribal descendants.

nebraskapublicmedia.org

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สุพรรณิกาทร์ Supanika Ordoñez @spiraledu.bsky.social · 7h

Lingít songs at pick up today ♥️

I love that the kids are singing in their jackets and backpacks. Culture is celebrated everyday.

Happy Indigenous people’s day! #indigenouspeoplesday

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 8h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 13h

Student government leaders of MIT, UVA, U of AZ, Dartmouth, UPenn, Brown, and Vanderbilt united in their opposition to the "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15h

www.instagram.com/p/DPm507ljBJ...

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 6h

Daily bunny no.3107 doesn't need a kitchen

A bunny in the wilderness cooks a stir-fry over a portable stove. It is evening, and he's hung up a tarpaulin nearby for a campsite. A chipmunk and a raccoon wait eagerly for their food.

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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 8h

UPDATED: One woman has been found dead in the village of Kwigillingok, where another two people remain unaccounted for, after a devastating storm battered Western Alaska over the weekend.

Woman found dead, dozens rescued and over 1,000 displaced after storm devastates Western Alaska

Winds over 100 mph and record tidal surges pounded the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Sunday as the remnants of Typhoon Halong inundated some Bering Sea coast communities.

www.adn.com

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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 8h

45 years ago today
Siouxsie Sioux performs on stage with Siouxsie and the Banshees at the Apollo in Manchester, England on October 14, 1980.

Photo by Kevin Cummins

#punk #punks #punkrock #gothpunkrock #siouxsiesioux #womanofpunk #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 9h

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

truthout.org

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abby (sports) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 9h

Does anyone know where the remote is?

Jyn the dog, wearing a green hoody and looking suspicious. She is lying on the remote.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 10h

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

Kavanaugh stop

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Girl, I Guess @mikellestreet.bsky.social · 9h

Very sad to have published this obituary tonight, but tried to do her legacy justice

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

Miss Major continued fighting for trans rights even after two strokes and other health concerns.

www.them.us

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Deaf Queer Resource Center 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @deafqueer.bsky.social · 10h

We mourn the passing of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fearless Black trans elder who fought for liberation, dignity, and justice. From Stonewall to decades of advocacy, she taught us to resist, to love fiercely, and to care radically. Her spirit lives on in every fight for collective freedom.

We mourn the passing of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fearless Black transgender elder whose life embodied the struggle for liberation, dignity, and justice. From the Stonewall uprising to her decades of advocacy for incarcerated trans women and communities of color, Miss Major taught generations to resist oppression and love each other fiercely in the face of state violence. Her legacy is one of radical care and defiant joy, a reminder that true freedom means leaving no one behind. May her spirit continue to guide us as we fight for the world she envisioned.

Rest in power, Miss Major. Your legacy and work will live on.

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Art by @translashmedia

[image: colorful illustration of Miss Majors with text: “I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train & teach & love on & create families within my community & gender non-conforming people so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved & seek happiness, & share that with people that we care about.” —Miss Major Griffin-Gracy“]

#RIPMissMajor #MissMajor #TransElder #TransPioneer #Stonewall #TransIcon #TransLiberation

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9h

By their own teachers, professors, schools and universities.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 13h

Did people all get hit in the head with the a hammer at the same time? What is going on?

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 13h

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

www.businessinsider.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10h

This is, of course, only the beginning.
Neither OpenAI nor Meta care what kind of damage their tech will do as long as they get clicks and shares.

David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 1d

I am in a Facebook group where people ridicule AI slop. Someone shared a Sora video in which Hitler was giving a TED Talk about how he was forced into World War II by the Poles & the Brits. I reported it & FB said it was not "hateful." Also, Sora apparently has no qualms producing vids with Hitler.

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 8h

Hanging on to the ground for dear life to get this smell done

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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 9h

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

www.ktoo.org

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 10h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 11h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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