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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18h

"The main actors of the genocide will have to answer to justice."

Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez says the ceasefire deal ending Israel's war on Gaza should not mean Israel’s conduct should be forgotten, saying “there cannot be impunity”.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ky7rx1

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jkjkjk @jessknightvision.bsky.social · 16h

Oh shit, maybe we’ll actually get some awareness, research & treatments now that it’s effecting men🤦🏼

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jkjkjk @jessknightvision.bsky.social · 16h

Or unleash the most ableist or fatphobic tirade on someone, but it’s ok cuz they’re a “bad” person. Like are you auditioning for next worst person with zero self awareness?

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Robert Gravemound 👻🦇🎃 @robpertray.bsky.social · 17h

the psychological toll of living in a society where everyone is out to compete with, profit off of, and scam everybody else is indescribable

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Hazie @hazie.bsky.social · 1d

The temporary ‘inconvenience’ of wearing a mask should be closely weighed against the seemingly permanent ‘nuisance’ of losing everything you have while laying riddled with illness, helplessly bound to a bed that has become your prison.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest challenge is convincing people that things could be different and that their actions matter.

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 2d

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.

www.leeds.ac.uk

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 2d

Co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream explaining why the United States of America needs to make China an enemy. And why it needs its citizens to hate China.

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jkjkjk @jessknightvision.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like there are gonna be CIA agents who will be very upset by not getting top ranking…

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Dr. bird (She/they/Dr.)🐦‍⬛ @bbiiirdbphd.bsky.social · 1d

Please help Alaska! They need our help!

Western Alaska
Disaster Relief
2025 Fund
Support Our Community Together
Partnership Organizations:
Kawerak, Inc.
Maniilaq Association
Bethel Community Services Foundation
Healthy Alaska Natives Foundation
First Alaskans Institute
Alaska Native Heritage Center
Western Alaska is in crisis
Typhoon Halong has devastated communities across the Y-K Delta-flooding homes, displacing families, and cutting off access to clean water, power, and medical care. Entire villages like Kipnuk, Kwigillingok, and Napakiak are in urgent need of rescue, shelter, and supplies.
Michelle DeWitt, BCSF
michelle@bcsfoundation.org
(907)545-6052 (cell)
Megan Cacciola, ACF
mcacciola@alaskaacf.org
(907)249-6617
Your donation to the Western Alaska Disaster
Relief 2025 Fund provides:
• Emergency food, water, and medical aid
• Shelter and supplies for displaced families
• Support for search and rescue operations
• Long-term recovery and rebuilding efforts
Lilah Walker, Healthy Alaska
Natives Foundation
Icwalker@anthc.org
Every dollar helps. Every moment counts.
(907)729-5651
Stand with Western Alaska. Help us protect lives and rebuild hope.
DONATE

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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jkjkjk @jessknightvision.bsky.social · 5d

We like to quote frank from it’s always sunny and say “just throw me in the trash!”

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jkjkjk @jessknightvision.bsky.social · 6d

Looks better already. I’m also gonna need them to leave the building tho…

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jkjkjk @jessknightvision.bsky.social · 6d

So the pyro drug ppl in parable of the sower might just be AI losers in our timeline…

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say

Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ

The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

abcnews.go.com

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jkjkjk @jessknightvision.bsky.social · 6d

Someone in the video confirmed it was a random lady, not ice

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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 7d

"Socialism doesn't work," they say, as they prepare to continue their genocidal economic sanctions and embargoes on the innocent people of Cuba and Venezuela.

"Capitalism definitely works," they say, as they prepare to bail out the unhinged libertarian capitalist government in Argentina.

Me: 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 7d

My friend
the optimist insists
that at core
most people
are basically
good.

My friend
the pessimist insists
that at core
most people
are basically
bad.

I worry,
my friends,
that at core
most people
are basically
unwilling to be inconvenienced.

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FREE @ LAST @rightmind215.bsky.social · 8d

12.5 MILLION Africans

“The roots of this moment trace back to the forced displacement of more than 12.5 million Africans, whose labor and suffering generated enormous wealth for Western nations while leaving lasting scars throughout the African continent.”

Ghana’s President Calls Slave Trade ‘Greatest Crime,’ Pushes U.N. for Reparations

For Black Americans, the motion — backed by a coalition of world leaders — intensifies calls to confront slavery’s enduring costs.

capitalbnews.org

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Dayna Lynn Nuckolls @thepeoplesoracle.com · 11d

And your fav Barack Obama was the worst.

Obama Has Deported More People Than Any Other
President
Trump may be getting closer to Obama's recent policy.
By ABC News
August 29, 2016, 1:05 PM
aboNEWS
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Obama Has Deported More People Than Any Other President Trump may be getting closer to Obama's recent policy.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12d

The UN OCHA has issued a list of the latest catastrophes facing Palestinians in Gaza as Israel intensifies its bombardment and siege ⤵️

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/qngd86

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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 13d

Deleting Facebook, getting rid of your Ring camera, and unplugging Alexa are three concrete things you can do to break the chain of surveillance which will undoubtedly be used more and more by state apparatus to nab you or your neighbors.

Don't be an unwitting Fed or ICE agent. OpSec is solidarity.