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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 1d

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

It’s going to take ages to pay all these people

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

CNN talking about the possibility of violence as a guy in a giraffe costume waddles by

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

ooh well done

Someone appears to have gotten their hands on a NO PARKING ANY TIME sign, but they blocked out the par part so it says no king lol

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

To call it 'the most corrupt administration in US history' does not do it justice; that so understates the degree of corruption as to be almost false.

They have in fact instituted a new regime in which officeholders treat the public's thing—the republic—as their personal property...like kings do.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 1d

Hemingway-esque, I think.

Liver & O @liverando.bsky.social · 2d

Someone further up the thread posted this picture which gives me all the liminal feels

The glass front double door of the Seattle nft museum. The space beyond is dark and empty. There's a "space available" sign on the right side of the door with a number to call to lease the space.

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · 2d

based nancy

two panels of a Nancy comic by Ernie Bushmiller. Nancy sees a NOTICE board and then blacks out the T with a pencil so the board reads NO ICE. Nancy smiles.

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Stanislav Vysotsky @professorstas.bsky.social · 3d

This is becoming more serious by the day since they are now focusing on antifascist affinity groups. While the actions of these groups normally fall within first amendment protections, I don’t think that’s going to stop this administration from trying find crimes to charge people with.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3d

🚨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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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 3d

Has humanity learned nothing from the unending affliction that is the buttered popcorn Jelly Belly?

(Also there are bigger problems)

Photo of "popcorn flavor" Oatly oat milk. Please don't go there. I'm not even sure it's real.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 4d

think new interest in japanese ink painting is good for my brain. needs decisive strokes, can't be retouched, so just have to resolve to keep trying and not feel bad no matter what. this is day 4. can't do bamboo leaves properly yet, (i think i need to move from elbow, not wrist?) but... see above.

a not very skilled ink painting of bamboo on one a6 notebook page

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 6d

All the luck! Plus probably some skills, am guessing.

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 6d

Some serious Zeno energy on that destination arrow down there, watch out, that is, congratulations!

John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 6d

Kickass music made by great people also helps here and there. So, you know, thanks!

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 6d

Oh yeah? <sprinting to Bandcamp>

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Helen McAra @hedgerownibbler.bsky.social · 9d

Violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus) growing under gorse today near the Devil’s Punchbowl in Surrey. An absolute stunner of a mushroom and nationally rare - it’s always good to see these beauties.
#ukfungi

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John Borland @klaxonator.bsky.social · 8d

Billionaires are losing sleep over the coming of the Antichrist while this is happening in front of everybody's eyes. Don't macrodose money, kids, it rots those gray cells.

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study

www.theguardian.com

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 9d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Kim Posster @kposster.bsky.social · 8d

So schon katastrophal. Wenn tatsächlich eine Mensch-Mensch Ansteckungs-Mutation der Vogelgrippe kommt, wird das Ausmaß kaum vorstellbar sein…

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 8d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice: