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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2h

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2h

Pretending to the world that you are the president of peace while waging war at home is diabolical.

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 4h

Can anyone help with $50 so I can make the one tomorrow?

Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 16h

Good morning. I have two big bills coming up. Both are due this week:
one tomorrow for $50 and one for $150. I need $200 total, and hope to make that today. If anyone could help, I’d be grateful. Thanks for reading.

PayPal: @MatthewStefon

Venmo: @Matt-Stefon

#MutualAid

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Layla & Piglet @era-now.bsky.social · 3h

Community update! The #plundercats & friends have raised $62 for The Cat Connection so far! They are a great cat Rescue/shelter in Massachusetts. They rescued Piglet so that we could adopt her! 😸
Thank you so much everyone!

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Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 19h

You can win this flag! 🇵🇸

Rules are simple:
1. Follow @fidaaumar.bsky.social
2. Donate: chuffed.org/project/fidaa-umar
$5 for a ticket, $10 for two, and so, or
$20 bundle for 5 tickets.
3. Take a screenshot and submit to the Google form.
4. Last day is Oct 30.
5. Stay tuned in Nov for the winner!

A collage art making the flag of Palestine using little circles with different textures of red, black, white, and green.

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 2h

What a great way to support Fidaa! 🩷 #MutualAid #HelpSky

Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · 19h

You can win this flag! 🇵🇸

Rules are simple:
1. Follow @fidaaumar.bsky.social
2. Donate: chuffed.org/project/fidaa-umar
$5 for a ticket, $10 for two, and so, or
$20 bundle for 5 tickets.
3. Take a screenshot and submit to the Google form.
4. Last day is Oct 30.
5. Stay tuned in Nov for the winner!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

Regarding the news today, all I have to say for now is... subscribe to The Onion. Thank you for believing in us and thank you for your patience.

Join The Onion

Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

membership.theonion.com

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 21h

The Mariners are two wins away from their first World Series appearance EVER ‼️

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 50m

Oh shit. Hey can I have some money for cat litter ?

I need to change the litter box but am all out of litter

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 1h

Could someone please help me get to $50 by 5:30 (it’s 4:30 now)?

Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 16h

Good morning. I have two big bills coming up. Both are due this week:
one tomorrow for $50 and one for $150. I need $200 total, and hope to make that today. If anyone could help, I’d be grateful. Thanks for reading.

PayPal: @MatthewStefon

Venmo: @Matt-Stefon

#MutualAid

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1h

What is this. Your president announces his war crimes as one of his typical egotistical posts on his social media network for his cult, & that's all there is for him randomly bombing Venezuelans, no accountability. Never that!

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: 45,000 health care workers just launched the biggest strike of the year.

Workers at Kaiser Permanente on the West Coast and in Hawaii have walked out to secure a contract.

These essential workers are fighting for patient care, good wages, and decent staffing.

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Matt Stefon @mattstefonpoems.bsky.social · 16h

Good morning. I have two big bills coming up. Both are due this week:
one tomorrow for $50 and one for $150. I need $200 total, and hope to make that today. If anyone could help, I’d be grateful. Thanks for reading.

PayPal: @MatthewStefon

Venmo: @Matt-Stefon

#MutualAid

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𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 2h

Tyvm for support! 🩷🧡🤍
Happy to have had access to breakfast & to do laundry. Wasn’t sure if either of those things would be feasible today.

We’re at like $27/$970 in that case.

🎃
bit.ly/40vIt7S

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕
#MutualAidVoid #FundSky #MutualAidRequest

Seafoam green text on a black background reads:

Shelter goal's fallen through a few times now, but I still have to deal with the time-sensitive stuff that's also hit roadblocks over and over. I don't know what to do about shelter, but I need to handle those things despite that-there are real consequences if I don't. Pls spare + share and if you can't spare: share.
Thanks for help and amplifying. -Britt

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LanguageNerd24601 (Can’t donate) @languagenerd24601.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you for helping Britt and keep up the good work! #MutualAid #HelpSky

𝙱𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚝 𝚜𝚊𝚢𝚜 #𝚂𝚃𝚁𝙸𝙺𝙴𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚄𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙸𝙳 @brittbutatwhatcost.bsky.social · 2h

Tyvm for support! 🩷🧡🤍
Happy to have had access to breakfast & to do laundry. Wasn’t sure if either of those things would be feasible today.

We’re at like $27/$970 in that case.

🎃
bit.ly/40vIt7S

#MutualAid #HelpSky
#KeepFolksAlive
#BIPOCMA 💸💕
#MutualAidVoid #FundSky #MutualAidRequest

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1h

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 1h

At the Third U.S. Congress against War and Fascism in 1936, Langston Hughes declared: “Fascism is a new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America. . . . This kind of terrorism is extending more and more to groups of peoples whose skins are not black.”

The Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Fascism and Genocide - Boston Review

Speaking the truth and exposing lies is not enough.

www.bostonreview.net

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 19h

This can not be fixed. When this is over, we need to abolish ICE completely.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Peanut (Repost Pinned) @peanutium.art · 1h

I have a dentist appointment tomorrow that I need $250 for if anyone can help me

$givepancake
paypal.me/inosaramet
Venmo: pancakewitch

Peanuts black cat laying on a black blanket on a cat bed

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Luigi is a folk hero! 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @seriesjunkie.bsky.social · 10h

Hello everyone.

Antifa is not a real organization.

Proud Boys are.

Oath Keepers are.

Patriot Front is.

KKK is.

Heritage Foundation is.

Antifa is not.

Thanks for your attention.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 7h

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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mash 🍉 (they/them) 🔞😷 @maiar.bsky.social · 5h

sooo i can’t make any jewellery for the forseeable whilst i heal this fracture/see the clinic in 2-4 weeks.

i’m already disabled, mostly bedbound and make crafts to help out when i can but now that’s completely impossible. we have many stickers and jewellery ready to ship if anyone wants to help❤️‍🩹🎨

mash 🍉 (they/them) 🔞😷 @maiar.bsky.social · Sep 13

look what i designed 😎🖖🌈

madewithsash.etsy.com

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