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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 5h

How bad does it have to be for Newsmax not to sign?

NPR @npr.org · 5h

Several news organizations, including The New York Times, NPR and Newsmax, are refusing to sign a new set of restrictions on news gathering inside the Pentagon. n.pr/3ILiHaj

News outlets reject Pentagon press restrictions

Several news organizations, including The New York Times, NPR and Newsmax, are refusing to sign a new set of restrictions on news gathering inside the Pentagon.

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 19h

They would be permabanned from Bluesky.

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 19h

I've seen people permabanned from Bluesky for Kirk takes a lot more mild than that.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 19h

New Yorkers should stop paying federal taxes then.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 21h

It's a good reminder that no one is immune to propaganda and constantly monitoring right-wing propaganda will lead a person to be propagandized by it.

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DoctorFunkopolis @doctorfunkopolis.bsky.social · 22h

And theyre all weird and creepy and off putting. Theyre obsessed with other people in an unnatural way.

Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 22h

Republicans are a another word for Nazis.

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 22h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 22h

Ari doesn't know what half of those words mean.

Valerie @vibingvalerie.bsky.social · 1d

Are women bourgeois?

Ari: WELL I AM

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen
X.com
Transsexualism as we conceive of it in America is bourgeois, the product of a society that venerates the freedom of an individual to choose. There is no designer vagina under communism, I'm sorry.

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Edo @edgorman.bsky.social · 22h

Americans really need to know the difference between “radical left” (no-one in the US), Liberal (Bernie, AOC), Conservative (Democrats), and basically the Third Reich (GOP).

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 22h

We haven't had a government this pro AIDS since Reagan.

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 22h

Reminder: Dallin Oaks is a board member for the World Congress of families, an evil organization that supports the death penalty for LGBTQ people.

The LDS Church just selected this evil man as their new president.

#UTPol

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Kevin @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 22h

remember that everything you say here is public and anyone can easily access your deleted posts without permission from bluesky. remember this before recommending specific methods of protest or things you would like to see happen to a person or group of people.

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 22h

Republicans are a another word for Nazis.

Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 22h

"They referred to Black people as monkeys and 'the watermelon people' and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Bukkakestocracy (free link) @boo.bsky.social · 1d

This list is unhinged, buying into the rightwing lie that there is an uptick in LGBT shooters, and calling them groomers. I'm not saying they're a groyper but they're behaving exactly like one so the distinction is trivial (or whatever they said)

haltheloppie.bsky.social Ha'L
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GroyperOps
There's no nice way to put this. The queer community has been invaded by nazis pretending to be queer who actually want to groom us all into violent psychopaths. These people are the reason there's a rise of lgbt neonazi school shooters. They post antisemtic dogwhistles all day too

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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 2d

So, Łink is still banned? All the accounts we see catch bans and come back, and all the ones that mysteriously never get banned, but the one that stays banned is Łink?

Free Łink.

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 1d

Yep, though that guy was picked because of how awful and dangerous he was and the article was scathing. It's the opposite of what they are doing right now with Trump.

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

$450-1k would fix all my problems rn

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

need someone to give me $200 so i can buy battlefield 6 for me and my bestie

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 1d

The mainstream media continuing to lionize Trump's actions is super gross.

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 1d

I still have important numbers memorized, such as my mother's cell phone number and her home phone. It's good to have important numbers memorized in case you need them in an emergency.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 1d

I never even heard of this one. Probably because it was released in 2000 on the PS1.

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 1d

People need to read this thread.

There are lots of disinfo and bot accounts going around with the purpose dividing the left on Palestine.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 1d

It's so ridiculous that he's still banned.

Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2d

Link's perm ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2d

Link's perm ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 2d

This is a) utterly terrifying and b) vital. Don’t turn away. The crisis is fixable because it is, ultimately, political. We know the chemistry. We decline the action necessary.

Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 2d

The headline news that won't be headline news.

'A tragedy': World may have reached first climate 'tipping point' as coral reefs face collapse

Warm-water coral reefs - on which a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend - are on the brink of collapse, according to a major new scientific study

www.businessgreen.com

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine being this terrified of someone in a Cookie Monster costume.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 2d

She's projecting hard.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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