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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 14h

Your enemies will tell you there is no point in fighting back. They tell you this to break your morale, but in so doing, they tell on themselves. They fear being stood up to, or else they would not work so hard to downplay it. If someone says fighting back doesn't matter, make it matter.

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 13h

Long past time.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

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JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. What a fucker.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

So many shakedowns.
So little time. 🤡

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Patrick Dorsey @fenianb.bsky.social · 20h

Watch Republicans ignore issues like this, because they only care about women's sports when they can use it to bash trans women.

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Wrestler files Title IX lawsuit against Ravenwood High School - Nashville Banner

Female wrestler at Ravenwood High School files Title IX lawsuit against Williamson County Board of Education, alleges inequities with the school's other sports teams.

nashvillebanner.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

Hey @MarshaBlackburn — you gonna speak up about this, happening in your neighborhood? Or do you only care about “protecting women’s sports” when you can attack trans kids? 🤼

nashvillebanner.com/2025/10/13/r...

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 22h

For all you "we'll vote 'em out" types.

Will you, though? Really?

Look, I want to be wrong. But we've seen this in other nations.

Lincoln Square @lincolnsquare.media · 22h

To get an idea of what side they'll be on: As part of its deal with Dominion, Liberty officials asked Dominion to settle defamation lawsuits against Trump allies who attacked the company over the 2020 election results.
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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

@cupwsttp.bsky.social members should be allowed to properly strike.

They shouldn't have to curry public favour in order to be treated in a just and equitable manner.

Think about it. If they have to do this, it sets ugly precedent for all workers.

CUPW @cupwsttp.bsky.social · 1d

Timmins (ON) local is no longer on strike #canlab #SupportCUPW #StoptheCuts

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

I laughed.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

If you're wondering whether or not to get a flu shot, I didn't get one in time, and I just had a fever dream where I was in the Drew Carey Show because several days ago I was on the Wikipedia page for the Drew Carey Show. You don't have to do this to yourself.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

If only I believed it. @npr.org has compromised and grown complicit.

Not @cnn.com levels of complicit, but ANY arsenic in the cake ruins the cake.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

Kahless is wise, Coach.

Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 1d

Kahless tells us that even if you are confident that you can do anything, know that you can't do everything. Choose your battles wisely, concentrate on what matters most, and whatever you make of life, make it count.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Phang: We know that there is a move by 99% of the Republicans locked step with Trump and countless still unidentified billionaires and politicians to keep this from moving forward. How do we know? Because Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva…

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

A friend and truly gifted artist is doing a thing! Check out thing!

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About

A Thousand is a Lot is a collaborative fan project creating a book of 1,000 unique pigeons in honor of Aesop Rock's 50th birthday. Join us in celebrating creativity and individuality.

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that it isn't a peace agreement when some outsider says "Do it or we'll bomb you into the next Stone Age".

the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty sure her adult spawn asked to move back in with her cuz the cost of living is so awful, and she's all "oh HELL no".

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

When you unfollow someone cuz you have to scroll SO FAR DOWN to find the price that you actually felt yourself hit retirement age.

Be up front about the price. Your time and skill are worth something! But damn. I went grey scrolling past the 'feelgoodz'. I got dentures before I found the price.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

His peers found him loathsome, especially because he was an actual paedo.

I don't bandy that term about. The documentation, in his own writings, is abundant.

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!

I'm thankful to be home.

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 1d

It's a low moment for the MAGA Nazis when Conspiracy-Theory Barbie figured it out.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

All facts

the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 2d

"I will not let my anger make me cruel or unfeeling" hits a certain way.

Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 7d

These hurtful, threatening times fill me with sadness and anger. But I will not let my anger make me cruel or unfeeling, especially towards those I hold dear. Our enemies have not earned our kindness, but nor have they earned the right to strip us of ours.

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 2d

Boosting

Mark (Andrew) Witham ↗️ @puffmushroom.bsky.social · 2d

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the Cherissa Prime @mscherissa.bsky.social · 2d

Always support unions.

SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 2d

We’re still not over this historic win! 💜

32,000 Michigan home care workers just got their union back — proving what’s possible when workers stand united.

This is democracy. This is solidarity. This is power. ✊🏽💪

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