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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 13h

I've only seen 2 other than mine.

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Dari/scitydreamer @scitydreamer.bsky.social · 14h

Purity tests is just the Democrat way of calling people woke.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 21h

who is policing? is it 🧊?

Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 21h

social media is not a reliable organizing tool if it's owned and operated by the people who want us dead. we have to start coming to terms with that in a very real way. that lady crashing out the other day is a perfect example.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 22h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Kendra, regular version @kendrawcandraw.bsky.social · 1d

Me: I just don't understand why I can't just out-think my anxiety and emotions and simply react and respond in the most ideal way every single time and never feel bad
My therapist of eight years: *audibly loading gun*

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 21h

really enjoyed this. tackles my issues with the film and unearths a couple others. I wrote in my review that the depiction of this character is racist, and I'm surprised more critics have not mentioned that in their praise of the film!

open.substack.com/pub/blackgir...

One Fetish After Another: PTA Exploits Black Women and Averts Revolution

Paul Thomas Anderson's action flick leaves much to be desired.

open.substack.com

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 22h

I don't think there are actually, but I'd be happy to meet some if you know them!

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 22h

I'm not a coffee girlie, but it's always funny to see the ones who are try to justify what is very clearly a raging addiction to caffeine. what do you mean, "don't talk to me until I've had my coffee" are you insane? 😂 you are a junkie! (so leave the other junkies alone)

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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ap @pattersona12.blacksky.app · 1d

it’s a stimulant that creates physical dependence, of course they can’t live without it

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 1d

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

bit.ly

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 22h

so you want to punish her for supporting 🧊... by calling 🧊? I'm gonna need y'all to turn on the noggin.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 23h

Every word of this is worth reading. These people are not outliers in young MAGA leadership. The person you are when you think you can get away with saying anything is the real you.

Politico @politico.com · 23h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 23h

it's been years though! that, road rules, wildin out, all on repeat for like 5 years

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

i think it should be extremely easy to get a job. what do you really risk just throwing me in the mix and seeing what happens? a few dollars in wages, maybe a few more in the unemployment fund? we both know you have the money. I’M the one who doesn’t have the money! because i’m asking you for a job!

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 23h

she is going to be at a screening next week and I'm losing my mind I'm so excited! Ryan and Ludwig too. I want to see if he'll sign all 5 of my vinyls.

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Pointing Man @nywiseass.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit I was unprepared for how 20+ kindergartners behave.

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 23h

every time I forget why I dislike her so much she serves me up another reason.

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Vox @vox.com · 1d

Whether a new drug called lenacapavir actually makes a dent in the HIV epidemic will depend less on science than on politics. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/zFB4vE

The only thing standing between humanity and the end of HIV

Even Trump is fast-tracking this innovative new drug. What could go wrong?

voxdotcom.visitlink.me

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 1d

"I wrote because I believed in an idea that feels almost silly now: that visibility would lead to acceptance.

That if people just knew the stories of trans people, understood our humanity, they’d stop seeing us as threats or curiosities or political pawns."

@parkermolloy.com

How trans visibility became a trap

People who have documented their lives online are discovering the dark side of digital permanence.

www.theverge.com

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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 23h

what is confusing about it?

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Bryan Liles @bryanl.dev · 1d

I know y’all mean well, but think about the signaling when you talk about Black folks and then say “instead they get … ordinary people.”

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

instead they get grandmas, and priests, and inflatable frogs, and ordinary decent people rising up and saying "this is vile, this is unamerican, these are secret police"

they get kristi noem in a staring contest with a guy in a chicken suit

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

8/Your encrypted apps are vulnerable.

"If your phone is on, and connected to a cellular network, you're fair game." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

6/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

4/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Last year the investigative newsroom Lighthouse Reports obtained a secret archive, containing more than a million instances where Altamides was used to trace cell phones all over the world. This data trove, the majority of which spans 2007 to 2014, is one of the largest disclosures to date of the inner workings of the vast surveillance industry. It does not just list the phone numbers of people who were monitored; it offers, in many cases, precise maps of their movements, showing where they went and when. Over months of research, Lighthouse, Germany’s Paper Trail Media, Mother Jones, Reveal, and an international consortium of partners dug into these logs to understand who was being spied on and why. We identified surveillance targets in 100 countries and spoke to dozens of them. We obtained confidential documents and communications outlining how Altamides—an acronym for “Advanced Location Tracking and Mobile Information and Deception System”—was marketed and deployed. We also interviewed industry insiders and former employees of the company about its operations and clientele.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
ow.ly/2LUF50Xb7KE

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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