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Rida Abu Rass @aburass.bsky.social · 43m

Israeli settlers - backed by soldiers - continue to disrupt the annual Palestinian olive harvest, stealing crops, cutting down trees, and attacking olive-pickers. Every single day.

Rida Abu Rass @aburass.bsky.social · 6d

October marks the start of the olive harvest in Palestine, a culturally significant and, usually, joyous occasion.

Israeli settlers - backed by soldiers - have stolen crops, cut down trees, attacked, and in some cases severely injured, Palestinian olive-pickers - *every day* this week.

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 4h

10/16 Update: I have until tomorrow, 10/17, to raise $1080 in order to catch up on my rent payments, and I have one week to pay off my entire back rent balance or else management will file for eviction. I really don't want to be homeless again. #MutualAidRequest

Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 17d

GoFundMe: gofund.me/083af9ca
CashApp: $charlotteirene
PayPal: PayPal.me/charlotteirene
Venmo: charlotte-irene8

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Mando @mrmandolino.itch.io · 2h

*incredible* work by the social media team on posting this article

WIRED @wired.com · 3h

Then there's Russ Taylor. "It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement."

(Editor's note: Taylor was plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack. He was later pardoned by Trump.)
www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2h

And just like the Taliban isn't all of Islam, and just like Christian Nationalism isn't all of Christianity, the Kahanists etc. aren't all of Judaism.

Religion is power, & every tradition has its Rev. Dr. Kings as well as its Torquemadas. Power is used for greatness and evil, here as everywhere.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 2h

Your regular reminder that Bibi Netanyahu is about as religious and theologically serious as Trump is.

That is to say--

yeah.

Exactly that much.

In both cases, *fundamentalist zealotry* animates *one or more factions* of those they're trying to appease, but not all of them. That's it.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5h

The first Jim Crow was enacted under the auspices that racism is a necessity and a great and natural moral good.

The second one is being enacted under the auspices that racism doesn’t exist if you claim you don’t see it and anyone who questions your motives about that is oppressing you.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

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Miriam @miriam.blacksky.app · 5h

All the right wing grifters are out in force writing opinion pieces about “WOKE.” Just a reminder: the term woke comes from AAVE during the civil rights era, it meant being awake to social and racial injustice. Imagine being mad at that and using it as an insult

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4d

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 8h

the animal mascot protests are an excellent step in this direction. now we just need a whole bunch of really inscrutable collages and public yelling of nonsense

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 8h

i think we should bring dadaism back as a response to The Horrors. it made sense during world war one

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Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 12h

Bedtime Update: I'm now sitting at $1080 needed by Friday, 10/17, in order to get caught up on my rent payments and avoid being homeless for a third time. #MutualAidRequest

Charlotte. @charlotteirene.bsky.social · 17d

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 13h

minerva the cat: "no you cannot pet me but what if i stick my very fluffy tail right in your face."

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Geof Huth @geofhuth.bsky.social · 13h

madonna and child

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Viago’s big brown eyes @pennypyro.bsky.social · 13h

Do you ever wanna live in some fantasy world where you pay for things at the market with sand dollars

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Geof Huth @geofhuth.bsky.social · 13h

Shull 608: An Act

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Viago’s big brown eyes @pennypyro.bsky.social · 13h

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MGI2025 l National Costume Competition ✨☝🏻 Miss Grand Indonesia #MGI2025 #MGI #LINEMAN #GrandExperiences #MissGrandInternational

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Bruce Stallsmith @laimosemion.bsky.social · 15h

The war in Portland is intensifying. 🧪

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Misty Bentz @astronomisty.bsky.social · 14h

Our sister galaxy, Andromeda (M 31). She is looking on from a distance, and slightly furrowed with concern.

8 hrs, #Seestar S50 🔭 from N. Atlanta suburbs
Siril, GraXpert, Starnet, GIMP 🧪

A large spiral galaxy with a prominent disk and small central spheroid is centered on a black background dotted with stars. There are brown dust spirals in the disk, and some slight warping of the disk is apparent. Two bright dwarf galaxies are visible nearby.

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Viago’s big brown eyes @pennypyro.bsky.social · 14h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMP2W6bC/ she could be a dragon if she wore This

MGI2025 l National Costume Competition ✨☝🏻 Miss Grand Ecuador #MGI2025 #MGI #LINEMAN #GrandExperiences #MissGrandInternational

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Viago’s big brown eyes @pennypyro.bsky.social · 14h

Sometimes Chappell Roan is a princess, sometimes she is a knight

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 16h

Protect those tiny toe beans. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Black and white photo of a light skinned woman in a light colored dress and apron and hair bonnet, standing outside and cradling a tiny shorthaired tabby kitten to her chest.

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Katch @katchdraws.bsky.social · 17h

Quick lil reminder:
Picking on the physical characteristics (weight, height, etc) of someone who's clearly just a trash human being isn't the dunk you think it is.

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Melanie 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans Rights Are Human Rights 🐈 ACAB @melailurophile.bsky.social · 1d

Fiedra has excellent whiskers 🖤😻☀️🖤 #WhiskersWednesday #Cats #CatsOfBluesky

Three photos in which black shorthair Fiedra lies atop blankets on the bed in the spare bedroom. As she looks around, bright morning sunlight shines in the east-facing window, and her whiskers glow along with the illumination.

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molly 🏴‍☠️🪴 @aproperpirate.bsky.social · 1d

Morning Mads

Mads dressed as Archie sitting outside and smiling with a green and white shade umbrella

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Viago’s big brown eyes @pennypyro.bsky.social · 15h

Have you considered asking questions before jumping to accusations of fascism?

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