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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 37m

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 51m

This line from Mamdani's father just really struck me. Great profile:

“I was an Indian in Uganda. I was a Muslim in India. And I was all of these things in New York City,” Mahmood Mamdani explained to his son. And “to be a minority is also to see the truth of the place amidst the promise of it.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 53m

if you live in georgia, make sure everyone you know is voting please and thank youuuu

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 55m

hey georgia, early voting is happening now -- please vote out the shitty republicans who keep increasing our electricity bills for no reason and show them we can kick them to the curb if they don't work for the people!!!!!!

find your early voting precincts here:

mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 1h

"Mamdani told me he understands that his success or failure will not be seen as only his own. He is right."

This is true but also tells on itself because The Discourse Gatekeepers do not declare centrism dead because Eric Adams proved to be an incompetent buffoon crook. It only goes one way!

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1h

if i have to see one more snooty asshole sitting in their bedroom talking about how the people going outside, putting their bodies on the line, and actively protesting are "doing it wrong" i'm gonna scream

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 1h

I have blocked this person, but I keep seeing people say things like this, and I’m begging people to understand two things.

(1) Just because peaceful protest may not be sufficient to win this moment does not mean that it is not necessary.

It is.

From: Olde Stuffe @annalsofwarren.bsky.social

i appreciate your words very often
Germans were very angry at their own government for not being truthful about the fierce nature of their enemy in WWI
this betrayal by leaders and mouthpieces led directly to Hitler and NSDAP
we're telling Americans peaceful protest will solve this
it won't

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1h

Houston, Texas: if you can go to this, please do. All over the country, reactionary bigots are trying to tear up the major handful of public works honoring LGBTQA, and so far, they are succeeding

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1h

houston city council member abbie kamin, two state reps, Rodney Ellis, and Houston County Attorney Christian Menefee are holding a press conference about Houston's rainbow crosswalk this morning. i will be there and post anything interesting

Council Member Kamin brings together Houston elected officials and community members at historic Montrose crosswalk against Governor Abbott’s attack on local communities
WHAT: Council Member Abbie Kamin will be joined by fellow elected officials and community leaders at the historic Montrose rainbow crosswalk for a press conference in response to the Governor’s recent attack on cities and local communities.

WHEN: Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 10:00 AM

WHERE: Corner of Taft & Westheimer, Houston, TX 77006

WHO:
Council Member Abbie Kamin, District C
Commissioner Rodney Ellis, Precinct 1
County Attorney Christian Menefee
State Representative Gene Wu, District 137
State Representative Jon Rosenthal, District 135
Other elected officials
Community partners & organizations
Neighborhood civic leaders

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11h

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

nokings.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 3h

Well. Things are pretty bad for the current regime. Look who they've pissed off NOW. (Watch to the end, it's not just footage from Portland. Surprise musical guest!)

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 3h

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 2h

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 4h

Is this a pigeon meme, guy is gesturing to a butterfly captioned "never ending parade of tasks" and is saying "is this a life?"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 16h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

www.cnn.com

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KJZZ Phoenix @kjzz.org · 16h

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport joined a handful of other airports across the country that have refused to display a video from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the government shutdown.

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport won't play 'political' message blaming Democrats for shutdown

Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport joined a handful of other airports across the country that have refused to display a video from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for the government ...

www.kjzz.org

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 21h

Please share the news about these students working to get transparency on why books were removed from a statewide reading bowl (including a book ON book banning!!)

bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...

And then sign their petition here: www.change.org/p/ensure-tra...

A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans

Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.

bookriot.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 15h

Scrivener!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 1d

this girl Gloria who got into my local newspaper for seeing Titanic 50 times in Rome and who I have remembered since reading about her in 1998

Published March 14, 1998|Updated Sept. 12, 2005

A 12-year-old from Rome, identified only as Gloria, goes to the movies every day. Same time, same place, same movie: Titanic. So far, the girl has seen the hit film about 50 times, leading the pack of Italy's fervent Titanic fans. And she's still not tired of it. She even has cats named Jack and Rose. The young movie buff was discovered by the newspaper La Repubblica. "She comes to the 9 o'clock feature every night," said Giancarlo Malferrari, the owner of the only movie theater in Castelfranco Emilia, a town of 11,000 in central Italy. "And every weekend, she watches two shows in a row." Now the theater has started saving her favorite seat and even letting her in free. Neither he nor La Repubblica used the girl's last name, citing Italy's privacy law. Gloria told La Repubblica it isn't heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio that attracts her, but the character he plays: Jack Dawson, a struggling artist who wins his passage on the Titanic in a poker game. "Jack is cuter than Leo," she said. "And it's for real; it's a true story. That's what makes it so beautiful." Gloria's mother, a cleaning woman who works at night, says she hasn't seen Titanic yet but she's not worried about her daughter's obsession. "She's not doing anything bad," she told the newspaper, adding that Gloria has to do her homework first every night.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17h

oooook it is kind of happening

a screenshot showing I've written 1600 words today

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 17h

i wish i was eating pho :(

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18h

being on this website complaining about writing is my version of "posting through it" 😭

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18h

i don't have unhinged literary opinions, only hinged ones and my hinged opinion is that publishing should spend money on marketing and publicity again

(ok i have one unhinged opinion and it's that litfic authors should keep YA's name out of their mouths lol)

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 18h

it's cool that my past self left a big confusing note in all caps in my manuscript for my present self and i am super hoping that at some point my future self will remember what it is supposed to mean

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 18h

sam altman is always making a face like he just woke up from general anesthesia and the surgeon is telling him that his Muppet Procedure was only partially successful

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