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🍋we’re still in a pandemic🍋eugenics leads to fascism🍋LC/ME/MCAS/lupus/endo🍋still with her🍋OG khive🍋shame fascists out of society. yes, all of them, even the ones to whom you’re related🍋

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🐝thee agnes de buffle🐝 @vanadiumzest.bsky.social · Nov 11

i’ve said it before: my parents told their right wing families to fuck off (literally) in the early 1970s over vietnam + civil rights

since then, every member of my family, including my 20 yr old white nephew, has voted straight blue

this is how we build a movement + win

Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · Nov 11

The vice president ran an excellent campaign. The past 4 years while she was working to make the country better. A right wing campaign was growing. Start talking to your family & friends. The root of the problem isn’t on the top. It’s locally !

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · Nov 11

If you are a Democrat who is spending time attacking Kamala Harris or her campaign rather than focusing on the fight ahead, you aren't helping anyone.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 9h

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
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Ö. Ges. für ME/CFS @mecfs.at · 18h

❗Help us spread ME/CFS awareness❗

People living with #ME/CFS are severely ill, yet often don't receive welfare, specialised medical treatment and accessible education opportunities.
Furthermore, sufficient awareness in the areas of politics, healthcare and research is lacking.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 22h

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....

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 30m

14 October 1914 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Lydia Barta, was born.

In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
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Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

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Ö. Ges. für ME/CFS @mecfs.at · 16d

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Ö. Ges. für ME/CFS @mecfs.at · 25d

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Jada Jones @jadajones57.bsky.social · 10h

Who is going to be arrested for child abuse????
I'm not kidding and I want answers
They should NEVER be able to touch a child.

Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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🐝thee agnes de buffle🐝 @vanadiumzest.bsky.social · 12h

curry is so perfect in the fall

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Rachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 13h

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse.

Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 12h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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🐝thee agnes de buffle🐝 @vanadiumzest.bsky.social · 12h

i made some super comforting potato chickpea curry (suuuuuuper heavy on the ginger); and it was delicious

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

Government workers 👇🏾

Lunch is on the house:

Being in the heart of downtown DC, we love that so many of our Federal employees stop by during lunch for a Donburi at China Chilcano or a Fútbol Club at Jaleo. And just because the government is shut down doesn't mean you have to miss out on your favorite lunch spot- because this time, its on us!
Join us for lunch from 11:30 AM to 3:00 PM at any of our participating restaurants and enjoy a free lunch item when you present your government ID-you heard that right! Dine in with us Monday through Friday and choose your favorite: a sandwich at Jaleo, a donburi at China Chilcano, a wrap or pita at Zaytinya, or a torta at Oyamel.
We've always believed in serving our community with open arms and good food-no shutdown can stop that.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

America is imperfect, but foreign leaders did not use to assume that the President's family was a key means of leveraging their shared interest in corruption.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 23h

No, you don't gotta hand it to him for possibly getting the third Biden cease fire eight months late after tolerating a mass starvation campaign and demanding a little ethnic cleansing and enormous bribes as a treat, and only because Netanyahu surprise bombed the chief bribe facilitator.

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Rep. Jimmy Gomez @gomez.house.gov · 18h

The real "trick" this Halloween isn’t ghosts or goblins, it’s Trump’s tariffs driving up costs.

This year, shoppers can expect to spend a record $114 per person, pricing many hardworking families out of one of the sweetest holidays for their kids.

abc7.com/post/tariff-...

Tariff or treat: National Retail Federation says tariffs are impacting Halloween prices

Halloween shoppers can expect to spend a record $114.45 per person this season, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF), $11 more than last year.

abc7.com

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The Bear Jieux @thebearjieux.bsky.social · 23h

No female hostage is still alive.

Highly likely they killed all the girls and women because they systematically raped them all. Or they are somewhere forcibly giving birth to their rapists' children.

Not a single Hamastinian can have any role in any future Gaza Administration. #WarCrimes

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#MEAction Network @meactnet.bsky.social · 18h

#MEAction is excited to announce we are partnering with the Writers Guild Initiative (WGI) again to offer creative writing workshops for people with ME and Long COVID. To learn more & get link to the application read this article:
www.meaction.net/post/apply-t...

Apply Today - Writers Guild Initiative Writing Workshops

WGI Workshops start in November. Apply today!

www.meaction.net

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 18h

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 21h

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Solve M.E. @solveme.bsky.social · 18h

Register today for the @icancmeresearch.bsky.social online conference Nov. 4-6. The event was designed by people w/ #MECFS and the theme is “Nothing About Us Without Us.”

icancme.ca/research/202...

2025 ME Conference - ICanCME

icancme.ca

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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 19h

More and more people with ME/CFS, in Germany, see euthanasia as the only last resort option

The Intolerableness of Suffering

Sarah Buckel was 31 years old when she decided to die by euthanasia. She had ME/CFS, an incurable disease that can occur as a result of a Covid infection. Her case has

Die Unerträglichkeit des Leidens

Sarah Buckel war 31 Jahre alt, als sie sich für den Tod durch Sterbehilfe entschied. Sie hatte ME/CFS, eine unheilbare Erkrankung, die als Folge einer Covid-Infektion auftreten kann. Ihr Fall hat das ...

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series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 1d

going to bed now - nothing yet for food, dog food, or meds yet, if anyone can match $20 it sure would be nice to wake up able to eat and get a small bag of dog food 😭❤️‍🩹🫡 (i have had nothing but a cup of rice since Wednesday lol)

venmo.com/u/katiwithoutthee
cash.app/$katiwithoutthee

series of gj tubes @katimcf.bsky.social · 1d

goal met ty all!! paid then crashed BUT i still have a late fee, had ONE (1) meal since Wednesday, out of meds, nic patches, and now dog food, so i still need

$25 late fee
$150 for groceries/dog food
$100 for dr
$80 for meds

anything helps ❤️‍🩹

venmo.com/u/katiwithoutthee
cash.app/$katiwithoutthee

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

If you were trying to invent an energy scam to immiserate the poor and accelerate climate change, you couldn't come up with a better scam than the way industry is pursuing AI under Trump.

Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · 16d

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI alone have collectively announced $800b in commitments for new data centers in 2025. Meanwhile, US electricity prices are rising fast, up 35% since 2022

Electricity is AI's Achilles heel:

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 1d

13 October 1882 | Czech Jew, Jindřich Robitschek, was born in Prague.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 26 October 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.
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Gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

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