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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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brendon bigley @bb.wavelengths.online · 4h

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Val Syverson 🕷️ @vjpsyverson.bsky.social · 1h

@weel.bsky.social and I theorize that this is at least sometimes because cis people are so clueless they misunderstand *which direction of trans* and also don't...know about passing. so they assume "trans means they're the opposite of what I thought they were" and start going Uhhh Ummm Sir Ma'am ???

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 1h

The Dutch, naturally, have this sorted.

At this #Delft intersection, people on bikes and pedestrians get a continuous green.

The arrival of a car or truck sets off a sensor, which allows it to cross. The default is green for humans, red for cars.

Video @modacitylife.com

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3h

not to repeat the obvious but: if they are doing this to one of the most famous Western activists alive, imagine what they are doing to the people whose names we will never know

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3h

Greta is an immensely impressive human being and despite her well-intentioned downplaying of her experience what she endured was torture. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 5h

The push to extend trans people's legal childhood is a modern iteration of homophobic policies that set a higher age of consent for gay people than for cishet people.

In this case, an elongated period of minority deprives trans people of lifesaving care during a critical period of their lives.

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Val Syverson 🕷️ @vjpsyverson.bsky.social · 5h

serendipitously just got this in my feed: bsky.app/profile/joyu...

Jo Yurcaba @joyurcaba.bsky.social · 5h

This past weekend, I went to the World Gay Rodeo Finals in Reno, which celebrated 50 years of gay rodeo.

I grew up doing rodeo as a teen and felt like I'd never be able to go back because I came out as trans. This story felt like a homecoming.

For @nbcnews.com:

www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

Not their first gay rodeo: Celebrating 50 years of queer cowfolks

Contestants and line dancers traveled from across the country to the World Gay Rodeo Finals in Reno, Nevada, to celebrate a half-century of gay rodeo.

www.nbcnews.com

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Val Syverson 🕷️ @vjpsyverson.bsky.social · 5h

my extremely Fresno take is that rodeo people are AT LEAST as weird as furries, collectively

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Lethal injection jesus @25-17ezekiel.bsky.social · 7h

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 5h

if you’re a random middle aged congressman your only correct opinion about furries is “not quite sure what they’re up to but they seem to be having a good time, is there anything they want so they’ll vote for me?”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

What's the takeaway here? Most importantly: distrust that is politically salient & organized such that it has a clear partisan valence is not naturally occurring; those benefiting from it make more of it. Its extent & legitimacy can be made & so, perhaps unmade via political contestation.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

This isn't to deny that democracy *is* in crisis. I'm highlighting that the crisis is in part manufactured by the populist right as a weapon of power. Per @polphilpod.bsky.social, there's agency here. So, no, democracy did not have it coming due to insufficient leftism; it's being killed by fascists

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

We can also see it in cratering support for the Democratic Party. Some perceive it as too extreme, & so should 'moderate' on hot button issues, others hate it because it's not 'extreme' enough (eg they don't fight; aren't left enough). Incompletely theorized agreement that the Democratic Party sucks

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

When different sides to a conflict can agree about part of it for their own, different reasons, we call it an "incompletely theorized agreement." Critiques about inequality, racism, etc on the left & reactionary panic about migration/race & gender on the right generated such agreement re: democracy.

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

in many ways, the inverse image of the civil rights movement: they are trying to generate a particular kind of reaction in order to advance their own agenda through imagery

www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

How to Win a Rigged Game

The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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

they have been trying to do meme authoritarianism, and that means generating the right kinds of content--the forces of Order vs the forces of Chaos, riots and violence and burning shit and ""antifa supersoldiers""

the kind of imagery to justify the kind of powers they aspire to

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17h

The thing that explains their behavior - almost all their behavior, including the choice to commit incredible violence against random foreigners, is that they not only believe that Twitter is real life, but that real life mostly exists to create content that will play well on Twitter

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 3d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 17h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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David M. Pumpkins 🎃 @davidmonroe.bsky.social · 18h

Paint on streets is *not* infrastructure.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20h

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users.

ALL ROAD USERS.

And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all.

For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them.

Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says — Streetsblog USA

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

usa.streetsblog.org

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 21h

But what I hope happens is that you learn a completely different lesson.

There is no safe ground. So you might as well stand and fight while you can.

Because fascist regimes eventually come for us all. They can not be appeased.

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 21h

ICE is randomly targeting peaceful protesters because the point is to terrorize the public into accepting martial law.

Indiscriminate attacks send the message that there’s nothing you can do to stay safe.

The regime wants you to cower at home and cede the streets of your city to their control.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 20h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 21h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 1d

You know what? I have time today. Let's have a look.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

Frying brains online

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