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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 31m

When I first saw the headlines, I was worried they were going to bring up some right wing bullshit in his past. Instead, they found comments that make him seem event better

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 48m

more than anything, I think this is evidence of how even dem centrists are realizing how toxic AIPAC money is for their base.

because I don't believe Seath Moulton has actual values.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1h

NEW: Seth Moulton becomes the first candidate in a Democratic primary for Senate to officially announce that he will return and henceforth reject donations from AIPAC

Seth for
Massachusetts
I am returning AIPAC donations and refusing to accept any donations or support from them. The FEC filing I made yesterday reflects that we are returning donations. Below is my statement explaining why:
I'm cautiously optimistic that the recent breakthrough in Gaza will move us closer to ending the horrific violence in the region. A political resolution that allows Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace is exactly the kind of framework I've been calling for from the beginning.
I support Israel's right to exist, but l've also never been afraid to disagree openly with AIPAC when I believe they're wrong.
In recent years, AIPAC has aligned itself too closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu's government. I'm a friend of Israel, but not of its current government, and AlPAC's mission today is to back that government. I don't support that direction. That's why l've decided to return the donations I've received and will not be accepting their support.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 2h

October 16, 1968

John Carlos and Tommy Smith raise their fists on the medal stand at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. Peter Norman looks on

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 6h

years ago i did this and discovered i’m so bad at skimming the physical paper

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 7h

interesting how this is framed vs Chuck Schumer encouraging Janet Mills to run because the centrist dems are afraid of Graham Platner.

Axios @axios.com · 9h

SCOOP: Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation.

Scoop: Dems plot Fetterman ouster

www.axios.com

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 17h

I feel like it’s been a minute since we had a musical interlude @erinbiba.bsky.social

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it's charloween! (it/its) @charloh.online · 17h

if we had a billion dollars we would hire Rian Johnson to make an Amelia Bedilia film with Aubrey Plaza in the titular role but also it's a murder mystery in which she is the obvious suspect

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 18h

Journalists who professionally cover politics should be embarrassed these podcasters and interior designer/lawyer former Bavo TV stars are doing harder hitting interviews than they are.

Give it up Deelishis you look like a man..🧍🏾‍♂️ @blackranga.blacksky.app · 20h

She gagged.

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 19h

the amount of things that have lavender 💀

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 22h

Literally everyone I know:

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

There are lots of people concerned about Ed Markey's age who wanted him to get primaried. Yet the universal reaction this morning to Seth Moulton running seems to be, "Yeah, I'll stick with Markey."

That's how much Moulton sucks.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 1d

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 2d

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 1d

i want one of these assholes to be sued in a two party consent state

Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 2d

Actual safety notice from my alma mater:

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected

The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
Office of Public Safety

Crime Safety Advisory:
Suspicious Occurrence Reported

Dear USF Community,

We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms.

While no threats or acts of violence have been reported, we want our community to stay informed and take steps to support one another.
If you encounter this individual or any suspicious activity:

Take immediate action to report the incident at the time it occurs by calling Public Safety Dispatch.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

this is true, and I also would like activists to finally figure out that Facebook hates you and works for Donald Trump

Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 2d

"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 1d

congrats!

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Ryan Casey @ryancasey.dev · 2d

Israel has already broken the ceasefire.

We need to be strict here to maintain peace and move towards a free Palestine and Israel

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

“Cease” fire

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire, saying a group had approached its soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 2d

What purpose does a Fenway Health that abandons trans youth, and presumably will soon abandon trans adults, even serve?

At that point, you may as well shut the entire clinic down. This is tearing the entire heart out of the organization, sacrificing it's mission and sabotaging it's legacy.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

Alt text:
Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 2d

i know the tsa probably isn’t being paid, but I got here >1 hr before my flight, there was no security line, and i still won’t have time to chill before i have to get on the plane

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 2d

it took 5 minutes to wait in line and 35 minutes for my bag and jacket to scan completely clear at pdx.

like, they pulled it aside, didn’t get an image, ran it back through, pulled it aside again, then looked at the image and didn’t even open it.

thirty. five. minutes.

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Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social · 2d

Our education system is structured in a way that requires most people to read Great Literature before they have the reading skills or life experience to make any sense of it.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Hamel 🏳️‍🌈 @wolfperson1.bsky.social · 2d

My mom’s family is from Lebanon and experienced the same thing.

The english-language version of the family tree from the 1950s has several paragraphs on the correct spelling because two cousins went through different lines at Ellis Island and came out with two different spellings.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

One of the things that happened is that if you were Chinese and got here early enough, your family members would have different legal last names--that wouldn't even read the same to white people here--because there was no standard romanization.

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · 2d

One of the hardest things about so many surviving medieval texts—particularly in Arthurian Legend—is you don’t know if they were meant to be taken seriously, or if they were meant to be jokes, told to drunk people, while drunk

This is one reason Monty Python is FR one of the best retellings

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

Most "classics" are boring as fuck to a modern reader in no small part because the context of the story is not understood by them and so many of the allusions and "inside jokes" known to then-contemporary readers have been lost in time and in translation

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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