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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 14h

A young trans girl DIED by her own hand, in part over feelings of desperation that trans healthcare was unobtainable.

And Graham Linehan wrote THIS!!! 😤🤬

Save this and post it in response to journalists writing “trans people ruined my marriage” articles about him in the future!!!

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 18h

Georgia's puppet govt will toughen penalties for violating protest regulations, the ruling party announced.

Participation in any demo banned by the pro-Moscow authorities will result in 60 days detention.

Yesterday a women's march took place in Tblisi, called "You won't take Georgia prisoner."

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Jaunty Art @jaunty.art · Nov 1

Misheard lyrics (true story)

Four panel comic of Nicolas Cage dressed as Castor Troy in priest costume from the film Face/Off. The text reads “And if I only could, I’d make a deal with God, and get Him to SWAP OUR FACES.”

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 1d

#FreeGeorgianPoliticalPrisoners

Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 1d

“Georgia cannot be captured!”

Protesters march towards Rustaveli Avenue, blocked for the 319th consecutive day. #GeorgiaProtests

🎥 Protest 24

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

i cannot imagine the soul withering misery of finally claiming your freedom after 43 years of confinement only to be snatched up for indefinite confinement somewhere else on even flimsier grounds

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Joe Patrice @joepatrice.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing

Tweet: @vexwerewolf
Right-wingers literally straight-up admitting "it's harder to discredit the left because the left is almost always telling the truth"
Scott Jennings @Lum 21h um, yes, that's really a problem
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The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality rightwing content.
That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well.
In essence people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly arent usually on our side.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 2d

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

open.substack.com

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so glad Portland is doing this, it’s genius, and also I desperately want it to stop being just a Portland thing, this needs to be a national tactic

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 3d

Women are not loved by the regime, especially strong women, cos they are afraid of them, obviously.

I want you to know Ia Darakhvelidze, recently detained by the regime.
2/1

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3d

We need help to protect our civilians from blackouts, cold and darkness, and a new wave of refugees to the EU.

Right now, there are two very important areas that Ukraine needs help with:

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 3d

Omfg. This is so embarrassingly pathetically false. Portland is FINE. tr*mp's dementia is not.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Wholly Calamity @andrewhuntley.bsky.social · 3d

*12hr dagnammit

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Wholly Calamity @andrewhuntley.bsky.social · 3d

2hr marathon livestream fundraiser for @carforukraine.bsky.social featuring @siliconcurtain.bsky.social @atpgeo.bsky.social and many others dropping by
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LIVE STREAM: 12 Hr Fundraising Campaign MARATHON w/ Jonathan Fink

YouTube video by ATP Geopolitics

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Tata Chemia @tatach.bsky.social · 4d

Another friend of mine was arrested. He is the calmest, kindest person I’ve ever known. The regime will try to prove the opposite, but it won’t succeed!

A professional, intellectual, and expert in his field should not be imprisoned but this is our reality now.

We will not tolerate this, never!

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 4d

Are you thinking "TFI Friday"? Well in Ukraine it's just another day of lying in a trench, piloting a drone, evacuating hot spots, treating the wounded, or trying to keep the family safe.

And it's Day 1325 of this, following another night of little sleep for Kyiv. Here's the🧵

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 4d

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 5d

This is what russia did to Pokrovsk, once a city of over 60000 people. Now ruins.

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Dzyga's Paw @dzygaspaw.com · 5d

In September, we raised $166,551 and delivered 14 parcels to our heroes in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. We also closed two fundraisers and dedicated much time to events and networking.

Read more about it in the thread 👇

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6d

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Wholly Calamity @andrewhuntley.bsky.social · 5d

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🤷Літ🤦 хоче спекти пасочку 👍 @lithra.bsky.social · 6d

#UkrainianView
after seven years.
Some things take a lot to be uncovered.

I sadly recall how foreigners during the first year of the full scale were asking WHY have Ukrainians not provided the report statistics or proofs of russian war crimes after a week past the event.

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 6d

A 64-year-old doctor from Donetsk breaks his silence after seven years of torture in Russian captivity.

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