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Your friend CJ @xturtle.bsky.social · 1h

It's extremely telling that Johnson would call a rally named No Kings a "hate America" rally. Did you ever attend a history class, Mike?

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

Mike Johnson on the No Kings Protests: “The Hate America rally that'll happen Saturday…I bet you see pro-Hamas supporters. I bet you you see Antifa types. I bet you see the Marxist in full display, the people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic.”

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 3h

Ahh, the perfect necklace

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Uncommon Goods | My Favorite Pasta Shape Necklace | Necklace

A craveworthy pasta that’s 100% carb-free. Show off your favorite shape in sterling silver or gold vermeil. Each sale helps to fight hunger in the US and Mexico.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 4h

Do it!! 👍🏻😁👍🏻

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 8h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Ms. Ivette 🕯☽ ⛤ 🔮🖤 @bunnylove403.bsky.social · 7h

I apologize to anyone who decides to skip this, but please if you can, just #help and/or #reskeet this post. I have 26 days left in shelter. This might be my only hope.

HELP Ivette Mir raise funds for a studio apartment. Scan QR code, click the link and/or reskeet.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 17h

Omg cute 😍

Mrs. N @btwnthesepages.bsky.social · 21h

Gingerbread Hedgehog 🦔
#CookieParty

A batch of gingerbread hedgehog with chocolate sprinkles as their spikes and mini chocolate chip noses.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 17h

Reason number one-million-and-two:

#DontRankFrey
#RankFatehRankDavisRankHampton (in your preferred order)

David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 23h

If I’m reading Kyle right, Frey admits failing to issue 100 housing vouchers *that are funded this year because he wants to kill the program next year.* (This is not Stable Schools, but for single folks.) This is unallotment Trump-style, especially since county/MPHA are in.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 17h

Holy shit y'all

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 17h

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 18h

I hate him so fucking much

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 18h

The same universe that crafted koalas and quasars and crocus petals authored the mind reading these words.
Don't let intimate knowledge of your own life rob you of the dignity and wonder you are owed.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

You can get that PROTECT TRANS YOUTH t-shirt, designed by @tombofnull.bsky.social, from @greenpeapress.bsky.social! Proceeds benefit Huntsville's Free LGBTQ+ Closet!
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Protect Trans Youth — Green Pea Press

Due to the very sudden influx of orders of this product, we are currently working to restock low quantities. We must have gone viral, y’all! Please sign up to receive a restock notifications. Thank yo...

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 20h

Minneapolis after dark

view down Marquette avenue downtown with yellow and pink lights in the rain, west streets, someone walking

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 18h

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Prompt Girl #mutualaid link.

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Support Sophia Nyx with a gift contribution on their Throne wishlist. Help fund their creative projects.

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 18h

Jee zus

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 19h

For the first time last year, Akutan Island’s K–12 school had two local Unangax̂ teachers — and they’re back this year. The principal calls their presence transformative.

Drying fish and canning jam: Akutan teachers highlight place-based learning

The K–12 school on Akutan Island has two teachers. Last year was the first time they were local Unangax̂ residents — and they're continuing to teach this year.

akpub.io

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 19h

In a similar vein to @guante.info's thread that I just shared 👇🏻

Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · Jun 24

Just saw this video from @monicatrinidad.bsky.social

Super inspiring and encouraging, with lots of pieces of advice, both big and small, from Monica and others

(Monica created the cover art for "We Do This 'Til We Free Us")

Highly recommend giving it a watch

youtu.be/jwBmLCaHKUw?...

How to make art for social change

YouTube video by Monica Trinidad

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Anne @annieoranne.bsky.social · 19h

This is towards the end, but this whole thread 👇🏻

#art

Kyle Tran Myhre @guante.info · 21h

...None of these ideas are enough. No art project is ever going to be the magic key to stopping this. But no one thing ever will be. It takes lots of people, being creative, contributing where and how they are able, sometimes in unseen/unappreciated ways, to move the needle. That includes artists.

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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 23h

Today @thesicktimes.org: Some workplaces that require in-person work are outright banning masks, while others have implicit anti-mask attitudes. Here's how some workers and organizers are pushing back.

By Nadica Zimmerman: thesicktimes.org/2025/10/14/d...

Despite the ongoing pandemic, some companies are banning employees from masking - The Sick Times

While some anti-mask policies have failed — a win for workers — there is a larger effort to ban masks in the U.S. on state and local levels. And more businesses may attempt to ban masks in the workpla...

thesicktimes.org

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 21h

Amidst all the stuff about the male loneliness "epidemic" there's a serious conversation to be had about how much bigotry has been made out to be harmless until the bleeding starts. These people will not stop at harming the Other. They hate all of you. And they want to watch you suffer and die.

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 21h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 1d

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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