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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28m

I don't know him or his music but I want to thank him for not allowing himself from being intimidated by the regime. It matters and might give a few others more courage.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 30m

Zach Bryan, thank you for being on the good side of history.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 35m

Reading this as I listen to Jamelle Bouie and Sherrilyn Ifill talk about the 14th amendment on the Strict Scrutiny podcast

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

antifascist and anti-capitalist organizers need to understand space as one site of struggle because our opposition definitely understand it as one

IEEE Spectrum @spectrum.ieee.org · 1d

Low Earth orbit is filling up. Not just with #satellites, but also with dangerous, tumbling debris. As they collide, they multiply. If we do nothing, satellites will crash, creating chaos on Earth below. Meet the people trying to prevent this disaster. spectrum.ieee.org/kessler-synd...

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

File "WIP" not found

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 2h

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

New library catalogue website.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 2d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1h

"Respectfully I say to thee/I'm aware that you're skeeting," the hot Swedish husband sings, pauses, and asks, "what's skeeting?"

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 3h

truer words rarely uttered

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 3h

It's "on hold" because of Germany, but it's not defeated. And, yeah, age verification is yet another bad thing the EU wants maybe to do.

Chat Control on hold, Europe's Eastern flank remains passive

Germany’s withdrawal freezes CSAR, yet the EU’s eastern flank remains passive, signalling a deeper malaise: inefficient interministerial cooperation, capital–PermRep disconnects, and a habit of sideli...

www.euronews.com

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 22h

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 7h

I do not want my dumb pun-riddled texts with my hot Swedish husband or stupid pet photos scanned by some nefarious AI to unclear purposes. As the husband said, the EU might as well open up all our personal mail and read it. No, thank you.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 7h

This seems like a mistake.

Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · Aug 29

The EU-Commission wants to negotiate a very sensitive agreement that would allow US authorities direct (!) access to police-stored fingerprints & facial images in Europe.
Potentially, all travelers could be affected by this #EBSP – and people in need for protection.
digit.site36.net/2025/08/29/e...

"Border Security" with USA: Brussels ready to give deep access to biometric data in EU states | Matthias Monroy

The European Commission wants to negotiate an agreement that would allow US authorities direct access to police-stored fingerprints and facial images in Europe. Potentially, all travelers could be…

digit.site36.net

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 7h

It's especially important for residents of Sweden, Belgium, Greece, Italy, Slovakia, and Latvia to contact their MEPs because these countries are undecided. fightchatcontrol.eu

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 7h

EU people, tell your country's officials to vote against the EU "chat control" proposal, which would allow full AI access to your text messages and photos, regardless of whether your platform is encrypted.

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

fightchatcontrol.eu

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 21h

RIP to Diane Keaton, a charismatic, luminous actor who made me fall in love with Manhattan, winter white, and pointlessly baggy pants.

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Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social · 22h

"It’s all interesting. It’s never dull, ever, life.” www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

www.theguardian.com

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

Always.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

Every so often I can’t be bothered

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

“We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close.”

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

I asked my husband how my spaghetti squash was doing in the oven and he sent me this inebriated closeup Lichtenstein looking photo.

A matrix of squares with an amorphous beige undulation in the background

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 1d

A remarkable, much-needed political ad, and also read @katelynburns.com on her reaction to it: www.patreon.com/posts/you-ha...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

He says he loved Legionnaires of the Antichrist before it was cool.

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 1d

sounds great tbh

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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chelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 1d

It's pretty easy to hate celebrity profiles but then @emilynussbaum.bsky.social comes around and shows you it's okay to love them again. This on the incomparable Keri Russell is perfection:

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV

But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

www.newyorker.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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