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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10h

Good evening. There are good things happening in our communities. How might you add to the good?

www.ktvu.com/news/grassro...

Outdoor fridges are being stocked in underserved East Bay communities, as part of growing grassroots effort

A growing army of volunteers has been taking part in an organic, grassroots effort to help feed the hungry by stocking refrigerators placed at various locations in the East Bay.

www.ktvu.com

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Danielle Kay @daniellekay.bsky.social · 11h

LOVE this

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 15h

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.

YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

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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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

I know this is a very difficult story to report … but finding out whatever we can about these people being killed in extrajudicial executions at sea seems like a pretty high priority right now.

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...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Danielle Kay @daniellekay.bsky.social · 1d

I really appreciate the thoughtfulness and nuance of this short thread.

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

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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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

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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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2d

I always feel a deep sadness at the end of a long book or especially a very good series. I’m saying goodbye to the version of my own experience encountering myself in that world. It’s a beautiful way to realize your own life as beautiful and sad and full of meaning.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t think a long book is even primarily about plot, or character, or any of the patterned information on its pages. A long book is practicing over time a way of being in the world. Reading even a very good summary is not the same as giving over some portion of your own life to that practice.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Danielle Kay @daniellekay.bsky.social · 2d

Why is this SO accurate?

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Mel @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app · 4d

If his medical emergency was related to drugs, that is still a medical emergency.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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jaypea but spooky @jpstarling.bsky.social · 4d

The Imperial Boomerang, summarized:

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4d

Listen—it's all connected. If you oppose $50B of our taxes to ICE to abuse people in the USA—but support $38B of our taxes to fund Israel's military occupation of Palestine as they abuse Palestinians far worse than how ICE abuses Americans—then you don't actually oppose ICE abusing people in the USA

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Danielle Kay @daniellekay.bsky.social · 5d

Wow I hate this and am struck daily by how much is done without the consent of the billions of people who share the earth. Greed ruins everything.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 6d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 6d

Here are 10 practical tips, based on Retana’s advice, for talking to kids about ICE raids and helping them cope with fear and uncertainty. Each point is presented in english y español.

The full guide: lataco.com/kids-ice-tal...

By Erick Galindo

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 5d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 7d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 8d

we have financialized the entire process of existing and convinced people to call the result Freedom, incredible stuff

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 8d

you guys happen to notice how everything is finance and landlords now and many things are both

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 8d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

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Danielle Kay @daniellekay.bsky.social · 8d

They're out there terrorizing people & entire communities because they see immigrants as less-than, and then they're mad when the perpetrators of that terror aren't offered a place to rest.

Danielle Kay @daniellekay.bsky.social · 8d

They have so fully dehumanized immigrants in their heads that they don't see or care about the physical & emotional pain they're causing.

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Danielle Kay @daniellekay.bsky.social · 8d

What's so gutting about this is that it shows so plainly who they see as human beings worthy of care and rest and who they don't.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 8d

LMAO way to go Chicago restaurants….they got ICE Barbie out there on FOX “News" crying that her gestapo agents can’t find places to have lunch or use the bathroom 👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Melanie Newfield @melanienewfield.bsky.social · 10d

On my recent visit to #TiritiriMatangi island I took this video in the forest. The birdsong here is extraordinary. I’ve never heard anything like it.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12d

Everyone who attends on October 9 will be eligible to win this embroidery in our raffle. Join us to explore how YOU can take real, specific, and immediate actions in your own community to strengthen and expand public libraries. us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An embroidery hoop displays the words "Libraries Are For The People" in cursive, surrounded by embroidered green and blue leaves, and topped with a blue satin ribbon. It rests on a marble surface.

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Danielle Kay @daniellekay.bsky.social · 12d

I'd be so thrilled for my tax dollars to go toward things like (all) people's healthcare. Esp if it was instead of funding wars/lining billionaires' pockets like it does now.

I want to live in a world where we take care of each other & everyone has what they need, no matter where they were born.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Arp Bot 🤖 @arpbot.bsky.social · 12d

Image of Arp 84, also known as NGC 5394 and NGC 5395, from Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966).

In the original catalog it was in the category: Spiral galaxies - Large, high surface brightness companions.
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$A grainy, black and white image of a pair of interacting spiral galaxies that somewhat resembles a heron. To the upper right is a smaller, distorted spiral, forming the heron's neck, head, and beak. In its center is a bright nucleus surrounded by a ring of stars. Extending from the ring are two large, thin spiral arms, dotted with star clusters, which form an S-shape. The lower arm appears to touch the edge of the disk of its companion galaxy. On the left is a large spiral galaxy, forming the heron's body. It's disk is tilted, so that it appears as a oval rather than a circle. It has a bright center that transitions into spiral arms. The arms are defined by dark brown dust lanes. The area in between is filled with a haze of bright stars. On the black background of space are foreground stars, some with diffraction spikes, and tiny background galaxies. A few white dots, which are stars, are seen on the black background of space.$

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