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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 7h

direct deposits hitting the checking accounts of active duty servicemen means article 1 of the constitution is basically a dead letter as of tonight, huh

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h

Yeah it's either Dunning-Kruger or I spent years tracing records of Chinese people in this country.

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♿🏳️‍⚧️ Need Dental Funds ASAP! @wylder.bsky.social · 8h

Can someone smarter than me leverage average folks sports enthusiasm to bring some funds into the mutual aid circles WITHOUT making it a gambling thing? A lot of us would like to not die.

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 11h

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
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A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 8h

Abolish ICE.

Never vote for a Republican, ever.

Go to your local #NoKings rally on 10/18.

Support any groups in your area that are fighting for immigrant rights.

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 13h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 16h

We like to pretend the endemic use of the present tense in modern fiction is a stylistic choice. But usually it's a cheap way to disguise mediocre prose, lack of structure, or both. It's like a row of showy petunias planted along a house to disguise cracks in the foundation.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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Alyssa Long @measuredandslow.bsky.social · 9h

Celebrities should stop getting contracts to write kids books. They only do it because they think kids will like anything and it’s not only not fucking true but also unfair to literally everyone involved.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 9h

Second is the niece of a member of our local group, who actually lives in Denver now but is from here. Another driver plowed into her while she was driving home, totaling her vehicle. It's her family's only transport.

All I have is her CashApp QR code, which is here:

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 9h

I'm positive that the goal listed is nowhere near their actual goal; it's another example of GFM's new policy of harming people to improve their metrics. They'll need a lot more. But let's get 'em over that $5K line tonight, huh? gofund.me/8b71de294.

Donate to Jo's (Geronima) and family's quest for life-changing miracle, organized by Yvonne Lowe

Your Generosity is a Lifeline Your incredible kindness is a … Yvonne Lowe needs your support for Jo's (Geronima) and family's quest for life-changing miracle

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 9h

And it's a final short thread @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social with tonight's local urgent needs, a special Indigenous Peoples' Day edition with two Native families in need of help:

WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 9h

Now, tonight's local urgent needs.

Since it's still [for a few hours yet] Indigenous Peoples' Day, I'm posting two from Indigenous folks and families.

Let's get them both some help before this day is out.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 9h

First is a life-or-death situation. A local teen has been taken to Denver where she's awaiting a donor for a liver transplant. her parents need to be able to stay there with her. That's time off work, travel costs, motel, food, etc.

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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 9h

Now, tonight's local urgent needs.

Since it's still [for a few hours yet] Indigenous Peoples' Day, I'm posting two from Indigenous folks and families.

Let's get them both some help before this day is out.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 9h

“The deal with Broadcom would use as much power as 8 million US households…

A 2024 Department of Energy report on data center energy usage found that data centers are expected to consume about ***6.7% to 12%*** of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.”

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 21h

Anyway I keep forgetting to yell about this book when it is 🍂seasonal 🍂 but THE APPLE-TREE THRONE (a little vanity project I self-pubbed in 2018) is also available on Kobo and in audio!

A young soldier returned from war is haunted by the ghost of his commanding officer (a posh git)

The Apple-Tree Throne

Buy The Apple-Tree Throne: Read Kindle Store Reviews - Amazon.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23h

NO KINGS, y'all! October 18! Find a rally near you and GO!

nokings.org

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Indige Tea 🦬🧡 @colouredwilde.bsky.social · 9h

Bring back "ugly", "boring" book covers and curated home libraries, cause y'all have made reading a pathway for overconsumption.

You don't need all 25 copies of the not-so-special edition covers. Bffr.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 9h

Ms. Ontiveros also "struggled against being typecast as a maid. By her own count, she played this role more than 150 times …”

"I'm proud to represent those hands that labor in this country,” she once said. "I’ve given every maid I've ever portrayed soul and heart.” #HispanicHeritageMonth

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 9h

“At the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, she shared a Special Jury Prize for dramatic acting in the film w/her co-star America Ferrera. She also won the National Board Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Beverly in Chuck & Buck …” #HispanicHeritageMonth

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 9h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 9h

"New York City mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani released a video this weekend honoring the life and legacy of legendary transgender rights activist Sylvia Rivera, reaffirming promises to protect and expand services for trans New Yorkers if elected."

Watch Zohran Mamdani Give a Sylvia Rivera History Lesson in SOPHIE-Soundtracked Campaign Video

The New York City mayoral hopeful laid out his pro-LGBTQ+ plans.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

They took entire families from their beds in the middle of the night.

None of us deserve peace.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

Yes, you should be surprised and horrified by secret federal police running around our city kidnapping immigrants, crashing cars, launching chemical weapons and shooting and killing people. This is a thing you should be *perpetually* shocked by. We lose when we become numb to it.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 11h

Freed Palestinian prisoners are barred by Israel from celebrating the release, or speaking to the media about their imprisonment, on threat of arrest and re-imprisonment or even death. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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