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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 1h

Two things can be true at once.

It’s true that it’s never too late to say “I change my mind” politically & start making changes.

It’s also true that you don’t get to expect insulation from criticism by people hurt by your political choices, especially if you won’t own your complicity in the harm.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2h

John Brown listened to Black people. A lot of wanna be white revolutionaries who try to claim him can’t even do that much.

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downchasm @downchasm.bsky.social · 6h

imagine choosing this, of all weeks, to pearl clutch over someone having described themselves as a communist or railing against the police

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 7h

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

Graham Platner’s Honeymoon Is Over

Newly surfaced internet comments made by Graham Platner — he once identified as a Communist, and railed against police — present the Maine senate candidate with his first real test.

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Jean-Paul Satire - Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇳🇨 Abolish the empire @depressionmeals.bsky.social · 1h

Showed this to my partner and their response was *snort laugh* got her ass

ash @ajbeaute.bsky.social · 10d

HELP

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Truly the only commentary on life of a showgirl we needed

Kuroi~🔞 @ropebunnygirlie.bsky.social · 8d

Source: @sadffatbetch on tiktok

i am not on tiktok i found this short on twitter from hasan's vod lol

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The only meaningful commentary on life of a showgirl
www.tiktok.com/@sadffatbetc...

tiktok @sadffatbetch
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A Black woman with a guitar is singing
video is captioned POV: Taylor swifts new Albums
NOT A BLACK is the closed caption being displayed

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

A mysterious group *tricked* them into hanging swastikas.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5h

lol, now they're saying the Nazi flag is an "optical illusion"

Swastika” Flag In Office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) May Be An “optical illusion” and “easy to miss”

The weird story about an aide to Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) having a flag in his Capitol Hill office with a swastika on it, has just gotten weirder.

Multiple sources tell Fox – including those investigating the issue – the flag in question is an American flag – but with a swastika embedded into the ink or weaving. And here’s the strange part: the swastika is not obvious to the naked eye. But is more visible when captured on video or by a still photo.

One source described this as an “optical illusion.” Another said the swastika was “easy to miss.”

Fox has learned that dozens of Congressional offices received these American flags from an undetermined group who brought them around Capitol Hill early in the year. One office tells Fox that the swastika on their flag was clear, so they tossed it out. But the flag in the office of Taylor was not visible until captured on camera.

It is not known what group brought the flags around. That is under investigation. The US Capitol Police are also conducting an inquiry. Fox is told that that the group brought the flags to multiple offices. At issues is if the group knew the swastika was embedded into the flag. It is also unclear if this was an effort to covertly deliver American flags to lawmakers with swastikas on them. Or, if this was an effort to deliberately embarrass offices by bringing them an American flag – which featured a swastika which wasn’t obvious to the naked eye.

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Jean-Paul Satire - Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇳🇨 Abolish the empire @depressionmeals.bsky.social · 2h

CNN making graham platner sound cool af

CNN facebook post
Graham Platner, a Marine veteran turned oyster farmer who is now a rising Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, once called himself a "communist," dismissed "all" police as bastards, and said rural White Americans "actually are" racist and stupid, according to deleted social media posts reviewed by CNN's KFile.
https://cnn.it/47yaLSb
Photo of Graham, a white man in his with a reddish gray beard and musclular beard wearing a tattered tee shirt and shorts on a lake
Photo is captioned "deleted posts show man senate hopeful's raw views on politics, war, and police"

Jean-Paul Satire - Free 🇵🇸🇸🇩🇨🇩🇳🇨 Abolish the empire @depressionmeals.bsky.social · 2h

Well the second line is certainly true if by public opinion you mean both majority opinion and the law.

NYT headline on facebook
Opinion | Amy Coney Barrett is looking Beyond the Trump Era
The Supreme Court Justice isn't making decisions based public opinion

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Hannah Pumpkins 🎃 🍂 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 7h

Milhouse's dad pointing to his race car bed, but instead it's a cybertruck. The caption says "her name is aura"

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.social · 7h

My regular cleavage gets "adult content" labels, but I can see cunnilingus sashay down my skyline in the middle of the workday, uncensored?

Your AI moderation is trash, @aaron.bsky.team. 🙄

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 5h

Happy John Brown’s Raid day to all who celebrate

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 4h

White people on the internet get very angry when I ask them to decolonize.

It’s the folks with BLM posters convinced that was all they needed to do.

So when I say there’s more, they lash out as if to say “haven’t we done enough for you people?”, not realizing how thoroughly they’d made my point.

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Esme 🇭🇹🇨🇩🍉 @esmexo.bsky.social · 21h

White people got so much welfare it allowed them to become middle class. The capitalist used their hatred of black women to manipulate them to go against their own best interests. They turned welfare into a dirty thing meanwhile in Europe they allow for 60 day paid vacations.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 6h

Y’all we need Beneficiary for a chuffed campaign have a PayPal has to be business or premium. To family in need please contact DM if you interest.

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 1d

Until this week, no typhoon or post-tropical cyclone with hurricane-force winds has hit Alaska since 1965. And that was only the second time in recorded history.

The Pacific Basin is having a much more active than usual year.

Yet the media is mum on this and climate change.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 6h

you have to call off the state police that is roughing up protesters if you are serious.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

In real life, she wasn't who I wanted to be like.

It's okay to grow beyond your heroes. Find new heroes, and grow beyond them too.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 14h

I found it! The most “I don’t want my taxes to help poor people” take on the internet:

"Wealthier residents would find another way to get around, but poor New Yorkers who depend on the bus would suffer the most." wapo.st/42EDG5j

Opinion | Zohran Mamdani’s grand promises are a struggle bus

New York’s working people who depend on transit have the most to lose if the socialist gets his way.

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

man i’d call this stuff elder abuse if the elders in question weren’t so gleeful about inflicting crimes against humanity until the day they drop dead at their desks

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 9h

83 year old Senator Mitch McConnell just tripped and fell while being asked about ICE

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 10h

people are justifying their AI use with “well, any tech you use uses data centers.”

it’s like drag racing a hummer and saying it’s the same as commuting in a prius.

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Shintaro Melodrama @roiskinda.cool · 9h

White folks are telling us what they are every day.

Believe them.

Big Chungus Bus Factory, MSW (NOT A MAN) @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 1d

This person is a high school teacher in Phoenix.

I personally would not be pleased if my daughters teacher was pro sexual assault.

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Izzy Kamikaze @izzykamikaze.bsky.social · 13h

Marie McGowan, 89, has died 3 years after a brutal assault during which she was put headfirst into a rubbish bin. Her attacker, Alex Bailey, believed she was "a man dressed as a woman."

This is the world the transphobes are creating "to protect women."

RIP Marie. share.google/PFaI5YTh9tBw...