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Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 2d

Genuinely, if someone could just rt this to a bigger audience, id appreciate it. Im struggling to come up with the funds I need to cover this month. Im about 150 down from where I would need to be so that I can pay my rent on Nov 1st. Venmo is LvD95 and cashapp is $LavDough

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🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 1h

I'm so torn between "this is amazing what a great idea" and "what the fuck is going on that this is what people have had to fucking resort to"

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 13h

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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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 15h

This skeet is gonna just keep aging like the finest wine:

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khanshq Ishaq @khansa92.bsky.social · 1d

**My child is suffering from painful burns and an infected wound.
I urgently💔 need250 for antibiotic cream and pain relief.
Please donate — or simply share. Every action matters.**🙏🙏😭

*#Gaza*
*#ActForGaza*
*#EmergencyAid*
*#BurnRelief*
*#HelpChildren

🙏🙏🙏
chuffed.org/project/1530...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 11h

dying at rightwingers falling for what looks like an ai generated turning points USA half time show with special guest “measles”

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Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 10h

We should be throwing our bodies down for these kids.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 20h

(Drunk neighbor as it turns out)

Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 20h

Woke up to some dude wrecked on my front lawn getting cpr

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Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 1d

Saw someone on fb earnestly and angrily posting about finding heartstopper in a high-school library

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 2d

Love that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the sentient version of this tweet

Jane
@Whooping_Jane
blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine
Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom
1:40 PM • 2/3/19 • Twitter Web Client

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Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 1d

This is some fake smart bs come on. Theres an owner class and a worker class.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 2d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 1d

Rips me up when I think about how many people, mostly black, who have died due to this specific type of negligence. Also, the inherent assumption that a white person in crisis will need professional help, but a black person in crisis needs a 'reality check' from the cops.

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Ketracel Black @ketracelblack.blacksky.app · 1d

Another example of why we need to replace the police with real emergency responders. People trained to provide medical care rather than pass racist judgement.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

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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Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 1d

My brain is filled with the images of dead Palestinians, people being ripped from their families and communities, and soundbites of trans genocide supporters. I wanna see some live videos of ice agents.

Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 1d

Find myself saying things about ice agents lately that are surprising even me. I wanna see some live videos.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 1d

Last year's of coherence before we all start babbling at Ai videos that cost an entire lake to create

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 1d

Keep in mind a fuck ton of people are doing taxes this weekend (6 mo extension)

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The IRS is laying off people during the shutdown, even though it was rehiring staff it previously fired because it was so shorthanded.
This one stands out because firing IRS employees costs the government money, since they bring in about $6-8 for every dollar spent on tax enforcement

IRS Halts Layoff Plans, Begins Rehiring Amid Staffing Shortages
The agency is attempting to rebuild its workforce and restore public confidence.

Treasury Department: Treasury cut 1,446 employees on Friday. Two Internal Revenue Service employees confirmed layoffs were taking place at the tax agency, which has already shed more than 25,000 employees. One employee who was laid off was working Friday and exempt from shutdown furloughs.

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Lavender @ecophresh.bsky.social · 1d

Now is the time that your circle closes off to anyone who's not on the same fucking page

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 4d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 2d

Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

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: