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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 57m

if the president does something so awful it would be indecent to describe and ask about then you very obviously need to describe and ask about it, thats the entire job

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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El Sargento García @elsargentogarcia.bsky.social · 20h

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To the Editor:
I am one of these so-called profoundly autistic people this article describes. I cannot utter meaningful speech, and as a result, I was branded for years as someone with an intellectual disability and an I.Q. of 40. All this time, however, I understood everything that was going on around me. I just could not show it to others because of my deranged relationship with my own body.
I am concerned about the creation of a separate category, called profound autism, for those of us with the most severe disabilities.
There are real differences between the sort of autism that I have and so-called Asperger's syndrome. But it does not help us at all to impose a hierarchy of lower and higher functioning. We need to figure out how to tap into the skills and insights of those of us who cannot talk, who make up anywhere from 25 percent to 40 percent of the autistic community, depending on the estimate.
For me, the way out of this dilemma was learning to communicate by typing. I suddenly went from being seen as intellectually impaired to taking college classes. I was never low-functioning, and neither are my autistic brothers and sisters without the ability to speak. I was just misjudged and ignored, and I fear that my fate will be the fate of many others termed low functioning in this new schema.
Jason Jacoby Lee
New York

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 13h

Still more on the South and labor:

"Southern politicians go out to the rest of the world and say to them: Our labor is easier to control than the labor is in California. Our labor pool is difficult to unionize in the American South, and this is the deal we’lll make with you."

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 15h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19h

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.

#NoKings #Manhattan

Hand drawn sign reads ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15h

I love that both parts were represented, and it was a joyful day! But it is also a huge missed opportunity that there wasn’t more of a direct call to action. We need to be pushing harder for more efforts that drive for power, in ways that ought to feel a little more scary.

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Face @facesolo.bsky.social · 15h

Also Quantum is the most underrated movie in the catalog

Face @facesolo.bsky.social · 15h

Formative movie for me. People can disagree with me about what the best Bond movie is (they're wrong), but it's Casino. Everything clicks so well, Craig and Green and Lars? Cinema.

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Face @facesolo.bsky.social · 15h

I agree, but the clever signs are also not the sole point of No Kings.

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Kyle Rable for Congress @rableforwesttexas.bsky.social · 23h

Join us today 10/18 from 3-5pm for another opportunity to help people affected in your community!

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Kyle Rable for Congress @rableforwesttexas.bsky.social · 23h

JOIN KYLE RABLE & AFGE LOCAL 3809 TO SUPPORT LOCAL FEDERAL WORKERS’ FOOD DRIVE

Shoutout to the Big Spring Herald for publishing this article on Kyle Rable and the impact he’s making in our community! Follow the link below to read more.

www.bigspringherald.com/news/kyle-ra...

Kyle Rable and Family to Support Local Federal Worker’s Food Drive

PRESS RELEASE

www.bigspringherald.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

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The Lever @levernews.com · 1d

What looks like a sudden shift in media is actually a 50-year plot to capture it.
@DavidSirota.com & @jjmaher.bsky.social uncover how CBS executives joined the original campaign to turn news into corporate propaganda.

Read in The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bari Weiss’s ascent at CBS News was 50 years in the making | David Sirota and Jared Jacang Maher

A half-century ago, CBS’s own president was boasting of his support for an antidemocratic political project. Our new book uses never-before-reported documents to tell the story of a scheme to…

www.theguardian.com

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Don't engage. Just block. They want to push their rage bait on here. Don't give them the satisfaction.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2d

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers
restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea

South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.

restofworld.org

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JGregoryCincy @tehlasercat.bsky.social · 1d

Call off the Illinois state police

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

would love to see this become standard

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 2d

Zohran Mamdani is doing what he's calling "a reverse town hall" with members of local unions that have endorsed his mayoral campaign (UFT, 32BJ, 1199, among them).

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 2d

As Pritzker said, they don't need the national guard here - home grown troopers are perfectly happy to beat, brutalize and suppress protesters, clergy, and people of conscience!

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Everything that just happened was both brutal and expected given how we've seen ISP behave these last few weeks.

Saw troopers striking people with batons, dragging protesters. They're currently cuffing someone marked as a medic. Approximately nine people we see in state custody now.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

literally no need for this

the protesters were just standing there, not causing any problems. then here come the police, causing problems.

I need @govpritzker.illinois.gov to tell these goons to go home. And if he can't or won't do so, I need to know that, too.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

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Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 3d

Please wishlist anything from Choice of Games you might want to get; to most algorithms, CoG is "shaped like" bottom-tier choiceslop of the "save cheating boyfriend/push him into the mud" variety, but each game is hand-crafted, written and coded by a single author.

Kyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 6d

New Hunter: The Reckoning game coming from Paul Wang! If you liked Night Road or Book of Hungry Names you'll want to wishlist A Time of Monsters.

Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters

Topple the vampires from the streets below! Will you unite the homeless, the gangs, and the secret hunter societies to defy vampiric rule?

www.choiceofgames.com

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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richard @richardnormal.bsky.social · 3d

they are telling you that you are too stupid, lazy, and incurious to do what you’ve been easily doing on your computer for your entire fucking life.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 3d

lmao cybertruck is the ultimate divorced guy vehicle

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 3d

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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