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I write. I sing. I love movies. I also make them. I know kung fu. I crochet hats. I like pie. From FW TX, in LA. My views are not my employers', etc etc. 💜🤍🖤 she/they

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helendoremus.bsky.social @helendoremus.bsky.social · Dec 17

In general, my approach to blocking and bad faith arguments is one I learned at the elbow of the storied Mr. Billy Joel: "You can speak your mind, but not on my time...Go ahead with your own life, leave me alone."

Do with that information what you will.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

You're talking about the evil Empire of the Dodgers and I'm talking about the PEOPLE OF LA finding a reason to celebrate.

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

Dodgers Fans In Echo Park Celebrate Another World Series Victory

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers (Or. Online).

NPR @npr.org · 1d

The U.S. military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea. n.pr/47lM2Sa

US carries out new strike in Caribbean, killing 3 alleged drug smugglers

The U.S. military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea.

n.pr

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helendoremus.bsky.social @helendoremus.bsky.social · 1d

This week's Behind the Bastards two-parter was a very eye-opening one re the way the LAPD hates Angelenos essentially by design.

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

This is insane shit. Cops hate the people of Los Angeles and look for any excuse to injure people.

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

Trump having decadent Gatsby themed parties with showgirls while building a golden ballroom as he cuts off food aid to poor families sounds like fiction, and yet not a single word of what I just wrote is false.

He and the GOP should be hammered on it for the next 50+ years.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1d

summoning circle:

🕯 🕯
🕯 dodgers 🕯

🕯turn down invite 🕯

🕯️to White House 🕯
🕯 🕯

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2d

“‘I see myself, and my family, and my community in them, and it's just unfair that they had to die in those circumstances,’ said Norma Aceves, the owner of Venice Bakery and creator of the altar.” abc7.com/post/venice-... #DíaDeLosMuertos

Día De Los Muertos: Venice bakery honors those who died in ICE custody

This year, on a Venice bakery's Día De Los Muertos altar, there are a number of photos from across the Southwest of men and women who died in ICE custody.

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 2d

I heard that too! And i thought the same thing. They’re messing with people that already know how they act. For all the surprise from so many people, there’s so many that already know and have other organizing actions ingrained in their muscle memories.

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 2d

So if you listen to…

One of the things the guy in the bike helmet says …

“Hands Up. don’t shoot”

The last ten years mattered even if folks don’t want to admit it

Alex Harrison @alexhairysun.bsky.social · 2d

Video taken by Jay Shefsky at 12:20 p.m. after the crash happened, Oakton Street/Asbury Avenue in Evanston, IL

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 2d

We cannot talk about Hamas without mentioning that

1. Netanyahu funded Hamas because he opposed Palestinian statehood
2. When Hamas was elected, Israel had already been fully blockading Gaza for THIRTEEN YEARS
3. In response to Hamas's election, Israel stole tax revenue from West Bank Palestinians

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up.

"But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

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Joshua Alan Doetsch @joshuadoetsch.bsky.social · 2d

During tonight’s Trick-or-Treating, our 3-year-old got more and more excited.

“More houses! More candy!”

Until he suddenly looked to the sky and shouted (verbatim):

“Can I eat the moon!?”

Don’t let anyone tell you you can’t, little one. Be the cosmic horror you want to see in the world.

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helendoremus.bsky.social @helendoremus.bsky.social · 2d

This is correct.

John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 2d

as far as I'm considered halloween goes on til at least monday, be spooky with it

helendoremus.bsky.social @helendoremus.bsky.social · 2d

Was lucky to only have really polite kids who asked how much they could take - was unlucky in that I didn't get through one bowl of trick or treaters, let alone the backup bowl.

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

if you take the entire bowl of candy that people leave out (because they’re out or they’re trick or treating with their own kids or whatever) and dump it all into your bag, go directly to jail

do not pass go, do not collect any additional candy

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ace tilton ratcliff @mortuaryreport.bsky.social · 3d

SO this lady who lives miles away from me in a different neighborhood filed a complaint w/the city that’s now potentially going to get my little free library & little free pantry shut down unless we can amend code to specifically protect site amenities as such pls sign my petition

c.org/DRrMJb6Czq

a screen shot of an email that says:

Hi Ace,

There are 1600 food pantries in Palm Beach County. There are meals on wheels. There are a lot of resources. I don’t need crackheads outside at 2 AM getting food from your little pantry and making all kinds of noise on the corner and people dropping off unappropriate food items That bring rats and roaches into the neighborhood. Food pantries make sure all their food is not expired and is up to code. Also people dropping off all kinds of broken items and things like that. Go work at a soup kitchen if you want to help people or do something else and stop putting Black Lives Matter signs and defund the police all lives matter and we need the police we all need order in this world. Not to be mean or condescending, but that little food pantry it needs to go.

Amy
Sent from my iPhone

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

What the fuck

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 2d

Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.

The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.

Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.

A Halloween parade float with the gates of Auschwitz

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helendoremus.bsky.social @helendoremus.bsky.social · 2d

(And, just as a nice extra, if people would stop diluting the term "incel," which has a specific malignant ideology attached to it, as a catch-all insult for "weird virgin loser," aces would also appreciate it because the concept of virginity alone really shouldn't be a shaming insult. Kthx.)

The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 2d

For the umpteenth time, the word “incel” does not mean “person I don’t like.” The dilution of the term “incel” is making the term meaningless and allowing actual incels and their far-right politics to become normalized

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · Sep 14

If ICE firing guns on a crowded street and slaughtering a man driving ~away~ from agents, a man who clearly posed no risk to anyone else

Is not met with national outrage

Its already-reckless agents will kill anyone, anywhere, anytime they deem it necessary

It stops now or never

A Latino father posing with two young children

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

Algorithmic timelines that reward/punish certain gameable behaviors were the beginning of the end on twitter.

Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

I will aggressively ignore all changes to the timeline until they pry the following feed from my cold dead hands

give me reverse chronological or give me death

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

“As users ‘dislike’ posts, the system will learn what sort of content they want to see less of. This will help to inform more than just how content is ranked in feeds, but also reply rankings.”

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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d

A classified State Department report released just days before the current ceasefire agreement went into effect found that Israel has committed “many hundreds” of potential human rights violations in Gaza that would render it illegal to continue sending weapons to many Israeli military units.

State Dept Finds Israel Has Committed “Hundreds” of Potential Violations That Would Render Arms Transfers Illegal

The State Department has a bespoke process for probes into Israel that is deferential to its military.

truthout.org

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 2d

🖼️ Leanne Hatch

An illustration of a skeleton, carrying a jack-o'-lantern candy bucket and a black umbrella, walking down a path with a black cat. The scene is set on a rainy, autumn night with a full moon and bats flying in the sky. The background features bare trees, falling leaves, and two spooky-looking houses.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 2d

For the afternoon crowd! Lots of ways to make sure your voice is heard at the polls on Tuesday in California, and prop 50 has huge stakes for the entire country.

s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 3d

Hey California have you mailed in your ballot yet/do you know where your polling place is for Tuesday? Now sure whether/where you're registered to vote? Thread below has info on how to find your polling place and how to cast a provisional ballot! (Also, Yes on 50.)

California Divided: Here’s What’s at Stake for Californians Whose Districts Could Get Rewritten by Proposition 50 | KQED

Journalists at public radio stations across California spoke with residents, business leaders and politicos in each of the districts that could flip under Proposition 50.

www.kqed.org

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 2d

Proposition 50 asks voters to approve redrawing congressional districts to advantage Democrats in next year’s midterm elections.
Under Proposition 50 redistricting would return to the independent commission in 2031. See how it directly affects voters here.
bit.ly/4qB7o5x

Under Prop 50 ‘one in four Californians will have a new representative.’ These districts in Southern California are most affected.

The controversial Proposition would advantage Democrats in the 2026 midterm elections. How it affects your representation depends on where you live.

bit.ly

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

this is insane.

www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

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helendoremus.bsky.social @helendoremus.bsky.social · 2d

Those quotes are 🔥

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 2d

Harrison Ford Slams Donald Trump’s “Ignorance” About Climate Change: “Everything He Says Is a Lie”bit.ly/48XF7zQ

helendoremus.bsky.social @helendoremus.bsky.social · 2d

I sense an IBCK episode...

Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 2d

Putnam cooked the data for Bowling Alone & then blamed it on his graduate research assistant. When a very distinguished gerontologist called him on ignoring that his peak of communal participation was a post WW II bump & the drop off was the return to historic norm, he got red faced & angry. 1/

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

Vance brings up the idea of common community, which I think is legit on some level. In his book Bowling Alone, Robert Putnum finds that social capital often goes down in multi-ethnic areas. But these issues are not insurmountable. We know this because Vance married an Indian, Hindu woman.

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