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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 2h

“Before you go, so that I don’t have to make any jokes about it, does [RFK, Jr.] have or does he not have a brain worm?

”It ate a little bit of his brain and died, so don’t worry,”

jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 2h

Then talking about "foreigners wishing" all the while the regime is actively killing us en masse in slow methodical motion via policy. 🫩

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3h

NEW: The US has said it has revoked six visas over social media remarks regarding the death of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk

The Department of State said it had 'no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans'

'Visa revoked': US cancels 6 visas over Charlie Kirk death jokes on social media

www.thenational.scot

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 10h

Madness. In jail, in another state, since Sunday, clarinetist Oriana Korol is a 38-year-old child and family therapist, a U.S. citizen and mom with a 3 y.o.

Sound dangerous?

The Sheriff says she is being held on suspicion of assault on a federal officer. But, not charged yet?

Habeas corpus, kids!

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 12h

more detailed story in the @oregonian.com

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

i am going to wake up as a sentient lighthouse

Double Fine @doublefine.com · 14h

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Keeper — A Heartening Journey of Unlikely Companionship. Wishlist Today on @Xbox.com and @Steampowered.com!

doublefine.com/games/keeper

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 12h

If you can, skip everywhere you go at the protest. Moonwalk. Silly walk. Anything but your usual gorilla-arms-swinging gait, because the surveillance tech picks people out by their gaits, now.

The point here is that they should not have any reason to believe that YOU were ever there. Just SOMEONE.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 12h

Pay cash. Put your ID and credit cards in an Altoids tin - RF blocking. Do you have to wear glasses? Stow them for the duration if possible. The clothing you wear to the protest? Don't wear it to the park or a date or to work or to play tennis.

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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 12h

Nobody you haven't met needs to know your face, your clothing, your scars or tattoos, when you go to protest.

Wear long pants, long sleeves, leave jewelry and anything with a wifi, cellular, or Bluetooth at home. Change your height if possible. Don't leave behind gum or anything you drink from.

the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22h

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 22h

I would like, if I may, to invite all strange creatures of Dallas to festively pelvic thrust and indulge in tender Transylvanian elbow sex @texastheatre.bsky.social tonight for Richard O'Brien's magnificent new Rocky Horror Picture Show documentary.

thetexastheatre.com/film/strange...

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 23h

DALLAS TONIGHT at The Texas Theater

See The Librarians (w Q&A)
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

thetexastheatre.com/film/the-lib...

youtu.be/Ykll4MWltsQ?...

THE LIBRARIANS | Official Trailer

YouTube video by The Librarians Film

youtu.be

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 16h

Gushers, the American candy brand, made a short horror film based on their old ads. Bradley Whitford really looks like Martin Scorsese in it, although I think that’s part of the gag.

FruitHead | NEW Horror Film [Starring Bradley Whitford]

YouTube video by Gushers

youtu.be

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 21h

This is an enthralling read🤯

Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 22h

A coup just took place in Madagascar. I wrote about it--and why it's the most interesting island you probably know nothing about.

The yogurt kingpin, the radio DJ coup, and the most interesting island on Earth

Madagascar is a fascinating island home to 30+ million people. It's also home to bizarre, volatile politics that virtually nobody knows about. And the president just escaped on a helicopter.

www.forkingpaths.co

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

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

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22h

Every example I gave here ⬇️ & every example I missed are examples of noncooperation, noncompliance, & defiance that either took decades to in any way succeed or are still in process.

That's what this is. This is that kind of fight. It's why joy & taking breaks & coming back to it matter so much.
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · Nov 29

🧵This country has a deep history of resisting & rejecting oppression. It isn’t often taught or acknowledged.

We need to know. We need to learn from our elders, ancestors, & political forebears. Now.

A thread about that. I will inevitably miss many examples; pls reply or QT with additions.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22h

🧵I do my noncooperation threads bc I know most of it gets lost in the news firehose. I know courage is contagious & that we have to en-courage each other.

And/but: We're at the stage of the fight where wins are small & often temporary. Each small win matters, &/but it may be like this for years.

Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 1d

Stories of failed arrests due to community response are inspiring. There's been great legal work to free people, too. But this stuff is mostly a brief flash of unmarked cars, and then somebody's gone. Over and over again. No matter how many people are eager to help and want better than this.

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 22h

I would like, if I may, to invite all strange creatures of Dallas to festively pelvic thrust and indulge in tender Transylvanian elbow sex @texastheatre.bsky.social tonight for Richard O'Brien's magnificent new Rocky Horror Picture Show documentary.

thetexastheatre.com/film/strange...

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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 23h

Wary of RFK Jr., Colorado started revamping its vaccine policies in the spring

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s dismantling of federal vaccine policy continues, some Democratic-led states have struck out on their own.

coloradosun.com

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Michael Socolow @michaelsocolow.bsky.social · 1d

They wore costumes to perform... ON THE RADIO.

Think about that.

Also, it's amazing how many very early radio programs (see the NBC logo on the microphone? Those are carbon-suspension mics, very, very primitive) were sponsored by tire manufacturers. Goodyear, Firestone, Michelin... Radio=travel.

Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 1d

Your morning image

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 23h

DALLAS TONIGHT at The Texas Theater

See The Librarians (w Q&A)
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

thetexastheatre.com/film/the-lib...

youtu.be/Ykll4MWltsQ?...

THE LIBRARIANS | Official Trailer

YouTube video by The Librarians Film

youtu.be

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 1d

Share a cartoon from the past kids today probably never heard of. 📺

youtu.be/L0hZzgYNlVw?...

jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 1d

"On the floor of one cavern, officers discovered an ominous metal container. The object was fat, festooned with wires. The police called in the bomb squad, they evacuated the surface, they asked themselves: What have we found?

They had found a couscous maker."

Sean Michaels @swanmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

It's still here, in a clumsy way:
gizmodo.com/unlocking-th...

Unlocking the Mystery of Paris' Most Secret Underground Society (combined)

Part I: Entrances On August 23, 2004, they discovered a cinema 60 feet beneath Paris. The sun was shining on the Trocadéro, the Eiffel Tower gleamed

gizmodo.com

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Sean Michaels @swanmichaels.bsky.social · 1d

It's still here, in a clumsy way:
gizmodo.com/unlocking-th...

Unlocking the Mystery of Paris' Most Secret Underground Society (combined)

Part I: Entrances On August 23, 2004, they discovered a cinema 60 feet beneath Paris. The sun was shining on the Trocadéro, the Eiffel Tower gleamed

gizmodo.com

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 1d

What better example of how we live in multiple worlds at the same time than a bunch of people living in the french catacombs together watching movies and eating couscous

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 2d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

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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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

Israel continues to refuse to release the Palestinian political leader Marwan Barghouti in order to keep Palestinians "divided."

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