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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 10h

happy bday writer Ursula K. Le Guin, b.1929, Berkeley, CA.

“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?”

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Justseeds Artists' Cooperative @justseeds.bsky.social · 8h

New risograph from Australian illustrator and unionist Sam Wallman in the shop! justseeds.org/product/what...

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brutalism apologist 🇵🇸 @brutapologist.bsky.social · 1h

“Just going to leave this here,” you are a member of the United States Congress file articles of impeachment or something come on

Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 5h

Just going to leave this here.

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former ...

www.washingtontimes.com

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 2h

After losing state funding, the East Village festival Art in Odd Places scrapped its plans for a 20th anniversary celebration and chose a new theme: “nothing.”

Art in Odd Places Resists by Doing “Nothing”

After losing its state funding, the East Village festival scrapped its plans for a 20th anniversary celebration and chose a new theme: “nothing.”

hyperallergic.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

It's really OK to change your mind when new facts are presented. It really is.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 2h

I also think this is happening right now, insanely fast and with seemingly very little prep, because he was pissed off about the No Kings rally

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

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Pronounced June 8 @junayt.bsky.social · 3h

I never knew that in the United States literally the president can do anything as long as everybody agrees not to stop them. Very weird, realizing the entire thing was made of cotton candy

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Jess @jessmakesthings.bsky.social · 3h

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barbarism critic @scarletred.bsky.social · 3h

The tattoo is undoubtedly bad but I want to caution folks against using Jewish Insider as a source that Platner knew it was a deaths head. Jewish Insider is responsible for a lot of genocidal propaganda and should not be seen as credible under any circumstances

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 3h

Drydocked For Painting And Scaling, 1918, by Edward Wadsworth.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 5h

Overlooking Platner's past would work out like overlooking Fetterman's past — and that guy ended up being a huge piece of shit.

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Jess @jessmakesthings.bsky.social · 5h

I want to see a laser on your tit today and a full denouncement or I want to see you leave both the race and the country. Like as in you should already be posting this while getting that tripe lasered off

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

The ceasefire was announced last Friday, the Israeli military has already repeatedly violated it. 🧵

jvp.org/wiretwitter

The Wire, by JVP

Every week, we cover important news from Palestine, the United States, and the Palestine solidarity movement — and provide ways to take action.

jvp.org

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 5h

Pentagon leaks are now coming through to ... checks notes ... the Washington Times.

lmao

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former ...

www.washingtontimes.com

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Inkgrid | Edel-Art @inkgrid.bsky.social · 18d

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BeEen JoOhnsOoOon @gamedesignerben.bsky.social · 21h

Videogames are as much art as anything else covertly funded by the CIA

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AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social · 9h

"The problem with AltNPS and other unverified Alts like them is not that they are scams. It's that they are selling you shovels on a cliff edge and telling you to dig to reach salvation, all the while reducing the reputation of the people who are actually trying to save you from falling off."

The True Story of AltNPS

YouTube video by Aden Ng

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

"Let's hear it for antifa!" — Rick fucking Steves, everyone

Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm. Rick Steves is the president of Edmonds Antifa.

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Jess @jessmakesthings.bsky.social · 23h

did this site just get very bad

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Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social · 1d

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

ACTUAL GOOD TRANSIT NEWS ALERT: Metro-North will run to Albany, starting this spring.

And Amtrak is adding back one train to NYP-ALB and capping prices at $99.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 1d

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

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Jess @jessmakesthings.bsky.social · 1d

kentucky route zero

a googie inspired gas station with a truly gigantic horse head forming the main body of the convenience store area. a sunset in the background. the gas station reads "equus oils".

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