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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5h

Some people might laugh but there's something actually important in this as I have heard others talk about how a fear of dying is palpable among fascists. They carry hell with them in real life.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2h

Did you hear the pope put a monastery on a dirigible? Yeah, he wanted to make sure the faithful had air friars.

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Lyndie Chiou @lyndie.bsky.social · 2h

Here are the remnants of a massive star that ignited in 1054. Ancient astronomers marveled at how they could see the supernova even during the day. All that's left today is the faint, colorful smudge called the Crab Nebula.

Image credit: my tiny telescope - only 2 hours!

#science #astronomy 🔭👩🏾‍🔬

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Boo-nny knuckles @bibliogrrl.bsky.social · 4h

If anyone wants to help with whistle mutual aid, I could use key rings! TY for helping our neighbors!

(And if you’re local and printing and want some rings if I get any, I am more than happy to share my bounty!)

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Check out my list on Amazon

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⚰️ samcula 🧛‍♂️ @lunarriviera.info · 2h

i will fucking increase the fucking thing

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 2h

Roof cops were intentionally aiming for heads. There was a gaggle of photographers and at least three of them got pepper balled on their heads. No one else was around them. One of the feds on the roof was also waving to naked bikers and making hand gestures with two fingers to signal “small”

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 3h

More fash trickling in. More or less the same that have been showing up but David Willis was with them too. They brought a very large banner of what looks like Kirk in front of a massive cross lol. They’re being ignored for the most part and all the inflatables are dancing

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 3h

Right as I finished filming the video from first post the word naked bike ride arrived with at least a thousand people. I watched them ride thru for 5 minutes straight and they were still coming in in the pouring rain

Someone’s back says ICE eat my ass with their ass out

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 3h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2h

The villains in The Addams Family movies aren’t “Normal” people. They’re disingenuous ppl [hiding] the truth of themselves. …that that kind of behaviour gets equated w/ “normalcy” is [part] of the commentary. Tully AND Debbie would’ve been welcome, if they’d just been honest with & About themselves.

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2h

Back on tumblr I wrote a whole thing about both Tully and Debbie would've been welcomed into the family if they'd only be truly, honestly, and completely themselves.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 2h

FWIW ICE is probably the least accessible federal agency I’ve ever covered, and that includes the CIA.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 2h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 4h

I can't put into words how much satellites and airplanes are my enemy. This was taken about 50 miles from a major city, an hour time lapse.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 5h

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Salt M. Bank 🇵🇸 @saltmbank.bsky.social · 4h

Ilyasah Shabazz asks why the developers were not acting "with the same morality, conscience, and care ... that they'd want for their own families."
Its a good question, and the answer lies in how how men like Musk & Altman do mistreat and disrespect their own families

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Melissa Sue Stanley 🌿✨🍄 IX Showcase, October @melissasuestanley.bsky.social · 7h

So hey if you like things on chicken legs you should absolutely check out the Kickstarter thing I have going right now...

Kickstarter.com/projects/babayaga/shackling

Shackling

Tales From Baba Yaga's Garden

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 7h

Found Novavax at Costco, after Walgreens said nope and CVS claimed to have it then switched the appointment to Moderna on the sly.

FWIW YMMV etc etc

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 9h

Everyone is so on edge. Maybe think about not being an asshole before you post something to someone.

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Hanno Terbuyken @dailybug.bsky.social · 9h

Really strong writing reminding us that human virtues are opposite to the fascist project.

Embrace silliness and bravery, diversity and joy, and other virtues. If many more can do that, humanity can prevail.

A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11h

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 9h

Another reason for hate turned at light hearted protest: they want you on your couch, having your brain being turned into soup while you are comatose watching THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF BUMBLEFUCK or HARRY POTTER XXV. They resent a rabbit or a frog going “we make our own entertainment here!”

Kaia Sand @mkaiasand.bsky.social · 10h

Really sweet resistance scene outside ICE in Portland of coffee, donuts and morning.

Person in bunny costume carries donuts outside ICE in Portland

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DJ Boozy Brunch @griph.bsky.social · 9h

“Get. Dressed. Now.”
“Ok ok I’m going to get dressed. All I need is my teddies [picks up two teddy bears]. And I need my blanket [picks up blanket now carrying a lot of stuff for a small guy]. And…”
-my six year old recreating a scene from the Jerk, which he has never seen

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 8h

Will repeat over & over: Chicago is the rehearsal for what's ahead (and yes, is also already underway) in other cities — AND for the campaign of noncooperation & opposition that must be unleashed. We must study & practice & prepare.

We love you, Chicago.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 9h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

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JK✨️ @jkmakes.bsky.social · 9h

Everyone collectively dreaming, in their own ways, of a life that's not 90% scams and violence.

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