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KWierso @kwierso.com · 27m

Yeah, we've got an imodium, azo, gasx bottle for road trips in case someone starts feeling not great... But like, come on...

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 40m

this is, flatly and subjectively, intolerable to anyone who fancies themselves free people. simply intolerable

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 9h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 13h

So, Łink is still banned? All the accounts we see catch bans and come back, and all the ones that mysteriously never get banned, but the one that stays banned is Łink?

Free Łink.

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Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 2h

Ell. Oh. Ell.

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

China begins charging port fees for US ships, exempts China-built ones reut.rs/4pZObdk

China begins charging port fees for US ships, exempts China-built ones

China has officially started collecting special port fees from U.S.-owned, operated, built, or flagged vessels on Tuesday but said Chinese-built ships would be exempted from it, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

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Jason @greedyrunner.bsky.social · 2h

"Productivity has gone up for decades, and the Jetsons we fucking ain't"

AI Bubble Go Pop

YouTube video by Georg Rockall-Schmidt

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 5h

The literal reading of this position is Republicans won’t reopen the government unless Democrats agree to raise health insurance premiums x2. We are 4 weeks from Election Day.

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KWierso @kwierso.com · 1h

They can, they just don't, because they're craven cowards calmatters.org/politics/202...

Legislators could override nearly every Newsom veto. Why don’t they?

Most bills Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed passed the Legislature with enough votes for an override. The Legislature hasn't tried since 1979.

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 3h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Aide: Sir the protesters have started dressing up as kid rock. ICE doesn’t know what to do.
Boss: I was afraid of this.

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Reverend Jesus "Ł" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 4h

Y'all, the NEWSMAX motherfucker won't even sign this.

CNN @cnn.com · 4h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign.

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

www.cnn.com

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h

I want these stories.

I want to know how Chicago got up in message boards

I want to know all about the folks I see on MY socials who not only are NOT organizing on social but also aren’t abandoning it

Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 3d

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Cate (Your Ghost Wife) @kallaipdx.com · 3h

WA state already passed an HRT stockpile bill and there is no evidence that healthcare costs have risen significantly because of it.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 5h

Newsom vetoes both the PreP access and the HRT stockpile bill because he is worried it would increase healthcare costs...

He claims to support the aims of these bills. But the vetoes deny access to medical care for queer people.

(Context: He vetoed these 2 while signing 8 other queer rights bills)

Trans News Network @transnews.network · 5h

He also signed SB 590, which bolsters paid family leave.

Read his veto messages here:

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...
www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 5h

the students at the encampments were right

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Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 1d

Autism $peaks is the largest and most popular Autism organization (among allistics), who continues to be 100% in support of ABA. They have lobbyists who push ABA as the “gold standard Autism treatment.” It utilizes same practices as “conversion therapy,” which is currently banned in 28 countries.

Mattslew Batberg-Mothfit (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 1d

ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) is the “gold standard” of “treatment” for Autism, and was created by the person as “Conversion therapy” (see Lovaas) with similar techniques and goals. It’s torture that continues to have widespread support and acceptance.

God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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KWierso @kwierso.com · 2h

I still remember my childhood home phone number.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 15d

🧵 UPDATE FOR MY BIRTHDAY:
Hi, so AI killed my career(s) and I'm still barely holding on. Some people tried to get me to start a fundraiser, but that felt weird, so I thought maybe if I was contributing something? So I started making shirts. Can you share this and maybe think about grabbing some?

Stuff, from The Internet

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猫好きな人 @valoisdubins.bsky.social · 2h

This shows 2 things about the anti-trans “gender critical” movement.

1) They lie a lot
2) Their followers have been groomed via old-style far right propaganda tactics to be credulous idiots

Lia Thomas is notorious because <drum roll> she came joint 5th in a local race with a budding RW operative.

AAP FactCheck @aapfactcheck.bsky.social · 3h

Fabricated quotes claiming an Australian swimming star and a reigning Olympic champion has threatened to boycott the Los Angeles games over a transgender swimmer are spreading online.

www.aap.com.au/factcheck/fa...

Fake posts stir up fears of Aust Olympic swimming boycott

Fabricated quotes claiming an Australian swimming star and reigning Olympic champion has threatened to boycott the Los Angeles games over a transgender swimmer are spreading on social media.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

3M is antifa now

Kimberly Vega

@caligurlluv

Replying to @MrAndyNgo and @patrioticmouse

Interesting same pink gas mask as those whose them in Portland, Oregon!!!!!

Who's supplying them?!!!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 3h

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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ceej @ceej.online · 2h

any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally

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Delaney (Pum)King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 2h

It's not an opinion Keira, one side wants to kill and torture us and the other just wants to eat taco bell and play video games.

We are not the same.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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KWierso @kwierso.com · 5h

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I'll take the unsolicited money...

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@[email protected] on Mastodon @electricheadpt2.cryptoanarchy.network · 12h

Her law office has a contact email: [email protected]

JonBOOnét Rumsfeld @jonbenetrumsfeld.blacksky.app · 14h

this is christine flowers
shes an immigration lawyer here in philly and she has something to say about first nation people here in the US

Lets make her famous

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 8h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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