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Jason Martens
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Longing for collective freedom. Also into photography, woodworking, cooking, and probably too many other hobbies. Day job is tech.
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moiradonegan.bsky.social
I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
Opinion column from David Brooks: The Epstein Story? Count Me Out. I have been especially startled to see Ro Khanna, a House Democrat and one of the most impressive politicians in America, use the phrase “the Epstein class” in his public statements. In an interview with my colleague David Leonhardt this week, Khanna explained that he had gotten the phrase from voters who asked him if he was on the side of “forgotten Americans” or “the Epstein class.” Photo of David Brooks at dinner with Jeffrey Epstein, from files released by the House Oversight Committee.
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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angryblacklady.blacksky.app
“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia.

It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”
December 18, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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chrisgeidner.bsky.social
The extreme attack on transgender youth we are witnessing from a governmental stage was enabled by The Atlantic and The New York Times.
December 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
martens742.bsky.social
So proud of my partner @leahmartens.bsky.social for putting herself on the line to shut down ICE. www.instagram.com/stories/bayr...
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December 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true
THIS is what makes my head spin: The president is not a moral figure in any idiom, any land, any culture, any subculture. I'm not talking about the liberal enlightenment that would make him want the country to take care of the poor and sick. I mean he has no Republican values either. He has no honor among thieves, no cosa nostra loyalty, no Southern code against cheating or lying, none of the openness of New York, rectitude of Boston, expressiveness and kindness of California, no evangelical family values, no Protestant work ethic. No Catholic moral seriousness, no sense of contrition or gratitude. No Jewish moral and intellectual precision, sense of history. He doesn't care about the life of the mind OR the life of the senses. He is not mandarin, not committed to inquiry or justice, not hospitable. He is not proper. He is not a bon vivant who loves to eat, drink, laugh. There's nothing he would die for - not American values, obviously, but not the land of Russia or his wife or young son. He has some hollow success creeds from Norman Vincent Peale, but Peale was obsessed with fair-dealing and a Presbyterian pastor; Trump has no fairness or piety. He's not sentimental; no affection for dogs or babies. No love for mothers, "the common man"" veterans. He has no sense of military valor, and is openly a coward about war. He would have sorely lacked the pagan beauty and capacity to fight required in ancient Greece. He doesn't care about his wife or wives; he is a philanderer but he's not a romantic hero with great love for women and sex. He commands loyalty and labor from his children not because he loves them, even; he seems almost to hate them — and if one of them slipped it would be terrifying. He does no philanthropy. He doesn't - in a more secular key - even seem to have a sense of his enlightened self-interest enough to shake Angela Merkel's hand. Doesn't even affect a love for the arts, like most rich New Yorkers. He doesn't live and die by aesthetics and health practices like some fascists; he's very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other people, living or dead, like him?
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
martens742.bsky.social
I believe @mekka.mekka-tech.com called this a long time ago. Kenyans know English better than native people.
December 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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transhelp777.bsky.social
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I'm tired of being out here suffering I can't stand this anymore, I've only been able to raise $20 and it's very little I've barely been able to eat something, I need a place to sleep and be safe please help me💔😭
#MutualAid #helpsky

Difference: $930🚨

goget.fund/4rzw5Q9

www.paypal.me/wjmftrans
December 14, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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prinzrob.bsky.social
My former colleague Binky Brown is in need of community support. Among many accomplishments, Binky was instrumental in getting free @bikeleague.org instructor certifications prioritizing women & people of color going in the East Bay. Please give back generously:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-bi...
Donate to Disabled Black Oaklander with Cancer Faces Homelessness, organized by Binky Brown
Hello and thank you for hearing my final plea: For those who do… Binky Brown needs your support for Disabled Black Oaklander with Cancer Faces Homelessness
www.gofundme.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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oaklandabosol.bsky.social
Oakland Abolition and Solidarity needs donations for winter jail support nights at Santa Rita Jail!
* warm jackets!
* gloves and scarves!
* socks!
* handwarmers!
* shoe laces!
* beanies

signal message @elky.88 to coordinate donations
or
PayPal: OaklandAboSol
CashApp: $0aklandAboSol
Flyer image, black background, flames at bottom with a black cat swaddled in a scarf and wooly hat at lower right. Text reads: "Oakland Abolition and Solidarity needs donations for winter jail support nights at Santa Rita! * warm jackets! * gloves and scarves! * socks! * handwarmers! * shoe laces! signal message @elky.88 to coordinate donations or PayPal: OaklandAboSol CashApp: $0aklandAboSol "
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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evankillham.bsky.social
Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
martens742.bsky.social
This was our “good” option. So much has to change to make a world where everyone can thrive.
premthakker.bsky.social Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9d
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial."

"Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
December 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
martens742.bsky.social
Sometimes the simplest things bring me joy. #BelieveInFilm #Photography
Large bubbles tinged with pink and a light blue cloudless sky.
December 9, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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taliajane.bsky.social
Unreal levels of civic engagement happening here
riseandresist.bsky.social Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 12d
Today, Dec 6, 2025
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!

No ICE in NYC!

Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
December 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
martens742.bsky.social
Signs of San Francisco. Portra 400 & Canon AE-1. #BelieveInFilm
Sign for the 500 club. It’s a cocktail glass on top of the number 500 oriented vertically. It’s a sunny day with blue sky and patchy clouds. A sign that says CYCLOPS vertically next to a painting of roses on a wall. A sign in two parts with reversed colors. The top says mother with green-blue text and an orange background, while the bottom has an orange wolf carrying a cub by the neck with a green-blue background.
December 5, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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parkermolloy.com
This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
People SUBSCRIBE Halle Berry Draws Gasps for Saying Gavin Newsom Is 'Devaluing' Women and 'Shouldn't Be Our Next President' Moments Before He Comes on Stage The actress made the comments at 'The New York Times' DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Dec. 3 By Becca Longmire Published on December 4, 2025 10:17AM EST
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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haymarketbooks.org
On Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were assassinated by Chicago Police and the FBI
Fred Hampton speaks
December 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.
November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
World AIDS Day. We remember.
December 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
Harsha is so dear to me, and I am furious that she is facing BS charges for acting in solidarity with people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the people of Palestine. This was the rally Harsha was participating in:
Apple Profits From Genocide!
🍎 Apple Profits From Genocide! Friday November 28 (Black Friday) Gather at Vancouver Art Gallery, šxʷƛ̓ənəq Xwtl'e7énḵ 11:30 am Apple has become a symbol of reckless consumerism - releasing a new ph...
www.weavingourworlds.ca
November 29, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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mskellymhayes.bsky.social
My friend @harshawalia.bsky.social was arrested and charged, and another protester was brutalized today in Vancouver at a protest targeting Apple for profiting from death and exploitation in its supply chain. The protesters also called out Apple's support of Friends of the IDF.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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davekeating.substack.com
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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bryanculbertson.com
Every city has a choice between being a place for people to live or a parking lot to store cars
emmanuelspv.bsky.social EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 24d
Vingt rues de Paris avant / après en une minute
November 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
KILMEADE: ”I think JD Vance is jealous. I think the president wants to use Zohran as a running mate.”
November 21, 2025 at 9:40 PM
martens742.bsky.social
This person’s car was totaled by an ICE hit and run. Please donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/ice-hit-an...
Donate to ICE Hit and Run Victim Seeking Help for Reliable Vehicle, organized by Satima Flaherty
My name is Satima, and I’m raising funds to purchase a reliab… Satima Flaherty needs your support for ICE Hit and Run Victim Seeking Help for Reliable Vehicle
www.gofundme.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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katsylver.bsky.social
I'm a trans person w/ a trans kid & we lose trans siblings every year to hateful violence. On Trans Day of Remembrance we're called not only to collectively mourn those we've lost, but to renew our commitment to keep fighting for those who are still here.

#tdor 🏳️‍⚧️
Art by @thefoxfisher.bsky.social
"MOURN THE DEAD, AND FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING" colored with the trans flag over top of a black background -- created by Fox Fisher @thefoxfisher.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM