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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · Sep 7

if you allow cellphones at your meetings there's REALLY not any reason not to allow people to attend them remotely

especially if they're disabled and they're wearing themselves out with in person commitments during the week

wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · Sep 7

i am now 3/3 on groups i regularly organized with here freezing me out over ablest security theater policies

glad i'm not gonna be here much longer

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Mariam🇵🇸😔 @mariam1414.bsky.social · 1d

‼️ This is my final plea for help ‼️

My family is starving, and the situation is unbearable.

We haven’t had proper food

Please, I urgently need $200 to buy food and essentials for my family

Every moment counts I’m begging you, don’t turn away

Your help could save us 🥹🙏
chuffed.org/project/1382...

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Help diala🤕 @diala2027.bsky.social · 1d

The war on Gaza is over, but Diala’s suffering continues — she suffers from a skull fracture and needs urgent treatment. 💔
Please donate even $20 to help her and her little children. 🙏
Your kindness can heal. ❤️
gofund.me/715cdaa77

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MARAH FROM 🇵🇸 @mummarah.bsky.social · 2d

Every night feels colder 😭😭😭

We have no shelter, no warmth, only hope that someone will hear our cry 😭🙏🙏🙏

Your help is the only thing keeping us alive!!!

We are very tired, please please don’t forget us 💔
gofund.me/b5783185e

@mommunism.bsky.social 😭🙏

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon character is holding a bunch of money and the words shut up and take are above him

Alt: fry from fururama (cartoon redheaded doofus in a red Jack's and a plain white t-shirt) saying "shut up and take my money!" while thrusting a wad of bills forward

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 1d

how are you going to get rid of the money with such a lucrative business venture???

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 19d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 20d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 2d

Meanwhile, if you've even so much as typed the hashtag "#FreePalestine," you are automatically disqualified from being a staffer for most Democratic elected officials

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Nurse Hammam @nurseeehamam.bsky.social · 2d

🚨URGENT🚨
During two years of genocide, we have lost everything we own in northern Gaza. Our home was completely destroyed, and we are now homeless & without anything. My family appeals to you, with all your humanity, to donate & support us so we can buy a tent to live in⛺️
Help⬇️🤲🤲
gofund.me/698632c8d

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Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 2d

This may be our last message...
All we dream of is escaping this hell, to one day live in dignity, without fear or hunger.

The Rafah crossing will open next week, but the cost of coordination is beyond our means!

Your donation today..is our last hope.🥺
Donate & Share:❤️👇🏼
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Donate to Urgent️, help Adham's family in Gaza, organized by Adham madi

Dear donor and supporter, this is a brief overview of me and my family, I want to be a… Adham madi needs your support for Urgent️, help Adham's family in Gaza

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 3d

it's because you said a bunch of wrong things first

hth

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 3d

you've finally managed to move the goalposts to a statement where you're correct, congrats

biden didn't restart the transatlantic slave trade

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 3d

biden told cities to spend "leftover" covid aid on the police without actually addressing covid AFTER the summer of unrest bud

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 4d

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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Yasmine Abdullah ♥️ @yasminemourtaja00.bsky.social · 3d

*✨ I’m Yasmine, a writer and translator from Gaza. We lost our home and everything we had because of the war. Today, we’re trying to start over. Your support — no matter how small — can make a huge difference in helping us rebuild our lives 💚*
gofund.me/78f16271

Donate to Hazem and Yasmine’s Story: A Cry for Survival, organized by Mohammad Salah Khalaf

Hazem and Yasmine once called Gaza home—a place where they laughed… Mohammad Salah Khalaf needs your support for Hazem and Yasmine’s Story: A Cry for Survival

gofund.me

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Majd🍉 @majd-in-gaza.bsky.social · 4d

Hello, I'm Majd. I'm writing to you today after the war ended, from the rubble of our home in Gaza. They took everything: our home, our work, and our dreams. We now live in a tent, trying to live with dignity. Your support through GFM is our only hope to start over. 💔

gofund.me/c50986c10

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samaah98.bsky.social @samaah98.bsky.social · 4d

To your compassionate hearts, my mother is suffering unbearable pain and needs urgent surgery. Her life is in increasing danger every day... and we don't have enough money to cover the treatment costs.

Please, with your compassion, stand by me.

gofund.me/6b9ac2b4

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 3d

you'd think determining the cause of an explosion at an explosives factory would be a slam dunk

a paragraph from the article on the quote skeet:

The cause of the explosion has not yet been determined, according to officials with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Center for Explosives Training and Research.

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 3d

mostly but not entirely

lot of gen xers in our current crop of billionaires, and a decent amount of fascist youth on the ascent

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 3d

There are millions of George Santos' in amerika, unfeeling annoying bastards led only by their ego and must be shamed into correct and virtuous stances

onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 3d

idk, feel like the problem is more our lack of pensions than anything

i don't begrudge them collecting on a system they paid into, this article's trying to convince us we don't deserve that

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 3d

Bluesky look at this gift I found for you

svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 3d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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wednesday @mx0x20wednesday.bsky.social · 3d

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Tarragorn @aragorn-estragon.bsky.social · 3d

"Hamas infantry massacre" is a weird way to spell "IDF Hanibal Directive carried out by helicopter gunship launching air to ground missles", but you do you.

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 3d

Periodically I remember what this website was like when it collectively thought Hamas was going to win and crush Israel or whatever it thought for the month or so after October 7th and anytime anyone on here bitches about Biden, I remember that

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 3d

Abolish. Fire. Prosecute.

Punishing officials who lie in court and on documents is desperately needed to drag us out of the legitimacy of bullshit the Trump era has created.

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 3d

DHS spending its newly massive budget keeping America safe from [... checks notes...] nail salons and swim moms.

Cross country flights & 5 months of detention based on "officials made a number of false and misleading claims"
www.thebanner.com/western-mary...

Hagerstown nail salon owner freed after five months in ICE custody

Melissa Tran, a Hagerstown mom and nail salon owner, was freed five months after being detained by ICE and jailed in Washington state. A federal judge ruled that U.S. officials had no basis for prolon...

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