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persephinae @persephinae.bsky.social · Oct 18

“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices." - Terry Pratchett

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 2d

What could you use right now?

1. fort made of books
2. wine & free time
3. curly fries & cash
4. thousand year nap

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CGTN @www.cgtn.com · 7h

#Lula calls for an independent Latin America news.cgtn.com/news/2025-10...

Lula calls for an independent Latin America

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday said he will not accept any leader from another country daring

news.cgtn.com

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 14h

My family is from a rural Southern county that consistently goes 70% GOP and there are hundreds of people on the interstate overpass bridge through town telling MAGA to get bent

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6h

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 7h

Find a place for yourself in the world that fills the broken parts of you. A place that brings light to your darkness.

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 14h

The teeny tiny No Kings things in very red areas are so huge

Say like five or six people show up. None of them knew each other before. Suddenly they’re all friends. And maybe from that you get a group that does longer-term organizing that can punch *way* above its weight considering where it is

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 7h

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

in 20 years, the most extreme, reactionary, "return to tradition" masculinity influencer is going to adopt this uniform and you'll have to calmly explain that this was once considered non-traditional

Swedish actor Alexander Skarsgård shows up for the London premiere of his new movie “Pillion." He's wearing a sleeveless white dress shirt with a black leather necktie and black leather pants with metal grommets down the crotch. He's also wearing black leather boots. A black motorcycle is behind him.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 11h

Beat your Ring camera to death with a bat

Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a... yeeeeeah

Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch

Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."

techcrunch.com

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PunkerDuckie ♠️ Shitposter Extraordinare @punkerduckie.bsky.social · 7h

Remy core.

#gambit #gambitmeme #remylebeau #xmen

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Ouroridae | Springeddon>Brisnova>Comic Fiesta @ouroridae.bsky.social · 10d

Finally inspired to do fanart of Kpop Demon Hunters 😳

#kpopdemonhunters #huntrix

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 10h

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

19thnews @19thnews.org · 10h

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country

On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

19thnews.org

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Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 14h

illustration showing an 18th century guillotine with a banner reading "no kings no tyrants"

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

The Dem base is now way, way to the left of its elected representatives, for sure.

Boomer moms are out in the streets begging Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to get their shit together and fight back.

sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 10h

I think the lib politicians might have a problem if the dsa politicians are dominating the stage at these lib protests. the problem being that the lib representatives suddenly do not look particularly lib

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Jay Rigdon @jayrigdon.bsky.social · 12h

Not sure the folks at NBC/Peacock thought this one through

Two announcers, Jason Garrett and Dan Hicks, stand in front of a sign that reads "Big Turd" thanks to how they are blocking it

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Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

The AIPAC brand has become toxic, so this is the new way they are influencing elections. Now candidates can say they aren’t taking any AIPAC money, while still taking AIPAC money.

@trackaipac.com you have your job cut out for you.

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · 13h

Emiru, the streamer who was sexually assaulted at TwitchCon yesterday, said she is "hurt and upset by how Twitch handled it during and after the fact"

She claims TwitchCon security & staff were heavily dismissive of the incident, only catching the perpetrator hours later due to her manager

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emi ⭐️
@emiru
hello everyone, I am okay and thank you for all of the kind messages, sorry I cannot respond to them all 🩷

Yesterday, the man who assaulted me was allowed to cross multiple barriers at twitchcon and even in front of another creators meet and greet to grab me and my face and try to kiss me. Fortunately he wasn't able to, but a lot of people have pointed out it could have been a lot worse!

I'm obviously shaken up by what happened and it's not the first time I've dealt with something like this, but to tell you honestly, I am a lot more hurt and upset by how Twitch handled it during and after the fact.

Like I said, I don't understand how he was allowed to make it to me in the first place. The security in the clip who reacts is my own security (it's true my favorite and usual security guard was banned for holding a stalkers arm to bring him to police, at a past Twitchcon)

However, there were at least 3 or 4 other Twitchcon security staff in the area who did not react and let the guy walk away, as you can see in the clip since they don't even appear in the frame LOL

The woman who is walking me away is my own personal manager, and behind the booth, the only two people who were checking on me and comforting me were her and my friend. None of the Twitchcon staff came to ask what happened or if I was okay.

My friend who was present told me Twitch security were also behind the booth afterwards joking about how they didn't even see what happened and immediately laughing and moving on to talking about something else.

So if no one was checking if I was okay or if I needed anything and they let the guy run away initially, I have no idea what anyone hired to keep the event safe was doing LOL

In Twitch's statement they said that the guy was immediately caught and detained, I'm sorry but that is a blatant lie. He was allowed to walk away from my meet and greet and I didn't hear he was caught until hours after he attacked me, and it felt like this o…

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loreleimaid.bsky.social @loreleimaid.bsky.social · 11h

I took part in a small town protest today in very very red rural Missouri. Initially, a few days ago 43 people were "going". Turned out to be 640 of us in a tiny town square! I was beyond exhilarated.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 13h

MSNBC Live coverage: @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social interviewing a pink unicorn on live television is giving me life. #NoKings

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

ultimately, zohran mamdani is a reminder that politicians can be younger than 80 years old

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 11h

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world

what a fucking thing, man

that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

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Leon Thomas @renegadecut.bsky.social · 4d

someone should make a documentary called "the fall and fall and fall and fall of alex jones"

www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme...

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook case

The Supreme Court turned away an appeal by Alex Jones over a $1.4 billion defamation judgment for his false claims that a 2012 school shooting was a hoax.

www.cbsnews.com

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TC @tcustodis.bsky.social · 11h

Fuck yeah my crow jam is playing

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