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petite violette

@petiteviolette.bsky.social

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artist, language learning nerd, ex-academic linguist, handicrafts, bookworm, translator, manga enthusiast get off substack and migrate to ghost. i will help you for free, i'm a computer person. on mastodon too: https://kolektiva.social/@unrelatedwaffle

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 12h

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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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 11h

"i've got multiple friends and neighbors whose kids were victimized by gun violence at school" also doesn't hurt

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 13h

@mel-fra-melvik.bsky.social thought you would appreciate

icastico @icastico.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 15h

Spotted the Antuba at #seattle #nokings

Crowd with no kings signs and American flags and two Sousaphones facing away from the camera. The one the right says “antuba”

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

This picture is from about 5 minutes after being hit. A visible bruise is forming on my right cheekbone and by my right eye.

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 1d

One of them mentioned a Columbus Day parade that Mamdani did not march in. A white supremacist culture war shibboleth here is "Do you observe Columbus Day or Indigenous People's Day?"

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

saw this clip of the NYC mayor debate and i had tears in my eyes, perhaps the most insane section of any debate ever

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 4d

driftglass.blogspot.com/2025/10/prof...

Professional Left Podcast Episode 941: Uh Oh, The Media's Building Lifeboats (Again)!

“ Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." -- George Bernard Shaw. ...

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Kate Macfarlane @katemacfarlane.bsky.social · 3d

Is anyone in Seattle making and distributing whistle kits? I want to help do this locally

ICE is already here and snatching people, but nowhere near the scale of Chicago or LA. Yet.

For Seattle 3D printers, the WA hotline number is 844-724-3737 (@waisn.bsky.social)

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 6d

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 3d

oh no not yudkowsky sir please love yourself

petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 3d

can't be arsed to not watch the world cup when the stadium was built with slave blood

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/noup...

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 4d

biggest influencer in 2008 had top comment on daily kos under the tip jar

petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 5d

being shitty to women has been immensely popular with men regardless of socioeconomic status since stone tablets so maybe we can stop trying to figure out what about the modern age is causing it

petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 5d

pretty sure patriarchy and misogyny haven't updated the basic ways they operate in 5000 years

petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 7d

just saw Carmen at the ballet. god forbid women do anything!'

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 8d

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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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 7d

"we see you're a woman, we recommend hateful dehumanizing misogyny!" tracks tbh

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 9d

political cartoon of jews in concentration camps with hands on hips: "history certainly won't be kind to hitler!"

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 11d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 11d

'At various points, there was no way to be in the thick of the protest without getting exposed to tear gas, or risking getting shot with pepper balls. At numerous points, agents fired from behind barbed wire fences, seemingly with no provocation — or even interaction — with protesters.'

“Even When They Gas Us": Hundreds Brave Tear Gas, Pepper Balls to Protest ICE

Investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, analysis of national and world affairs, and cultural criticism that matters.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Michael Roche @michaelroche.bsky.social · 15d

ICE just gassed a group a civilians near the Rico Fresh supermarket intersection on Armitage in Chicago - bystanders say this was in response for being heckled from the street.

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petite violette @petiteviolette.bsky.social · 17d

I tried Google Reverse Image Search and still got nothing. Really frustrating and makes me think it's AI?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 17d

In the debates when they asked NYC Mayoral candidates what living Democrat they admired IIRC Mamdani was the only candidate to pick another mayor and he picked Wu.

Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 17d

Don't sleep on Michelle Wu, one of this country's most quietly effective climate leaders, cruising to a second term in Boston. It's telling that business interests tried and failed to stop her and are pouting about it now

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Boston Mayor’s Blowout Victory Jilts CEOs Seeking New Direction

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is coasting to reelection after her main opponent quit the race, giving her a commanding mandate that’s putting city business leaders on edge.

www.bloomberg.com

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