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Kim Bellware @bellwak.bsky.social · 3h

Found the paid protester

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

If you were out in the streets today, thanks. If you left feeling inspired, please seek out local ways that you can keep organizing with others.

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Pete @pmacarth.bsky.social · 4h

Our local 🚫👑 rally was around the corner from Mass MoCA in North Adams.

Banner outside Mass MoCA advertising Jeffery Gibson's exhibit "Power Full Because We're Different"

View of "Big Bling" when approaching the intersection where the No Kings rally took place. A large structure with golden headphones? Nose ring? Elephant? I'm not really sure...

Street art of RFK Jr on an electrical box on the Mass MoCA complex. The top of his head is open and worms are spilling out

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Pete @pmacarth.bsky.social · 8h

open.spotify.com/track/5PGA77...

The Phony King of England

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Pete @pmacarth.bsky.social · 8h

🎶He sits alone on a giant throne
pretending he's the king

A little tyke who's rather like
a puppet on a string

And he throws an angry tantrum
if he cannot have his way🎶

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22h

In tonight’s hearing, Illston reiterated a question that raised eyebrows earlier in the week.

“Are you still unwilling to discuss the merits today?” Illston asked the DOJ lawyer.

“I’m not prepared to discuss the merits,” the lawyer, Elizabeth Hedges, replied.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

They are arriving because of the mass mobilizations and they have figured out that Twitter isn't going to be the main space to monitor activity.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

gee it'd be great if illinois had a heroic governor like @govpritzker.illinois.gov who'd put a stop to this kind of thing

oh wait

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

State troopers in riot gear just plowed into the crowd, started arresting protesters and clergy.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

I fear that the reality is that most Democratic governors and mayors are scared of their own police forces and don't want to risk ordering them to stand down.

But they have to step up and do it. Our democracy is absolutely at stake.

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Make Some Noise @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social · 2d

➡️ Watch the season four premiere now: dropout.vhx.tv/videos/the-...

The Noise Boys Ride Again - Season 4 - Dropout

Josh, Zac, and Brennan name mobsters and try to hide their bald spots. Content Warning: Comedic Gags Implying Suicide - [2:00-3:13]

watch.dropout.tv

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Pete @pmacarth.bsky.social · 2d

This is pretty dumb and for all the obvious reasons...

But every photo I see of this event has the Lincoln Memorial rotated to line up with the bridge and proposed arch, and not the National Mall.

Details just don't matter to these people.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8d

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social · 2d

NEW EPISODE OF MAP MEN!!! 🗺️

How did the Netherlands delete the sea... and get rich?

Share and enjoy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq-k...

This country is 17% fake

YouTube video by Jay and Mark

www.youtube.com

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 3d

A 3,000-pound, 17-foot-long "DEMOCRACY" ice sculpture is melting away on the National Mall today, a statement from activists and artists on the weakened state of American democracy under the Trump administration.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

A 3,000-Pound Ice Sculpture Of 1 Word Is Melting In Front Of The U.S. Capitol

“It's time for all of us to resist, speak up and save our democracy before it's too late,” artist Marshall Reese said of his 17-by-5-foot installation.

www.huffpost.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

there are a couple of ways to think about this, one is that no one should be running for their first senate race at this age, and the other is that if platner can’t beat her, he definitely can’t beat collins. i think he can. everybody needs to stop crying and start fighting.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

A 79 year-old freshman senator would be … unusual

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has announced her intention to run for Senate against the state's well-known — ahem — incumbent, Susan Collins. When the next Senate term begins in January 2027, Collins wil...

www.pbump.net

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Pete @pmacarth.bsky.social · 3d

Munro playing like an absolute kitten this evening

Munro, my orange and white cat, playing with his feather wand toy on a blue towel laid in the corner of the brown coach. Maybe it's the toe beans showing on one paw, or just the angle, but he looks exceptionally kitten-like this evening.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4d

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 5d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7d

This is it. Very glad to see this full-throated welcome to queer people — and recognition of trans people’s history — from Zohran Mamdani in the closing month of his campaign and on National Coming Out Day.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Clayton Cubitt @claytoncubitt.bsky.social · 10d

No other book better synthesized for me all the strands of American history, of enslavement and capitalism, of the power relationships between the colonies and states and how they were warped by the original sin of slavery. Must read. (hard read)

kottke.org @kottke.org · 10d

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry. “Instead of treating slavery as a source of unpaid labor, as it is typically understood, they focus on the ownership aspect: people as property, merchandise, collateral, and capital.” [kottke.org]

A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States

The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (Amazon) by Ned & Constance Sublette is a book which offers an alternate view of slavery in the United States. Instead of treating slavery as a source

kottke.org

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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