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123simco.bsky.social @123simco.bsky.social · 20h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to both avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Salesforce Offers Its Services to Boost Trump’s Immigration Force

www.nytimes.com

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Lee @aliasmarionette.bsky.social · 9h

XZ is announced as the lead of the upcoming iQiyi drama 小城良方 (小城 = small town and 良方 = an effective prescription/remedy).

The show is an adaptation of the novel 飞刀, which tells the story of a genius doctor who is forced to return to his hometown after suffering an epic downfall.

#xiaozhan

Poster for the show with Xiao Zhan in the snow

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smurfsup | when they go low, we go to the polls @smurfsup.bsky.social · 12h

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Cops Can't Stop Killing Dogs

YouTube video by WeRateDogs

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Alt Acadia National Park @altacadia.bsky.social · 9h

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Miller is trying to skirt Congress and pass the SAVE Act himself. There have been nearly 110,000 comments submitted so far, mostly in favor. 🤬 We need to push back against the tide!

Comments close on the 20th.
www.regulations.gov/document/EAC...

Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 2d

TAKE ACTION: Proponents of the anti-voter SAVE Act are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to require documents like a passport in order to register to vote. Tell the Commission: Don’t make it harder for Americans to cast a ballot: bit.ly/4ngSyyl

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Ellery 🏳️‍🌈 @sparksofstardust.bsky.social · 9h

I'm surprised it took them this long 🤷🏻‍♀️

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: hackers just doxed hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials. I went through the data. In many cases does look legitimate, sometimes includes residential addresses.

“Mexican Cartels hmu [hit me up] we dropping all the doxes wheres my 1m [1 million].”

www.404media.co/hackers-dox-...

Hackers Dox Hundreds of DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ Officials

Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters—one of the latest amalgamations of typically young, reckless, and English-speaking hackers—posted the apparent phone numbers and addresses of hundreds of government officials...

www.404media.co

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stoner werewolf @crowkids.bsky.social · 8h

Let's play "sentences written in the 1920s or 2020s"

An excerpt from Upton Sinclair's Oil! which reads, "Chaim had been targeted to the country jail, another condemned structure, fully as dingy and filthy as the city jail. There was no longer anything you could do about it, because in these deportations the courts were refusing to intervene, holding them to be administrative matters. The Democratic attorney-general had failed in his effort to get the nomination for president by his campaign against the reds, but the machinery he had set going was still grinding out misery for guilty and innocent alike."

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stoner werewolf @crowkids.bsky.social · 4d

the more things change the more they stay the same... yes I am still reading Upton Sinclair's Oil! (between other things)

An excerpt from Upton Sinclair's novel Oil!, which reads, "And then there was Gregor Nikolaieff. Gregor was all right, when you got to know him, but the trouble was, it was hard to know him, because his accent was peculiar, and at critical moments in his talk he would forget the English word. He has jet black hair, and black eyes with a sombre frown above them--in short, he was the very picture of what the students called a "Bolsheviki." As it happened, Gregor's father had belonged to one of the revolutionary parties whom the Bolsheviks were now sending to jail; but how could you explain that to a student body who dumped in one common garbage-can Socialists and Communists and Syndicalists and Anarchists, Communist-Anarchists and Anarchist-Syndalists, Social Revolutionaries and Social Democrats, Populists, Progressives, Single-taxers, Nonpartisan Leaguers, Pacifists, Pragmatists, Altruists, Vegetarians, Anti-vivisectionists and opponents of capital punishment."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

ICYMI — @gallego.senate.gov : "The only reason Adelita Grijalva is not being sworn in right now is because he wants to protect whatever is in those files. Arizona does not have a congresswoman right now, during flooding, because Speaker Johnson is covering for pedophiles."

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Jyun @gusstelier.bsky.social · 11h

My 144 page BL graphic novel, HEAVENSONG, can be purchased here if you wish to read Miguelo's story!
www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

HEAVENSONG by Gusstelier — ShortBox Comics Fair

Struggling to find work in the big city,  a broke, down-on-his-luck songwriter named Miguelo finds himself slowly sinking into depression when a handsome angel unexpectedly enters and changes his...

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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BUN-NICKEL-A @snickettes.bsky.social · 8h

i thought we weren't allowed to post porn on bsky dot app

R. A. Wadland @misterman70.bsky.social · 3d

irresistible

The elegant lines of the Bauhaus style

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D. Allan Drummond @dadrummond.art · 13h

For #FossilFriday, one more look at Cryptolithus bellulus, a 440 million year old trilobite reconstructed in bronze. She can be disassembled to view her digestive tract and exopods/gills. Sound on for all the satisfying clicks, particularly as she’s reassembled ⚡️🧲 #sciart

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 12h

For our Oct 2025 Membership Drive, we’re featuring a donation gift each day, Oct 17-19!

Today’s featured donation gift: a spinning keychain! It spins. It sparkles. It shows off your love for #AO3 and the #OTW — what more could you want?

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 12h

I wont elaborate, but there have been attempts to use my participation in the previous No Kings protest to threaten my employment.

As a rock-solid 1A protected activity, I'm not going to be scared away from participating in a peaceful rally on personal time. I'll be there tomorrow.

David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · Jun 13

For the record ICE, I'll be at the No Kings protest in Providence at the RI State House, 12:00pm on 6/14

Same time is my town's annual parade, on my street, commemorating a 1772 uprising against British military harassment of colonists over customs enforcement (Gaspee Affair)

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Cayden Cailean, the Lucky Drunk ⬛ ⬜ 🟪 @caydencailean.bsky.social · 13h

Howdy, ten year food bank veteran here

mercia's listed items are absolutely true and good and if you have them, bring them

If you plan to go out and buy stuff, take that $ you plan to spend and give it direct as a conditionless donation. We got networks and can make that $ go very far

mercia (but spooky🎃) @merciawintersage.bsky.social · 14h

hey y’all. food banks could really use your donations rn.

hygiene products (toothpaste, bars of soap, tooth brushes, floss etc)
period products
shelf stable pasta and sauce
canned veggies and meats like spam
cooking oil
peanut butter
rice
dry seasonings for family style dishes
toilet paper

Linny Boo Binny 👻 @linnybobinny.bsky.social · 15h

oh goodie got an update the SNAP program is gonna be without funding if the government shutdown continues past the 31st and that seems SUPER LIKELY and jfc 🚬😬 we are already so slammed bc of this shutdown and the food bank system can only do so much to bolster it

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Lissa Harris🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 11h

nursing home bloodbath was one of those issues where you truly did have to hand it to the NY Post and Empire Center

they were right

Cuomo killed people and fucked with state health data to cover it up

it was not an issue on which a decent person should have to pick a team

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 12h

This woman's husband was a social worker in a nyc nursing home in 2020. She reads texts from her husband during that time to explain why her family won't be voting for Cuomo. Warning, there's a lot of death references (she says rank but it's a recent post)

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klia 🌻 @klia.bsky.social · 11h

All the private equity firms assimilating properties across the country have profited hugely by controlling the market and locking out huge numbers of individual buyers, many of whom can no longer afford to buy.

Barchart @barchart.com · 3d

U.S. Housing Market has reached its most unaffordable level in history 🚨🚨

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 11h

Also, they don’t care.

You’re there. As far as law enforcement is concerned, you’re a threat.

Sitting down isn’t going to change that when it didn’t change it in 200fucking11 or have we forgotten this specimen of a man?

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 13h

We’re gonna go ahead and change that to Monday…I thought I was better enough to work but I just collapsed walking to the kitchen soooo…yeah.

Monday.

Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 18h

Between now & Election Day (11/4--yes there's an election this year & every year) I've lowered the monthly fee to support my political fury Substack 20% & the yearly 40% so we can all scream-swear into the void together...

...new piece up tonight. (Sorry, I've had COVID)

catvalente.substack.com

Welcome to Garbagetown | Catherynne M. Valente | Substack

Bestselling Science Fiction Author Cat Valente's Blatherings on the State of the World: Politics, Internet Culture, History, and Art. Click to read Welcome to Garbagetown, by Catherynne M. Valente, a ...

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Roszxlyn @roszxlyn.bsky.social · 10h

fozzie bear is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee

Alt: fozzie bear facepalms, sitting at a table with a cup of coffee

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 11h

🧵 The Jay Treaty of 1794 allowed Tafv and I to walk across the bridge over Niagara Falls, enter Canada, and come back, all using only our Tribal Citizenship Cards back in 2023.

Now a Native Nation and a First Nations are going to assert their sovereignty under that same treaty to reestablish

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 11h

traditional trade routes across the imaginary border, avoiding taxes and tariffs. You know, those things that are currently raising prices for you and devastating the so called united states farm industry?

This is sovereignty.

But sure, we're "conquered".

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Indigenous nations plan a tariff-free trade corridor across the US-Canada border

“We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

www.motherjones.com

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AltDOI @altdoi.altgov.info · 11h

🦬 A federal judge has allowed NFFE, which represents many BLM employees, to join a lawsuit brought by AFGE against the illegal shutdown RIFs. A TRO against these RIFs was granted on Wednesday.

Let's see if DOI actually plays by the rules come Monday:

www.afge.org/publication/...

Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 16h

NEWS: Interior has been planning mass layoffs across 68 areas of the agency, calling them "imminent" in a new legal filing.

FYI Interior = National Park Service, BLM, Fish and Wildlife, USGS.

The Trump Administration Plans More Layoffs — But Will Spare Union Employees for Now

The Trump administration revealed its plans to lay off people across 68 areas at the Interior Department.

www.notus.org

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

NOTHING LIKE THIS HAD BEEN ATTEMPTED OR EVEN IMAGINED IN THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

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