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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 4h

I am fucking sick of watching Ze begs for treats from a fucking pedophile like a servile cur. Disgusting behavior.

roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 2h

Not seating Adelita Grijalva is a test to see if MAGA can just refuse to seat elected Democrats indefinitely. It is much bigger than Epstein, it is about deciding that elected Democratic politicians aren’t actually allowed to serve.

Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 20h

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 2h

So if I understand correctly, if you are a football hooligan wanting to wreck shit, but also want to have the UK Prime Minister back you 100% then just say you are from a far right Israeli football club.

It seems stupid, but this one simple trick really works.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 2d

Keir Starmer promised a government of service, but that doesn’t mean bowing the knee to corporations making money out of climate catastrophe.

It’s time for Starmer to stop cosying up to polluters and put people first.
https://bit.ly/46WajOt

UK ministers met fossil fuel lobbyists 500 times in first year of power, analysis shows

Lobbyists attended 48% more meetings than Tories, as Labour accused of giving them ‘backstage pass’

www.theguardian.com

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 21h

How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 11h

Also, ayo @jay.bsky.team and the BlueSky team, if you’re gonna permaban Link and Palestinian aid accounts, it’s not a good look if you also don’t ban government accounts engaged in obvious violations of the Hatch Act, which is an actual federal law.

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Woj @swojack.bsky.social · 10h

The first thing the State Dept account did here was threaten to use Bluesky posts to strip people of visas and investigate non citizens.

That's a real threat against every Bluesky user and it's absurd the account isnt banned yet.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

cosign.

if you cannot ban government accounts the rules aren't real. any dipshit can end up in charge of government accounts.

Woj @swojack.bsky.social · 10h

The first thing the State Dept account did here was threaten to use Bluesky posts to strip people of visas and investigate non citizens.

That's a real threat against every Bluesky user and it's absurd the account isnt banned yet.

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 16h

Unfortunately more relevant now than ever, take a listen to @bcfinucane.bsky.social @becingber.bsky.social @rachelgoldbrenner.bsky.social and me on what's going on with the administration's attacks on (unidentified) suspected drug traffickers coming from #Venezuela:

Just Security @justsecurity.org · 19h

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With news of another U.S. strike on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean, check out our recent podcast episode, Murder on the High Seas, Part II

with @tessbridgeman.bsky.social, @bcfinucane.bsky.social, @becingber.bsky.social & Rachel Golbrenner

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPGo...

Murder on the High Seas Part II: What We Know about U.S. Vessel Strikes One Month In

YouTube video by Just Security

www.youtube.com

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 15h

In brief, this is simple:

The military has no authority to detain the survivors of its latest strike for the same reasons it had no authority to target them in the first place:

No armed attack = No viable self defense claim = No targeting or detention authority

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

U.S. Detains 2 Survivors of Latest Military Strike in Caribbean

www.nytimes.com

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11h

To belabor the point, the Trump administration is invoking a variety of make believe emergencies to unlawfully claim various wartime authorities—both at home and abroad.

Just because they say it, don’t make it so.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 11h

Welcomed the opportunity to appear on @cbsnews.com (alongside my elder son’s art) to discuss the latest U.S. strike in the Caribbean.

The Trump administration is using a make believe armed conflict as a basis to kill people.

Will it also use a make believe armed conflict as a basis to detain?

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 21h

Like literally been hobbling around for a week cause the pain is so severe in my joints.

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 21h

Having chronic illness is not fun. Wouldn’t recommend.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21h

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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Euractiv @euractiv.com · 1d

Italy moves to restrict sex education amid growing feminicide outrage

Italy is one of the few EU countries without compulsory sex education

dlvr.it

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

An important message to the people of New York City.

More information at zohranfornyc.com/birthday

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 2d

This is literally what the Canadians and American did to indigenous kids by shipping them off to residential schools. Anyone who cannot draw the basest of parallels and see that Russia has been committing genocide against Ukrainians since 2014 shouldn't be allowed in polite society.

Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2d

In the occupied part of Kherson region, local "authorities" have announced a hunt for children who still attend Ukrainian schools. - Андрущенко Time reported

They are persecuting children for their language. And don’t you dare say this isn’t genocide.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 2d

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2d

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 2d

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

this isn't to say pritzker is above criticism but that *this* precise form of criticism at *this* precise juncture serves no purpose other than to center him as a target of a critique that the entire white house, the entire republican party, and its donors are all guilty of at scale x100 worse

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Stephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2d

Before the civil rights act was signed it was a great question how effective the civil rights movement was going to be, too. Difficult to predict the future but we're much better off that people tried so hard to do the right thing to the best of their ability.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

article I powers just completely liquidated, dead on arrival.

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 2d

FBI agents will be paid during the shutdown, Trump says, using unspent funds to bypass frozen federal pay.

Trump Administration to Continue Paying FBI Amid Government Shutdown

www.newsweek.com

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

now andy is posting photos & full name for the person he says “rented the Antifa riot supply U-Haul” — again, that uhaul was for picking up items they were entitled to recover after rapid response took them. not riot supplies. if they were riot supplies, someone (other than ICE) would be rioting!!

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 2d

that little creep nick is lying his ass off again. there’s food, water, tarps, inflatable costumes, a couple grills. comfort items for people hanging out outside in the fall in the Pacific Northwest.

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