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lou @softnormal.bsky.social · 12h

i love a good laurence fishburne and his spaceship movie (idk if there are others besides event horizon & the matrix)

lou @softnormal.bsky.social · 12h

just saw event horizon for like the 11th time and this time i was thinking about the anti colonial subtext of naming laurence fishburn’s rescue ship “lewis & clark” - is this anything

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

What an incredible experience, getting to perform at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. I left feeling grateful and humbled by his majesty's generosity. I'll never forget this memorial experience and all the fun we had. Hope to do it again soon.

upon further reflection, there is a small part of me that feels I sent the wrong message, regarding the Riyahd Comedy Festival last night. While, I do think it's important for comedy to have the opportunity to thrive in all parts of the globe, there are some aspects of The Royal Highness, King Salmon and his leadership in the region that i don't agree with entirely, but it's a different culture when it comes to freedom and rights and I gotta respect that we are all different and have different values. My manager is now investigating the possibility of donating some of my fee to a charity for Vetrans of War.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 1d

It is imperative that you do not depend on the police to help you or take our side during clashes with the fascist Federals.

Police see a protest and know that they hate every person in that protest. It doesn't matter what it's for or who you are - they know their job is to smash you.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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lou @softnormal.bsky.social · 1d

trent reznor

Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 1d

They call him the first AMAB Transmasc.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 2d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Jamie Dyer ☸️ @jamiedcville.bsky.social · 4d

US musician Carsie Blanton on the Nazi-like ways of Israel after her kidnapping.

"I'm a Jewish American and in Israeli detention, I was really treated like scum"

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ceeks @ceeks.bsky.social · 4d

no need to worry about future elections when this is our present. there should be zero negotiations until she is sworn in

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 5d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 5d

Add it to the tally.

Seems like we’re getting up to 20+ grand jury no true bills just from what I’ve seen. Absolutely remarkable.

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 5d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5d

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 5d

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · 5d

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

NC nonprofit still pushing for Durham County sheriff to release jail policies

A 2023 records request to get the Durham County Jail policy manual has spurred a years-long legal dispute.

bit.ly

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 5d

Terroir
orbooks.com/catalog/we-h...

Terroir
They had been bombed so frequently by now that even
the children had come to know the category of missile
by the sound they made as they fell or the size of the
hole they left behind. The sensibility of a sommelier.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 6d

Look at what they have to face

Person dressed in a silly looking frog costume at a protest.

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lou @softnormal.bsky.social · 6d

let me guess: either (1) bc he’s about to be unemployed or (2) the remnants of the albanian mob in queens are about to have their Day

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 8d

"When Trump sends troops here, how will we stand up to them insistently and make clear New York doesn’t need them, New York doesn’t want them, New York is resisting them?"
I spoke to @bradlander.bsky.social about ICE, Trump, Zohran, and the future of New York.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/brad-lande...

Brad Lander Wants New York City to Resist

The NYC Comptroller talks ICE, Trump, Zohran, and Brooklyn.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Clever Mia @readvesna.com · 9d

greta ily what an outfit

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chimera aunt @strangelittlevine.bsky.social · 11d

wizard university dorm prank. this is what ged and estarriol were getting up to

rat posting from the lab @gizmouse.bsky.social · 13d

academy award contending tiktok

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11d

Val and I checked repeatedly because we simply couldn't believe no national or local news organizations covered this letter from 18 AGs in support of trans youth care and against FTC overreach.

If you find any stories, let us know, but it seems to be our exclusive.

Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 11d

On Friday 18 blue state attorneys general BLASTED the Federal Trade Commission, telling it to back off trans youth healthcare and warning of an insidious attempt to reshape the regulation of medicine in the US.

And nobody covered it.

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

State AGs Defend Trans Americans in Stunning Rebuke to Trump’s FTC — Assigned

Eighteen state Attorneys General unite to stand up in defense of trans Americans, in opposition to a Federal Trade Commission investigation into trans healthcare.

www.assignedmedia.org

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lou @softnormal.bsky.social · 12d

he’s just like me (i also have noodles for brains)

Mondo Mascots @mondomascots.bsky.social · 12d

Udon Nou, who has noodles for brains, is a mascot from Kagawa Prefecture. He was handing out certificates to winners at this year’s Yuruverse mascot popularity contest (having won in 2023).

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · Oct 1

lfg, cont.

Two photos of Sigourney Weaver wearing a skirt, tweed jacket and red turtleneck reclining on a sofa with a pumpkin

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lou @softnormal.bsky.social · 13d

LOL sounds like a rabbit for sure

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lou @softnormal.bsky.social · 13d

so happy to see my rep, Velazquez, on here, and i just sent her office an email thanking her for doing this and encouraging her to continue advocating for palestine. (i’m assuming politicians are like my pet rabbit and respond well to positive reinforcement)

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13d

The 19 members of Congress calling on the Trump administration to protect the Global Sumud aid flotilla (carrying 24 Americans) & for the admin to use its leverage to stop the Israeli blockade and genocide of Gaza:

Rashida Tlaib, D-MI Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY Al Green, D-TX Henry “Hank” Johnson, D-GA
Greg Casar, D-TX Delia Ramirez, D-IL Becca Balint, D-VT Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-NJ
Nydia Velazquez, D-NY Pramila Jayapal, D-WA Ayanna Pressley, D-MA Maxwell Alejandro Frost, D-FL
Lateefah Simon, D-CA Summer Lee, D-PA Maxine Dexter, D-OR James McGovern, D-MA
Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, D-IL Mark Pocan, D-WI Ilhan Omar, D-MN

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lou @softnormal.bsky.social · 13d

transitioning gave me the gift of being able to be in touch with my femininity through my own transmasc lens, not anyone else’s. and i know many people feel the same. that’s the disconnect i think. i don’t feel bad for jkr at all though i look forward to seeing her on the wall <3

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lou @softnormal.bsky.social · 13d

i mean actually i think having an extreme “hatred” of your AGAB is common with people who haven’t come to terms with their transness yet - but IME after you transition, you realize you do not hate women/men you just hate transphobia/dysphoria/society/etc.

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