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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 19h

“As much as I'd love to just have a general strike next week,” said UAW President Shawn Fain, “we have to have time to plan this, to build it, to get people aligned with it and get working-class people aligned with it.” labornotes.org/2025/10/labo...

Labor Needs an Independent Political Program, Says UAW’s Fain

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain recently laid out four priorities he says should form the nucleus of a workers’ political program. And he said that a broad strike in May 2028 is one way to fi...

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 23h

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It's important to remember that the sort of person we are talking about does not want to actually argue the merits of socialism.
They do not care to engage in a
philosophical discussion of the the path to communism, or to mull over the victories or advances it made in its state manifestations; it is of little or no interest to them how the state of global politics have proceeded in the absence of the Soviet Union, or even the existence of non-Stalinist communist leaders and what they have and haven't accomplished. The project is to simply state as a given that communist governance is, was, and will always be embodied exclusively in the character of Joseph Stalin, and to taint the entire project with whatever associations they can make stick to him.

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 23h

A.B. 554 required health insurance coverage for all FDA-approved medications that prevent HIV, like PrEP, without prior authorization.

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 23h

Newsom vetoed two LGBTQ+ health-related measures, citing “concerns about affordability” in his veto messages: S.B. 418 provided nondiscrimination protections for health insurance plans and an insurance company mandate to offer a 12-month supply of prescription hormones.

BULLSHIT.

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 23h

If you even catch yourself thinking 'but he signed a bunch of good bills!' go stick your head in the toilet immediately. He's a soulless monster who continues to pander in his never-ending quest to be President.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/gov-...

Gov. Gavin Newsom signs pro-LGBTQ+ bills, but vetos "critical" trans medication bill - LGBTQ Nation

The California governor is playing catch up with trans community, but some say he dropped the ball with one particular veto.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing his yearly Brewers-induced psychosis

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 1d

I don't have Twitter anymore so I can't see the full account but a quick Google let me know that Kato Kaelin is indeed having a normal one right now, as per usual.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

if you already didn’t have enough reasons to cancel spotify:

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2d

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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Girl, I Guess @mikellestreet.bsky.social · 2d

Very sad to have published this obituary tonight, but tried to do her legacy justice

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

www.them.us/story/miss-m...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Stonewall Veteran and Legendary Trans Activist, Has Died at 78

Miss Major continued fighting for trans rights even after two strokes and other health concerns.

www.them.us

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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 2d

rest in power miss major. this is what it means to constantly be negotiating your existence!

The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 2d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t care what George Springer has done since 2017. He is cemented in the annals of baseball history as a cheater.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4d

found exactly the one use of “evil recoils in the presence of Christ” I am willing to sign off on, HOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

Father Larry did not come here to fuck around

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 4d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 2d

1/2 I have never once been to Rosehill Cemetery & found the May Chapel open & empty. Until yesterday.

Short thread with some interior details in the light of day.

Horatio N May Memorial Chapel
Architect: Joseph Lyman Silsbee, 1899

Color photo of the interior of a Gothic chapel, taken from the entrance and facing the front. Dark wooden pews line either side of an aisle covered in a runner with red as the dominant color. Light shines in through stained glass windows, illuminating a partially visible wooden vaulted ceiling.

Color photo looking straight up at a wooden vaulted ceiling. A light fixture hangs from the junction of four sections. On either side of two of these sections can be glimpsed the pointed arches of stained glass windows.

Color photo of a portion of a wall in the chapel. Dark wooden pews stretch to the walls, which are covered in green and tan tile, with a green and tan frieze of Gothic tracery ornamenting the top. Two sets of stained glass windows in yellow, white and red sit on either side of a dark wooden truss; the transom of the window to the far right is open.

Color photo taken from inside the chapel, facing the doors leading outside. Bright sunlight out side obscures some details, but the glorious stained glass transoms above the doors are visible, as is a glimpse of the ornate mosaic ceiling just inside.

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 3d

Yay Matilda's dad!

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 3d

Does that Blue Jays man have Pink Pony Club as his walk up???

I reject it. That belongs to the Stud Budz now.

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Andrew Granola @mourningcake.bsky.social · 3d

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(◕ᴗ◕✿) 🚲⚾️ @gatodejazz.bsky.social · 3d

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 3d

Cubs Michael Busch Matt Shaw and an honorary Cub Charlie Kirk stamped eliminated

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 4d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 4d

I feel cleansed.

Marquee at the Vista Theater for Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 4d

HOLY SHIT

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 4d

We are in a line around the block on a Saturday afternoon in the blazing sun an hour before the movie starts waiting to see One Battle After Another in VistaVision. This had better be as good as y’all say.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 5d

Hell yeah Mariners!

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Cheryl for Commissioner @southernish.bsky.social · 5d

Lol please walk in the winning run

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