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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 9h

You all are so relentlessly insufferable. (not Kevin)

STOP GATEKEEPING PROTEST

THATS NOT HOW PROTEST WORKS

THE MORE PROTEST THE BETTER

THE MORE KINDS OF PROTEST THE BETTER

the same people screaming “do something!” also screaming “not like that!”

Y’all are shooting yourselves in the foot.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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shtum entity victim #FreeLink @rifka.bsky.social · 5h

makes me wonder how many bartenders use Sunday as Friday and how many years of that it takes to reprogram? maybe impossible, who can forget stressing about homework

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Trump promised free plane tickets and $1,000 “exit bonuses” to immigrants who opted to self-deport.

ProPublica spoke to a dozen Venezuelan immigrants who said they followed the president’s instructions, yet never received the promised assistance.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 7h

and then it feels like it again on monday!!!

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 7h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 7h

thank you for the music laws family.

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Kiss by Hubert Laws www.shazam.com/track/468192...

Kiss - Hubert Laws: Song Lyrics, Music Videos & Concerts

Listen to Kiss by Hubert Laws. See lyrics and music videos, find Hubert Laws tour dates, buy concert tickets, and more!

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 13h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Cynthia Rose @stillcham.blacksky.app · 7h

It sucks how Sunday night is still tainted even if you aren't going in to work on Monday.

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“𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐳…” @killlthehype.blacksky.app · 7h

Wait, tomorrow is Monday????

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Suzette Smith @suzettesmith.bsky.social · 10h

Portland’s Emergency World Naked Bike Ride arrives at ICE

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 8h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Arrogant Esquire @arrogantade.blacksky.app · 8h

He said he gone waste her time even though she gone.

✨🤎fur wallet🤎✨ @abra-cadouglas.bsky.social · 8h

BYE!!!!

Al Pacino Says He Regrets Not Marrying Ex-Girlfriend Diane Keaton

Al Pacino is said to be grappling with a major regret -- never marrying Diane Keaton, who passed away Saturday at 79.

www.tmz.com

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 15h

How many reporters have actually confronted the Trump Administration about committing ethnic cleansing?

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 9h

Live your life in a way where you saying “I don’t think I’m going to heaven,” doesn’t cause EVERYONE to say “You right.”

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John @johnbull.wtf · 17h

They could just go on tiktok or youtube live and see any of these "War torn" parts of the country and see for themselves that he's full of shit. They can look through HUNDREDS of live highway cams to see Portland isn't on fire, but they don't

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 9h

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Screenshot of a list that reads: Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO):
State and Local Engagement

Office of Post Secondary Education (OPE):
Student Support Services (TRIO)
Institutional Service (HBCUs, HSIs, Tribal Colleges, ANAPISI)

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS):

Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)

Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
Enforcement Offices

Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPEPD)
Budget Seryice

Screenshot of list that reads: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
OESE):

Office of Innovation and Early Learning
Office of School Community Improvement Programs
Well Rounded Education Division (Arts Education)
Charter Schools Program
Office of Safe and Supportive Schools
Program and Grantee Support Services
Comprehensive Literacy State Development
JAVITS (Gifted and Talented)
School Support and Accountability
Office of Formula Grants
Office of Migrant Education
Effective Educator Development Program
Innovation and Early Learning Programs
Effective Development Division
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Albumism @albumism.com · 8h

George Michael released "Faith" as the second single from his debut solo album of the same name 38 years ago on October 12, 1987

album.ink/GMfaith

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 8h

I hope that for the rest of Shapiro's life his rabbi, his bubbe, his mother & everyone else in his life point & say, "You did this. You."

And yes, the gates of tshuvah/repentance + repair are always open, but he's got a looot of work to do to grasp to the extent of the harm he's caused. A lot.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 14h

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Ben Shapiro warns that conspiratorial right is taking over social media

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11h

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 17h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, who went viral on the "Humans of New York" account by sharing stories about her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970s, has died

A photo of Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, sitting down, holding a photo of herself

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Rich Burroughs @richburroughs.dev · 9h

It’s super obvious just by the group of people supporting it, if nothing else.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips — made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 — show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.

“It is deeply disrespectful and hurtful to see my father’s image used in such a cavalier and insensitive manner when he dedicated his life to truth,” Shabazz, whose father was assassinated in front of her in 1965 when she was 2, told The Washington Post. She questioned why the developers were not acting “with the same morality, conscience, and care … that they’d want for their own families.”

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Brian Gray 🪩🥂💖 @urbanbohemian.com · 9h

Again, no one is trying to *sell* anyone on the benefits of AI. They're just cramming it into everything we use, every site we visit and everywhere we go, and taking our continued use by way of... existing as consent.

Fucking sucks.

Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

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Rock Music Association @rockmusicassoc.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Birthday to Paul Simon, singer, songwriter, guitarist, actor - he began performing with Art Garfunkel in 1956, and he’s appeared on SNL 18 times. Simon has sold over 120 million albums, between his solo work and his his records with Garfunkel. Born In The Rock 10/13/1941. #RockHonorRoll

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'Gory the A'ight @gregoryaight.bsky.social · 10h

This is absolutely over 75%, at least, of "violence against police." It's cops hurting themselves doing violence and terrorism.

vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 11h

In case you’re hearing about the “protest that turned violent” in Boston last week, here’s the “violence” in question, per the police report

Following the protest, four officers were taken to the hospital for treatment of injuries. One officer had a broken nose and had his glasses broken, another was treated for pepper spray exposure, one sustained a finger injury while handcuffing and another sustained a lower back injury attempting to make an arrest.

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