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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 6h

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaking to Ezra Klein. Quote: "Was silence not an option?"

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Solidarity is the only way

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 5h

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

www.theguardian.com

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 6h

Me looking at this picture: Well that certainly is exactly what Don Lemon looks like!

Don Lemon @donlemonofficial.bsky.social · 2d

I'm LIVE on Twitch: twitch.tv/donlemon

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 7h

well that’s the hardest name in the history of names I’m pretty sure

jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 10h

FINDS THEM AND KILLS THEM

"Finds Them and Kills Them (Osh-Tisch) looked like a man, but wore women's clothing and had the heart of a woman.... she was brave and good."
― Pretty Shield

Her strength as a warrior is what earned her the name Osh-Tisch, which translates to “finds them and kills them."

Who is Osh-Tisch?
Osh-Tisch was a Apsáalooke Badé, a role within the Crow Nation that defied traditional gender norms, embodying both masculine and feminine qualities. Before colonization, Badé were deeply respected for their unique spiritual gifts, artistry, and contributions to community life.
As a Badé, Osh-Tisch carried responsibilities tied to culture, ceremony, and social balance. Their life shows how many of our nations embraced gender diversity long before Western colonial powers imposed rigid binaries.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 7h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 7h

This would be a good reaction image for your mutual’s nudes

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 16h

The rise of the respectful observer

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 8h

Don’t follow me, the replies are me saying you suck!

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Albany Park. It's not "undetermined," it's just info that's been stripped out by all the people sharing it without credit.
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You mean you didn't shoot this yourself out of your apartment window? Wow! Who did?

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 8h

And while you walk through this restored landscape, you may come across a reminder of how profoundly engineered it actually is! This is a huge drop shaft into the deep tunnel system that underlies much of the region. Tunnels as large as 33ft in diameter hundreds of feet below the ground!

A very large circular grate in a restored oak savannah landscape. Steam rises from the opening.

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 9h

Long before Horner Park became home to a rare oak savannah and a modern effigy mound, it was a municipal dump. And before it was a dump, it was a clay pit and brickyard. This cycle of extraction to disposal to restoration inspires me to imagine an urbanism that is ecologically and historically just.

Two children running toward a spiraling effigy mound covered in native grasses

Children running down a mulched path that runs along a gently sloping riverbank covered in native grasses and a few burr oaks.

a restored oak savannah with native grasses in the front and a mix of deciduous trees in the back

Two children running up a gently sloping hill with short crabgrass. A row of trees sporting autumn colors rises beyond the crest of the hill.

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 8h

I hope it has a second part that says “and we will make no excuses for the terror”

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 8h

that slogan goes hard as fuck

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

"For too long, our leaders have forgotten New Yorkers with disabilities. We have been failed by those with their own agendas, those who care only about holding on to power to remain relevant and serve their own egos." - Quemuel Arroyo

Quemuel Arroyo, in a wheelchair holding a microphone, on stage with "Our Time Has Come" projected behind him.

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 9h

One has to wonder why a respectable journalist org like @spj-posts.bsky.social would associate themselves with a hate org like the ADF... and push young journalists to that org.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 14h

This year's MediaFest - a conference for student journalists has a Faith breakout section that includes speakers from the Alliance Defending Freedom - a SPLC designated Hate Group (oddly CJR's article doesn't mention that).

I hope attendees and sponsors pull out.
www.cjr.org/feature/stud...

But in recent weeks, MediaFest’s schedule has been amended to include people from other religious backgrounds. There will be more than twenty faith track speakers, on panels tackling such questions as “Can the Bible inform reporters on how to cover the news?” and discussing censorship on the basis of faith. “We even have a Muslim coming,” said Naomi Balk—who

Thursday, October 16th
Freedom to report with faith
Faith Central
1:00 PM – 1:50 PM
Cabin John
Description
As culture shifts away from religion, reporters are caught in a paradox: non-religious reporters report on topics of faith, and reporters of faith report on non-religious topics. What does it look like to report with objectivity in an age where not all perspectives are viewed as valid? Hear from Tyson Langhofer, director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, as he shares lessons from history about freedom of the press.
Speaker
Tyson Langhofer, Alliance Defending Freedom, Senior Counsel, Director of Center for Academic Freedom

Alliance Defending Freedom
SPLC Designated Hate Group
Related: Anti-LGBTQ
Founded: 1994
Location: Scottsdale, Ariz.

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 9h

Are you fucking kidding me

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 14h

This year's MediaFest - a conference for student journalists has a Faith breakout section that includes speakers from the Alliance Defending Freedom - a SPLC designated Hate Group (oddly CJR's article doesn't mention that).

I hope attendees and sponsors pull out.
www.cjr.org/feature/stud...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 9h

The trailblazing transgender rights activist Miss Major has passed away at the age of 78.

Miss Major was a lifelong organizer and participant in the ballroom scene. She took part in the 1969 Stonewall Riots and was injured by the police — but she kept fighting.

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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 9h

Legitimately disgusting that were getting legal rigging of elections and nobody cares in the media or the electorate. This is not that functionally different than tossing out thousands of votes to help your side win.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15h

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 9h

Yes and the number of ICE apologists is remarkably low

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 9h

Yep

lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 21h

soooo my Chicagoans, has anyone else's neighborhood facebook group gone from desperately apolitical (regarding federal politics) to at least 40% about ICE/DHS activity and organizing against it? like it's hard to overstate this shift

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 9h

uncomfortable seeing pro-AI people developing persecution complexes; the entire material economy and tech sector is lined up to benefit you at the exclusion of people who feel moral qualms about these things, and you want, what, everyone to just bow at your feet?

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 13h

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 13h

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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✨pb✨ gag on it @pbthankyou.bsky.social · 15h

Free whistles on Clark just north of Lawrence out front of the funeral care by Village Discount

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Robert Loerzel @robertloerzel.bsky.social · 13h

A few messages seen today in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood

A poster on a pole next to a street says:
“ICE YOU ARE NOT INVISIBLE
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
!RECORD!
NAZI RATS LEAVE OUR CITY”

A stack of posters featuring a hammer-wielding figure with the stars of the Chicago wrapped around his torso. It says:
“I PREFER MY ICE CRUSHED. END IMMIGRATION ARRESTS, DEFEND OUR SANCTUARY”

A sign in a store window says: “WE DON’T [SERVE is crossed out] FEED ICE OR PIGS! even if you steal this sign”

The words “ICE OUT” are written in chalk on a sidewalk.

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 10h

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 10h

Get your mind out of the gutter, they are merely talking about tight ends and wide receivers!

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 10h

*looking into the camera but pointing backwards over my shoulder at someone else’s video, photo or headline*:

I hate clout-chasing content churners!

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