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Herding cats until the waveform collapses. Mostly harmless, but do note that both my grandfathers killed fascists. GenX. Слава Україні. Meese is still a pig. #OurFlagMeansDeath #ofmd #UglyDogs
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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 5h
A photo of three people in inflatable frog suits outside an ICE detention center in Portland, overlaid with an excerpt from Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
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Anchorage Daily News @adn.com · 5h
With the full extent of storm damage in Western Alaska still unknown, officials said they were focused on search and rescue operations, but acknowledged the need to address the future of some communities facing catastrophic losses.
Officials focus on rescue operations after Western Alaska storm with an eye toward long-term shelter
Search-and-rescue efforts are still underway, but state and federal officials are already thinking about the future of Alaskans who lost their homes.
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 9h
Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...
Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died
The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.
www.advocate.com
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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 9h
Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 14h
Hear, hear!
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 14h
I'm old enough that my Italian kindergarten teacher doubtless remembered the reason Columbus Day was founded: as a pushback against the KKK's anti-Italian anti-Catholic violence in communities like ours.

Columbus was a monster, but he was probably the only Italian other Americans could name.
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 17h
Labor leader August Bellanca. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_...
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 17h
Anarcha-feminist activist and bookstore founder Ninfa Baronio en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninfa_B...
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 17h
Bruno Banducci, who harmed no one and perfected the faking of injuries on the football field. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_B...
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 17h
Mario Andretti en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_A...
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 17h
Ettore Boiardi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_...
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 18h
It's important to remember that Columbus was considered a monster and mass-murderer AT THE TIME. If the Spanish in 1500 considered you a genocidal psycho, you were not good.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 18h
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.
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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 19h
Students are often surprised to learn abt the lynching of Italian immigrants under Jim Crow. While these represented a fraction of the victims of this national regime of racial terror, anti-Italian violence was designed to prevent multiracial organizing against Klan country.
Monroe & Florence Work Today - Explore the map of Lynchings
Lynching in the United States targeted many groups of people of color as well as white people who defied white supremacy. Explore the interactive map.
www.monroeworktoday.org
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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d
Great article with some onsite analysis of cellular signals indicating the use of cell-site simulators at ICE protests in Portland, Oregon
Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower may have surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility
Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.
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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d
More updates when I can but it got pretty brutal down at ICE. Multiple arrests and looked like maybe even some dearrests. So many pepper balls roof cops even shot other DHS agent in the head
Feds piled on top of someone on the ground Fed getting shot in head with pepper ball by roof cop
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 1d
Glad you're ok!
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d
Read my words. Ty.
Arrests and Protests at the Broadview ICE Facility
The Department of Homeland Security says that eleven people were arrested Saturday at a protest outside of the Broadview ICE facility.
www.turtlediaries.net
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d
The inflatables have made it to Broadview.
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 1d
You guys are surprisingly legit on paper.
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 1d
I imagine you're familiar with the Sophie's Universe crochet pattern? It'd fit right into your collection. lookatwhatimade.net/crafts/yarn/...
Sophie’s Universe CAL 2015
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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d
“In fact, let me put it a little simpler: all of those data center deals you’ve seen announced are basically bullshit. Even if they get the permits and the money, there are massive physical challenges that cannot be resolved by simply throwing money at them.”
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d
Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...
The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises
Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 2d
RIP Slade Gorton, you vain, volatile, Skeletor-faced fish stick billionaire. At least you fixed it when we let you know what you'd done.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 2d
PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'
Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.
www.nbcnews.com
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Rhonda Henry @rhonda234567.bsky.social · 2d
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Mostly Harmless @toadlily.bsky.social · 2d
A massive disgrace and disaster.
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