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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 2d

Wheel of fortune, WHAT DO VOTERS WANT?

AMERICAN CENTURY OF HUMILIATION

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🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱🇵🇦 Femininomicon ex Mortis @ofvick.bsky.social · 8h

Jane Schoenbrun's Dog Day Afternoon

Wil (He/Him) @rivetgeek.aggregatecognizance.com · 10h

Guillermo Del Toro's Forrest Gump.

OG_McDuck @ogmcduck.bsky.social · 10h

David Cronenberg's Downton Abbey

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Eric Stanley @stillhere415.bsky.social · 8h

Devastated and undone but celebrating that we got to be on the planet at the same time as our beloved Major.

May we all be as unwavering In the face of fascism as she remained.

Sending love to the rest of the family.

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Sara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 10d

My beautiful Bulbasaur ❤️ she takes care of her twin sister Tawny every single day. One of the sweetest, most curious creatures in the whole world.

A white rabbit with brown spots standing on a mattress.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 8h

Seeing a lot of "No Kings" protests groups using AI images lately

You aren't resisting fascism by using their tools

Be better than that

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

I have been TROD UPON BY OPPRESSION FOR TOO LONG (being forced to pay a couple thousand bucks for a sewage hookup when I think the county should do it for free, and I don’t want to build septic tank), time to build a moving murder fortress.

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 8h

The most “unique” thing about Marvin Heemeyer (there have been other DIY contraption killer targeting public figures), is that he was among the first, maybe the first?, to get Dumb Fans through the medium of social media and blogs. The attack, the inquiry into the man, his rambling tapes, all online

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

the killdozer guy became this only semi-ironic epic hero for the average man who will be oppressed no longer, which is funny, because if you read anything about the background it becomes like 100% clear that he was in the wrong. Which makes sense! His actions are not those of a reasonable person!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Bebop, Rocky, and Floor's Human @misserinrenee.bsky.social · 7h

Do you guys know about William Cowper, The 18th century English Poet and Patron Saint of the Modern Bundad?

I made a few videos about him a while back. He had 3 house hares to treat his depression. His poems about his hares are beautiful, and I highly recommend reading his essays about his hares.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 6h

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 7h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Heloïse - Angel Arc @hotoldersisgf.sisc.one · 7h

We sat down together for over an hour and she let me pick her brain on everything under the sun. I miss her terribly even now.

First page of Miss Major Speaks, autographed by Miss Major

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Heloïse - Angel Arc @hotoldersisgf.sisc.one · 7h

I had the absolute honor of meeting Miss Major two years ago. She was one of those people where you could physically feel she was operating on a different level of humanity when you were near her. The world has lost someone incredible today.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 10h

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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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 16h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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debbspook @debbshock.blue · 9h

they captured not just the lack of hair on the dome, but complete neck vag. A+ for violently repulsive

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

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Finch 🇵🇸🇵🇪🇧🇷 @finchowar.bsky.social · 9h

SUBTERRANEAN FIRE

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 9h

In first remarks since ICE raids descended on Chicago, Cardinal Cupich “called the administration's aggressive immigration tactics unnecessary and intolerable. He says those tactics are intended to terrorize.” abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

Cardinal Blase Cupich calls Trump administration's immigration tactics unnecessary, intolerable

The archbishop of Chicago expanded on what Pope Leo XIV said last week regarding immigrants in America.

abc7chicago.com

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 10h

There are no words for what Miss Major has done for us. Rest easy.

Sydney Bauer @sydney-bauer.com · 10h

Rest in Power Miss Major. We all owe you so much. Thank you for everything.

Trans leader Miss Major Griffin-Gracy dies

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender woman and longtime activist who once lived in the Bay Area, died October 13.

www.ebar.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 9h

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, an activist who took part in Stonewall and remained an advocate for the decades that followed, including caring for AIDS patients & pioneering needle exchange & defending the rights of incarcerated trans people on both coasts, passed away. 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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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 9h

Darts, a sport in which the women's world champion can beat the men's, but trans women are barred from women's tournaments because of supposed "biological advantage".

Beau Greaves stuns Luke Littler in PDC world youth championship thriller

Beau Greaves won a last-leg decider to upset Luke Littler in the world youth championship semi-finals and will face Gian van Veen in the final

www.theguardian.com

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 10h

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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Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her.

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 10h

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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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 10h

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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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 10h

If red state schools accept this we are going to get a two-tiered system of higher ed. One set of states will be based in empirical reality and the other will be subject to the whims of a conspiratorial movement that is increasingly detached from facts.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 11h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Mari Stein (מרים שטיין) @heymaristein.bsky.social · 11h

Any excuse to talk about Siouxsie and the Banshees' version of "The Passenger"

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 14h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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