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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 12h

audio on for community whistling repelling ICE/BP from the scene

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 13h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12h

ICE Boasts Zero Murders Committed By 5-Year-Olds Since Child Detainments Began

WASHINGTON—Touting a new crime report as evidence their ramped-up operations were improving American life, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials announced Friday that there had been zero murde...

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 12h

Goodnight.

Georgia O'Keeffe's Train at Night in the Desert, 1916.
www.moma.org/collection/w...

watercolour of a train approaching the viewer, only its headlight is visible and a large plume of smoke

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 13h

SF Bay! This is *tonight*! Don't miss it!

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 1d

Bay Area friends! Food! Trauma! Healing! All that and more with me, @soleilho and Lee Lai, tomorrow night, 6pm at Mrs Dalloways! Free! It's all part of @litquake.org!! litquake2025.sched.com/event/28S9x/...

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 13h

I feel like it should be a slightly larger story that amid all the administration’s screaming about “antifa” (whatever that is for them), Trump and his cronies are more aggressively and more frequently calling journalists they don’t like terrorists.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 12d

☞☞ Hands-on reading ☜☜

The manicules in #rarebooks are fantastically diverse. Some are tiny & discreet, others take up half the margin; some have flowing sleeves, or even little faces.

They’re glimpses into the personality of readers/scribes highlighting passages worth reading.
#bookhistory 💙📚📜

Detail of a manicure and a little face gesturing towards the handwritten text of a manuscript in gothic script written on parchment. The man depicted seems angry. The manicure has a sleeve

A manicule with a stretched sleeve drawn in red in the margins pointing towards a text in Gothic script written on parchment

A manicule used to highlight a rubricated section title in a medieval manuscript written in gothic script on parchment

A very large vaguely drawn manicule pointing towards text in gothic script written on parchment

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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 13h

Need everybody to bring the same fire they had for Jimmy Kimmel to this

ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 15h

✅ He fired a U.S. Attorney who refused to bring charges against her
✅ He replaced them with someone with NO prosecutorial experience

This isn't justice. This is retaliation.

When Black women do their jobs with excellence, they face attacks. But AG James isn't backing down, and neither should we.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 14h

This is the coolest thing I have ever heard

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17h

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 13h

It’s so fucking irritating how these people unaccountably exert power but then also demand we bless it as legitimate. You’re the ones tearing up every contract, we don’t owe you shit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 17h

Turducken Lowery
@kenlowery.bsky.social
I didn't have the words to express it at the time, but growing up I definitely thought of Gary Busey as Nick Nolte's Wario
August 18, 2024 at 11:16 PM

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Ygrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 1d

reminder to check your kid’s trick or treat candy this year to make sure there isn’t any ai in it

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 1d

[best read with a French accent]

“I am so very sorry sir, without a reservation, there is simply nothing I can do for you.”

2 photos of a fluffy black-and-white cat with a pencil-thin mustache. They appear to he looking up and speaking in the first, scowling in the second.

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gluggaveður 🕊️ @lscrapl.bsky.social · 2d

my heart's all singy tonight
despite

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 5d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

doomscroll break

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Fidaa Umar🎙🇵🇸 Inside Gaza 🎧 VERIFIED 📌 Voice Over 🔵 @fidaaumar.bsky.social · 1d

Oct 11 Fidaa update:

The raffle for Fidaa has officially launched!

Enter to win this beautiful collage made by @merryrobin.bsky.social 🥹

Fidaa needs our support more than ever, she is rebuilding from scratch as a single mom w 4 kids

- Nicola

bit.ly/save-fidaa

@mommunism.bsky.social

#SaveFidaa

A collage art making the flag of Palestine using little circles with different textures of red, black, white, and green.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

If you're comfortable, & you have everything you need taken care of with a little extra, you don't have to give to mutual aid, but why wouldn't you? The hoarding mindset is capitalist. You can easily be part of the community that supports real life vulnerable folks. We're all we got. You gon learn.

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Xingcat @xingcat.bsky.social · 16h

The amount of work and dedication and pure art that went into a completely untested movie concept still makes my heart sing, over 40 years later.

Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 17h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 1d

Land of the Living Skies

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Leah 🐸 McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

The father of a family in our apartment complex has been kidnapped by ICE.

My daughter found out when she went to walk our dog and heard one of the children crying from the hallway.

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Karen Meisner @whatnext.bsky.social · 2d

thank YOU sir!

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 2d

There was never going to be a moment when everyone—everyone in government, everyone in media, everyone in the population—was roused to action at the same time. We're turning a battleship. And Pritzker understands that.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 2d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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