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@wscotgrey @wscotgrey.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone that’s fucks for a living needs to out these pseudo Christians. These weird, rich motherfuckers that make policy and go home to hire a twink to fuck them through their coke haze. Yeah, out those weirdos.

Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 1d

Today, I talked to a closeted young evangelical whose day job is to make life miserable for LGBTQIA+ folks.

I hope that she discovers the Jesus who hung out with lepers & prostitutes - the Jesus who commanded his followers to accept those of a different gender / sexual orientation (eunuchs).

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 21h

This can't go on.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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cdlane.bsky.social @cdlane.bsky.social · 1d

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 21h

it would probably be sorta hard for just anyone to do it *this well* because it requires you to actually be normal about trans people, but still it feels important to state for the record that WE ARE NOT HARD TO STAND UP FOR AND ANY OF THEM COULD DO IT.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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CUDDY @ptcontagion.bsky.social · 1d

Be aware…This is a difficult watch…Share this evidence …Expose this overreach…Hopefully these videos will one day soon…Help to identify and bring to justice those responsible…

ICE Sparks Outrage With Chicago DACA Arrest

YouTube video by NowThis Impact

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

Illegally firing the CDC experts while he gets the latest COVID vaccine is really beyond the pale.
Marie Antoinette level of vibes.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Dan Schkade @danschkade.bsky.social · 1d

Every Newsmax host looks like they're about to have their head popped by a Scanner

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Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made +$192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

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tammymorales.bsky.social @tammymorales.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Kathryn Paige Harden @kph3k.bsky.social · 1d

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

hm so that comes out to one million dollars per viewer

FOX NEWS
Bari Weiss joins CBS News as editor-in-chief, Paramount buys Free Press for $150
million
Brian Flood
Mon, October 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM EDT • 6 min read

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C Ó Gallachóir @cgallaher.bsky.social · 1d

A big thanks to @mit.edu. Their saying NO to the compact will hopefully make it easier for smaller schools to say no as well. This is a collective action problem & MIT is signalling they're choosing cooperation over self interest. Too bad @columbiauniversity.bsky.social didn't do this earlier

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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The Xylom @thexylom.com · 1d

NEW: Driven by economic and social pressures, tens of thousands of workers from China, mostly middle-aged men, are employed in eastern Indonesia’s deadly nickel industry.

This story by @wufeiyu.bsky.social was produced by @grist.org, supported by @pulitzercenter.org @uprootproject.bsky.social.

Your Electric Vehicle, Powered By Dead Chinese Migrant Workers

A commercial street frequented by Chinese and Indonesian workers near the entrance of the industrial compound in Weda Bay, North Maluku, Indonesia. (Wufei Yu/Grist)

www.thexylom.com

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Mediapolitic @mediapolitic.bsky.social · 1d

Qatar, a Shariah Law Middle Eastern kingdom that is one of the state sponsors of Hamas, gets an Air Force base in… Idaho.

(#Idaho is in America.)

Republicans whined for decades that Dems wanted Sharia Law in the U.S. but Trump actually delivered it in less than 9 months.

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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 1d

The difference between how this officer speaks to the cyclist, versus how he speaks to the driver is unacceptable.

bikeportland.org/2025/10/10/l...

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Odette Yousef @oyousef.bsky.social · 1d

"Days before the raid, the man who sheltered the mother and her daughter saw someone he believed to be a worker from the building taking pictures of the units “where the Venezuelans lived.”

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

www.wbez.org

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@wscotgrey @wscotgrey.bsky.social · 1d

Important thread:

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 1d

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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leftynavyseal.bsky.social @leftynavyseal.bsky.social · 1d

Politico: At a hearing yesterday to get Abrego Garcia out of immigration prison, his lawyers proved that ICE has made desultory attempts to deport him to Ghana, Uganda, and Eswaitini, all of whom refused. It’s all about ICE Barbie vowing Abrego Garcia would never walk the streets of America.

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@wscotgrey @wscotgrey.bsky.social · 1d

About god damn time a politician stands up for trans people. This is what I want for VA. This is why Spanberger better win, this is what leadership looks like Schumer!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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@wscotgrey @wscotgrey.bsky.social · 1d

Works either way.

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 1d

there's a guy who has a channel where he does bad imitations of bird mating calls who gets about 1000X that per upload

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Imagine Watergate and the Saturday night massacre combined but instead the media ran cover for it. That's what this is.

Alt text: Screenshot of a CNN Politics article headline reading “Lindsey Halligan didn’t coordinate NY AG Letitia James indictment with Pam Bondi’s DOJ.” The byline lists authors Kristen Holmes, Kaitlan Collins, Evan Perez, and Hannah Rabinowitz. The article was updated 1 hour and 55 minutes ago and is labeled as a 2-minute read.

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