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Quiet Brandon
@quietbrandon.bsky.social
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I probably won't post much unless my personality changes or I get some inspiration or something.
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marisakabas.bsky.social
A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.
February 1, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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mikeroyce.bsky.social
NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government (photo of criminal Wayne Lapierrre holding a rifle) An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.
January 25, 2026 at 3:44 AM
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jeffrosenstock.bsky.social
This happened today and is a big story more news outlets should be reporting on but of course they aren't
jphillll.bsky.social Read the book Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @jphillll.bsky.social · 20d
Today is the day. Right now hundreds of Minnesota businesses and institutions are shut down. Thousands of people are refusing to work. There’s a massive picket at the airport. Minnesota’s resistance to ICE today is changing the tenor our fight against fascism.

www.jphilll.com/p/the-first-...
The first General Strike in 80 years
We're at war, and now people are fighting back like never before
www.jphilll.com
January 24, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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ceej.online
There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22d
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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wearedelasoul.com
Listen to “Day In The Sun (Gettin' Wit U)" ft. Q-Tip & Yummy Bingham off our new album “Cabin In The Sky”, available Nov. 21st on @MassAppealRecs Pre-save ☁️🏠⛅️: de-la-soul.sng.to/cabin-in-the...

Watch the visualizer on our YouTube: youtu.be/VqDyTvMwpFg
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social
Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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threnody.northsky.social
so when you…

• force this tech on most everyone

• block it from acknowledging trans people even exist

• remove lgbtq people from human rights reporting & allow ICE to conceal info on trans people in custody

…it seems like a good time for cis folks to stop considering political “compromises.”
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jul 24
Trump's new executive order about AI states that companies' models must not incorporate the idea that trans people exist as a concept. Seems bad.
July 24, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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aljazeera.com
BREAKING: At least 116 Palestinians, including 38 people near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid sites, have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today, according to medical sources in the enclave.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/f6uvdq
July 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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screamfactory.bsky.social
It has been found.

4K restoration coming soon.
July 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
quietbrandon.bsky.social
Incredible show last night in Denver featuring one @mike-eagle.bsky.social
OME rocks the mic and there's a disco ball
July 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.
parkermolloy.com Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Jul 15
I will never, ever vote for Gavin Newsom. Ever, under any circumstances. I don't care if he becomes the Dem nominee, he's still not getting my vote.
julierei.bsky.social Julie Rei Goldstein @julierei.bsky.social · Jul 15
On a recent podcast Gavin Newsom tells Shawn Ryan how the Trans sports issue opened the door for him to change his mind on GAC for Trans Youth.

As someone who adored him since 2004 and voted for him 5 times, I can't wait for him to leave office.

There is no way I will be voting for him a 6th time.
July 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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mommunism.bsky.social
Miss Rachel continues to have more of a moral backbone than 99% of public figures
July 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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abw56.bsky.social
"They cut medicaid to build concentration camps" is the best summation I've heard
jacobtlevy.bsky.social Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · Jul 1
I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”
July 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.
Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.
www.npr.org
June 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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ajcousins.bsky.social
This is *extremely* dangerous. ICE detained people, including a family with 3 children, in an office building basement in California without enough food or water. Rampant human rights abuses daily.

Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Screenshot of highlighted text reading, "The children, the youngest of whom is three years old, were provided a bag of chips, a box of animal crackers and a mini carton of milk as their sole rations for a day. Agents told the family they did not have any water to provide during the family’s first day in detention; on the second day, all five were given a single bottle to share. The one fan in the room was pointed directly towards a guard, rather than towards the families in confinement, they told lawyers."
June 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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wired.com
yep! unpaywalled:
June 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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jael.bsky.social
I’m sorry, but, they’re censoring news coverage of LA and that’s a BFD and I am having trouble with this itself happening without any backlash
jael.bsky.social jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · Jun 11
a story of censorship on instagram, told in three parts (via my band @ ekkoastral)

tl;dr they’re censoring news coverage of los angeles posted by the LA TIMES
sensitive content blurred restriction image clicked the “ask why” and it says the post was automatically censored but apparently didn’t violate community guidelines the post was news coverage of Los Angeles
June 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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ericanders.bsky.social
PSA that Eli Roth does not deserve your support, horror fans.
June 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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sarahhbickerton.bsky.social
That kid is incredibly badass … but I have to say, they’re literally firing on a civilian youth who was walking away.
jeremotographs.bsky.social Jeremy Lindenfeld @jeremotographs.bsky.social · Jun 7
At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.
June 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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joolia.bsky.social
it’s funny that they’re both on their own personal websites posting their little posts
June 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
today
The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point guy The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point again
June 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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aubreyjones.bsky.social
Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today.

I'm so angry.
Statement from Tristan Kern de Gonzales Husband of Jonathan Joss My husband Jonathan Joss and I were involved in a shooting while checking the mail at the site of our former home. That home was burned down after over two years of threats from people in the area who repeatedly told us they would set it on fire. We reported these threats to law enforcement multiple times and nothing was done. Throughout that time we were harassed regularly by individuals who made it clear they did not accept our relationship. Much of the harassment was openly homophobic. When we returned to the site to check our mail we discovered the skull of one of our dogs and its harness placed in clear view. This caused both of us severe emotional distress. We began yelling and crying in response to the pain of what we saw. While we were doing this a man approached us. He started yelling violent homophobic slurs at us. He then raised a gun from his lap and fired. Jonathan and I had no weapons. We were not threatening anyone. We were grieving. We were standing side by side. When the man fired Jonathan pushed me out of the way. He saved my life. Jonathan is my husband. He gave me more love in our time together than most people ever get. We were newlyweds. We picked Valentines Day. We were in the process of looking for a trailer and planning our future. He was murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other. I was with him when he passed. I told him how much he was loved. To everyone who supported him, his fans, his friends, know that he valued you deeply. He saw you as family. My focus now is on protecting Jonathan’s legacy and honoring the life we built together. If your concern is how someone coped with trauma or how loudly they speak when recounting injustice and being ignored by authorities then you never truly cared about my husband. Jonathan saved my life. I will carry that forward. I will protect what he built. Tristan Kern de Gonzales
June 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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jael.bsky.social
ok so an important thing i really think people on bluesky need to hear about the anti-trans megabill

the tl;dr is that you could actually turn the tide of trans rights in america right now

but if you don’t act now, then we’re all cooked indefinitely

please read on

🧵
May 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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