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@0rchard.bsky.social
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anti-fascist // Iowan

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 03/10/2026
You'd think that the Democratic party would be making hay over their opposition's biggest donor fighting to let his bot keep making revenge porn.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/10/2026
"I should get to sit down when I work but you shouldn't" is a great high level summary of labor disputes
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"There’s no moral or practical justification for the death penalty no matter how you do it. It’s cruel and arbitrary and it doesn’t act as a deterrent. It brutalizes the people who carry it out and traumatizes the families of victims, and the pattern of its application is openly racist."
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Waiting for the next Mr. Death
I don’t want to see anybody hurt, anybody tortured
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think this new shirt design is an important statement in these trying times, and may heal the world roryblank.bigcartel.com
A cute drawing of a tiger wearing a little hat and trousers and a shirt, fishing on a small island, with text saying "I don't actually have to do anything at all
I am perfectly contended living without purpose"
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(Wes)tern democracy👨🏻🗳️🌐 @midwestache.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Also, fwiw:
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026
Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...
One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a country of delusional people who believe they may one day be rich. The California Wealth Tax has less than 50% support right now. We have to tell the truth about the propagandized voting public. It's incredible.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All of you know this, but any time some centrist loser starts talking about how a social policy will only benefit the wealthy what they really mean is they don't want anything to benefit anyone.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Failing to stop burning fossil fuels continues to destroy the only climate safety zone humanity has ever known
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Protomartyr @protomartyr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The feeling is forever. Hotel Usona, the 7th album by Protomartyr, is out now.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 26/09/2026
beast mode
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Quilters, immigrant rights advocates and an interfaith coalition unveiled the Stolen Neighbors Quilt at the Minnesota State Capitol on Tuesday to honor Minnesotans detained by federal immigration enforcement - and advocate on their behalf.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
fuck ICE, let's get dad out
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
all of these guys -- crypto, gambling markets, social media, ai. crack every single one of them like an egg and bring them to heel. they are an existential threat to society
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 24/09/2026
a friend’s dad was taken by ICE and they’re looking to raise money for legal representation. share and donate if you’re able to www.gofundme.com/f/our-dad-wa...
gofundme.com
Donate to Our Dad was taken by ICE, organized by Victoria Rudenko
Our dad has called the United States home since 1996. He came here 30 years ago and has s… Victoria Rudenko needs your support for Our Dad was taken by ICE
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/09/2026
"they're coming for birth control" is not alarmism, that is absolutely next on the agenda I have my doubts on how successful it'll be but they're going to make a real go of it
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DBJ @deadblossomjesse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"We messed up 🥺👉👈" this is how stupid they think you are lol. I actually think if you steal 131 million dollars from people making poverty wages, you shouldn't be allowed to be a company anymore!
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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DID THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS TAKE THAT GUY THEY SHOT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL ****FUCKING AGAIN**** AND PUT HIM **BACK** IN ICE DETENTION?????????????????? UNDER THE HAGUE
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The worst men alive all absolutely love AI and hate trans people. Huh. Probably no lessons for me to learn there.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Allowing the most powerful segment of society to opt out of public services inevitably makes public services worse. This is why the existence of private schools inevitably makes public schools worse. A simple fact that seems hard for many to admit. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/private-sc...
hamiltonnolan.com
Private Schools Are Bad for Society
The starting point for any honest discussion.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
apnews.com
AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yemeni Anthropomorphic Stele (3rd–1st Century BCE)
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
nytimes.com
A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Dave DuFour 🐉 @davedufour.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We need to ban online gambling. We’ll have to figure out how to pay for sports media some other way.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 17/09/2026
Private prisons are bad, but they’re a small part of the system. Mass incarceration is driven by public policy & spending — choices made by your elected officials.
Pie chart showing that less than 9% of confined people are held in private prisons: 13,000 held for local jail systems, 6,000 held for youth systems, 43,000 held of ICE & Office of Refugee Resettlement, 33,000 held for BoP & USMS, and 75,000 held for state prison systems.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you
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Hector Diaz @iamhectordiaz.com · 15/09/2026
happy national hispanic heritage month. abolish ICE
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NOT HAPPY DRIVER @justinkcomer.rockhardcauc.us · 15/09/2026
Here's the clip of @robsandia.bsky.social at a town hall in Iowa City last night saying he tends to agree with Republicans on trans sports bans, and rightfully being called a coward by a member of the audience.
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Orchard @0rchard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
FINALLY, a wilderness area for MANN
Mann Wilderness Area park signmushrooms on a fallen log
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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
i hate ashley hinson and i hate iowa democrats for putting iowa in this position but when your candidate says this you have to leave him for dead (metaphorically) or you have two genocidal parties and that’s all there is to it.
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Sun Tzu's Art of Vore @rhena.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
kirkin hard or charlie kirkin
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 10/09/2026
The US has caused more than 40k deaths in Venezuela via sanctions alone all because Venezuela dared to have two presidents in a row that werent bribable and who re nationalized the oil industry that used to be nationalized only a decade prior. And Maduro and his wife are still illegally kidnapped !
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“9/11 flyover”
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Jordan aka Jirdan @slclunk.com · 09/09/2026
Any answer other than “who gives a shit, republicans are using a dozen kids playing JV volleyball as a distraction from looting the county and covering for elite pedophiles” is cowardly horseshit
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There are already articles circulating trying to rewrite history and say America was great after 9/11 and united and thoughtful and just a reminder that that period was marked by intense and insanely racist hatred, paranoia, and a frothing desire for unhinged violence and oppression.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Anthropic Is building a surveillance system to monitor activists using a “pre-crime” approach that tries to predict incidents before they happen. The extensive monitoring system that the AI company is building is aimed primarily at keeping tabs on activists who oppose the rapid development of AI.
prospect.org
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
horrendous dailyiowan.com/2026/09/08/u...
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UI student, Hawkeye Marching Band member died collapsing in heat
This is an ongoing report. Check back for updates. A University of Iowa student and Hawkeye Marching Band member has died after being removed from life support following an incident during the Sept. 5...
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 01/09/2025
happy labor day
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Micah @rincewind.run · 06/09/2026
they don’t even try to hide the fact that this is not about women’s sports this is about crushing anyone who doesn’t conform to their particular view of gender and what they actually want is to never see the wnba or its fandom ever again
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 03/09/2026
At least 3 people have died while detained at Camp East Montana in the past year, including a 55-year-old father whose death on January 3 was ruled a homicide after security guards beat him. in February, an inspection report found dozens of violations of national detention standards.
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ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations
To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in…
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 03/09/2026
every fun, cool, or just silly thing america has ever done is getting made worse because of these demons
After 35 years in Boston, the annual prize ceremony will take place in Zurich, Switzerland, this year and will continue to be held in a European city for the foreseeable future. The reason: concerns about the safety of international travelers, who are increasingly reluctant to travel to the US to participate. Four of last year’s 10 winners opted to skip the ceremony rather than travel to the US, and the situation has not improved.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I can't believe that the response being offered to the fascists trying to steal an election is that people have to turn out in historic numbers to prevent this. Do people not hear how bonkers this sounds???
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