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bites u @snuffbait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

bro what if we could just work for a living and be paid fair value for our work and decide what happens to our surplus labor value in a democratic process instead of having it decided for us by a cabal of senile pedophilic failsons

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 28/06/2026

Theyve mobilized faster against this than anything in the past 10 years and to me that pretty much says it all and justifies what so many have said about them collectively for anyone willing to pay attention

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

wheeeeee!

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Andy Kostka @afkostka.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Pete Alonso’s average bat speed is about 2 mph slower than last year, but his average exit velocity remains great (95th percentile). Craig Albernaz said that occurs when expanding the zone. To reach for a pitch not in the sweet spot, the body may slow down. Thread:

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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

It’s giveaway time, Baltimore 💪 We are giving away a new Orioles City Connect jersey just for you! Repost and reply for your chance to win!

A cream-colored Baltimore Orioles City Connect jersey with green and orange lettering.

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Bracket Busters @bracketbusters.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

The Illinois State Redbirds are headed to the NIT Semifinals after taking down the Dayton Flyers on the road 61-55! Johnny Kinziger led the team with 16 points, 2 rebounds, and 3 assists as Chase Walker followed up with 13 points and 10 rebounds. The MVC is still alive!

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The Sickos CBB Committee @sickoscbb.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

lol w/the "splash in your eye"

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Bracket Busters @bracketbusters.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

The Illinois State Redbirds are headed to the NIT Quarterfinals as they took down Wake Forest 78-75 on the road! Ty Pence led the team off the bench with 23 points, 4 rebounds, and 2 steals on 8-11 shooting. Johnny Kinziger hit the game winning three with 1.7 seconds left!

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 14/02/2026

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

That old saw about how "good times make weak men" is true in the sense that stable times with material abundance create reactionaries who want to destroy the systems that protect them because they're too sheltered and stupid to understand that things can get meaningfully worse.
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I don't think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don't understand or even realize exist.
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True decadence looks like people who are three generations removed from the cultural memory of polio refusing to vaccinate their children against deadly communicable diseases because they don't like needles and don't think there will be any consequences, not queer

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

It makes you sound crazy to say this out loud, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the United States government has been effectively toppled by a group of overt pedophiles

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Fuck all the way off, and then fuck off a little further, just keep going and fucking off until you're completely out of fucking off space and then fuck off just a tiny bit further.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Statement from the family of Alex Pretti.

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Minnesota is the best of us.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/01/2026

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

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mike taddow @miketaddow.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

the only brand that should be sponsoring the fiesta bowl should be tostitos

norman rockwell painting of guy in jacket standing up to speak his truth

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

The constitutional remedy for a president who uses collective punishment against people for the crimes of a few is impeachment, removal, and disqualification, followed by a criminal trial.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 28/12/2025

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

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Matt Lombardo @mattlombardo.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

The Lions have now lost five of seven since Amon-Ra St. Brown’s stupid Donald Trump dance. Everything Trump Touches Dies.

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🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I would rather walk in on my parents watching porno than catch them reading this

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 05/10/2025

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

If you want to put back statues and memorials and names of Confederate traitors while tearing down museum exhibitions on slavery because they don't show the greatness of the nation... the nation whose history you're celebrating is whiteness. The kind of nationalist you are is a white nationalist.

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Exclusive: The WSJ is working on a story examining Trump’s Epstein ties. Trump is said to have personally called WSJ editor Emma Tucker to voice his objections. More in @status.news www.status.news/p/wall-stree...

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Trump's WSJ Epstein Fury

The Wall Street Journal is said to be working on a story highlighting Donald Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, prompting protest from the White House.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/06/2025

Illinois has enshrined protections to meet this very moment. In a time of increasing overreach and hateful rhetoric, it's more important than ever to reaffirm our commitment to the rights and dignity of the LGBTQ+ community. You have a home here always.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

We're capturing children off the street at gunpoint to get one last ride of garish nostalgia for an America that never was. A future dramatically better is available at the end of this, and the choice will be stark for anyone with a brain, but we've gotta be loud and uncompromising in the meantime.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple. Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

all these retcons pretend that school closures were just something we did as a little experiment and not to prevent students and teachers from dying

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

There is no hell deep enough to contain the people involved with this

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BOO Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person

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Orioles Statistics @oriolesstatistics.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

In Charlie Morton & Kyle Gibson starts the Orioles are 0-9 In all other starts they're 15-15

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care? There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 02/05/2025

The lethal high-powered rifles I carried during my military service were designed for war. Not our streets. Not our neighborhoods. Certainly not our schools. Senate Democrats introduced legislation to revive the nationwide assault weapons ban. It’s long overdue.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:

I will scream this until my lungs collapse: Trans people aren’t the problem. Immigrants and refugees aren’t the problem. Progressives aren’t the problem.

The problem is that the majority of Americans can’t afford a $1000 emergency expense. The problem is that most of our paycheck goes to rent and if we have appendicitis, we call an Uber instead of an ambulance. The problem is that we have leaders who see us, the voters, as abstract concepts and not as individuals with our own lives, families, traumas, passions, and priorities.

We are all somebody’s child but when representatives forget that, when they start to only view their district from the window of their Capitol office, we become ants. Our votes become numbers in a game. And our struggles become hindrances to our representative’s job security.

Removal from reality is most often an accident. It’s just a common side effect of our political culture. Congress should be a job like any other, but the pomp and circumstance gives our elected officials an excuse to detach. The ones who haven’t fallen into that trap have only managed to do so through purposeful planning and frequent trips home. They treat empathy like a muscle, flexing it as often as possible to ward off apathy. But this should be the norm, not the exception. If not for moral reasons, then for strategic ones.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14/04/2025

No one should be above the law, most especially the President. Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional. They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 08/04/2025

Fired without explanation after serving with honor and distinction for decades— All while Pete Hegseth keeps his job after leaking classified information that put our troops at even greater risk.

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 05/04/2025

Shame on Republicans for supporting this budget and giving DOGE their full seal of approval to continue firing thousands of Veterans. Trump and Musk have no idea what it takes to serve in uniform—and Republicans just greenlit their plans to keep kicking our heroes to the curb.

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Trans rights are human rights. No exceptions.

A heart with five stripes, blue-pink-white-pink-blue, and text reading International Transgender Day of Visibility March 31

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Mark Lazerus @marklazerus.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Trans people exist. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans people can't be legislated out of existence, and that existence does not threaten you in any way. You have nothing to lose and so much to gain by accepting that, and accepting them. #TransgenderDayOfVisibility

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The Sickos CBB Committee @sickoscbb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

ILLINOIS STATE IS CBI CHAMPIONS!!!!

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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Jackie wrote *extensively* in his autobiography about the racism he experienced while serving in the Army. He fought like hell against his white colleagues and superiors and did not mince words.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

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