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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 14h
This story is both frustrating and heart-breaking: Nick Shirley, an online influencer whose misleading videos about "daycare fraud" motivated the federal invasion of Minneapolis, turned his camera onto a Seattle restaurant, framing a cashier mistake as "fraud": www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Seattle grocery fights back against right-wing influencer after viral video
After Nick Shirley posted a video accusing Lam’s grocery of fraud, the store has been fighting to clear its name against an onslaught of social media hate.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Crazy thought: What if we all agreed to make our countertops from types of stone that didn't kill the people cutting them? So no more quartz www.jezebel.com/quartz-count...
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You Shouldn't Have to Worry About Killing Laborers When You Remodel Your Kitchen Island
Crazy thought: What if we all agreed to make our countertops from types of stone that didn't kill the people cutting them? So no more quartz.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 10/10/2026
“They want us to be afraid. They want us to censor ourselves before they even have a chance to do it. We will not do that. We will confidently put resistance politics out there into the world to go along with the movements of people who are actively trying to fight against these systems.”
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Taking a Stand: PW Talks with Haymarket Books publisher Julie Fain
Left-wing press is celebrating 25 years of publishing books on social and economic justice
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
womp womp woooooomp
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The left isn’t weak because of infighting. The left is weak because every facet of our society and economy is geared to the benefit of fascism and white supremacy and it is the challenge of multiple lifetimes to dismantle all of that.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Man, when BMW says "that's too fascist for us"
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 09/10/2026
just to emphasize what's happening here: BMW (a company that used slave labor under the Nazis) refused to provide an official vehicle to the ultra right-wing AfD party, which is now asking Elon Musk to provide a Tesla instead Tesla literally becoming the Nazi car brand
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Some Leftist @anarch0striga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What? The president's org wants to bring immigrants into the country?! No way!
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Some Leftist @anarch0striga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
What incredible political and economic analysis from one of our many very smart politicians
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Nothing more perfectly sums up the institutionalization Of revolution more than French riot cops attacking French youth in a place they’ve been taught to celebrate revolution for their entire school career.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 08/10/2026
University students and unions are joining French high-school students in the streets to stand up to the government that is immiserating them and the police who are attempting to suppress them. All around the world, we see the same austerity measures and state violence. crimethinc.com/France2026
A photograph of police pepper spraying French protesters.
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Chelsea J. Carter @chelsorelse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“The Trump administration pressured multiple countries to withdraw their sponsorship of a leading European conference on disinformation, with Canada, Lithuania and the EU’s diplomatic service subsequently agreeing to do so, the Guardian understands.” -The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is a reason that AI is so attractive to fascists. It allows its users (adherents might be a better word) to hand over their decision-making, their thinking, their autonomy, to something they can convince themselves is bigger, stronger, and smarter than them.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Week of action against ICE in Vermont continues. "The resulting “Harvest Lane Community Garden” was designed to serve two purposes: block traffic to a key US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building and beautify the area." www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/06/m...
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A gathering of neo-Nazis and white supremacists was found out and quickly disrupted in #Portland, thanks to the quick work of community members who uncovered it. Thread here.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Big deal for Anduril, funnily enough shortly after CEO Palmer Luckey joined Hegseth’s new weapons group.
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Anduril lands $2.9 billion Navy submarine shipyard contract days after CEO joins Pentagon weapons group
Defense tech leaders are gaining sway in Washington in President Donald Trump's military reindustrialization push
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/10/2026
What is a "homelessness-related offense"?
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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"women never contributed anything to science" and then you look under the hood and it's men stealing women's ideas over and over again
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
These are their names. All hired less than 3 years ago. This will be most of patrol in a couple of years. This is what Bob Kettle wants. To fill up SPD with warm bodies, who will fill the streets with cold ones.
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DivestSPD @divestspd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Donate to Keenan’s family
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Donate to Support the Pearson Family's Fight for Justice, organized by Nicole Pearson
My name is Nicole Pearson, and I’m fighting for justice for my brother, … Nicole Pearson needs your support for Support the Pearson Family's Fight for Justice
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No Pasaran 1312 @nopasaran1312.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Text in artwork: “GOT Cerhalte unsern RAJGCX unser Power generates parasites LANDI Overthrow your masters”
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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 06/10/2026
The LAPD union is spending millions to defeat a half cent sales tax that would fund firefighters www.latimes.com/california/s...
The Los Angeles Police Department's officer union said Tuesday it will oppose Measure FD, the half-cent sales tax measure on the Nov. 3 ballot pushed by the city firefighters' union - setting up a bitter and expensive clash between two of the city's most powerful unions.
The Police Protective League said it plans to spend several million dollars on broadcast and digital advertising as well as mailers to oppose Measure FD, which if approved by voters would direct hundreds of millions of dollars annually to the Fire Department to build new stations, hire firefighters and upgrade
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇
Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.
Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey
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No Pasaran 1312 @nopasaran1312.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Text in artwork: “DIRECT ACTION DON'T ASK FOR A CHANGE MAKE THE CHANGE”
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 06/10/2026
Thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as they demonstrate against the deplorable conditions in their high schools and a rapidly collapsing future. Our correspondents in Paris explore the situation in detail. crimethinc.com/France2026
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French Youth Take the Streets against a Bleak Future
Thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as they demonstrate against the conditions in their high schools and a rapidly collapsing future.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 06/10/2026
We've produced a limited run of these stickers to send out with orders. You can also order them from us in bulk: store.crimethinc.com/products/bli... The URL links to a text recounting the adventures of two individuals who set out to disable all the surveillance cameras in their community.
An image of a sticker reading "Blind the Cyclops" with a drawing of a finger poking out the lens of a surveillance camera.An image of a sticker reading "Blind the Cyclops" with a drawing of a finger poking out the lens of a surveillance camera, pasted to the back of a roadsign.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wisconsin congressman Derrick Van Orden has been releasing fake, AI-generated videos of his Democratic opponent in the state's tightest race www.jezebel.com/wisconsin-ho...
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Why Not Just Release Deepfake Videos of Your Political Opponent, If the Law Won’t Stop You?
A Wisconsin GOP congressman has been trying to deepfake his way to victory, releasing fake ads of his Democratic opponent.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
not to go full gen x hose drinker on you, but we walked to school on our own & were allowed to go to the library by ourselves when i was 5 & my sister was 8. the norfolk public library in our neighborhood was the one on hampton blvd. we loved it! it’s sad kids aren’t free to roam anymore.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
He knows how to message! "We need to pass an ethics bills to trap the Crimes President, because apparently he hasn't already broken enough existing laws. Also, he will definitely veto ethics bill."
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carlos (vibe describer) @vaquero2xl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I would conservatively estimate that 80% of environmentalist event flyers here as well as other progressive stuff in similar circles are made with AI, and it is absolutely infuriating.
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Anarchtopus @anarchtopus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dear Capitalism, This is why we steal shit.
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Solo Leveling Platform Is Permanently Removing All Content Without Refunds
Tapas, the platform that hosts Solo Leveling, is removing all user-owned content with no refunds.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Those who build walls are their own prisoners." --Ursula le Guin
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/10/2026
Despite its name, the DEFEND IP Act would instead incentivize censorship, overblocking, and bad faith attempts to block access to a website. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name
There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the
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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in the 2026 midterms in Texas.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
NYC-DSA is in the streets canvassing for Free and Fast Buses.
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Anarchtopus @anarchtopus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CW SA America elected a child rapist to the highest office in the country twice and we all look confused about how this is still happening in places like Cornell. It's because we have a culture of rape and misogyny. We pretend like we hate this shit and then do NOTHING to hold rapists accountable.
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Anarchtopus @anarchtopus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meme: Bobby Hill sits on a rock under the text:
Under capitalism, food isn't produced to feed people, it's produced to make a profit. When it's not profitable to feed people, we let them starve. Even when our labor has conquered scarcity, capitalism must manufacture it in order to justify its existence.
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 01/10/2026
Sure looks to me like Bob Kettle knew for a year and a half that SPD had massively expanded its surveillance capabilities without a public vote and…just sat on that knowledge without doing anything about it. A massive scandal. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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Some Leftist @anarch0striga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My partner & I take turns hosting a family dinner with my bil & sil. Also a movie night with some friends. We have to schedule it about a month out to accommodate everyone's schedules. We've all been working on committing to this but it takes energy that I think many (most?) just don't even have.
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Some Leftist @anarch0striga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'll try theirs first!
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Some Leftist @anarch0striga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh damn! Thank you!! I pretty much detest vinegar pickles because I grew up eating pickles at Ben's in NYC. I've even gone as far as ordering pickles from Katz's Deli once or twice because I missed GOOD pickles.
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Swolesome is tired 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @swolesome.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Republicans who are now declaring that their party has a Nazi problem and performing distress over it is like running full speed into the ocean and crying when you get wet. Like my dude, regardless of whether you're knowingly or "accidentally" in it, you're clearly unfit to make decisions.
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'll be speaking in Cleveland, Ohio, on Thursday Oct 1 with Madeline ffitch at Loganberry Books at 7pm. If you like smalltown antifascists fighting the good fight while all being a bunch of fuckups, you'll love her new book Avalon, Rise. www.loganberrybooks.com/madeline-ffi...
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Madeline ffitch: AVALON, RISE with Margaret Killjoy | Loganberry Books
Join award-winning author Madeline ffitch for a discussion of her uproarious, unabashed new novel of an Appalachian town, the locals who call it home, the fight for a just future, and letterpress prin...
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Some Leftist @anarch0striga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WA state
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Some Leftist @anarch0striga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bubbies is the best I've found since I moved out west 😕
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