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Barium @bariumbear.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

You folks did change my world. Your bundle of free ebooks that you offered at the start of covid fundamentally reshaped my thinking, and you're the main reason I became a leftist.

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 02/05/2026

This year, we‘re celebrating 25 years of publishing books for changing the world! 🌻 We’re so grateful to @ollycostello.bsky.social for this beautiful new illustration. Another world is possible if we fight for it.

An illustration featuring an open book, flowers, bees, and a butterfly. The text reads "Books for Changing the World; Haymarket Books; Celebrating 25 years"

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 30/04/2026

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

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Forest Jeffrey 🌳 @forestjeffrey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

We promised “40 acres and a mule” to some freed slaves, confiscated land, and then backed out of the deal. A thriving black economy in the South would have prevented all of this from happening. The North did NOT win the civil war—we won the military battles only. It was sheer stupidity on our part.

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This is how you do it

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my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 02/05/2026

I want to reassure everyone that abortion providers have been ready to switch to misoprostol-only abortion for a long time now, and clinics can still provide mifepristone in person. You can still access abortion and there are people who will help.

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

‘Stuck In The Globosphere’, an upcoming animated series by Anya Butler, has officially launched on Kickstarter (link below ⬇️). The story follows two unlucky teens trapped inside a mysterious snow globe.

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Barium @bariumbear.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Wouldn't Trump logic say that deporting people should lower unemployment and boost available jobs? Wasn't that explicitly one of the promises these people made?

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Realfood.gov's AI just told me to go eat Snickers and Tostitos.

The "best" food brands are highly subjective—they depend on what you're prioritizing: taste, quality ingredients, health/nutrition, value for money, sustainability, innovation, or just pure popularity/enjoyment.
There's no single universal ranking, but based on recent consumer data, taste tests, sales trends, and expert reviews (as of early 2026), here's a breakdown of standout brands across key categories.
Highly Popular & Well-Loved Everyday Brands (High Fame + Positive Opinion)
These consistently top U.S. consumer polls for broad appeal and positive sentiment (e.g., from YouGov-style rankings):

Heinz (especially ketchup) — Often seen as the gold standard for condiments.
M&M's, Kit Kat, Snickers, Hershey's — Dominant in chocolate/candy.
Lay's and Tostitos — Go-to for chips and snacks.

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404 Media @404media.co · 10/02/2026

NEW: Ring has introduced "Search Party", a horrifyingly dystopian feature nominally designed to turn all of the Ring cameras in a neighborhood into a dragnet that uses AI to look for, in their commercial, a cute lost dog. With Ring, US consumers are actually building a surveillance dragnet.

404media.co

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 10/02/2026

here's the source with actual alt text in case you give a shit about that bsky.app/profile/katb...

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Lots of regular degular, never-done-an-activism folks have been activated in recent months and are working alongside a bunch of seasoned, die-hard, been-tired-for-ten-years-or-more organizers, and you don't know all of those stories bc most people are moving with a bit of discretion in these times.

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barls gnarkly @doublescribble.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Activism is about helping people in your community and not about building a huge online following about being an activist

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𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫'𝐬 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 (𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟐) @cromsferatu.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

very telling how normal people in MN really came together and risk life and limb for each other even when they're technically "strangers" but in the fallout of the epstein files all these rich fucking ghouls are happy to backstab and throw each other under the bus even tho they're all "friends"

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Barium @bariumbear.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Defending ICE through incompetence

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 03/02/2026

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun

doodle of the rat purse eating a coin
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#kimgakaku

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Mike Chen @mikechenwriter.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"

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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 17/10/2025

white house has joined bluesky click here to block all official us government accounts instantly bsky.app/profile/did:...

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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

"I worry that soon we’ll see homeschooling parents and their kids hop online to lament the years they wasted not teaching their kids how to read, write, or do basic math." "Soon"? Homeschool alumni have been speaking up for a decade and a half.

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What I Wish Homeschool Moms Understood About What Their Kids Are Missing Out On

My kids have found a path to themselves because of the classroom — and the challenges and anxieties that come with it — not in spite of it.

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Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

This is what the quoted post was showing, before it blocked

Tweet by Gavin Newsom
@GavinNewsom

James 2:14: "What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds?"

[Quoting this tweet by Speaker Mike Johnson @SpeakerJo...]

Democrats mocking the power of prayer in the wake of tragedy is so disgraceful it's hard to even summon words to describe.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Interesting from someone who swept homeless camps because the next verse is : “Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, ‘Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,’ but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it?” – James 2:15-16

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

At the end of the day, humans are social creatures. People want to feel loved and appreciated. They crave it, which is why conservatives play victim when people correctly ostracize them. I firmly believe resisting this starts with levying social penalties on people.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The problem with a lot of folks who get touchy about American History is that they don’t actually study it . And they mistake being precious and condescending about it as being respectful And it’s usually minimizing and misunderstanding of the Acts and Statutes

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Nature @nature.com · 10/06/2025

This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 11/06/2025

it would be cool if we didn't memory wipe the fact that elon musk was happy to get someone he would later accuse of being a pedophile elected. i know this is an unrealistic hope

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Mr. Cool | Y2K Xtreme VTuber @cubetube.tv · 10/06/2025

please stand and salute the flag 🫡

grocery store end cap display of light pink, white, and light blue cans of monster, the colors of the transgender flag

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

everything that's happening now is the predictable result of this gargantuan mistake.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

The irony of podcasters and media personalities accusing immigrants from the “third world” of not doing useful work.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It's been really demoralizng how much the press mindlessly repeats the lie that the National Guard was sent to quell violence. It was sent to start violence. People know this, so just say it.

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Barium @bariumbear.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Yup, that is exactly what a liberal insurrection would look like. Useless, performative, and celebrity obsessed. We will NEVER beat facism as long as we let people with this mindset be the alternative.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Primary these jabronis

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Barium @bariumbear.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I mean, fuck AI, but modern agriculture absolutely is a drain on society. Yes, we need to eat; but we we could (and other countries do) do so much better. Agriculture caused the dust bowl, and it's driving climate change, mass extinctions, and water shortages

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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 29/04/2025

Having ever worked for or snitched to ICE should from now on be the kind of thing you have to run away from. In ten years when antifascists out you as a former ICE agent it should be the kind of thing where you have to pack your bags, immediately move town, and change your and your family’s names

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Barium @bariumbear.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Dem states and the DNC often have very different agendas. Federal Dems consistently don't support popular policies that passed in blue states because they want to keep the Manchins and Fettermans on board.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If like three years ago the pundit class and democratic politicians had held to this line we wouldn't be where we are today "I don't know what the big deal is."

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 48 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 10/04/2025

ICE posted—and then deleted—this advertisement on the fascist-owned platform X/Twitter announcing themselves as the thought police stopping ideas from entering the United States. It's not just about attacking undocumented people, or immigrants, or dissidents. They aim to prevent thought itself.

A tweet from the URL https://x.com/ICEgov/status/1910332583256240596 reading "If it crosses the US border illegally, it's our job to stop it. People, money, products, ideas. ICE.gov"
A tweet from the URL https://x.com/ICEgov/status/1910332583256240596 reading "If it crosses the US border illegally, it's our job to stop it. People, money, products, ideas. ICE.gov"

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

Jenny Cohn
@jennycohn.bsky.social
"One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, I'm not a gang member. I'm gay. I'm a barber.' I believed him. *** He "began to whimper," as his head was roughly shaved, "folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell." He
"asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again."

Photo of Andry featured on MSNBC. Chyron reads:
IMMIGRATION ATTY. SAYS ASYLUM-SEEKING CLIENT WAS DEPORTED BECAUSE OF MISREADING OF TATTOOS

A photo of Andry’s wrists showing his “mom” and “dad” tattoos. Each has a crown above them, which ICE thought made him a gang member.

A photo of Andry having his head shaved in El Salvador, his hands clasped together in prayer.

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Tee Vixen Sutton @vixenbite.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

This should be setting a fire under every citizen of this country. Where are they? You will NEVER get back what you lose. They won’t “fix” it and say here is your newly renovated health insurance and Social Security. Remember that.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Just so we’re all clear, the Supreme Court *expressly ruled* that the president cannot fire FTC commissioners without cause in 1935’s Humphrey’s Executor. Trump’s action here is brazenly illegal under any interpretation of the law as it stands. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Exclusive: Trump fires both Democratic commissioners at FTC, sources say

President Donald Trump fired the two Democratic commissioners at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said, in another major test of the independence of regulatory agencies.

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Barium @bariumbear.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This is a really good thread about liberal complicity in mass incarceration.

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Barium @bariumbear.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

We should hook him up to a generator and use social progress as a renewable energy source.

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Barium @bariumbear.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

High quality wings are better bone in, but low quality wings are better boneless. If the group I'm in is getting wings from a gas station or BWW, I will always stump for boneless.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Excited for the "Milo must be allowed to incite violence and name trans students on campus because of the slippery slope" Harpers letter signatories to get on this one

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

There is no cure for measles and no vitamin or supplement that prevents measles or its complications. There is a vaccine that is up to 99% effective at preventing measles infection, though.

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