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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Seeing group of men (philosophers, engineers, cognitive scientists) finding each other in their shared hate of women experts who work and think outside the(ir) mainstream. Patting each other on the back for mysogynist dunks & mischaracterisations, while thinking they are smart and doing noble work.
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David Dark @daviddark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"The ICE agent who drove his Expedition into a bunch of people who were peacefully protesting and then accused them of assaulting him also seems to have a time machine." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/08/08/t...
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The Broadview ICE Agent's 7-Minute Gap - emptywheel
According to the grand jury transcript for the ICE agent who drove his black Expedition into a group of people peacefully protesting at Broadview last year, the ICE goon also has a time machine he use...
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Andy Behrman @electroboyusa.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
If you believe that Pete Hegseth is a piece of shit, please repost. www.npr.org/2026/03/27/n...
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Defense Secretary Hegseth intervened to stop promotions of Black and female officers
Four Army officers were on track to become one-star generals, NPR confirms. Defense secretary Pete Hegseth's involvement in the promotion process is highly unusual.
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Lauren Fox @laurenfoxwrites.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
actionnetwork.org/letters/no-t...
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No Troops at the Polls
Troubling reporting indicates Trump is laying the groundwork for potential election interference with calls to “nationalize” voting in battleground states and has refused to rule out deploying the U.S...
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Marie Ruiz-Vidal @ruizvidal7.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Ava Gardner © Clarence Sinclair Bull
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The market fundamentalist's refusal to acknowledge that the state is a component of the market (and is thus no more inherently "illegitimate" than the market) is just a rehash of the debates around Spinozan pantheism ("if G-d is all-encompassing, then how can there be anything that isn't G-d?")
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Like, what's really funny about American "Capitalism" is that it's a religion, and basically all of its intellectual issues are just 20th century rehashes of classic theological discourses.
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Partisan @partpartisan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The thing that Market Fundamentalists just don't get is that "the market's" way of "naturally" achieving desireable results for society IS producing liberal/socdem regulatory states that implement corrections to market failures.
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Calliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is standard-issue "I am farming outrage content for viewers, you are all just involuntary reality TV actors" and is one of the many ways that social media has demonstrably made the world worse.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 28/07/2026
kick the uk labour party out of the s.i. already
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Declaration on global migration and the plight of refugees - Socialist International
Declaration on global migration and the plight of refugees- Socialist International - Progressive Politics For A Fairer World
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 28/07/2026
"It is extraordinary that the French Navy will fire live rounds to defend their waters against a visiting British politician but cannot bear to do anything about stopping illegal Channel crossings." shoulda shot him tbh
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Cops hate cities, hate the people living inside of them and are much more empathetic to someone trying to race through the city to enter and leave as quickly as possible than they are to like, a cyclist or pedestrian, who represent a class of people (city residents) the cop wished stopped existing
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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
ICE agents used racial slurs to refer to Latinos, videos and texts appear to show ICE agents in Los Angeles used slurs to refer to Latinos, body camera footage released in court filings appears to show. abcnews.com/US/ice-agents-racial-sl…
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ICE agents used racial slurs to refer to Latinos, videos and texts appear to show
ICE agents in Los Angeles used slurs to refer to Latinos, body camera footage released in court filings appears to show.
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𝙶𝚎𝚎𝚔𝙶𝚢𝚛𝚕 @geekgyrl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My father is autistic. His father? Oh, without a doubt was autistic. Both if my children are autistic. And I'm autistic. My father and his father sure AF didn't get vaccines as infants. It's genetic.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 17/07/2026
The Trump administration wants to conceal George Washington's role in the history of slavery. Here, you can read about how the people that Washington enslaved or indentured sought to escape from captivity, and about the Native Americans who defended themselves against his attacks:
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Escaping Washington for Freedom
Rather than looking to George Washington as a model of resistance to tyranny, let’s remember the slaves who sought to escape him and the Native Americans who defended themselves against his attacks.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I just saw The Odyssey on a giant IMAX screen. Excellent movie, but I was offended by the racially inaccurate casting. Not a single actor was an Ancient Greek.
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Gib 📷 @gibcurry.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Old Quebec City, 2026 #CameraObscura #Canada #OldQuebecCity #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #HumansOfBluesky #streetphotography #urbanphotography #lensculture #streetpic #travelphotography #EastCoastKin
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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 18/07/2026
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"In an online milieu teeming with sycophants and reply guys, the rise of XFreeze from total unknown to the upper stratospheres of Musk fandom is a case study in how a savvy user can hack the incentive structure of X and the psychology of its billionaire owner."
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How Elon Musk turned an online nobody into his biggest promoter
The Tesla CEO regularly amplifies a fan account called XFreeze that sings his praises and criticizes opponents in his lawsuit against OpenAI.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
The entire “never satisfied” thing is only rolled out for communities that people insist shouldn’t be participating in public life in the first place.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
quit arguing and look at this
orange cat curled up asleep
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/05/2026
Dr Oz: "One in three Americans are under-babied"
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
matter of time before it boils down to “well actually the Gestapo was in Germany, whereas…”
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
“ICE isn’t the Gestapo. The Gestapo was…” (proceeds to describe qualities that apply to what ICE is currently doing)
From Senator Chris McDaniel: “Lately, some folks have taken to calling ICE “the Gestapo.”  It sounds fierce.  It feels righteous.  But it isn’t true, and it isn’t harmless.

The Gestapo was a secret police force.  No warrants.  No courts.  No lawyers.  And no appeals.  People vanished in the night, not because they broke the law, but because the law no longer meant anything.  The knock on the door was the sentence.

ICE isn’t that.  Not even close.

ICE is a public agency enforcing laws passed by elected officials.  Its agents file reports.  They seek warrants.  They lose cases.  Judges stop them.  Lawyers challenge them.  Some detainees go home.  That’s not tyranny.  That’s bureaucracy, for better and worse.

You can hate immigration policy.  You can argue enforcement is too harsh, too sloppy, or too broad.  You can work to have the law changed if you wish.  That’s a republic doing what it’s supposed to do.  

But when you call ordinary law enforcement “the Gestapo,” you cheapen real evil.  You turn history into a slogan and suffering into a metaphor.  And once every badge is tyranny, no tyranny is left to recognize.

In Mississippi, I was raised to believe words should earn their weight.  This one hasn't yet.  It throws around the language of dictatorship while living under a system where courts still rule, lawyers still argue, and the government still loses.

That difference matters.

Because the day enforcement becomes secret, unchecked, and answerable to no one, we won’t need to borrow names from history.  We’ll know exactly what we’re dealing with.

And we’ll wish we’d kept our words honest.”
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Henry @henrythedog.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I'd like to just say that across the long long history of The Jews, the overwhelming majority of Jews have been unbelievably, incredibly, grindingly poor, levels of poverty and deportation that are hard for the 21st century American mind to really wrap our heads around
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
X is a cesspool of antisemitism, and it’s not just right-wing accounts
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A lot of Trump stuff becomes a lot clearer when you realize he thinks he became the sole proprietor of U.S.A., Inc.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia are very real and powerful forms of bigotry in our modern world, and deserve to be talked about on their own terms. We can do that without taking away one of the words Jews have, rooted in the very particular Jewish experience in modern Europe.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Antisemitism is about Jews, because that's what the word means and where its history comes from. It isn't about "Semites," because no actual people are Semites at all.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
So antisemitism refers to Jews, because that was how the term was invented. It was a way of inventing the racialization of the Jews, and it therefore differs from (while still borrowing from) earlier Christian anti-Judaism.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Referring to the Jews as "Semites," for the late 19th century German Orientalists, was a way of giving their anti-Jewish bigotry the sheen of modern science, implying that it was rooted in the then-modern field of race science and not in outdated Christian theological views.
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🐈‍⬛️כעלעמער קאַץ @orphanim.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
there IS a fringe sect that wants to take control of the Temple Mount by force, and re-institute animal sacrifices, but most see them as insane extremist terrorists even in Israel. Most i know feel this scenario is undesirable, and LIKE that our sages decided to replace the sacrifices with prayer.
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🐈‍⬛️כעלעמער קאַץ @orphanim.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
again i am not particularly big on Chabad, but this is obviously insane and literally just hate and right-wing conspiracy driven by the utter ignorance most non-Jews have about Jewish sects and practice and culture. Chabad is very prolific and so are an easy scapegoat. forward.com/fast-forward...
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Chabad on high alert after false Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens war claims
Two leading right-wing anti-Israel influencers hurl accusations that the highly visible Hasidic sect is somehow behind the Iran conflict
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
funny story, liberals took the bait and condemned left-wing counters for the violence, meanwhile the right made instant celebrities of their own guys for rolling in with metal pipes to beat people with. 2017 was a super cool year
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
the core premise was "hey Nazis are transparently using 'campus speech events' as pretext to show up and assault students, we should figure out how to protect our community from violence while balancing speech protections" anyway six months later Nazis rioted at Charlottesville and murdered someone
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More like I-ACK @mumbly-joe.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
What If I Told You the "speech is violence" oped Haidt based his entire "campus left" crusade on was written in the immediate aftermath of neo-Nazis rolling into campus to beat students under the guise of "security" and was principally referring to literal violence-supporting speech like conspiracy.
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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
in the reactionary mind jew and trans are both personifications of fluidity, modernity, and dissolution of traditional boundaries and hierarchies twitter nazi zerohplovecraft called trans people "the jews of gender" and russian irredentist alexander dugin called ukrainians "collective transgenders"
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Sometimes, when things are rough and the world feels heavy, it helps to imagine a future where we have crushed these sons of bitches and are left to the actual business of constructing a world that we deserve and is fundamentally kind and good.
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Emily ✿ @gremlinpop.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kermit the frog sitting on a log surrounded by flowers 
Text:
"what radicalised you?"
empathy bro,
literally just wanting people
to be treated like human beings
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Cosette @cosettepaneque.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
In this blog, I look at meditation through a broad historical and spiritual lens: Greek philosophy, Hermetic thought, inner listening, and why these skills matter for modern occultists. #PaganSky #WitchSky #meditation
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Meditation in Western practice and modern magic
Meditation isn’t new or ‘Eastern’. Explore the history of meditation, Western contemplative practices, and why modern occultists still recommend it.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 26/02/2026
But here's the thing: as much as everyone is acting shocked by this, it's really not all that surprising. Fascism always requires smaller and smaller in-groups and bigger and bigger out-groups. Israeli violence against marginalized people was never going to stay confined to Palestinians.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I'm late to this, but wow is it wild to see Bondi grin and laugh at the end of this. It's such a mask off moment in how Republicans use antisemitism claims purely for their own ends. She genuinely thought it was hilarious that she "triggered" a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/02/2026
these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2025
NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social
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Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money.
An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...
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Max Andrews @thatsjustlikeyouropinionman.com · 05/07/2025
1. A box a teenager checked on a form 20 years ago (that was accurate) isn’t newsworthy. 2. The source clearly had political motives and you hid that. 3. One the byline reporters on the “story” is an avid follower of an open white supremacist. 4. Pictures of tweets? Really? You that lazy?
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Those detained at the facility are among the hundreds of people who have been arrested and disappeared by ICE agents after attending their immigration hearings.
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Born to jest, forced to joust 🃏 @cacoons.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
All landlords are parasites, this is so fucked up
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