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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A trio of Senate Republicans from Indiana, Oklahoma, & Alabama have introduced S 4925 a copy of HR 7661- the exact same text, which would ban any book mentioning "gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. Please call your Senators to say NO to both bills! More info below

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...

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RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981)

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Duke Stephens @oliveoilcorp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Anyway. Happy Juneteenth! Me and my friends illustrate and write and we wanna make cool shit together, but that requires money for us to live. You can support Black artists today by contributing to our group's collective survival fund here: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

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juneteenth reparations

Support Black artists!

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Comic Book Couples Counseling @cbccpodcast.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"Listen. I don't like to preach, but here's some advice. You'll meet a lot of jerks in life. If they hurt you, remember it's because they're stupid. Don't react to their cruelty. There's nothing worse than bitterness and revenge. Keep your dignity and be true to yourself." - Marjane Satrapi

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

“11 sperm whales huddled together at the surface, strangely still and taking occasional shallow dives. After about an hour, the animals seemed to start thrashing, and a plume of blood reddened the water. The researchers feared trouble, maybe a shark attack. But it was something else.” WHALE DOULAS!

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Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.

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slautow @saralautman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

reminder to order a BNTP 2026 sticker and support mutual aid in Baltimore. I’m about to mail the first batch of orders. 🍉 www.saralautman.com/store/p/bntp...

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mexicanrag @mexicanrag.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

It’s what makes brunch possible

Meme comparing Republicans and Democrats to the Explicit and Clean edits of the Dead Kennedys song Kill the Poor

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 12/02/2026

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

tom homan is a bitch

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/02/2026

* clears throat * let him cook

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/01/2026

i think this is exactly right. fascism is the Death Drive as ideology. it's why the catastrophic end of the Nazi Party does not deter people from worshipping Nazis. that the Nazis destroyed Germany along with the rest of Europe is part of the appeal.

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Carmen Virginia Johns @carmenjohns.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Seen all over different street signs in the mission (SF, CA) ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Street corner in the mission district in San Francisco, CA. There is a traffic light lit yellow, right underneath that is a guerilla street sign made to look identical to a regular city street sign that says "ABOLISH ICE". Behind that is the entire facade of a building covered with various giant colorful art pieces/tags.

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ر ت ت ت @raniawrites.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

When Mariame Kaba told us that hope is a discipline, I always understood that to mean "I am hopeful in so far as I do". I have never felt an unfounded optimism, but organizing for 20+ years has showed me that so much more is possible.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Part of it is, I know, that they are simply liars trying to whip up a mob, that they don't know or care what truth is, but part of it is that they live such grim, hateful, alienated lives that the idea of people helping each other in pursuit of social good is an existential threat to them

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I cannot imagine the devastation this family is experiencing today. This statement is powerful and must be read.

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I don’t mock anybody for looking after their health - you do what you have to do. But I don’t agree with the lectures to ‘be kind to yourself’ & ‘not watch the video.’ If possible you do need to see what the state does in your name, with your money, to people you know & who look like you.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Thousands outside Terminal 1 at the Minneapolis airport now.

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Josh Michtom @rsgat.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 23/01/2026

Solidarity with Minneapolis today. Feels like the whole world of decent people is on your side.

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Omar - Imidak Art 🇵🇸 @imidak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

actually, you know what, messenger's ai assistant? i think god's eepiest soldier will be okay if i don't reply to "KAWAII INNIT" from 3 days ago, thank you though

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KAWAII INNIT - 3d - Reply?

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sam @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026

somebody said that everyone in this Peanuts strip is correct and I think about that—and the strip—a lot.

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 21/01/2026

Nigerian-born scholar, translator and documentarian @kolatubosun.bsky.social moved to Minneapolis with his family in 2022, little imagining the kind of U.S.A. he would be bringing his children into. Rich, sobering essay about how the world is changing under our feet. flaminghydra.com/issue-485/

As a documentarian, I am trained to look for the narrative arc in the chaos, but as a father the lens is much narrower, and far more fragile. My teenage son is old enough now to read the tension in the headlines and in the faces of his friends, while my three-year-old is at an age where the safety provided by his parents is still an unspoken assumption. As I walk through the tranquil squares of Sharjah I am haunted by the knowledge that the quiet streets back home have been transformed, and are now filled with a different kind of reality. It is one thing to witness the rhymes of history in the contemplative space of a library or on a film set; it is quite another to realize that the bad dream of my Nigerian youth is now the backdrop of my children’s formative years, a place where no lease agreement or residency permit can truly protect anyone from a government determined to make an enemy of its own people.

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ceej @ceej.online · 22/01/2026

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

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Specter Lavoe @genzerofdade.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I hate it here

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It's funny that animated films for kids are considered such lowly fare by artistic establishments and mature adults when those same films are trusted to shape the moral values and personal ethics of entire generations. youtu.be/VLbWnJGlyMU?...

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A Bug's Life - ''Then they ALL might stand up to us''

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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 10/12/2025

tired: Amelia Bedilia was silly and foolish and excessively literal wired: Amelia Bedilia was engaging in malicious compliance and class solidarity against the oligarchs

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 07/12/2025

Honestly it’s real useful to understand that centrists are eager to meet fascists in the middle but not anybody else lol

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

As makers of anarchist zines, we are asking you to help this person who was arrested and is facing deportation for allegedly having anarchist zines.

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Carmen Virginia Johns @carmenjohns.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

My hot fake accent take is that Tom Kenny voicing the French narrator in SpongeBob is more French than an actual French accent

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Hi, I’m a website, product, or service you’ve relied on for years without incident. Great news: I’ve now been revamped with a mandatory AI component that makes me unusable.

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Colorado Socialist ☭🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ♿ @leftwardswing.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Exactly this when it comes to immigrants & migrant workers in this country 👩🏽‍🌾 🚜

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A cartoon shows a farmworker kneeling with arms stretched wide, forming a human bridge. Three large produce trucks drive across his outstretched arms. The worker wears a cap labeled “FARM WORKERS,” and above him is a sign that reads “HUMAN INFRASTRUCTURE.” The illustration is signed “Lalo Alcaraz ©2021” in the corner.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This metaphor is so good

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Myriam Gurba (Serrano through my mom) @lesbrains.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

It’s super convenient for Americans to condemn people like Epstein rather than deal with the everyday adults in our neighborhoods who are doing the same type of things…

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PaprikaPink @paprikapink.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

If you're like me and in a "so many writers, so few dollars" situation, Flaming Hydra gives you a lot of bang for your buck

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harp @haaarpb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

& tennessee

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Carmen Virginia Johns @carmenjohns.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Not over til it's over 📱☎️📞🤳📳🔋📶💻⌨️🖱🗣📢📢📢🔉🔊🔊 we've got names, let's not let up on these (every bad word)heads for the next four days

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Femi and the Foundation @femiandfoundation.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

lots of snark about Andre 3000's jazz flute era but it's like Herbie Hancock's robot voice lectures: when you've given this much to music you get to do what you want. that's just the rules

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

RT if u agree

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

They need to steal all the world's IP, and get all the world's money for free, to be successful at their business. They are geniuses.

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Richie Pope @richiepope.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

to doom is to die. the right feeds on this. live defiantly in their faces. stand on your beliefs. carry your struggle without shame and people will see themselves. stay true to your beliefs and show people a better world

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