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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Everywhere, people want better for themselves and everywhere they are being met by the violence of policing.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We scream into the void. We stare blankly into the abyss. We post into the ether
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
call me when there's an AI agent onto which i can offload my chronic sense of dread that just around the next corner is an existentially important task i've forgotten to do that's about to bite me in the ass. i am not interested in models which require me to turn the dread into tasks myself
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
now and then a smart and pleasant young person cold-emails me asking do i have any work that needs doing bc they wanna break into lit world and are looking to work as an author's assistant. my friend i would love to help you but if i actually knew what work needed doing i would be doing it already
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
This right here, and it’s not just about rape. It’s literally anything he does wrong.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
These kids have real balls. I hope they gut Cornell.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Beware of anyone who is wistful about the aftermath of 9/11. It was a trauma blender of shock, grief, blood thirst, and racism— and it ushered in our surveillance state.
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A New Reconstruction @burleyzack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
When you say Never Forget you think the planes hitting towers, when I say it I think of the deluge of death America unleashed in response. I think of executive branch power grabs, of Guantanamo torture, of a million dead Iraqis, of the cultural embrace of violent bigotry masked as patriotism.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 09/09/2026
that's a scab cup that's going wildly viral with scabs
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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 08/09/2026
I spoke to a member of the SBWU boycott committee about the call to boycott Starbucks. As a reminder, boycott Starbucks! www.weareravenous.com/starbucks-wo...
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The Starbucks Boycott Heats Up
After negotiations for a contract have stalled, Starbucks Workers United is officially calling for a boycott.
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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
furthermore, Morgan popularized attacking trans ppl as potential predators within feminist & lesbian movements in the early 1970s, setting the groundwork for ppl like Raymond later
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 04/09/2026
Update: the dialect map quiz thing going around is a cheap knockoff of the good one, which is here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (Published 2024)
What does the way you speak say about where you’re from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
No, we do not need another profile of police-murder-cover-up scum Rahm Emanuel.
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Rahm Emanuel's coverup of Laquan McDonald's death can't be forgotten
Democrats can embrace police reform or Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan — but not both.
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 02/09/2026
There are 3 places where nearly all of us can build power through shared struggle: 1️⃣ Government 2️⃣ Employment 3️⃣ Home This event—by @acrecampaigns.bsky.social's Bargaining for the Common Good + @inthesetimes.com—is about efforts to unify power-building in 2 of the 3. ✨ RSVP: bit.ly/unions-for-all ✨
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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Stalin, FDR, and Churchill with a poorly made speech bubble.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.
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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 25/08/2026
I went to look at what Hasan Piker’s latest on the stream, and the taking out of context is worse than I suspected. He was sympathetically answering a question from an Anti-Zionist Jewish listener frustrated with how hard it is to convince his Reform congregation to distance itself from Israel …
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
it feels like millennials are obsessed with making wide sweeping claims about Gen Z being puritanical and i am begging for one person to cite their sources
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maureen @maureenf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Once again this admin is trying to steal public land that belongs to all of us and trying to divert it into the hands of industry and private development.
Inventoried Roadless Areas in the U.S., according to the National Forest System, which is comprised of 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands and managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Credit: Map courtesy / NFS
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/08/2026
so humbling to know that the public has brave journalistic heroes working on their behalf to surface such hidden yet uncontroversial insights as "the people who lie relentlessly in public are actually candid and helpful when nobody is watching"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
1. "They tried to run us over" has been institutionalized as DHS's license to shoot people. They reflexively go to this lie when they draw their guns. 2. Even with a masked man is waving a gun in her face, this woman repeatedly tells them they are full of shit. Hero.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I really hate the way people are accepting and using “Woke 1” framing.
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Amanda Knox @amandaknox.com · 10/08/2026
As a woman, the only thing harder than proving you're not a whore and a murderer is proving that you're funny.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 04/08/2026
these Flock cameras are absolutely loathsome and incredibly dangerous. we must remove them from our society.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
But they will be
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Some harm reduction advocates are annoying" isn't a serious policy analysis or prescription. Everyone wants to get homeless people off the streets. Harm reduction advocates want to get them into shelters and treatment, which works. Their opponents want incarceration, which doesn't.
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MisterJayEm @misterjayem.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The Tribune editorial board approves of "teen takeovers" -- as long as the teens are white
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 01/08/2026
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 31/07/2026
‘“I thought about Alex Pretti because he was a nurse. He was helping someone up off the ground that had been shoved,” Bowe said.’
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 31/07/2026
Not dunking but a number of people have this impression so let’s be clear: Haley Stevens is not only not Jewish, she in fact ran against and beat a Jewish member of the House for her seat
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
My hot dating take is there’s no set of rules or strategies that can eliminate the risks inherent in romance.
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Abby Chava Stein @abbystein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Conflating Judaism and Jewish people with the State of Israel actively makes Jews less safe. That goes both ways: - Targeting Jews for the actions of the State of Israel, past and present. - Just as importantly: claiming that critiques of the State of Israel are antisemitism makes Jews unsafe.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/07/2026
Off the top of my head there are more Republican ex-legislators in prison right now for child sexual abuse then there are trans girls playing high school sports
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Wikipedia workers have unionized, and they're demanding recognition. Wiki Workers United in the U.S. is demanding voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia. WWU-US is organizing with the CWA. cwa-union.org/news/release...
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Wiki Workers United U.S. Branch Demands Voluntary Recognition from Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that hosts Wikipedia
Today, Wiki Workers United U.S. (WWU-US)/Communications Workers of America (CWA) demanded voluntary recognition from the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that hosts Wikipedia and siste...
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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Remember the SNAP cuts in the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill?” Children account for nearly half of the 2.4 million people who are no longer receiving SNAP in at least 19 states. The true number of kids impacted nationwide is unknown. This is horrifying. No child should go hungry.
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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 18/07/2026
the thing that sucks about ritual sacrifice is if you mention that goat doesn’t make sense because livestock doesn’t have the value it once did so it’s not a solid proportion of our wealth the other cultists look at you like you just reminded satan he forgot to assign homework
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 16/07/2026
Raffi you’re so right
Threads post from raffi_music:
stay creative. after Baby Beluga, I didn't worry about how can I top that.. just kept growing as a person and musically. 14 years later, Bananaphone!
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.
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ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer
An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.
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ftmechanicalroom.bsky.social @ftmechanicalroom.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Hahahaha
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 14/07/2026
Ya man. That's called having a job.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.
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Violence in Blue
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
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