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Gerta LeStrange🇵🇸

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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

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ChooseKindness @kindauthors.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The memo. archive.org/details/Powe...
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Powell Memorandum: "Attack on American Free Enterprise System"
Cited by Noam Chomsky and many others, this interesting secret document was circulated by establishment figures in the United States during the early 1970s, at the height of the protest movement surro...
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𝕊𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕪𝔹𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖𝕤 @saltybitchables.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is an excellent summary of how we got to where we are in this country. Major Watson told us something similar but not in such detail. I’m very impressed. This is long for a TikTok video but well worth watching. Vote these scumbags out of power. #ProudBlue #FDT #MajorWatson #Midterms
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 07/10/2026
Kat hits on something that i think needs to be stressed, which is that we tell men and boys that "no means no" but we really should stress that CONSENT CAN BE REMOVED AT ANY TIME. even an enthusiastic, sober yes can end in a no. CONSENT IS FLUID, NOT FIXED.
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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love box crabs, probably because of the way their claws fit so neatly in with the carapace (and also, just look at it!). This is Calappa calappa, disturbed on a night dive in Lembeh and rapidly scuttling away from the bright lights. #MarineLife #Invertebrates #Wildlife 🌿🦀
A rounded crab with large claws that fit neatly into the space in front of its body. It is brown, with reddish spots on it; the claws have some lighter ridges on the lower parts and raised teeth on the upper parts. The crab is scuttling over black sand, although you can't see this in the photo because its legs are hidden. But trust me, it was *moving*
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’ve been tracking Rowling’s posts for 5 months. She does not ever post about women’s rights or the threats women face in real life. Women are just a prop for her transphobic obsession. Her indifference to women was illustrated recently when she likened herself to Mike Tyson, a convicted rapist
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 07/10/2026
oh look paid protesters
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assbutt @nasboat.org · 05/10/2026
i’m so tired of targeted advertising
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
reminds me of something an emmy-winning comedy writer said years ago in a shared group chat
I have a theory that a lot of the worst people (Ted Cruz, DOnald Trump) would not be in our hair if they had been able to be even remotely successful in the arts. I believe Elon Musk would give it all up for a couple of spots at the Comedy Store. Unfortuntely, people don't find carrying a sink funny so here we are
and if you've seen the videos of Ted Cruz "acting" in college, youd understand how running for senate was actually the only way he could get on tv
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laurierking.bsky.social @laurierking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Organizer Kyoko Takayama (@kyoko4us) put together a list for CA voters. Because before we can vote for a matter, it helps to know who supports it. #vote2027 #FollowTheMoney @IndivisibleGuide
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Sigrid Ellis @sigridellis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you do not know who Jim Bakker was, if you haven't mainlined 1980s Bloom County comics, this gift article explains it. Literally the Prosperity Gospel, linking God and Mammon forever after. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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Jim Bakker, Television Preacher Felled by Sex and Financial Scandals, Dies at 86 (Gift Article)
With his wife, Tammy Faye, Mr. Bakker built a broadcasting juggernaut around the gospel of prosperity.
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Fat Apollo, baby! @fatapollo.myatproto.social · 06/10/2026
Americans - We're gonna put Trump on our passports Canadians high as fuck - Look what I can do
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Deadpool - 1 oz. Pure Silver Collectible (2026) | The Royal Canadian Mint
He's always been his own biggest fan.
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On We @onwe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“the idea that polluters have caused too much harm to have to pay for all of it is more of a personal problem than a legal one.” 💯🔥
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Island of Reil @islandofreil.northsky.social · 05/10/2026
To quote @brooklynmarie.bsky.social, ACAB: All Cats Adore Boxes.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026
the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This should be so obvious that it doesn’t need to be said, but given what kind of weekend it’s been on here, apparently it does: If you don’t want old rapists running the world, in office, in the board room, making decisions for all of us get comfortable with “ruining” young rapists’ lives
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Mark Zuckerberg's war against gays and lesbians is now underway. www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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josh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 04/10/2026
actually fixing this country is going to require declaring trumpism an inherently treasonous movement like the confederacy. winning their votes shouldn’t be a concern
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 04/10/2026
INTERVIEW: Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid the Pentagon’s purge of military leaders. "All the guys who had guts and were willing to speak the truth about what we needed to do, they got rid of." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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He Wanted to Modernize the Military. Pete Hegseth Forced Him Out
Dan Driscoll speaks for the first time since resigning as Secretary of the Army amid Pete Hegseth's purge of military leaders from the Pentagon.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Civil rights exist to protect individual Americans, but also to protect America and the existence of democracy as a whole. That is why fascism for select groups alongside democracy does not work. All of us are free or none of us are free.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you haven't read a recent author whose works have been banned? This is a great week to change that.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why are there three separate dark blues here? Hegseth must have drained American dry because look at this Temu-ass setup. Ordered-from-VistaPrint-5-days-ago-looking mess.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm wary about the "fitness standard" remark because it sounds like they are trying to turn TSA officers into police officers and that is NOT their job.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 01/10/2026
This is a cool photo of Venus! Photographed through the rings of Saturn.
A complex, curving pattern of lines that make up Saturn's vast ring system, in various gold and grey hues. The white arc at right is the limb of the planet itself. A tiny point of light is just upper right of centre.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
can someone explain
screenshot of gas prices in california, oregon, and washington showing california charging at least two dollars more per gallon than in oregon  ($7 or $6.76 compared to $5 or $4.77) and washington with gas also much less than ca at $5.90 and $5.40
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Jombucha @mangetout.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The CARS Universe exists in an alternator reality.
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Gerta LeStrange🇵🇸 @gertalestrange.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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A tech prophet finally gets her second coming
In 2000, Paulina Borsook published a book foretelling the anti-government sentiments of the tech world. Now that it’s too late, people are ready to listen.
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404 Media @404media.co · 01/10/2026
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.
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How Schools and Universities Try to Censor Student Journalists
As the Cornell 7 case highlights the importance of student journalism, public records reveal how schools try to censor on-campus news outlets.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Newsom vetoes measure that would have penalized the use of smart glasses to secretly record people
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have penalized people for using smart glasses to record people without their permission in changing rooms, doctor’s offices and other spaces p...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In Silicon Valley, senior researchers working on AI agree broadly with the pope's AI encyclical and his call for internationally coordinated regulation, and warn about their own CEOs and what they're up to. A Catholic campaign to win support within the industry has succeeded in spades.
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The pope's message on AI is breaking through in Silicon Valley and beyond
(RNS) — As I've met with tech leaders and government officials, I've been surprised (and gratified) by the intense level of interest in and respect for what the US Church has to offer as AI accelerate...
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WARNING: The Ellison family is about to own CBS News AND CNN. A judge just cleared the deal. Closing: days away. When one family controls what tens of millions watch, democracy loses a watchdog. Independent media isn't a luxury. It's your last line of defense.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)
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Watch David Bowie & Annie Lennox in Rehearsal, Singing “Under Pressure,” with Queen (1992)
It's common to feel like we know our artists, writers, musicians, actors… we want so badly to touch their lives in some way, as their lives touch ours.
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Carolyn Fiddler @cfidd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bruh, you literally JUST SAID "no fatties" and "no weirdos"
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
nothing they value or aspire to or revere about Masculinity™️ is the behavior of wise, mature, grounded adult men. it’s what little boys think is cool about being an adult man and they were allowed never to grow out of that
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“cowboys” here really reminds me of a brilliant post I saw on Twitter that I’ve never stopped thinking about, which is how the manosphere brand of toxic patriarchy isn’t about MEN, it’s about BOYS. everything is a 12-year-old’s fantasy. Pete is playing G.I. Joe on a trillion-dollar budget
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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it’s super cool and fun that the university of chicago police department—one of the nation’s largest private police forces—has a network of alprs in a pocket of the south side that it runs without any outside oversight or transparency
an automated license plate reader on a blue light pole in chicago’s hyde park neighborhood another alpr mounted to a different blue light camera in hyde park. a third alpr mounted to a third blue light camera in hyde park
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 30/09/2026
shutting down frat houses won't end rape culture, but it will disorganize a lot of rapists, and i think that's probably worth doing if only to destabilize what is apparently an ecology of organizations that functionally exist to rape women per the whole "purpose of a system is what it does" insight.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All I can really say from the other side of the pond about fraternities is that there are severe consequences for your society when you let the ritual pig fucker clubs get away with it.
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Gerta LeStrange🇵🇸 @gertalestrange.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I suppose it wouldn’t even be noticeable if not for its astounding predecessor
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Gerta LeStrange🇵🇸 @gertalestrange.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Control Resonant feels a little ..crude
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Heritage is anti-women www.importantcontext.news/heritage-fou...
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The Heritage Foundation Has a Radical New Project
The rights of women, people of color, gay people, disabled people and trans people—a vast majority of the country—are being targeted by a billionaire-funded network.
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GoFundMe was a lot more effective when it was called taxes.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
GoFundMe, the largest crowdfunding site, has seen an over 20 percent increase in fundraisers for tuition and related expenses over the past year
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GoFundMes for College Tuition Are Up This Year
Students facing acute challenges affording their tuition are increasingly turning to crowdfunding. Experts warn it’s a temporary fix to systemic affordability issues.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this poor model looks so bummed out by this stupid level 1 rpg dress
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kat is right about all of this. One of the reasons that college sexual violence is uniquely devastating is because it changes the victim’s entire future.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Instagram decided to block my post from getting in front of the right people. Tut tut tut. Oh dear. That doesn’t look great does it?" Pugh wrote www.jezebel.com/florence-pug...
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✨Ms.RetroSparklyKnickers✨ @msretroknickers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Remembering Trish Keenan, on what would’ve been her birthday. I first saw Broadcast, Oct ‘96 at The Jug of Ale, Brum & I just adored them! ✨🌟✨ Broadcast -Where Youth & Laughter Go youtu.be/m5uAJz4qbLU?...
Picture of a woman (head & shoulders) with long dark hair and a fringe. The same picture 3x & slightly overlapping in green, pink and blue tones
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