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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Today in @thenation.com: Noor Alyacoubi spoke to people in Gaza about Trump's desire to expel them from their home. Their answer was very, very clear: "I will never, ever leave my land." www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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Gazans Have a Message for Trump: We're Not Going Anywhere

The president wants to clear the territory and take it for the US. But people here are adamant: "I will never, ever leave my land."

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my good bitch 💎 @clozilla.cryptoanarchy.network · 05/02/2025

My takeaway here on what this means for abortion care? Innovative little start ups were never the answer. Our movement is not in a place to innovate with compassion to both workers and patients without being beholden to the absurd whims of random donors. It’s all a savior complex.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 06/02/2025

A quick hit from me after the protests over the last week, despite all the claims that people were too exhausted to protest and were sitting Trump II out. It's true, much of the Trump "resistance" appeared to have gone home when Biden was elected. But plenty of people never left the fight:

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The #Resistance Lives. It Just Looks Different This Time.

Defying mainstream media narratives about the exhausted opposition, protests are picking up in D.C. and across the country, led by protesters who never hung up their placards to begin with.

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Helen Bolton @hbolton.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

They're just so clearly using this stuff to attempt to purge the federal government's unions and blatantly violate their CBA's, if you're not talking about that because you think certain academics and people who post a lot are annoying to you personally I don't think you're a serious labor advocate

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

perfect quote www.wired.com/story/edward...

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Federal workers got another unsigned email at 1 a.m. from a newly created OPM email, urging them to do the deferred resignation before it supposedly ends today. Feels a bit sweaty and desperate!

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Helen Bolton @hbolton.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This story is, among many many things, about how destructive rich people's obsession with funding "innovation" over everything else is. Mobile clinics along state borders never made any sense! The places along borders that do make sense (KC & St. Louis areas, El Paso area, etc) already have clinics!

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

One thing Musk's power grab suggests is that IT systems are *the* central chokepoint in contemporary capitalism — and that tech workers have potentially huge disruptive leverage, in both the federal government and within corporate America

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jourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

personally would love to live in a normal world where everything isn’t cartoony and insane!

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 13/09/2023

We are absolutely disgusted with All Above All management’s decision to lay off their entire staff, while keeping every single executive on the payroll, shortly after staff detailed anti-Blackness within the organization. Please donate to help support these workers www.gofundme.com/f/repro-work...

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Repro Worker Aid Fund, organized by Repro Workers

We are union workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement--we work at clinics… Repro Workers needs your support for Repro Worker Aid Fund

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

New offerings from the obviously AI-generated kids’ clothing website, many of which are allegedly also available in adult sizes????? And again I’m extremely tempted???

A screenshot of a web shop with four products. All are hyperrealistic pieces of clothing that are clearly AI-generated: 1) a rainbow colored jacket full of clouds. 2) a black dress with cutouts revealing a haunted house motif. 3) A puffy jacket with strawberries and leaves. 4) A pair of overalls with swirling colors.

A screenshot of a web shop with four products. All are hyperrealistic pieces of clothing that are clearly AI-generated: 1) A collared coat with quilted multicolor daisies. 2) A light green vintage-style dress with red and white Christmas ornaments. 3) A puff-skirted dress with black Halloween silhouettes over an orange-and-gray gradient. 4) A sage green dress with orange buttons with cookie-like appliqué across the skirt.

A screenshot of a web shop with four products. All are hyperrealistic pieces of clothing that are clearly AI-generated: 1) A collared cote that seems to be quilted as Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” 2) A yellow coat made out of giant flowers. 3) A green dress with appliqué gingerbread men and a frosting-like woodland scene. 4) A plaid coat with a pink collar and large pink pockets.

A product image of a hooded coat seemingly made from dozens of different-colored quilted squares. It is hyperrealistic and likely AI-generated.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

! "The complaints have cropped up around New York for weeks: strangers appear on a voter's doorstep to question his or her voting address and — in some cases — make alarming accusations." lohud.com/story/news/p...

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Helen Bolton @hbolton.bsky.social · 08/09/2023

I actually feel like they are all displaying different strains of a tantrum over the fact that they all were mostly let into polite society in the ways they cared about (fancy law schools, journalists, Scalia on stage at the opera with Ginsburg and such), and they feel like people changed the rules

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 05/09/2023

Illegal rentals accounted for about one-third of active city listings on Airbnb. It will be an uphill battle for the agency charged enforcing the new regulations that come into effect Tuesday. www.thecity.nyc/housing/2023...

Total active listings on Airbnb.com by booking type and minimum nights allowed, March 2015 to present.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

The indictment is egregious, treating mutual aid and solidarity as pre-crime activities. Guilt by association is the point. Egregiously, it casually refers to the 2020 police execution of Rayshard Brooks as “justified” — and the indictment is from the same Fulton County that indicted Brooks’ killers

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 05/09/2023

the cop city fight is one of the most important challenges to the supremacy of the security state in living memory, and the fact that they are going after it with this much repressive force shows that they know this

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

it's true that Labor Day is in some sense a fake labor day for cops compared to the REAL labor day (May 1), but also we don't have enough holidays and we should just work towards having two labor-based holidays the same way we have two "salute da vets" holidays

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

This Labor Day, join us in supporting essential abortion workers who have been laid off or lost hours at work. Whether it’s abortion bans or union busting management coming for us, we’ve got us ✊ Donate to the Repro Worker Aid Fund! gofundme.com/f/repro-worker…

A papaya surrounded by the sentence “support the repro worker aid fund”

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Happy Labor Day to all the medical providers, receptionists, counselors, hotline workers, admins, financial planners, cleaning staff, accountants, fundraisers, legal workers, comms and education specialists, and everyone else who makes abortions happen! Our movement runs on LABOR

WORKERS (underlined for emphasis) MAKE ABORTIONS HAPPEN
Graphics of a medical provider showing a patient information about procedural and medication abortion, someone answering a phone with a mask, hands using a manual vacuum aspiration, and someone working with a calculator

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 04/09/2023

The parent of a trans girl in MO described bizarre behavior by NYT reporter Azeen Ghorayshi in her reporting for a recent story. At one point Ghorayshi followed her and her husband to their car and stood in the door so it couldn't close.

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"You Betrayed Us, Azeen" Parents of Trans Youth Reeling After Speaking to an NYT Reporter — Assign...

A story on the allegations of former St. Louis gender clinic staffer Jamie Reed left parents who spoke with NYT reporter Azeen Ghorayshi crushed.

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Helen Bolton @hbolton.bsky.social · 04/09/2023

Happy Labor Day bbs we’re still raising money to help laid off abortion workers! It may have been over a year since Dobbs (and over 2 since SB8…) but we still have new bans taking effect in new states, and each of those means layoffs or at least cut hours www.gofundme.com/f/repro-work...

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Repro Worker Aid Fund, organized by Repro Workers

We are union workers in the reproductive health, rights, and justice movement--we work at clinics… Repro Workers needs your support for Repro Worker Aid Fund

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 04/09/2023

My new defund the police slogan is no one cares that you don’t support defunding the police

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 03/09/2023

The Shining is a movie about how fun it would be to have a bar in your house

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 02/09/2023

A reminder this Labor Day weekend: every worker who wants an abortion should be able to have an abortion, in the manner of their choosing, in their own community, without restrictions, for free ✊

Graphics of various professions (waiter, nurse, chef, healthcare, construction, etc) surround text that reads “every worker who wants an abortion deserves an abortion”

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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

all of my sniffware, adtech and geotrack apps have combined billions of dollars worth of data and infrastructure to determine that I would like to buy the coffee maker i bought last month

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Joyce Carol (p)Oa(s)tes 😱 @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 26/08/2023

Apropos of nothing, it weirds me out that “parasocial relationships” have been made out to be some kind of acute internet pathology, as though when you were a kid in school, you only talked abt people and called them by their first name if you had a meaningful relationship w/ them

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Repro Workers @reproworkers.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Did you love our collective letter for the labor movement (bit.ly/ReproWorkers) SO MUCH you wished you could carry it around with you in physical form? If you’re in New York, pick up our text in zine form at Bluestockings and Quimby’s! Proceeds go to the Repro Worker Aid Fund

A hand holding the zine Repro Workers: Labor Organizing for Reproductive Justice in front of a shelf of zines. Text below the image reads:
“Repro Workers
The Zine
Available at Bluestockings & Quimby’s NYC
Our share of proceeds will be donated to the Repro Worker Aid Fund”

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 23/08/2023

Extremely bad news for the South and Midwest this week. A total abortion ban went into effect in Indiana, and now a six-week ban will go into effect in South Carolina. These were two of the last states in their respective regions where abortion was more accessible.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 19/08/2023

You: Wracked by the pain of cognitive dissonance Me: Calmly mentally rotating all the contradictory things I believe

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Helen Bolton @hbolton.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Having now dog sat for people in a good spread of "nice" apartments, I really get why so many of the new "luxury" apartment buildings stay empty, they're built like shit! Speculators demanding stupid returns build cheap places that don't make any sense for living, bananas layouts and such

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Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

yimbyism doesn't work anywhere, least of all the places where *70% of the housing is already vacant* and yet rents are rising astronomically.

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Helen Bolton @hbolton.bsky.social · 17/08/2023

Lol not to be weird and discuss across platforms but I enjoyed this, made me think of this definition of feminism from Firestone. We have big leaps in technology in transition care, ART, both procedural and medication abortions, alongside a global birth rate that has steadily declined for decades… 👀

“For though they may have acted as a catalyst, feminism, in truth, has a cyclical momentum all its own.”
Next sentence underlined for emphasis: “In the historical interpretation we have espoused, feminism is the inevitable female response to the development of a technology capable of freeing women from the tyranny of their sexual-reproductive roles — both the fundamental biological condition itself, and the sexual class system built upon, and reinforcing, this biological condition.”
Continues: “The increasing development of science in the twentieth century should have only accelerated the initial feminist reaction to the Industrial Revolution. (Fertility control alone, for example, a problem for which the early feminists had no answer, has reached, in the period since 1920, its highest level of development in history.) The dynamics of the counter-revolution which — in conjunction with temporal crises such as war and depression — obstructed the growth of feminism I have attempted to”

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Helen Bolton @hbolton.bsky.social · 13/08/2023

We’re over 60% of the way to our goal but could use a push to keep our momentum going! People who spent years providing abortions, through attacks from anti-abortion legislators and activists, need help with necessities. We can’t just abandon them now www.gofundme.com/f/repro-worker-aid…

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ReproMemes @repromemes.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

decided to make some aggressively abortion-patriotic shirt designs… if any funds/clinics want to use them for fundraising feel free to dm me for permission & high res versions :)

A white short-sleeved tshirt with a drawing of the head of a bald eagle looking sternly at the viewer head-on in front of an American flag and the Statue of Liberty as text overlaid says “It’s my patriotic duty to assist abortion seekers”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14/08/2023

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 13/08/2023

Even after more than a decade of Uber, people don’t seem to get that the venture capitalists only subsidize the “disruptive” tech long enough to throw the displaced workers into permanent precarity, then they raise prices after destroying the overall market. Cab driver suicides are the strategy.

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