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nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 18h
im glad the temple of satan is pointing in this direction instead of one that mostly does harm but im so fucking over the "we are actually atheists doing a little joke teehee" disclaimer. put your pussy in it
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/10/2026
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
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'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 09/10/2026
Defund and abolish ICE. Melt down their weapons and shift its budget to social services and affordable housing. Ban everyone who led or worked for ICE from any government job. Corporate death penalty for the companies that aided them. Citizenship to all of its victims, should they want it.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 09/10/2026
This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.
A shooter.914 post showing a blue handgun and Reign energy drinkThe console of a car with an energy drink and handgun in the cup holders. In the foreground, shooter.914’s wrist with a fancy watch in it. Background: Two assault rifles and a Monster energy drink A screenshot of his whole account showing more of the same
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 22h
My friend Sama'a relies on us for help feeding and clothing her two young children in the ruins of Gaza. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...
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Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d
Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.
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ICE Agent at NYC Shooting Has History of Alleged Violence and Illegal Arrests
Brenden Cuni, an ICE supervisor, has been accused of excessive force and tackling a pregnant woman to the ground. Several of his arrests were later found to be unlawful in federal court.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My conversation with @iamstevenhale.bsky.social ended up being much more in-depth than expected, so in a Handbasket first, I published the full audio of our interview so you can hear the parts not captured in print. It’s like, a half Rogan long. Listen here (+ excuse the shoddy audio):
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Interview with media witness of Christa Pike's botched execution
YouTube video by Marisa Kabas
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 09/10/2026
Halloween costumes for birders. This is from last year and someone actually did the sexy owl pellet one.
A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 09/10/2026
So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔥 MEMPHIS: “If you’re not angry, now is the time to get angry.” A minor says she has been banned from meetings by the city council 🤔for speaking out after 7 delayed a data center moratorium vote — without letting the people speak. (H/T @901youthactionnetwork )
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Ernest "Dead" Penfold @penfoldsfiv.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
hey look, the very thing liberals on this god-forsaken app said wasn't happening happened again.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/10/2026
me: I dunno, I still like the guys on the team but I'm sympathetic to the argument seeing the Dodgers win in the playoffs every year is boring (braves fans start doing the chop) me: General McPherson I summon and bind thee to these boys' bats. Claim your vengeance
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm increasingly frustrated that people who are anti-AI aren't being taken seriously, and taking a page out of my thoughts on why the anti-trans backlash got as far as it did I'm starting to think the anti-AI side isn't extreme enough.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 07/10/2026
When I went to college it was considered critically important for blogs to be integrated into every curriculum, because blogs were the future. We had to maintain a separate blog for every class. I guarantee you that not a single student ever looked at a single one of those blogs ever again
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Repression in France’s overseas territories gets little attention. But protests are also happening and kids are detained. In Guadeloupe, 21 schools were blocked on the 6th of October. In Le Moule, gendarmes were choking, kicking and pinning a teenager to the ground during his arrest.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I opted for the Philadelphia roll (duh) and the spicy shrimp crunch roll because I wanted both spice and crunch. Sitting outside, I ate them as I imagined Wawa intended: with my bare hands and a creamsicle-flavored energy drink to wash it down." This is the kind of hard hitting journalism I love.
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Wawa is testing sushi in the Philly suburbs. I drove 23 miles to try it
The convenience store chain is piloting pre-packaged sushi rolls at stores in Media, West Chester, Glen Mills, and Exton.
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Ep 10 is up! Chapters 59-64. “Squid” to “Stubbs’ Supper.” exploringthegreats.com/moby-dick
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Students and trade unionists are protesting in France over the the conditions of schools and austerity measures. Thousands of schools impacted, thousands detained. The protests have been going on for weeks. www.cbsnews.com/news/france-...
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Protests disrupt hundreds of high schools across France in historic day of student protests, union says
Nationwide protests across France continued for a third week as demonstrators rallied against poor school conditions.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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Stephanie Lamy @stephlamy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For my ENG speaking followers Unprecedented High School blockades began in the outskirts of Paris in Créteil on the 21st of Sept. National mobilisations followed on the 29th of September, the 1st and the 6th of October. The movement is ongoing and has spread both in scope and scale. #tippingpoint
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Liv Agar @livagar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bolsheviks in July of 1917
bro, you’re fine. you just need an impossible sequence of events to play out in perfect order against all odds and you’ll be fine
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isaac @sevier.io · 06/10/2026
Good work
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 18/10/2024
Photography: The Final Days of the Dinosaur, 65m BC (colorized)
Under a setting sun, two pictures of a Tyranosaurus Rex (person in an inflatable suit) looking, mouth agape, at the comet that could be mistaken by a dinosaur brain as another asteroid come to wipe out the pre-birds.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026
Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...
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We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Whenever someone says 'agents make me more productive' I quickly realize that I'm talking to someone who aspires to be middle management, in charge of a bunch of Digital Jenny McCarthys, and I feel like their soul must have left their body years ago and left behind an empty, joyless void.
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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 06/10/2026
The headstone had not yet been placed Thursday on the freshly dug grave where a 20-year-old Amish woman was buried last week amid the rolling clover fields and dairy farms at the edge of suburban Philadelphia. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/health/measl...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 06/10/2026
Tennessee is planning new youth prisons, bucking a nationwide trend, ProPublica reports:
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Across the Country, Youth Prisons Are Closing. This State Is Building More.
Tennessee officials say they need more high-security facilities for kids who commit crimes. Experts say this approach flies in the face of crime data and research that shows youth prisons are not rehabilitative.
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zach silberberg @zachsilberberg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i spent my thursday night sculpting 20 creatures so they could sing @themountaingoats.bsky.social. is that okay with everyone
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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ICE knew who Vasquez was before they ever put him in their truck. They drove off with him just to fuck with him, because they didn't like him and they could do that shit, before they abandoned him on the side of the road, threw his wallet out of their car, and drove away.
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‘They basically just kidnapped me’: US citizen taken by Border Patrol in Cary • NC Newsline
As Border Patrol agents swept the Triangle area, a construction worker born in the U.S. was among those detained.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today, I resigned as Vice Chair of the ODP Pride Caucus. The state party expects us to be a sales team, censoring our voices when we beg candidates not to trade on trans lives. I am still a Democrat, but I will not value party approval over true, defiant advocacy. Full text below. 👇
Part 1 of an open letter of resignation by Arienne Childrey, stepping down as Vice Chair and member of the Ohio Democratic Party (ODP) Pride Caucus. She states that party leadership treats the caucus as a recruitment and sales team rather than a representative body. She cites an incident where the ODP censored and denied permission for the caucus to post a letter by two trans leaders addressing harmful comments made by Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton. The State Party Chair reportedly called the letter an "unwelcome distraction," which Childrey notes demonstrates how little party leadership values the voices and dignity of LGBTQ+ Democrats.
Since that decision, every Caucus plan, every potential post, and every path forward has been filtered through a lens of strict compliance and ODP approval. That may very well be the party's rule, but following those rules right now is a dereliction of our duty to the LGBTQ+ community.

For me, any rule that silences advocacy for the trans community during this time is an unjust rule, and I see no obligation to follow it. In alignment with the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his Letter from Birmingham Jail:

“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”

We are living in incredibly dangerous times for the trans community. We are in an era where the GOP has so thoroughly weaponized trans lives that even some formerly self-professing allies within our own party have fallen prey to the rhetoric. Looking at the national trend towards Democratic anti-trans triangulation, as well as our own internal conversations, it is clear to me that this shift is much more than a simple coincidence.

We have to speak up—loudly, strongly, and unapologetically—or I fear what our 2028 choices may look like. The ODP would like everyone to believe they are a "big tent" party. However, their successful efforts to silence even the Pride Caucus—even in cases where we are simply begging our candidates not to trade on our lives for perceived electoral advantage—has proven otherwise. The tent hasn't gotten any bigger; it has simply shifted, leaving many trans individuals, progressives, and allies out in the rain.

I will continue to advocate, organize, and fight for our community with everything I have. But I can no longer compromise my own moral principles by remaining part of a caucus that appears more interested in party approval than in true, defiant advocacy.

Sincerely,
Arienne Childrey
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This isn’t AI. My cousin Braycen was torn apart by Havana syndrome which is why he’s in his coffin in “chunks”. The ugly “boy” in the (real) photo isn’t his son; it’s a full grown small intruder man who ran off with the head & ate it behind the funeral home. RT to salute 🫡 🇺🇸
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 05/10/2026
I continue to support my dear friend and her family in Gaza as long as they are displaced and rely on donations to survive. Please give, so she can take care of her children. No amount is too small. And give to others. There are many Gazans in need. 🙏💕 chuffed.org/project/1981...
My friend's youngest daughter.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Okay I’m at $565, can we get to the goal? This is the last week ! Baby Heba says “please?”
Baby Heba clasped hands wearing white sandals and white dress
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 06/10/2026
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Sol @solexposure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All these original paintings are available in my store now! Including one of my Beach Dogs pieces! www.sol-exposure.com/product-cate...
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Yellowhammer Fund @yellowfund.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New data shows ectopic pregnancy deaths are rising, with higher rates in states with strict abortion bans. Here in Alabama, ectopic pregnancy care is legally allowed but what does reproductive healthcare look like when getting care in time can be the difference between life and death?
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
it was smart of jacob geller to only post about what he did to his 50k followers on here instead of to his 1.5 million youtube subs or on his patreon. that way fewer people know about it and he limits the financial hit
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 05/10/2026
For those of you with day jobs where you're forced to use LLMs or be fired, good tip I gleaned this weekend, which is to tell the LLM to stop referring to itself using "I" pronouns and to eliminate the praise and other attempts to humanize itself. You get a much cleaner interaction w/o the marketing
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Rie Sonomura, NeoY2K Hacker Vtuber @riesonomura.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
same with the AI flag in the video itself, ESPECIALLY for music
I wish all AI generated thumbnails a very "Don't recommend channel"
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Tour guide: The grand house was commissioned by old Mr. Weatherstone himself, who— Ah! I see you’ve already opened his Wikipedia page. And ope! You’re searching for instances of the word calipers. No good! You’ll want to try speculum, my lad!
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐠 @ruleo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
what if,,,
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Big election today and a real crisis decision for Brazil. And the world.
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What to know about Brazil's election pitting Lula against Flávio Bolsonaro
Polls suggest the election will be a closely run contest between the left-wing incumbent and his right-wing rival.
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