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Mother/wife, book hoarder, soccer lover, + Cleo's person. Be a good human. 🇺🇸+🇰🇷💍🇩🇪

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 06/08/2026
The safety of our food is, as we predicted, decreasing. We are clearly viewed by the Trump Regime and corporate elites as expendable. If you haven’t subscribed to email food safety alerts, I urge you to do so—link is in ⤵️ shouldntneedtobealawyer.com/posts/jalape...
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Jalapeño Salmonella Outbreak - 36 Hospitalized | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland
345 cases across 27 states have resulted in 36 hospitalizations. Chipotle and QDOBA appear to be vectors. CDC has just updated the outbreak
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
victory lapping on this one
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026
😳 Trump just flubbed his way through his meeting with Zelenskyy, at various points referring to the "Islamic Republic of Japan," repeatedly calling Zelenskyy "President Putin," and railing against the "JCPOC" Here's the blooper reel:
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Good. ⚽️
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Watch World Cup NYC
Find where to watch every 2026 World Cup match in NYC
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/06/2026
When James Dolan cancels the watch party outside MSG, we bring the watch party to you. Thanks to the @nba.com, Knicks Game 4 is now playing on dozens of LinkNYC screens across our city. LGK.
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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How to see the 'cosmic kiss' of Jupiter and Venus in the night sky — National Geographic
The bright planets will appear within a pinkie width of each other this June—their closest alignment until 2028.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time
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lindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
hi, i have to encourage you all (all genders) to obtain some mifepristone while you still can — to have on hand for you or others. it doesn't expire for five years. please let's do what we can to facilitate access to abortion as much as we can. apnews.com/article/abor...
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Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies
The Supreme Court has restored broad access to the abortion pill mifepristone, blocking a ruling that had threatened to upend one of the main ways abortion is provided across the nation.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Trump's followers on Truth Social are calling him the Antichrist after his post of an image depicting himself as Jesus
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
www.themirror.com/news/us-news...
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Trump supporters burn MAGA hats after president's AI Jesus post and pope attack
Donald Trump sparked fury among his MAGA base by sharing an AI-generated image depicting himself as Jesus on social media, moments after launching a scathing attack on Pope Leo XIV
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Wendy Thurm @wendythurm.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.
A series of posts from journalist Mark Chadbourn reporting on the acceptance speech of Péter Magyar after Hungarian elections:

Péter Magyar: "Our country wants to live again. It wants to be a European country again."

Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 24m
Magyar's speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: "He's basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired."

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He's announced that Hungary will join the European Prosecution Office so anyone in the country can be charged.

Mark Chadbourn• @chadbourn.bsky.social • 21m
Magyar: "No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions."

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Magyar says he's starting work with the EU and NATO immediately.
"The EU doesn't have to worry anymore."
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.
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Emil Kerenji @emilkerenji.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
For those interested in tracking #Hungary results in real time in English.
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Nemzeti Választási Iroda - Országgyűlési képviselők választása
Választási szervek - Nemzeti Választási Iroda
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
The joyful, wonder-filled Artemis scenes contrast with our nation's leaders, people who have ascended to the pinnacles of power & wealth—and yet couldn’t day-to-day be more miserable, a fact that they all collectively broadcast with every fiber of their being. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-pure-j...
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The Pure Joy of Joy
You can't fake the happiness of Artemis II — or Zohran Mamdani
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
12 year old me was rooting for this. ❤️ Welcome back. 🥺
Artemis Splashdown photo. Just absolute beauty. 3 red and white striped parachutes as the capsule lands in the Pacific Ocean at 8:07 EST. 
Artemis Splashdown photo. Just absolute beauty. 3 red and white striped slightly deflated parachutes as the capsule lands in the Pacific Ocean at 8:07 EST. 
Artemis Splashdown photo. Just absolute beauty. 3 red and white completely deflated striped parachutes as the capsule lands in the 
Pacific Ocean at 8:07 EST.
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Mukad A QuBoy
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/04/2026
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.
Pam bondi ignoring Epstein survivors
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
hello what did i miss tell me every thing
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
NYPD officer dies in medical episode while deployed to Kuwait in Iran war - NBC News apple.news/AhINBBRs9ROO...
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NYPD officer dies in medical episode while deployed to Kuwait in Iran war — NBC News
Sorffly Davius was remembered as a
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
When you’re incapable of empathy.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 22/02/2026
I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...
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On Joy and Resistance | dansinker.com
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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Eligible voters of the United States! The @npr.org voter registration guide has been updated to help get you ready for the 2026 primary elections. You can find deadlines and the links you need to register and check your registration status at npr.org/vote
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How to register to vote and check your registration status
For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
apple.news/AmYUzx3shTZe... Do your job American journalists
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Opinion | If you are reading this it is because I’m dead: here’s what I want to tell you about how to live — Guardian US
Leaving this world in an age of lies and cruelty, my last message is simple: don’t give up on truth, says Spanish journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What the hell is the New York Times doing? In its article on Trump posting a video that included a clip of the Obamas as apes, NYT tries to help him come up with an excuse: "It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it." WTF.
President Trump late Thursday night shared a video that contained a brief clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.

The clip, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about anomalies in the 2020 presidential election.

It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it. It was unclear how the clip was made, although it appeared to have been generated by A.I. The clip appeared to have been taken from a video that was shared in October by a user on X whose watermark is shown, with the caption “President Trump: King of the Jungle,” and an emoji of a lion.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 27/01/2026
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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Jeremy C-howl @jmchao.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Lockjaw from One Battle After Another stepping into his Christmas Adventurers office.
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Septima P. Snark @drsubini.blacksky.app · 26/01/2026
Leave it to @haymarketbooks.org to meet the moment with free access to some important books! LOVED @silkys13.bsky.social's Unbuild Walls and can't wait to read the others. Thank you Haymarket. Now everyone, get you some!
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
1. I am a resident of the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. I am over 18 years of age. I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26th where I could hear the whistles coming from. I turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28th. There were also about 15 observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray. The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground. The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them-he wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground. Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
18. I am disgusted and gutted at how they are treating my neighbors and my state. I keep alternating between crying and feeling determined it is important to remember the value of documenting injustice. We show up for the people who need us to bearwitness, because it can't just be one group of people bearing the brunt of their tyranny. This is a struggle to protect our freedom and democracy, those things are on the line. He lost his life for those values.
I declare under penalty of perjury that everything I have stated in this document is true and correct.

Dated and signed on Jan 24, 2026 in Hennepin County, State of Minnesota.
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen, no jambands. Sza/Kendrick Lamar Coldplay Harry Styles Taylor Swift Beyoncé
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/01/2026
This is a really worthwhile call, friends in New Jersey. Please do call and share with your friends and family.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
On this MLK Day, one particular passage from his address at the March on Washington seems especially relevant.
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
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Trump Might Not Have Lowered The Price Of Groceries — But He's Delivered On 1 Promise — HuffPost
It was never about the economy.
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jessicasunja @jessicasunja.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Just straight up authoritarian bullshit.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
Some photos of Haitians running in the streets. There's smoke in the background. It looks like political disorder. A Haitian man stands next to a wall with some barbed wire behind him. The original Magnum caption said the man felt Haiti was a prison and he dreamed of making it to the United States. He wanted to be a rapper. Some men take a break from building a boat. A boat sets sail far off into the distance.
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Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · 15/12/2025
One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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Mary Brandt, MD, MDiv @drmlb.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
"Gratitude is defiance of sorts, the defiance of kindness in the face of anger, of connection in the face of division, and of hope in the face of fear."
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A Practice of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day (U.S.)  Gratitude is strongest, clearest, most robust, and radical when things are really hard. —Diana Butler Bass, Grateful
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
ok it is time for me to hibernate for the season i am thankful for all of u keeping me company here on the blue sky during this year be well
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h... We are now one of the few countries that will no longer honor World AIDS Day We join with Russia, Iran, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Libya, North Korea You know all the countries that hate humans rights I find it shameful Callous Cruelty
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Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
"The current horrors are unevenly distributed. Not all of us are suffering the same effects of fascism. We have to do what we can to defend and protect the most vulnerable in our midst. We can do so while keeping grief close and tending to it." 🙏🏼
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
“The instructions for whistles are very very simple: If you see ice in the area, blow short bursts on the whistle. If they're actively snatching someone, long blows.”
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