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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13h

Gunther Anders on the bomb in 1956

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 16h

yes, and it's dramatically underreported

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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 17h

I imagine there’s so much stuff like this going on right now. Nobody in Congress seems to be keeping track of anything at all. Just open-door theft and slush all the way down.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.

forever-wars.com

The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon

It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21h

I expanded one of yesterday’s threads into a piece about the attack on Ilhan Omar’s home, fascist desperation, and fighting our way out of this mess.

organizingmythoughts.org

What Happens When Fascists Realize They Might Lose?

The attack on Ilhan Omar’s home, the desperation of an unpopular fascist administration, and the long fight ahead.

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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 21h

This kind of projection only works because Democrats—including Talarico—refuse to attack them along these lines. Of course the Rs are the ones obsessed, but instead of calling them on it, the Dems just keep apologizing for not being cruel enough to trans people.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026

hey ben. the guy in the picture here is an actual person, my friend’s dad, and a spiritual leader of Lakota people, Chief Arvol Looking Horse. not only does he support Indigenous People’s Day, he’s the founder of World Peace and Prayer Day. feels weird to use his image and not his name.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

It's not about placing themselves at the top. They're already at the top. It's about putting us more firmly under control. Deskilled, devalued, hyper-surveilled, desperate. That vision of fascism won't be defeated in the next two elections. It's a long fight.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

AI is basically that for the whole economy and the workings of government. It's a bleed-out of current conditions. Not all of these companies are going to make it, but the billionaires are counting on a situation in which existing social relations can no longer be reproduced. A re-ordering.

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Hammer and Hope @hammerandhope.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Across the country, working-class and poor families are losing an essential benefit that allowed them to keep their heads above water. For Issue No. 12, @hadasthier.bsky.social went behind the headlines and statistics about the economy. hammerandhope.org/article/medi...

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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

New: Democratic polling firms including John Anzalone's Impact Research, Global Strategy Group, and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner are working for AIPAC as it spends to defeat Abdul El-Sayed in #MISen. The Dem firms have been paid millions by the dark money-funded, Republican billionaire-backed UDP.

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The Democratic Party’s Pollsters Are Also Working for AIPAC’s Super PAC

Democrat-aligned firms have been paid more than $7 million by AIPAC's super PAC and its ally DMFI since 2021.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Reposting in honor of indigenous peoples day

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed an emergency injunction to stop the removal of thousands of saguaros and other vegetation to construct a border wall. The removal of the sacred saguaros is scheduled to begin on Indigenous Peoples Day. www.modbee.com/news/nation-...

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Tribe fights saguaro removal in borderlands on Indigenous Peoples' Day

The Tohono O'odham Nation has filed an emergency injunction to stop the removal of thousands of saguaros and other vegetation to construct a border wall.

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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 12/10/2026

A reminder on Indigenous Peoples' Day: Native people are incarcerated in state and federal prisons at more than 4x the rate of white people. This is the direct result of centuries of oppression and theft from Native people.

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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Make it rain for Natives this #IndigenousPeoplesDay because rent is due. Natives drop your pay links in comments! Vnmo/PP @francesdanger #alt4me

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

So they’re torturing this guy.

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Columbus Day celebrates a myth built on Indigenous erasure. Today, the fight to erase us continues in schools, media, and our lands. But we’re still here. Indigenous Peoples’ Day honors our survival, resistance, and sovereignty. My latest for @truthout.org: truthout.org/articles/ind... #indigisky

truthout.org

Indigenous People Are Resisting Erasure From Schools, Media, and Our Land

Joining the fight against our erasure helps Native communities defend our right to be seen, heard, and counted.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Known as the Doctrine of Discovery, the Supreme Court wrote it into U.S. law in 1823, ruling Native nations didn't own our land, but merely "occupied" it, with the United States as the landlord.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Columbus used a 15th-century legal doctrine to colonize and slaughter the Indigenous peoples he encountered. And it's still the law in the U.S. today.

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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Reposting this one of mine for Indigenous Peoples Day: “This land is not ours. Americans didn’t ‘tame’ it, they destroyed a balanced ecosystem cultivated over thousands of years. They didn’t create an egalitarian society, they systematically dispossessed and disempowered the ones already here.”

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Lydia (waiting for fall) @motherofbeanz.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

It’s Indigenous People’s Day. Dropping my links here. Fellow Indigenous folx, add yours in the comments. Will be sharing throughout the day. CA / $LFGPHOTO Venmo / @motherofbeanz ko-fi.com/motherofbeanz

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The raid on Ilhan Omar's home is not an attempt to sway Minnesotan voters. It's a pretext for her arrest (and deportation) and an attempt to simultaneously exacerbate anti-Somali hatred and allow the Trump regime to refuse seating all Democratic victors.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/10/2026

Exactly as predicted: Elder abuse. This is from Danny Trejo’s son, Gilbert Trejo. Not only did Ben Shapiro’s camp trick the elder Trejo about what the movie really was, he apparently signed a contract barring him from even putting out a statement about it.

For anyone seeing this shit with my dad...
He was booked on a film, it's not pro-ice, it's not overtly pro anything. His agent described it as "a complicated story about a complicated time, where everyone looks bad except you, the hardworking Mexican shop owner who just wants peace"
He jumped at the idea of playing a good guy.
About 2 weeks into shooting everyone, including us, found out Ben Shapiro was involved.
My 82 year old dad has never heard of Ben Shapiro, I had to explain to him who that is, and what kind of guy he is.
My dad contractually can't bad mouth him, the film, or walk away without being sued for breach of contract. He couldn't even release the statement he wanted to.
It's fucked up. He's handcuffed to this stupid project, and swaths of people have instantly turned their back on him without knowing any of the facts.
Ben Shapiro got Mexicans to abandon one of their heroes, got his own name to the top of google's searches, and made us look like angry fools lacking any nuance. He wins.

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Xodanix3 @xodanix3.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Still enjoying my time off. (It's been Ndn days all weekend for community here). See pinned if u want to redistribute wealth to a disabled Oceti Sakowin and Quechan fam.

Pic of Oct 12 on Calendar.
Columbus day is crossed out and Indigenous ppls day is checked.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 12/10/2026

I have called my representatives and demanded that they stand up for Ilhan Omar. It's not just the proximity to an election. If Trump is able to weaponize DHS/DOJ to take out sitting members of Congress without backlash, that's it, that's the whole game.

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A new statement from @maketheroadny.bsky.social says that Oscar Belgal, the man immigration agents shot in NYC last week, hasn't eaten since Thursday and still has the bullet in his neck. He urgently needs surgery, but instead, the government has him locked up in solitary.

New York, NY –– The Legal Aid Society and Make the Road New York, counsel for Oscar Belgal, issued the following joint statement in response to the deplorable conditions Mr. Belgal has endured while detained at the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, including solitary confinement, lack of access to food, and inadequate medical care despite a bullet remaining lodged in his neck and his urgent need for surgery:

“Since Mr. Belgal was shot in the neck by ICE agents on Thursday, with his five-year-old child in the car, he has endured horrific conditions at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, a facility federal judges have described as ‘barbaric’ and ‘inhumane,’ where officers have been characterized as ‘contemptuous of human life and dignity. All the while, a bullet remains lodged in his neck.

“Mr. Belgal is living through an unimaginable nightmare. While he is currently in solitary confinement, a bullet remains lodged in his neck, the left side of his face is numb, and he can barely hear out of his left ear. Doctors have told him he urgently needs surgery, but that the procedure was too dangerous to perform Thursday evening without a specialized surgeon present. Although he was instructed to return to the hospital this week, he has been left in the dark about whether that surgery will even happen. He is also suffering from a shoulder wound caused by shattered glass during the incident.

“Rather than receiving the urgent medical attention, care, and compassion he desperately needs, Mr. Belgal reports being confined to a solitary cell, where he is forced to relive the terrifying moments of being shot. He says he has not eaten a single meal since Thursday and has been told that the only water available to him comes from a bathroom sink.

“The deliberate indifference Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed toward Mr. Belgal when he was shot on Thursday, and the treatment he has endured in detention since, are further examples of the cruelty and disregard for basic human dignity that have long defined this agency. We will continue to fight for Mr. Belgal’s immediate release from detention and to ensure that he receives the medical care, due process, and basic human dignity to which he is entitled under the law.”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

TV/Film: - Reservation Dogs (FX/Hulu) - Lakota Nation vs United States (2023) All of these are just off the top of my head. There’s so much more out there. We have no excuse not to find every way we can to educate ourselves and do better. If you don’t know where to start, hopefully this helps.

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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

- In Whose Ruins by Alicia Puglionesi - Cruelty As Citizenship by Cristina Beltran - Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal - American Indian Liberation by George “Tink” Tinker Podcasts: - The Red Nation Podcast - Mapping the Doctrine of Discovery - This Land and First America by Rebecca Nagle

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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

As a white man on Indigenous Peoples Day, I want to share some resources that have helped me toward a better understanding Books: - The Rediscovery of America by Ned Blackhawk - An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 12/10/2026

Of the first 500 enslaved Indigenous people that Christopher Columbus sent back to Spain, 250 died en route. Over the following decades, hundreds of thousands more died working in the gold mines and sugar plantations of Hispaniola and resisting Spanish domination. Today, we honor their resistance.

crimethinc.com

“Each Crueler Than the Last”

As protesters tear down statues and "experts" debate their merits, we review the deeds of Christopher Columbus and the tycoon who commissioned the statue of him in modern-day St. Louis.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“‘But we certainly didn't expect that they would have this kind of farce thing of sending him to Whipple, giving him his possessions back and then walking him right into the hands of some other ICE agents before he could even leave the building,’ Barham said.”

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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic

Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...

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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Trans & kicked out by transphobic family. RN on the streets w/ no food or access to sanitary facilities. $1300 to go permanent housing URGENT. Any combo ppl x $ = $1300 gets them safely indoors & able to rebuild their life. Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2026

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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Josh Caress @joshcaress.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is one of Moxon’s best. Necessary reading for all the men out there. The frame is wide enough to indict all of society, yet personal enough to hit where it hurts. Well done.

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Keith D Johnson❌👑🇺🇦🇺🇸💚#TerraformEarth1st @keithdjohnson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"What sort of institution is Cornell? A very common one. What sort of institution is the fraternity system? A very typical one. What sort of men would gang-rape expecting impunity? A very usual sort. What sort of nation would revere the traditions of such institutions and protect such men? Our own."

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

What we must know is that the Trump administration's actual overtly stated goals if you listen & don't brush them off, being implemented actually now as state policy largely through the huge expansion of ICE & its dentention centers & cop cities & policing, is to incarcerate the entire population.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026

"Ohhhh nooo! Our 'AI' 'Agent' 'went rogue' and deleted all the student loan records and paid off every remaining tuition acount by draining football coaches' salaries! Ohhhh noooooooo!"

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14/09/2026

Cis people do not understand how much trans people's rights have regressed in just 5 years. 5 years ago, there were none of these restrictions. 19 states banned legal recognition 21 states have bathroom bans 8 states ban gender marker changes on DLs 25 ban gender affirming care for trans youth

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