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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13h

Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵

A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Don’t love that the secretary of war announced the creation of a department of autonomous warfare in the same speech he referred to my people as a slur that I’ve not heard since 2012 on broadcast television but you know. whatever. who gives a shit man

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 30/09/2026

Proud of the CDCers who fought to get this vital info out! 30% of our workforce is gone. Heartbroken by the loss of brilliant scientists, institutional knowledge, & frankly my friends, colleagues, & mentors. An understaffed CDC harms the public & leaves the US vulnerable. Rebuilding will take years

nytimes.com

‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)

The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"The show documents an incredibly important but little-known avenue through which people who are incarcerated make themselves known: prison newspapers, produced by and in solidarity with communities inside of prisons." chicagoreader.com/visual-arts/...

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Explore the rich culture of ‘Prison Papers’ - Chicago Reader

“Prison Papers: Organizing Inside/Outside Solidarity” documents an important avenue through which the incarcerated make themselves known.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

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John “Danielle” Phipps @magitekdad.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have friends younger than 38 who look like this and they're wonderful people, and some of the worst people I know are conventionally attractive. Being hateful and misogynistic or kind and compassionate is who you are inside, not what you look like.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Another thing about fraternities is that the hazing rituals where slightly older young men would physically, mentally emotionally and sometimes even sexually abuse slightly younger young men have always disturbed and upset me greatly. And it’s really telling that I’ve seen men defend those too

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hope some brave journalist asks the Prime Minister a real question about this on Reconciliation day.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard

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Jessy Edwards @jessyedwards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Puerto Rico is in a water crisis, as a US board slashes the island's social/infrastructure spend to protect corporate bondholders, and a developer tries to build a $2.5B private city on acres of untouched coastline. As one councilmember explains, much of this exploitation can be traced back to NYC.

hellgatenyc.com

How Do You Protect Puerto Rico From NYC's Vulture Capitalists?

City Councilmember Alexa Avilés is urging the state government to rein in New York's "vulture funds" and opportunistic developers, while calling on Congress to dismantle the island's financial oversig...

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Ben Prunty @benprunty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't love dunking on folks but it's so fucking funny to me that Trump was convicted of 34 felonies 2 years ago, faced no punishment, and went on to win the presidency a second time and journalists are still like, "hmm, I have an inkling that maybe he believes he's above the law for some reason."

Post from NYT reporter Eric Lipton

"What an odd moment in United States history.

A U.S. president is running an overtly political campaign advertisement, right before midterm elections, paid for by the U.S. government.

Trump appears to believe he is immune from any kind of legal limit."

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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 25/09/2026

Since this got fast traction - I just retweeted something else that says the 11k number is a DHS number - folks on the ground say the number is more like 4k. Important to get right.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

PRIMETIME, which portrays Chris Hansen as a twisted egomaniac, is really good. It’s also the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Hansen, who has long turned child sexual abuse into a spectacle centering himself—at the expense of actual victims. spitfirenews.com/p/chris-hans...

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Chris Hansen was never the hero

On 'Primetime' and the real child abuse investigations that Hansen led astray.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

motherjones.com

ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him

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Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case

Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fake. USDA. Seals. Used by an NC meat processing plant on 83.5 TONS of meat. Produced entirely outside the federal inspection system, according to news reports. We are pretty close to The Jungle (second ed.) now, no? www.scrippsnews.com/life/recalls...

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Interactive: Meat recall linked to fake USDA labels

Pork, beef and goat products are being recalled after a company allegedly used fake USDA inspection labels. Explore our interactive guide to see which products are affected and what to look for.

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb

Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nobody is going to want to hear this, but a real risk we face, no matter who is president next, is that they will see no need to restore the rights lost or the executive power stolen in the last 10 years.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Read this and realized I've run into a few of these websites before. In every case, it was a pile of AI slop masquerading as a real website.

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 23/09/2026

You voted for your daughter’s death and it should torment you until you meet your own

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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson)

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MartenMartin @mcmjk1995.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Chapter 4 of my WHA pre-canon murder mystery / autonomy and trauma exploration fic is posted #tbna #witchhatatelier #qifrey #whafic #orufrey #olruggio urown.org/works/88511876/chapters/234793236

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MartenMartin @mcmjk1995.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

archiveofourown.org/works/885118... In the early days of Qifrey, Alaira, and Olruggio's lives as full witches their peace in the Great Hall is broken with fear and mystery when it becomes apparent a killer with a taste for forbidden magic is in their midst. #wha #tbna #qifrey #olruggio #alairawha

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Ms. Washywishes @washy.works · 19/07/2026

Emerging from ocean.

ms paint washy sticking head out of ocean water.

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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026

The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply

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Marie Cerda @primalux.thedeadbird.club · 16/07/2026

I remember after other fires there were videos going around of people "replanting forests" by planting seedlings in evenly spaced rows super fast. Y'all realize that isn't restoration? It's planting timber for logging. Which has v low fire resilience & is basically planting fuel

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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foppish michael @dryltt3.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

qifrey: why would olruggio ever want to stay, once he knows the truth of what i've taken from him... olruggio: (4am, finally going to bed, spinning a mental wheel to decide which fantasy to drift off to) ah yes, me n qifrey but we're both mice who live in an old boot together. classic

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Like any given Medal of Honor recipient says a hell of a lot less about what makes this nation unique than the life of Chuck Berry or Biggie Smalls

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Oh wow that is genuinely upsetting

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

ah good, the Republican Project 2025 was a playbook for rolling out Christofascism and the Democrats have responded with Project 2029, a plan for permanent electoral irrelevance

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/06/2026

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

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Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Please read this if you are curious about why you shouldn't lionise the Iraqi shoe-thrower.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Really need people to stop saying that the Minnesota 15 are going to be fine, that their charges will be dropped like ours. That was four days before trial, was NOT supposed to happen, and only did because of persistent, diligent, and incredible work by our lawyers.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is fascinating. The BBC’s own scrutiny of its flagship TV News discusses its clear bias towards selective reporting of crimes committed by immigrants & asylum seekers and no one from the News team will defend it. What is going on behind the scenes? www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Newswatch - 13/06/2026

Did the BBC’s coverage of the Belfast knife attack fan the flames of racial tension? And do its journalists focus too much on crimes alleged to be committed by immigrants?

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