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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
People are discussing how Halloween candy is so terrible these days. A reminder that alot of the candy we eat is made with women’s prison labor. Russell Stover’s factory in Kansas busses in 150 women a day via a convict leasing program to staff their candy factory.
Russell Stover has begun using prison labor to make candy in
Kansas
A Russell Stover candy factory in Kansas has begun hiring incarcerated workers through a work release program, Eoin Higgins reports in his newsletter, The Flashpoint. About 150 women are bussed in from the Topeka Correctional Facility and paid $14 an hour, but the prison keeps some of their wages for room and board, taxes, transportation, and other expenses. When all is said and done, they take home less than $6 per hour. These deductions are high, but elsewhere in the country, they're even higher: In our May series on prison
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Corporations and billionaires don’t want you to know what political messages they are funding. That’s why they make the info so difficult to find. PaidForBy.info changes the game. It’s 100% free to use. Please check it out and spread the word!
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Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No matter how mass produced, all of your clothes are sewn by human hands. A sewing machine moves a needle, it doesn’t itself produce a garment. Cultures so removed from the reality of production open themselves to devaluing all production, including an author’s
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Tolkien Books Database @books.digitaltolkien.com · 20/09/2026
If you have this paperback copy of the Two Towers, we need your help! Can you look at your copyright page and report: a) whether "This paperback edition ____" says 2011 or 2020 b) what impression number is shown underneath. e.g. 2020 and 35 2011 and 42 books.digitaltolkien.com/SQQR/
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The Two Towers, 2020 Paperback Edition, impressions 35–37+
HarperCollins, 2020, B-Format Paperback, ISBN 0-261-10358-X.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s time we, as a society, address cat-face
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Late Night Anti-Fascists @latenightafa.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
⚠️ Help needed ⚠️ Researchers are trying to collect & inform on hostile media/agitators that can be referenced during ICE escalations. Tag with #hostilemedia & location identifiers. Ex: #hostimediaMN #hostilemediaME #hostilemediaCBUS #hostilemediaMNPLS We've started an example thread here (1/🧵)
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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s our air, our lives, and our city — we should decide 🦅 Two potential data center sites have already been identified in Philly—but the city has no rules to protect communities. We're rallying on 9/14 to demand City Council press PAUSE on data center development. Join us at philly.my/sep14rally
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Local cops working with ICE for the cash are turning east-central Pa. into a police state where no brown person is safe. You gotta figure there are a whole lot of other places like this that no one knows about because there's only one @willbunch.bsky.social. Gift link: share.inquirer.com/FCor2L
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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump’s mass deportation, as local cops, lured by federal cash, bust scores of migrants.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sadly, the heavy heat and then late freeze crushed our apple harvest, though I will selfishly note here a campaign to help out local farmers -- givebutter.com/BCFA-fruit-f...
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Support Bucks County Tree Fruit Farmers
By Bucks County Foodshed Alliance Inc
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
honestly think everyone signing up for ANY social media platform should have to tick a box which is labelled, in giant red comic sans: "I accept that not everything on this platform is about me."
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Come out to the rally on Tuesday at 10am in front of The Academy of Natural Sciences! RSVP here luma.com/1qwnrqz2 Read more here: whyy.org/articles/phi...
whyy.org
Supporters plan rally to protest closing of Academy of Natural Science Museum
The nearly 200-year-old museum is the oldest natural history museum in the Americas.
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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Ignoring or choosing not to pay attention when a group chooses to dehumanize ANY GROUP of people is A CHOICE. A choice in which I hold individuals, a community or society accountable. When intolerance is met with ambivalence or comfort seeking there is no hope of a tolerant society.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...
A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes. Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich. It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
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The Secret Way the Rich are Getting Richer
The biggest untold story about how we pay for government involves a big switcheroo by America’s wealthy. Watch.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 29/08/2026
Block data centers—take down surveillance cameras—stop ICE. As opposition to Flock and data centers spreads across the political spectrum, we should connect these to ICE. We must understand all of these as manifestations of the same thing: an increasingly violent and invasive technocratic state.
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Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Reflexively read a poster next to that face as The Greatest Lakes
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WHYY News @whyynews.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Unhoused Philadelphians face increasingly dangerous summers as climate change fuels heat waves. Advocates, service providers and people experiencing homelessness say the city needs to do more to keep people safe. Full story → bit.ly/4xoaEnN ✏️: @sophia-schmidt.bsky.social
Bar chart illustrating the increasing trend of days exceeding 95 degrees Fahrenheit in Philadelphia from the late 1800s to around 2020. Peaks in hot days are notably higher in recent decades. Source: NOAA Northeast Regional Climate Center.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Newsom said absolutely nothing when his own state troopers shot a journalist at a protest or when the LAPD routinely attacked reporters and photographers He is a world-class hypocrite
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I've signed onto an open letter of authors (and publishers) who support the striking workers of the Cleveland Public Library system. If you're an author or publisher and want to sign on too, there's information about how to do so! Tell your friends, etc. tinyurl.com/cplsolidarity
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Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
DYK? Homies Helping Homies is a mutual aid collective in Point Breeze & Grays Ferry. It was founded by my neighbors, for my neighbors to distribute food & other essential goods. Today, it's grown to add block cleanups, a radio show, & live events to raise funds #Philly #MutualAid
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Homies.Helping.Homies Official: Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
Philadelphia Local Food Distribution! Donate or Volunteer to help!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/08/2026
Activists have set up a protest camp in the Arizona border town of Lochiel to prevent the destruction of a grove of ancient cottonwood trees. Federal contractors plan to destroy the grove to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
On a handful of days out of each month, I've been privileged to meet up with my neighbors and bag trash around Point Breeze & Gray's Ferry. After years of hearing "that's just how it is," joining with my community to say "this is how our lives could be different" is special. Suddenly, I can breathe.
A wide sidewalk in front of an empty lot. The grassy lot is fenced in with chainlink and full of recently trimmed weeds. Rowhomes march along the background, behind the lot.

Up front, more weeds and trimmings spill onto the cement. It's hard to tell what's loose and what's still rooted. Miscellaneous trash is mixed in: plastic water bottles, food wrappers of all kinds, plastic Wawa & Coca Cola cups, a Republic State Committee election sign, bits of weave, that black wrap from trucks' wheel-wells that you always see along the highway, and other less identifiable bits. The trash and trimmings described cover about 6 feet along the fence.The same stretch of sidewalk as before, cleared of most of the trash though I can already see some cigarette butts I missed. On another day, we would have a couple volunteers sweeping up those weeds, too. When it's a small crew, as it was today, we have to prioritize- trash always goes first!
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
data4democracy.substack.com
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Today has me reminiscing about SNAFU’s season on the Citizen’s Commission to Investigate the FBI. No real reason. Good podcast, though
snafumedia.com
Podcasts | SNAFU Media – Stories That Matter
The story of a daring heist that exposed a colossal FBI SNAFU.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 13/08/2026
from the brilliant @derecka.bsky.social "The very movements producing [radical] rhetoric, from abolition to Free Palestine, also produced the possibilities of [DSA's] election [win]s. Downplaying those movements puts organizers who continue this work at risk, especially right now."
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AOC and Mamdani wanted to defund the police. Their backtracking puts organizers at risk | Derecka Purnell
Progressive and democratic socialist politicians are recanting pandemic-era statements on police and prison abolition
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Bradford Pearson @bradfordpearson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Delco piranha! I repeat: Delco! Piranha!!
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'It's a piranha!': Boy's unexpected catch sparks reminder about exotic pet releases
Seamus Coffey of Folsom was reeling in what he thought might be a large bass when he realized he had hooked something unusual.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I mean, there's really no hiding anymore that the purpose of The Atlantic is to ease centrists into gladly welcoming and accepting the rise of fascism.
The Atlantic - In Defense of Flock: Police cameras can help make the criminal-just system both fairer and less punitive - if we let them. By Charles Fain Lehman
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Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Itemized bill for buying Americans off - Flight to Atlanta - Glad-handing with the economic elite - Lip-service to listening - Cameo from the daughter of a legend - A chicken dinner
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
It's time we stopped calling them "moderates". They are extremists in service to capital. And many of them appear to hate and fear the left of their own party far more than they hate and fear the Republicans. Like Starmer's Labour "centrists" (extremists) in the UK. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
nytimes.com
Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left
One moderate group says the progressive wins are “deeply troubling” and is planning a $15 million effort against democratic socialism.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
What does move people - not in the hermitic forced view environment of surveys - but in the world is when people are loudly, proudly, repeating our refrains and, critically, creating a sense of belonging. Of a group to which you want to belong.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 08/08/2026
I check Facebook 1-2x a month for family stuff. Turns out a few days ago my dad made a long post begging for understanding about trans people by his fellow boomers. Last paragraphs are below. Dad doesn’t always get it 100% right. He doesn’t need to. He loves and defends me; that’s all that matters
H. I have a trans daughter. She struggled to learn who she was.
She finally " got it" several years ago and has transitioned into a beautiful adult woman. I've seen the struggle up close. She has been mocked and beaten for being herself. I love her.
Personally I dont think I have the strength of character to do as she has, should I have been in that circumstance.
G. And finally..l just had to get this off my chest as I read, see and overhear uneducated, bigoted posts, stories, and conversation. Here's a testimony of a parent of a beautiful child..there are more of us than you know.
Hope this helps.
If I offends you..buh bye.
If you learned something..youre welcome.
IYKYK. PEACE AND LOVE ARE THE ONLY ANSWERS.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The black lung rate in Appalachia is now as high as it was in the 1970s. Remember: Trump indefinitely stalled a rule that would limit miners’ exposure to dangerous silica dust, which causes black lung. Trump doesn’t care about miners’ health. He never has and he never will.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it
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BariTengineer @baritengineer.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Homer knew the greatest of evils in the world. Those assholes who won't leave the party after he host has both politely and unpolitely requested the leave and just keep going into your fridge to eat your food even though it's not food for the party.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"In just four months, the borough’s four police officers have pulled over and checked the status of dozens of motorists — mainly commercial truck drivers — and turned over 32 arrestees to ICE" important @willbunch.bsky.social dispatch from area where I grew up www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
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This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
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Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Excellent explainer on the Wale peat wildfire
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Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Tech entrepreneur’s secret club outed by F12
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The differences between Weiss and Pelley are those of degree, not of kind. There are enough degrees to make the differences seem stark, but they are both creatures of the same corrupt system: seeking “balance” rather than truth. Was the protestor’s chest, bump representative? Of course not.
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Vermin F. Cockwolf @cellorelio.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This deserves alt text:
Don’t fucking wait 50 years for them to “discover a mass grave” on the grounds of a border camp/concentration camp. Close the camps now, abolish ICE and return children to their families.

I don't want wyt people “paying their respects” half a century later like they didn't know.
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Sean Hoyer @seanhoyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If Allie Brosh got a few cents every time people say "all the things" or use her character from this strip w/o crediting her she'd be rich. hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this...
hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com
This is Why I'll Never be an Adult
I have repeatedly discovered that it is important for me not to surpass my capacity for responsibility.  Over the years, this capacity has g...
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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 03/06/2026
Y'all. Please remember the artists that drew these things when sending around memes. I feel for these artists who NEVER get credited for these (and some, nowadays, are even being accused of being AI!) Here's a few common ones I see (feel free to add others, I want this to be a living thread): 🧵
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Gift link: share.inquirer.com/kfpAhf @willbunch.bsky.social on Delaney Hall and @mikiesherrill.bsky.social
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Mikie Sherrill’s state police riot in Newark is a national disgrace | Will Bunch
New Jersey state troopers meant to protect Newark protesters from ICE are violently shredding the First Amendment instead.
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Paul @pawlbologna.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Ed Markey tears into Seth Moulton: "Massachusetts deserves better than a senator who scapegoats trans kids." The crowd goes fucking wild.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
This is embarrassing
Azeen Ghorayshi and Austin Mitchell of The New York Times for “The Protocol,” their comprehensive investigation of youth gender medicine, exploring its origins and uses, helping to illuminate one of the most controversial health policy debates of our time.
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Mersplosion @mersplosion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Economic op-ed writers hate it when you take future wellbeing into account. Sure retirement looks bleak, but what about your Q2 numbers?
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