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gay not American ⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING: politics, porn, doomscrolling, confrontation. mastodon.social/@iamlip @iamlip.bsky.social

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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 11h
“[Dario] Sánchez is one of the first members of a project called the NSPM-7 Defendants Union, scheduled to launch today. The union plans to offer access to legal clinics, media training & support for people facing state or federal prosecution under the president’s NSPM-7 memorandum,…
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Trump 2.0 is targeting US protesters with ‘antifa’ charges. Activists started a union to fight back
NSPM-7 Defendants Union plans to offer legal clinics, media training and more to people facing prosecution for protest
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 22h
Carney is selling us off to AMERICAN companies to the tune of 7.8 BILLION so far. The “elbows up” was all just a fucking ruse to make us trust him www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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PM Mark Carney pledged to ‘Buy Canadian.’ Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations
A Star analysis reveals U.S. firms dominated federal contracts despite PM Mark Carney’s ‘Buy Canadian’ promise.
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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 11h
Mamdani's admin is finally letting a group of Council members tour a Queens shelter where subpar living conditions have raised concern. But before tomorrow's planned visit, shelter residents were told to clean, a directive angering the Council members. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 21h
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Cuðbeorht @cudbeorht.eurosky.social · 21h
Ireland 'should push hard for Europe to suspend the EU-Israel preferential trade agreement. The last months of holding the presidency of the EU Council gives us a unique space to do this.'
irishexaminer.com
Palestine cannot wait any longer for international action on Israel
Israel has killed some 74,000 people in Gaza, including more than 1,400 during a so-called ceasefire, writes Action Aid Ireland chief Karol Balfe
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Same goes for media orgs/professionals just, still embracing substack … such a terrible look.
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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s appalling how many full-on media organizations are just on Twitter and nothing else in 2026 …
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𝚼𝖆𝖑𝖉𝖆 @yal-da.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As the World Week Against the Death Penalty begins, the judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran executed Alireza Sepahi and Alireza Raeisi, arrested during the nationwide protests of January 2026 in connection with the case known as the “Alikhani Square” case.
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 22h
probably when we demand the abolish of theism, we would get our equality free from being destroyed by the theists.
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 22h
also tbf, Greens should pass a resolution about "Christianity/Islam is queerphobia ", supporting for "our struggle for liberation by any means possible under international law", declare Greens party is an antiChristian/antiIslamic party, etc.
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 23h
I guess they are gonna define what is leftism what is not through motions one day..., that would be purely farce by narcissists...
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
it's a problem that Polanski has been dodging the motion vote... tbh, a party leader should not be like this...
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
the plan could be problematic, but her idea of defense development for defense is much better than Burnham and labours' defense development for economy growth, wildly, that labours' fascistic plan has gotten much less criticism, and labours are arbitrarily deemed as the so-called "center left"
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
the so-called "independent and nonpartisan" VoteHub is "in partnership with Kalshi" votehub.com/2026-forecast/
2026 Midterm Forecast

Last updated October 6, 2026 · 3:00AM

Explore the forecasts

In partnership with Kalshi

House
86% chance Democrats will control.

Senate
61% chance Democrats will control.

Gubernatorial
Democrats favored in 21 governor races.
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’d missed this: Annie Altman, Sam Altman’s sister who alleges in civil lawsuits that he ​sexually abused her repeatedly — starting when she was 3 years old — uploaded the first hour of her deposition to Instagram (and YouTube) this weekend. It has about 38k likes. www.instagram.com/reels/DeAx3h...
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Annie Altman (she/her/human) on Instagram: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset to once again hav...
39K likes, 916 comments - anniealtman108 on October 2, 2026: "First Hour of My Deposition - Ann Altman v Sam Altman 4:25-cv-00017-ZMB Wearing my Dad’s fleece ❤️ Grateful to share this and also upset...
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/10/2026
Please don't forget about us trans people. Facing the worst attack on our rights in this country due to Labour's current transphobia. Don't forget my community. That's all I ask. Please.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/10/2026
This November, Colorado voters will decide on anti-trans ballot measures. Now, Colorado's leading medical societies have formally condemned the surgery ban for transgender youth and announced their position against them. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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"Vote NO": Colorado's Top Medical Groups Formally Oppose Anti-Trans Ballot Prop. 135
There is not a single major medical group in the country that endorses blanket government restrictions on gender-affirming care like the one outlined in Prop. 135.
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🏳️‍⚧️ Ciara RayneCloud 🏳️‍⚧️ @ciararaynecloud.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hi everyone, as you saw already, I departed the Pride Caucus. (After only six to seven days in it sadly.) My friend Arienne Childrey, now follows me in departing. She has officially resigned and left the cacus as well. If anyone wants to poke the bigger accounts, please do.
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Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Time just implied that Elon Musk's flattering chatbot Grok may have convinced Trump to go ahead and invade Venezuela in January www.jezebel.com/venezuela-tr...
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Grok Chats May Have Convinced Trump to Invade Venezuela
Time just implied that Elon Musk's flattering chatbot Grok may have convinced Trump to go ahead and invade Venezuela in January.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended — and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009.”
Sean Parnell: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has recommended
— and President Donald J. Trump has approved — death by U.S. Army firing squad for convicted terrorist Nidal Malik Hasan, the jihadist who opened fire on unarmed American soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009.

He killed 13 people and wounded 32 others while shouting "Allahu Akbar" during the attack.
The Secretary of the Army will set the time and place of the execution. Judgement day for Hasan has finally come.
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Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: In Nebraska rally, Trump just suggested he would be unbothered to see Iran "take out" LA or San Diego: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take—Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. That’s—this is a very small price to pay."
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
meanwhile on Xitter...
Curtis Yarvin post on X on 10/5/2026: "Every time I’m in the UK I hear this. More and more people asking, subtly or straight out: what would Hitler do?

As if it was that easy. Have you looked around you? Man, Hitler wouldn’t even know where to start" 102.3 k views, 4:11 a.m. 74 replies, 51 shares, 997 hearts, 95 saves.
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 05/10/2026
bro you're fuckin jewish, he'd start with putting you in an oven
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 05/10/2026
Arienne Childrey resigns as Vice Chair of the Ohio Democratic Pride Caucus. The state party has censored all attempts to criticize Amy Acton and Marcy Kaptur for their anti-trans votes and/or statements.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I heard this before? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/b...
nytimes.com
Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict (Gift Article)
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
less than 1% of membership? are they elected representatives or just who are active or mobilized? Non-Indigenous people in Palestine shouldn't "determine" for Palestinians and Palestine. the self-determination of "Israelis" shouldn't override the self determination of Palestinians.
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
The chair of "apology to JK Rowling" amnesty international was a Green Party member? what I've learned is that amnesty international is not pro "Israel".
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
wow znetwork.org/znetarticle/...
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Meta Blocks President Lula’s Facebook Page and Campaign Ads
Meta disabled the Facebook page of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Wednesday. It also restricted the ad account linked to his campaign. The
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TheMoxinator @themoxinator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's also Xitter blocking account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil as Catholics back Lula, and Facebook blocking Lula's page and campaign ads. The same people who cry about free speech and "town square" ya know.
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
I just took a quick look, the Green party anti Zionist motion is better than I thought, the general idea of the motion is good and should be what their policy making bases on. (I'm not sure if this is the final version of the motion.) static1.squarespace.com/static/68aee...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.
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Edgar Allan Hoe @dlcrumbdump.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There’s no accurate way to describe Trump’s USAID cuts as anything but genocide.
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Citizens' Impeachment @citizensimpeachment.com · 03/10/2026
and we've seen this movie before. It wasn't even so long ago. In 2018 Pelosi won a huge mid-term victory and passed tons and tons of legislation over the next two years, NONE OF WHICH ever became law. Nobody even remembers any of it because it had zero impact on our country.
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/10/2026
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program. www.404media.co/how-cities-a...
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bolsonaro got 47% to Lula's 45% & now face a runoff in 3 weeks. What went wrong? - Concerns about Lula's age (80) & incumbency - Corporate media manufacturing scandals against him - Trump helping Bolsonaro. My look at how Lula could still win the runoff paydayreport.com/what-caused-...
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What Caused Lula's Electoral Setback & How He Could Still Win the Runoff
Bolsonaro received 47%, while Lula received 45% in the first round.
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
with more and more blue states passing the surtax on income over one million, it's increasingly disgusting that mamdani has been so appeasing to hochul and the plutocrats, betraying the center of his campaign. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/u...
nytimes.com
Washington Taxed Its Millionaires. Now the Rich Want It Repealed.
Washington State voters will get a chance to accept or reject the 9.9 percent income tax on millionaires approved by the Legislature, which broke the state’s taboo against levying income taxes.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cornell Police and the County Prosecutor's office seem intent on saying, in barely concealed terms, the other is to blame. It's a system where they're both happy to be able to pass off any responsibility while preserving their authority / power / territory; something fundamental has to change.
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Mood at Cornell University darkens amid mounting pressure on investigators of alleged sex assault | CNN
At first glance, the Cornell University looks like a picture-perfect college brochure. But students say the mood on campus has turned somber amid allegations of sexual assault at a fraternity house.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That this is *not* the trust that has been broken astounds me. I gave feedback earlier this year on some restoring trust projects. I mentioned Cornell's president hitting a student and alum with apparently little regret as the type of damage these projects need to care about. Elite impunity matters.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Whenever I see a current or former university president in the news for sexual misconduct, I think of this chart from 2015. (ABC seems to have pulled down the original Five Thirty Eight article, but here’s a Feministing blog about it.)
feministing.com
Chart of the Day: College presidents think rape is only a problem at other schools
According to Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey, US college and university presidents demonstrate some very wishful thinking when it comes to sexual assault. While about a third believe that it is preva...
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I said this in a NY Times story last week about the WA millionaire tax, but let’s bring back shame. Even if billionaires don’t know it’s wrong to do shit like this, they should know it’s embarrassing.
fortune.com
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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lip @milkthistle.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
it's just murder, gradually if not directly.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Former British banker and whistleblower Simon Andriesz, who outed Howard Lutnick’s links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has died by suicide.”
thebanker.com
Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 04/10/2026
Come on
Hegseth cosplaying a NaziJudgement scene from Wolfeinstein.
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Alex Awoos @alex-awoos-backup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I feel like more people should be talking about this part
Screenshot from the article that reads, The Stud, San Francisco's oldest gay bar, was only able to have its Meta pages restored because of the bars popularity among gay tech executives with connections to Meta
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Vance Bostic for NY-8 @vancebosticforny8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They tried to keep me off the ballot. Now I need you to write my name in. Between Oct 24th - Nov 3rd, write “Vance Bostic” in the write-in box for Representative in Congress on your NY-08 ballot. This is how we take our district and the power of our seat back for the people!
VANCE BOSTIC FOR NY-8

WRITE-IN CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS

How to Write Me In.
1. Find the write-in box for Representative in Congress on your ballot.
2. Write in print "Vance Bostic" clearly in the box.
3. Fill in the oval next to the write-in spot with a pen only.

That's it. No confusion, no tricks. Just democracy and people power.

SAMPLE BALLOT
REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS

DEMOCRATIC
CANDIDATE
Hakeem Jeffries

REPUBLICAN
CANDIDATE
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Write-in Candidate
Vance Bostic
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Can confirm. This, for example, was at the top of my “for you” feed when I logged in to find an old post the other day.
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gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New: As gay bars across the country say that Meta is flagging and deactivating their accounts without warning, I spoke to an Austin queer bar that says Meta nearly destroyed their ability to advertise events: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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How Meta's new content moderation upended a Texas gay bar
At least one LGBTQ establishment in Texas says the social media giant has incorrectly disabled its social media account, potentially hurting business.
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Brazilian election is yet another reminder of why not to trust polling. Fascists lie to pollsters everyday
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 04/10/2026
i understand deeming zionism to be racism. but i do not at all understand targeting party members for belonging to synagogues whose politics do not match their own unless your goal is to push jews out of the party generally, which would be odd for a party with a jewish leader.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 04/10/2026
Please note it is the Home Office gathering this information and making lists. I sincerely believe this Home Secretary to be dangerous.
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