Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️anth @therpgdiner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026”It’s much more expensive [doing it by hand]… I don’t care. What we’re protecting is the beauty and redeeming power of art. We are protecting a lineage of art. You have to put in time. You have to do every element by hand.” ”I dare say there’s more than 1,300 people that worked on it” 124566
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Merry Miller 8647 congress 202-224-3121 @monetpainter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026He buys spectrum and I will be changing to either AT&T or T-Mobile. Spectrum is expensive compared to the others, but, I will NOT hand over dollars to this ass. 183
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026In WA State farm workers are harvesting Granny Smith apples. Hector says, "I feel very unhappy about what they're paying us. Last year, we were paid $33/900lb bin. This year they are only paying us $30/bin. It's increasingly difficult to cover my family's expenses. #WeFeedYou 30748253
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/10/2026A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.erininthemorning.comKilling of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court RulesThe case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.” 941998717
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942 4142111207
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning 8140231015
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The FDA just announced they won’t release their “safety review” of abortion pills until March of next year. In other words: They’re stalling until after the midterms.nbcnews.comFDA says it will complete safety review of abortion pill in MarchA federal judge in Louisiana ordered the FDA to provide an update on its safety study as part of a lawsuit seeking to overturn a provision allowing mifepristone to be delivered by mail. 7272114
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️NPR @npr.org · 08/10/2026Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. n.pr/4hzvA5Mn.prICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors sayThroughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated. 18491241
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Gothamist @gothamist.com · 08/10/2026AI wary NYC students say the tech is still sneaking into classrooms gothamist.com/news/ai-wary...gothamist.comAI wary NYC students say the tech is still sneaking into classroomsStudents are calling out educators for still using AI in posters, slideshows and quizzes. 217249
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now. 182143752
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 08/10/2026Not even the Baltimore Orioles’ mascots, Oriole Bird and Mr. Splash, could be spared by corporate greed. They were 1099 employees, by the way, which means #GreedyCEOs weren’t even paying them payroll taxes or benefits.seiu.coOriole Bird mascot, Mr. Splash employees among layoffs in BaltimoreThe mascots were among more than two dozen employees let go by the club as part of layoffs. 1219
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️ACLU @aclu.org · 08/10/2026President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are hiding even the most basic facts about their ongoing boat strikes campaign. We applaud the members of Congress who are demanding answers about these illegal strikes. Transparency can't wait while more people are murdered by our government.politico.comScrutinizing Trump’s boat strikes 9474163
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Woman ‘posed as substitute teacher to insult students because she hates kids’metro.co.ukWoman ‘posed as substitute teacher to insult students because she hates kids’ 98846110
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 08/10/2026we do not have to live this way. 81230331
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/10/2026me, an immigrant, watching people who said immigrants are corrupting america engage in actual corrupt behavior 8684681289
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 07/10/2026A former correctional officer at a women’s federal prison facility in Minnesota was indicted on charges that he sexually abused inmates under his supervision, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.startribune.comFormer federal correctional officer in Minnesota indicted on sexual abuse chargesAlbert Victor Freeman is accused of attempting or engaging in sex acts with three inmates. 4299
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Victor Marx, the GOP gubernatorial candidate and de facto head of the Republican Party in Colorado, is a white Evangelical who actually comes from Louisiana. He loves to talk about all the people he has murdered and beaten senseless. 34526
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/10/2026At least 81 U.S. #military aircraft totaling as much as $3.3 billion have been lost or damaged since the Iran war began. nypost.com/2026/10/06/u...nypost.comUS military has lost 81 planes, drones and helicopters worth $3.3 billion in Iran warThe US has lost at least 81 US military aircraft since the war in Iran began, a loss totaling as much as $3.3 billion, according to a new Congressional Research Service report. 74631
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Epstein Whistleblower Simon Andriesz Dies After Exposing Lutnick Ties—What To Know | Forbes www.forbes.com/sites/alison...forbes.comEpstein Files: Whistleblower Simon Andriesz Dies After Exposing Howard Lutnick TiesLutnick denied to Congress that he had any knowledge of him and Epstein being invested in the same company. 54027
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 07/10/2026Last month, authorities evicted 87-year-old Maricarmen Abascal, 87 on a stretcher from her apartment of more than 70 years because she couldn't afford rent increases—sparking protests across Spain. Now she has passed away. Honor the dead and fight like hell for the living. Smash gentrification. 🏴 212850
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 07/10/2026With VPNs “Germans can bypass controls on "hate speech",the Chinese can work around restrictions on Winnie the Pooh memes, and people in places like Utah can ignore intrusive age-verification rules.” So this is great news reason.com/2026/10/07/f...reason.comFederal court slaps down Utah's VPN restrictionsA judge blocked a rule that would have required adult sites to block VPNs or age-check the world. 07942
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️vp.net @vpnet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Our CMO Chris Miller, in @fightforthefuture.org's Defend VPNs Day of Action recap: "Lawmakers are treating privacy like a loophole to close." Continued below 👇 12622
🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️ @neuroxix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026My little brother has seemingly had a complex about me (hatred) that I didn't know how to bring up so I finally did and asked him what his deal was and he basically gave me the runaround and was very vague and then he said that the left wing and the right wing are the same. So I think he's insane. 000
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Hannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 07/10/2026As usual, essential data from @prisonpolicy.org, this time on how ICE is changing tactics and using the criminal legal system to facilitate mass deportation: 1196
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Prism @prismreports.org · 07/10/2026On May 22, 300+ people detained inside New Jersey’s Delaney Hall detention center went on a work & hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions. Strike leader Martin Soto, who was disappeared by ICE agents while returning home with a pack of diapers, was released from custody last night.prismreports.orgLoved ones, supporters of Delaney Hall’s striking immigrants rally outside detention centerImmigrants detained inside Delaney Hall, the notorious Newark, New Jersey, facility are on a work and hunger strike to demand freedom 17839
🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️ @neuroxix.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Found old sanza, has my old music, listening to daft punk, why can't technology be like this anymore? No ads, no subscription, no touchscreen that turns on because it felt your skin through your pocket and fucked up your song. 010
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Lorelei Lee (they/them) @loreleilee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Ppl keep texting me about the Cornell case because I went to school there & taught there. I started to write something longer, but maybe all I really want to say is this: 2214
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For a second day, Russian strikes have hit a bridge linking Kyiv’s east and west banks. Ukraine says the attacks are part of a broader campaign to disrupt daily life and increase pressure on civilians. | DW www.dw.com/en/russia-ta...dw.comRussia targets Kyiv bridge networkFor a second day, Russian strikes have hit a bridge linking Kyiv’s east and west banks. Ukraine says the attacks are part of a broader campaign to disrupt daily life and increase pressure on civilians... 32011
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you’re not on X you won’t appreciate the extent to which virulent racism against Indians has become THE rallying call of the far right. 2938598
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026FA is being very up front about both the cost of hosting the site [it aint cheap] and how advertisers theyd been relying on prior are pushing all the same puritan bullshit weve been seeing other platforms push FA is one of very few Old Internet spaces around. Support em while we CAN 1230892191
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 03/10/2026Talking about the trades? Read this instead of The Atlantic! 312044
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If you were ever in doubt about Tucker's affection for the Führer, be sure to watch this, and Rees-Mogg's patient explanation to him of why Hitler was indeed a depraved, evil human being. 58728
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 02/10/2026This summer, ICE arrests of people with no convictions or pending charges more than doubled. Arrests of people with charges or convictions rose under 20%. DHS says it targets the worst of the worst. The data say otherwise. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ices-summe...austinkocher.substack.comICE’s Summer Enforcement Surge Driven by People with No Criminal HistoryThe latest data from Deportation Data Project shows that ICE has never arrested so many people — and never so many people without any criminal history. 59346
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It was 91° at 11:50am in Delano CA. Farm workers were cutting grape bunches, sorting them, and packing them into cardboard boxes. "Julia" tells us, "These high temperatures are intimidating. I have serious concerns of getting sick because of the heat." #WeFeedYou 11468142
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims. | NY Times archive.today/3AwiZ 52417
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12530011790
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Gothamist @gothamist.com · 03/10/2026New York City’s is forcing a pair of towing companies to issue $66,500 in refunds after officials said they defrauded car owners: gothamist.visitlink.me/EMV089 0121
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The GOP cut funding to the IRS because *audits work* and they fundamentally don't believe rich people should have to play by the rules. 293420827
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.productpicnic.beehiiv.comLLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about. 1034197
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 27/09/2026What DraftKings is doing with their targeted promotions is just one example of how online behavioral advertising causes real harm to real people.eff.orgDraftKings Is Using AI to Supercharge the Harms of Online Behavioral AdvertisingOnline sports betting company DraftKings is using AI to target customers who are most likely to place losing bets and respond to gambling promotions. This kind of targeting is a form of online behavio... 116669
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Termitodesmidae is an elusive family of millipede that lives exclusively in the fungal chamber of termite nests where they get to chow down on an all-you-can-eat fungal buffet 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1... 816141
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026 8785782810
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Frastis - Center - Sentience - centrist Democrat . @frastis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Stop eating animals and this will slow down slave labor and significantly reduce animal slaughter. 041
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026@MichelleObama said when they go low, we go high. I'm saying when they go low, we get LOUD. Every single time a country has stopped its democracy from falling, it happened one way. People organized and mobilized. The people refused to be quiet. Let's Get LOUD #AngieforFlorida 10381128
Reposted by 🏳️🌈Andy Tree🏳️⚧️Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026X is blocking the Brazilian Catholic Bishops' Conference account as polling shows Catholics backing Lula. The Church has denounced outside interference in the electionpaydayreport.comX Blocks Account of National Conference of Bishops of Brasil As Catholics Back LulaPolls show Catholics backing Lula as the church denounces foreign interference. 17689286