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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Obama and other liberals keep saying that they want a "strong GOP". Well, this is what it looks like: a brazen and gleeful rejection of Black people having anything worth respecting or defending and alignment with an openly white nationalist agenda that holds nonwhiteness in contempt.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

With ICE's public approval in the toilet, the agency is quietly paying off local police to act as bounty hunters carrying out its immigration mission www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

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Exclusive: ICE's Bounty Hunters

Leaked database shows how ICE pays off local cops to do their bidding

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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The Mask of the Red Jeph @ass.golf · 20/03/2026

hey if "the economy" is completely decoupled from the welfare of the people, WHAT IS THE FUCKING POINT OF THE ECONOMY

"people are starving but THE ECONOMY is doing great"

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

TURNS OUT IF U USE ALL YOUR BOMBS BOMBING CHILDREN THAT THERE ARE FEWER BOMBS TO USE TO BOMB SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT CHILDREN

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

In case Gaza and now the Iranian school didn’t make it clear, militaries using AI to pick targets and execute strikes is just going to result in escalating tragedy and atrocities that leaders can shrug off and blame on the technology, making war crimes “acceptable” and part of the strategy of war.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

“Independent” is doing too much work in this first wave. They are arresting journalists and just like everything else they’ve done, they’re testing the limits of our resistance by starting wt vulnerable margins.

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Other than when it was imposed by outside military force, there's not a single case of fascists taking power without the collaboration/complicity of centrists and liberals. Including now. If radicals pointing out this reality upsets you, go do something about it rather than yelling at trans women.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

If we win, and I believe we will, we will look back on this duopolistic system and see it for the sham it has always been, a performance benefiting the wealthy to all of our detriment. There’s no reforming this like there’s no reforming ICE. We have to burn it down and rebuild.

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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Thread: Body cams won't stop this. We want abolition. They want surveillance. Share this thread and read these 5 essential abolitionist resources exposing the body cam lie. PS these other reforms are garbage, too. bsky.app/profile/greg...

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Border Patrol agents are very sad that everyone in Minnesota hates them. “At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving…”

DHS: Today, Border Patrol agents who were in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area as part of a targeted enforcement operation were repeatedly harassed and blocked by hostile crowds while simply trying to take bathroom breaks.
At each gas station where the agents stopped to use the restroom, groups of agitators appeared, yelled at them, stalked them, and even tried to prevent law enforcement vehicles from leaving, creating unsafe conditions. At one stop, individuals in the crowd threw food at the agents. At their final gas station stop, someone spit on an agent. When an agent moved to detain the person who spit on him, the crowed tackled and attacked the agents while surrounding them.
To safely clear the area agents had to use crowd control measures to disperse the hostile crowd.
4:47PM • 1/21/26 • 1.3K Views

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Joe DiCola @joedicola.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The police are the guarantors of private property. Abolishing the police is the project of abolishing the intentional destruction and immiseration of the globe. It all becomes reform and training and perfecting the institutions of violence without this part

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." —MLK Jr.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

a lot of D pols just really like cops, in every form. they want more cops, they want more ICE. they don't want occupation of blue cities, but they keep quibbling about technical issues (not enough training! body cams!) because they *do not want* to reduce ICE funding.

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nqnorman.bsky.social @nqnorman.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social might be interested to know my 8-year old niece’s most recent utterance:

Text from sister-in-law sharing what her daughter just said: "I've heard that if you stare at a lighthouse for 5 minutes it can burn your enema"

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cinematika.bsky.social @cinematika.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm genuinely waiting for the good faith response as to why abolish ICE is not a plan. It's been around for 20 years. They just effectively abolished USAID which had been around 3 times as long.

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Rick @rickwebb.net · 08/01/2026

Hello Tim Cook I worked at Tumblr when you gave us 48 hours to get rid of all the consenting, adult boobs. Up all night at your whim, out of the blue. But you're still cool with Twitter and its CSAM and revenge porn and whatever the fuck this is? Why do you even HAVE guidelines?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I’m glad to see Bill say this. But when after a century of just the type of abuse we saw today - relentless and cruel, ensnaring our children and intimidating our communities - young Black people said in frustration, anger, and demand for change “defund the police” - so many of you denounced them.

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

The Gilded Age didn’t end because rich people were sick of it

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

One thing today has shown is that ordinary people who are politically active protesting their Govt, they are far braver than any of the career politicians running the Govt. And frankly without such brave people, we would not even have the limited rights that we do have.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting
"They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head."
An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries.
"We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

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Accountability Journalism Institute @accountabilityji.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"The objective here is literally, physically to destroy this group." Experts in genocide prevention warn that current U.S. policies toward the trans community match historical patterns of mass atrocity. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/trump-admini...

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Experts Warn U.S. in Early Stages of Genocide Against Trans Americans — AJI

Genocide scholars say policies targeting transgender Americans match early warning signs of mass atrocity. Written By:  Walker Bragman Originally Published: Jan 05, 2026 This piece has...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/12/2025

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

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nqnorman.bsky.social @nqnorman.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Really alarmed when I ran across this and thought, “wait, I don’t remember posting this!”

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I think if you oppose war with Venezuela (correct) you should open with that. Illegal and unconstitutional can follow. But the cause is monstrous and legality could never justify it.

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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 07/12/2025

a very important superpower you can develop is learning to enjoy having a bad time, it's cool and fun to do shit that sucks

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 02/12/2025

Remember—Billionaire philanthropy is PR $6.25B is a lot of money. It’s also only 4.1% of the $152B Michael Dell has hoarded. If Dell paid the 37% tax rate on the wealthy he'd pay $56.25B—and still have nearly $100B, more than he'd ever need Taxation of billionaires > philanthropy from billionaires

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Neo-Liberalism has been a disaster leading to Giant Monopolies like we've never seen before! Cory Doctorow explains the consequences of 40+ years of Neo-Liberal policies and deregulation of competition law.

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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The real question is, why do 42 million people, ~15% of the population of the USA, require food assistance in the richest country in human history? Why has our government writ large caused its people's impoverishment for so long? Don't just take the fight they put in front of you. Think deeper.

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Matthew Haugen @mjhaugen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Wow it turns out the entire country is not permanently reactionary because Trump won an election by 1.5%

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Maurice Mitchell 🐺 @mauricewfp.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Every talking head is going to try to sell you the idea that @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's win was a fluke. But working people are sending a message: they WANT a politics that prioritizes them, not the billionaires.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 04/11/2025

Sora 2 is not being “misused” when people use it to produce racist, transphobic, misogynistic, & otherwise vile images—it exists to make it easier to put these images out into the world. Calling it a “misuse” is a grave misunderstanding of what these companies are up to, & lets OpenAI off the hook.

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eli yudin @eliyudin.com · 03/11/2025

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes a day in an american life

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

It’s not even a cumulative effect. This effect is often immediate. I’ve now seen at least 10 incidents of ICE goons showing up, getting yelled at, and then giving up

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I don’t need to explain why it’s wildly unacceptable for the military to be illegally privately financed by the president’s wealthy allies, right?

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Congrats, The Atlantic and The New York Times, this is the country you've created.

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