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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It’s fine to say that violence is never the answer, but I can’t help but observe that for Charlie Kirk violence was always the answer, and it was the only answer he offered, and, because of the privilege that he refused to admit he had, he could enact it from a comfortable and respectable place.
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daanis @daanis.ca · 10/09/2025
all these pearl clutchers going off about humanity and whatnot. Just stop. Seriously. There is no equivalency between a few hours of ding dong another bitch is dead and the sustained violence of white delusions and authoritarian government. We aren't the ones using the state to destroy our enemies
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daanis @daanis.ca · 14/07/2025
"There are a lot of people who talk about how "MY ANCESTOR CAME HERE THE RIGHT WAY," as though that means that anyone else should be, well, doomed to the death penalty" My maternal grandfather did not come the "right way." He had forged papers. www.lifeisasacredtext.com/refugecities...
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cities of refuge
sanctuary
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daanis @daanis.ca · 20/06/2025
If a riot is a violent disturbance of the peace, we need to interrogate what we mean by peace. Friere reminds us that violence is never initiated by the oppressed, without the preexisting violence of oppression, the oppressed would not exist. B. Case, Street Rebellion.
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST DAYS OF MY LIFE 🥹 Presenting the book cover of “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy,” written by myself and illustrated by my friend Lorraine Nam. Published by Random House Children’s Books 🐧💚 Preorder at bit.ly/ISHYH-Reveal 📖✨
Mychal Threets and Lorraine Nam picture book, “I’m So Happy You’re Here: A Celebration of Library Joy”
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Paige Byerly, PhD @paigebyerly.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 03/06/2025
A reason I get so angry when people diminish stochastic terrorism's role in shaping our society is because when things like the campaign of terrorism & subsequent hate killing of Jonathan Joss happen we all instinctively acknowledge that it may not have were the perpetrators not emboldened.
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daanis @daanis.ca · 25/05/2025
Every time I think I'm overreacting and it actually would be ok to go to a couple of conferences, something comes into my social media to remind me I am not.
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shaka 🦁👑 @beejonson.me · 24/05/2025
Can't have people contradicting the capitalist and white supremacist status quo, can't have people exposing the capitalist scams in place. It's why everything in western countries is designed to keep westerners, especially the white ones, deeply ignorant.
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 21/05/2025
Where are people getting this message, like, fascism aside, where are Leaders getting this message that Empathy and Humanity are qualities that are undesirable, weak and fundamentally useless? These are the foundations of collective society. Nothing sustainable can exist without it. I don't get it.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I have a lot to say about the resurgent young men / masculinity discourse but for now will confine myself to: I wish I knew how to convince teenage boys/young men is how little of the world actually requires or even invites the hypermisogynist "tough guy" aesthetic
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Tiffany Morris @tiffmorris.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I’m so sad about it and it feels sad to see Americans so excited for us, being excited to narrowly escape fascism while nascent fascism gains influence in power should not be the default “good” setting for a country
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🐦‍⬛🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸Dan won't shut up about trans rights & Palestine @verboseminimalist.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Here's a great short video on the uprising by @atunshei.bsky.social
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Freedom or Death: The Louisiana Slave Revolt of 1811
YouTube video by Atun-Shei Films
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daanis @daanis.ca · 15/04/2025
This stays so true. Especially right now when everybody is so surprised that what Trump is doing could possibly be happening. We don't know our own history, and what we do know is deeply siloed. We need to know what our roots sink into.
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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Authoritarian states happen step by step, then all at once. But you couldn't get to this point from a healthy, functional state. Black folks, Indigenous people, etc have been trying to tell you **based on our lived experience** that "regular" US politics & overt fascism are siblings, maybe twins.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/04/2025
"i'm just following the evidence where it takes me, and it just so happens to align with the partisan and ideological agenda of my fellow-travelers as well as my own professional self-interest" sure dude
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daanis @daanis.ca · 12/04/2025
Absolutely. I understand the constant comparisons to Nazi Germany, but that's also a real move to innocence. It was a Bad Thing that happened Somewhere Else and remember how we stopped it? Except that erases western complicity with Hitler, the west's own hatred of Jews, and what happened here.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
There is in fact no way to make a case for a moral or political obligation to have children that does not degrade the status and dignity of women by claiming ownership their bodies as instruments for collective use.
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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. - Desmond Tutu
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
another thing that is unmistakable is the way that these people use “men” and “white Americans” interchangeably “Men” are white “Men” are Americans “Americans” are white men This never passes my notice when people do this
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daanis @daanis.ca · 02/04/2025
there is no in between
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 22/03/2025
I just think it’s interesting how y’all never mention any of these places with stuff like this but it’s always China or North Korea. Probably doesn’t mean anything though.
Recent cases of Black hair/style regulation and punishment in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States reveal a deep-seated hostility between Black identity/hair and broader society. Policies discriminating against Black hairstyles in schools have ignited a level of
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
That mentality - that capitalism is somehow a game which everyone signs up to at birth, and the winners deserve the world - explains so much about the current moment.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada. Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:
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Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO
A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I am once again tapping the sign and respectfully inviting you all to support billionaire-free news (especially worker-run and reader-funded local newsrooms)
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
More than a year after campaigning on a promise not to search a landfill north of Winnipeg for the remains of two women, provincial Conservatives suddenly had a change of heart and offered the families an “unconditional apology.”
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Family of Morgan Harris balks at apology from Manitoba Conservatives
The Manitoba Conservative Party has issued an apology for First Nations families for refusing to search a landfill for their loved ones.
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It's #WorldBookDay and this year I want to shout out to everyone who's been part of #Kindred 's journey, starting over a decade ago with @jimspim.bsky.social, plus all the wonderful readers, reviewers, scholars who cite it, educators who teach with it, artists/creatives inspired by it... THANK YOU 💕
Image of book jacket for "Kindred: Neanderthal Life Love Death and Art" . By Rebecca Wragg Sykes. Cover is a pale parchment colour, title text in dark red, and there are three line drawn images across the middle of a shell, a stone tool and a feather.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 02/03/2025
This is the thing I don't think people understand. The US has been so much worse than this & a lot of people were okay with it because it wasn't hitting their communities. Now it is on deck for everyone. White people better get in the field on the front lines
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A new development after potential human remains have been found at a Winnipeg-area landfill. Today, the victim’s families provided reaction to the news. What was revealed, and what happens next, tonight on APTN National News. Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews
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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is really funny because after congestion pricing launched and the haters were instantly proved wrong — traffic really did go down, transit use really did go up — they clung to "well let's see the business receipts!" as a last resort. And now we know business receipts are through the roof!
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Memo to the President: Manhattan Economy Improving, Thanks to Congestion Pricing - Streetsblog New York City
Lower Manhattan's economy has gotten an almost billion-dollar boost in just the first month of congestion pricing's existence, the MTA said on Wednesday.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 18/02/2025
In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less: Pick ONE thing and do it. bsky.app/profile/itsa...
What are some actions you can take TODAY?

Become a “Friend of the Library”
Call your state representatives 
Boycott businesses rolling back DEI
Read & fund independent journalists and magazines
Join a Mutual Aid network  
Donate to environmental justice organizations
Support minority authors and artists 
Pass out Know Your Rights cards to the undocumented
Organize a local or school-based protest
Follow, elevate, and fund minority voices online
Donate to reproductive justice organizations
Volunteer at homeless or DV shelters
Send money to your local food banks 
Join the local school board 
Attend town hall meetings and voice your opinion
Start book clubs centered on Black history
Fundraise for supplies K-12 teachers may need
Donate to legal funds that protect LGBTQ+ people
Start a scholarship for underserved students
Host community action conversations 
Work on research about the marginalized
Integrate DEI into every part of your business
Migrate from Twitter to Bluesky (it’s so good)
Support businesses that stand by humanity
Stand up to people bullying the vulnerable
Donate to Public Citizen and federal worker unions
Find joy in the in between and don’t lose hope
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 17/02/2025
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Ottawa ends funding for national advisory committee on unmarked residential school graves | CBC News
The National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials supports Indigenous communities looking to identify, locate and commemorate children who died at residentia...
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025
Arguably we are overdue for what is happening now. I think that's why so many communities of color are upset but not spiraling. White people are experiencing our reality. Trust the government? Why? The US government unified to oppress and not much else. Certainly not to progress
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025
Because none of this is actually unprecedented (except the heavily armed populace) and even as you try to make Hitler comparisons? Hitler got the plan from the US. Apartheid? See Jim Crow and Black codes. When we talk about fascism as though it came out of WW2? We're lying about history.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 15/02/2025
Flip your center in US history from white people to Black and Indigenous people, look at the Exclusion Acts, and understand the US isn't sliding towards fascism. It is reverting to its original state. And your utopian dreams about European comfort, freedom, etc? Yeah, take a harder look.
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legal cat 🐾 @legalcat.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
One of my recent fears is that we’re going to lose a lot of information as events move really fast, and as the internet is wiped/reuploaded. I’m wondering if anyone would be interested in running an accountability documentation project with me. Here is what I’m picturing: /1
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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 15/02/2025
Right now, for a lot of Canadians the temptation is to ignore Indigenous people because the threats from the US seem way more important. This turn to fervent and ignorant nationalism is a mistake. Don't alienate the people who know more about your "country" than you do. Find common cause instead.
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 14/02/2025
people are telling me that I need to speak to WW in a way they can relate to because 54% of WW voted for Trump. The Handmaid's Tale premiered in 2017. The majority of WW voters in 2020 and 2024 voted Trump. Time to let go of the idea that it is nonwhite people's responsibility to hold WW's hand.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 08/02/2025
"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."
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Here at DOGE, We’ve Streamlined Every Aspect of America’s Collapse
"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave representatives of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to the federal payment system la...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Before folks start comparing this to European autocracies, pause and ask why so many folks - Black and white - didn’t know about the Tulsa Race Massacre. Or the Wilmington Coup. Or the Colfax Massacre. Or the Elaine, Arkansas massacre. Erasure has been a key tactic of white supremacy. Right here.
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Daniel Delgado #CeasefireNow @ddelgadovive.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Lesson 6: The resistance messaging should BY NO MEANS be "return to law and order." It should be: Trump and Musk out of power. Lock up all conspirators. #QueSeVayanTodos. Fucking #LandBack while we're at it. They want to play with illegal seizure of power? Then EVERYTHING is up for grabs. 1/
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 03/02/2025
Pretending stopping a coup is about following the rules is the height of idiocy. Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. Jim Crow was legal. Fighting back is often illegal. It is also necessary.
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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 02/02/2025
I know the criticism will be that not every Black woman is leftist enough. But fun fact, the left has a misogyny problem & a racism problem that gets buried under "But class consciousness" & "It's not race, it's class" every time anyone brings up those pesky facts about how Black women are treated
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Every single word of this thread.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If you cannot call it what it is when all in a week: a government removes every mention of a group of people, destroys information about them en masse, bans their discussion in schools, restricts their ability to travel and starts seizing and refusing their official identification, when will you?
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Musa makes a great point. It is going to be hard to meet what is happening with facts, legal systems and regular politics. I'm also thinking of the belief systems of white male billionaires who have clearly stated that they are interested in leaving humanity behind (Space travel or AI clones)
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daanis @daanis.ca · 28/01/2025
You should tho
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I think people are having a hard time understanding the vast majority of folks who were protesting Gaza weren’t saying that Trump is preferable or would avoid ethnic cleansing, they were saying “stop the ethnic cleansing now” so that hopefully there wouldn’t be one regardless of the election results
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día de les muertos @tumblesweed.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
a cool thing about mycelium networks and plants is that plants will use mycelium networks to move toxins and things they need to save plants from suffering and/or dying.
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