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They/them ♿️ disabled 😷 masker 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ queer 📍USA Leftist 🇵🇸 Free Palestine

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Magellan 🇵🇸 @magellan107.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Officials across the globe take no action; any words they do utter amount to blatant hypocrisy, demonstrating only that the lives of the innocent hold no importance for them. We need not criticize the occupation—it is well known to be a vile criminal entity—but what of these world officials?
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Know their names: Scott Kretzschmar, Scott Norris, Diego Sarabia, Gillio Lopes, Winston Lee, Johnathan Newell and Matthew Ingalls #Cornell7 But also, everyone in the group chat, the administrators, university, and DA. SHAME.
Cornell 7Disgusting chat
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect. Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police www.kgw.com/article/news...
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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 30/09/2026
My friend turned wellness influencer lives rent free in my head and I should ignore her but I hate this cult-ish belief that we can protein shake, peptide and positive mindset our way out of chronic illness, ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, racism, violence and other horrors.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We need to call out ableism and classism with the same level of seriousness as racism and sexism
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A truly heinous man has doxxed the Cornell victim on X and the comments are predictably vile. Based on countless interviews I’ve done with survivors, the trauma they are subjected to for coming forward is oftentimes even worse than the initial trauma they experienced. There is no real justice system
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plaidflannel (they/them) @plaidflannel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did anyone else's Spotify unmute Ed Sheeran?
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plaidflannel (they/them) @plaidflannel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wow just saw the Airwick Dia de los Muertos commercial. Incredible to see an ad like right now when everything is about eugenics and rage baiting. Unfortunately their parent company is on the boycott list, but way to go, Airwick.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 26/09/2026
Companies are making people mad on purpose. And in some cases, it’s paying off.
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The Outrage Economy: Why Companies Are Embracing Rage-Bait In High-Stakes Gamble
Companies are making people mad on purpose. And in some cases, it’s paying off.
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plaidflannel (they/them) @plaidflannel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The iced coffee debate is annoying me because it's not that complicated. Is it proper etiquette? No. Why is it not proper etiquette? Because it shows that you prioritize yourself, not the company. It shows that you're prepared to make sure your needs are met, whether the company provides or not.🧵
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plaidflannel (they/them) @plaidflannel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I went to an elite college prep. Every day, they would tell us it was our responsibility to fix societal issues with all of these complicated steps. I would say, why don't the rich just hoard less? They didn't like that. I wasn't allowed to graduate because my solutions were unacceptable. 🧵
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Bob Patin @bobpatin.com · 24/09/2026
TV ads for online gambling sites should be permanently banned.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 24/09/2026
The move comes after he was kicked off Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour for making pro-Palestine comments on stage.
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Macklemore Launches 3-Stop 'Free Palestine' Tour After Ed Sheeran Controversy
The move comes after he was kicked off Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour for making pro-Palestine comments on stage.
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plaidflannel (they/them) @plaidflannel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's an event I really want to go to, but one of the speakers is besties with the last guy who traumatized me. Maybe he won't go, and me going anyway would be a power move, but I don't think I'm there yet. It could be a really cool event though 😞
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
1/ Big news out of Berlin. Germany's left just had its best result in years, and the playbook should sound familiar. Simple message, huge ground game, relentless positivity. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy novaramedia.com/2026/09/21/h...
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How Zohran Mamdani Helped Germany’s Left Party Win in Berlin | Steven Methven
Die Linke’s victory in Berlin comes off the back of a laser-focused campaign on the city’s mounting housing crisis, writes Steven Methven.
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plaidflannel (they/them) @plaidflannel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm never entirely sure if it's bots or people seeing a phrase and parroting it, but every week there seems to be a new type-o going around. This week, it's "towing the line." The phrase is "toeing the line;" your toe is right up to the line, but you're not crossing it. Not towing like a tugboat.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Really wish our leaders wouldn't normalize working while actively sick with COVID.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Maybe instead of all these thinkpieces about how to cut corners we tax the fuck out of the 1%.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The family of a 37-year-old woman who died while pregnant filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and others, alleging state law prevented her from getting a potentially life-saving abortion.
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Family of Texas woman who died after being denied an abortion sues Paxton, medical providers
“The basic principle here is you cannot take away someone’s life, as a state, and not be held liable for doing so,” a lawyer for the family said.
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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 16/09/2026
We are joining Macklemore in donating to the people of Palestine with another $10,000 to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, which will help aid families amid the ongoing genocide. We encourage our followers & anyone with the means to join if they can: pcrf.net
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plaidflannel (they/them) @plaidflannel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I really love RJ Decker. It reminds me a lot of Republic of Doyle. Generally I can't stand Carl Hiaasen's weird fetishization of women, but RJ Decker is genuine friends with multiple women he's not trying to sleep with (the bar is in hell). The q anon militia guy having a husband was *chef's kiss*
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our health care system in America is disgusting. A clear indication that our government doesn't give a fuck if we live or die.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 16/09/2026
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community… Nurses are advocates first. We’re trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that’s what we’re doing.” @nationalnurses.bsky.social
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'Purge Palantir!': Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community... Nurses are advocates first. We're trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that's what we're doing.”
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At least 3 wounded after Russia bombed apartment building in Odesa . The youngest is just 4 years old ,
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today marks 44 years since the Israeli-sponsored Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut. It is high time to suspend Israel’s membership in the UN, at the very least, and impose lawful broad sanctions against its regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, occupation and genocide.
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Shefali Luthra @shefali.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...
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Tierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken Paxton
The case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
US prepares $2.8bn weapons sale, funded by taxpayers, to Israel: Report - www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-prepa…
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US prepares $2.8bn weapons sale, funded by taxpayers, to Israel: Report
The potential transfer of controversial 2,000-pound munition is largest single sale in recent years
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𝕯𝖆𝖑𝖑𝖆𝖘™ @dallasbarnett.com · 16/09/2026
You know what to do folks. Let's show some hostility out there
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Tesla's fully autonomous Cybercab is coming to New Zealand next year
Tesla is bringing its autonomous Cybercab to NZ for a public tour. It'll be familiar territory: it's been spotted numerous times testing in Central Otago.
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Michael Green @michaelgreenart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Read about them. They were kidnapped by ICE. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Migrant dad depicted in ‘New American Gothic’ painting arrested by ICE, artist says
Artist Criselda Vasquez said her family is ‘heartbroken’
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Mari- homeless. Still Indigenous. @wordglass.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Native American Leaders Denounce Record Glyphosate Spraying on National Forests Photo desc Beverly Ogle, 85, a Maidu elder in the Lassen area of California, says herbicide spraying by the government is the latest attack on her Native culture 1/15
Beverly Ogle, 85, a Maidu elder in the Lassen area of California, says herbicide spraying by the government is the latest attack on her Native culture
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For years, Alaska officials prosecuted (& persecuted) a community of American Samoans in the city of Whittier, threatening them with years in prison for the crime of voting. You may have read about this when we covered it in Bolts earlier this year. HUGE NEWS: Alaska just dropped all charges.
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After a Yearslong Nightmare, Relief for American Samoans Punished for Voting - Bolts
Alaska officials for years accused American Samoans caught in a unique legal limbo of illegally voting, but finally dropped those charges this month.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/09/2026
Today's reminder that the current genAI boom is powered by GPUs manufactured with a mineral called coltan (and other rare earths, and cobalt) mined through the labor of enslaved children in Congo, and the US and UAE fund the paramilitaries which protect those mines and keep those children enslaved.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/09/2026
This is a breaking news story.
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Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci convicted of war crimes
This is a breaking news story.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 16/09/2026
Today's reminder that the UAE is currently engaged in a genocide in Sudan using weapons they receive from the US and Israel and money they receive from our tourism dollars, and every celebrity who lives or vacations in Dubai or Abu Dhabi is knowingly funding it.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 16/09/2026
Hashim Thaçi, former Kosovo president, sentenced to 25 years for war crimes
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Hashim Thaçi, former Kosovo president, sentenced to 25 years for war crimes
Former Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi was found guilty of war crimes and jailed for 25 years by a court in The Hague.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 15/09/2026
okay while we’re all having a great time dunking on Ed Sheeran, and don’t let me stop you, but I just wanna pop in quickly and remind everyone that the “redheads don’t have souls” thing comes directly from medieval antisemitism, like directly, so let’s give that a miss. okay carry on
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Angel[a] Pappas @disnazzio.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There’s a million things but one of the things is the massive amount of PUBLIC funding of stadiums just for some genocide-enjoying oligarch to turn around and say who is allowed to perform in “his” stadium based on whether he is mad at them for disliking genocide.
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
9/16/65: Eight days after heroic Filipino grape workers struck Delano-area vineyards & began the Delano Grape Strike, members of the National Farm Workers Association voted to join the picket lines. That solidarity helped produce victory in 1970. Viva la Causa! Mabuhay!
Historic Viva La Huelga poster with UFW black eagle
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In good news, I’m now a published poet for a cause I couldn’t be more proud of — a charity anthology, with contributions from the most incredible swath of Native artists today 🪶 It releases this week, all proceeds going to Not Our Native Daughters. Nia:wen to the team at @madcavestudios.com!
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NOT OUK NATIVE DAUGHTERS
YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND
A CHARITY COMIC FOR INDIGENOUS RIGHTS
AN ANTHOLOGY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, CREATED BY INDIGENOUS CONTRIBUTORS
FEATURING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM:
JIM TERRY • GORD HILL • CHAG LOWRY • WESHOYOT ALVITRE • SHAUNNA OTEKA MCCOVEY DAVID MACK • KELLY LYNNE D'ANGELO • STEPH LITTLEBIRD • ARIHHONNI (HONNI) CANNON
CLAY DAVID • MAYA MCKIBBIN • JACKIE FAWN • MICHAEL SHEYASHE • SHAUN BEYALE
ROY BONEY • GENE JIMENEZ • JON PROUDSTAR
100% OF PROCEEDS WILL BE DONATED TO NOT OUR NATIVE DAUGHTERS
AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2026
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Jenn @geekgalgroks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey you! Yeah you, the tired overworked dehydrated noodle in a capitalist hellscape. Use your goddamn PTO! You have earned it. It is part of your total compensation. Go schedule some time off! Also grab a beverage and a snack.
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Andy Hearn 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈⚽️🎶🌈 @andyhearn24.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Socialists want a better society for everyone and right wingers don’t. If you can’t work it out from there what’s wrong with you?
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 16/09/2026
The truth is none of y’all hate Robert Kraft enough. Get on my level. (From February) gillianbrockell.com/the-truth-ab...
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The truth about ICE and the New England Patriots jets (Go Seahawks)
The best reason to hate the New England Patriots is where their team planes have been.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 15/09/2026
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Boston dumps Flock, says it shared data nationwide in violation of contract
City: Flock enabled "nationwide lookup" despite contract requiring it to be disabled.
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Incredible headline here (among other things)
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Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It’s really funny how “if you’re a good president they WANT to name stuff after you” seems to literally have never occurred to him.
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Japan has the highest number of centenarians in the world, and I don't think its a coincidence they have a collectivist culture that accepts mask-wearing to reduce the spread of viruses www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
More than 100,000 people in Japan are now 100 years of age or older
Figures show 88% of the centenarians are women as the population continues to age and shrink.
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am but a humble multi-multi-multi-millionaire. How can I stand against the might of a stadium that booked me personally?
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