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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The targeting of one data center is proving a really useful natural experiment showing which sites and ideologies are an echo chamber of Russian propaganda
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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 10/10/2026
Holy shit they disenfranchised nearly ten percent of the population. It’s like a GOP wet dream
nytimes.com
India Cut 130 Million From Voter Roll, Fueling Protests Against Modi
Public anger is growing over an exercise that critics say undermines the world’s largest democracy, particularly disenfranchising Muslims under the Hindu nationalist government.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Remember, everyone, this isn't happening. Democrats are not campaigning against trans people. It's not happening.
Annie Andrews ad, campaigning against trans rights. She says "I don't support biological men playing in women's sports." Graphic next to her says "No gender surgeries for minors."Marcy Kaptur ad: I voted with Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of our schools. Sherrod Brown ad: In Ohio it's illegal to perform transgender surgeries on children. Marcy Kaptur ad: boys should not play girls sports.
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is not "a controversial vaccine trial," it's biological warfare, conducted by European researchers on African infants. It's imperialism, racism, eugenics, and the hubris of incredibly stupid people. It's denying vaccines to newborns! In what fuckin universe is this a "vaccine trial"?
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/10/2026
Digital ad spending on anti trans ads is on pace with 2024 and could potentially exceed it. Despite some reporting that PACs might be retreating on anti trans ads, that doesn't seem to be the case. adtracker.lgbtqlegislation.com
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Eri, Erira, Eriga @eridescent.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is something I've been saying for ages re: how centrists treat the left. If left-wing positions aren't popular enough to win elections, then left-wing voters can't lose an election for you. If left-wing voters can tip an election for you, their positions need to be accommodated.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six months ago:
theonion.com
DOJ To Bring Back Firing Squad As Means Of Entertainment
WASHINGTON—In an effort to provide some joy to the nation and boost overall well-being, Justice Department officials announced plans Monday to bring back firing squads as a means of entertainment. “Fo...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
YOU ARE AN ELECTED OFFICIAL. STOP TELLING PEOPLE NOT TO BE NUMB AND TELL THEM WHAT YOU PLAN TO DO.
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violeta @violetsalazar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wanna know what’s worse I talk to one of the evil people that works at this companies and he says it’s all people wanting brownie points from the higher ups doing that shit
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Dani Yuan 🔜 LBX @dagger6.art · 03/10/2026
FurAffinity (a furry focused online art gallery) is looking for funding after refusing to comply with advertiser demands. And oh boy are some of those advertiser demands are pretty ridiculous.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 08/10/2026
The future as imagined by men lacking the vital spark, who see no value in others' lives, who cannot envision the internalities of anyone unlike them, and who truly believe that everyone wants life to be an endless parade of flattery and yes-men just as they do.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
it’s whatever they’re mad about. always has been. it doesn’t mean anything to them, it’s just a place to store bad feelings.
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valergain 🌹 @valergain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Power is when your color team is in office and you cannot influence them to do what you want
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 07/10/2026
ICE is slamming far northern Illinois for a second day in a row. Rapid responders in Rockford say federal agents detained a group of roofing workers this morning—eight men all the way from Minnesota. Volunteers are currently trying to locate their families. From a local immigration attorney:
From Sara Dady Facebook page

Image of black pathfinder SUV

Sprayed plates like on this vehicle currently parked at the Radisson on Bell School Road in Rockford are illegal. FLOCK can't read ICE's sprayed plates but can read law-abiding drivers' plates.
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water lady @pondgathering.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seeing this shit just after the trans spider man trend is making me feel fucking crazy. Actually going insane
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water lady @pondgathering.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ramza's associates were known to engage in bizarre rituals, such as repeatedly entering the wilderness completely unarmed, all but striking down an assortment of monsters before turning on one another and beating each other to death, only to revive one another and resume beating
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kat excellence ✨ @katexcellence.io · 31/08/2026
this was difficult to read, but it's important to know people are currently in prison for 50+ years for attending a protest + one wasn't even at the protest, but got sentenced for 30 years for "concealing" anarchist zines
motherjones.com
How anti-ICE protesters became prisoners in Trump's war on antifa
“We are not terrorists.”
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
1200 sexual assault reports in 6 years. That’s 1 every 2 days. Only 7 resulted in an expulsion or dismissal. Only 14 resulted in a suspension. Cornell is a rapist factory. Drive it out of business. Also, only 5-13% of college women who are assaulted report it. That’s 5-6 assaults a day.
m.economictimes.com
Cornell University gang rape case reveals 1200 sexual assaults reported between 2018-24, only 7 expulsion even as over 51 people were found responsible; trend follows in NYU, Coloumbia and major NewYo...
Between 2018 and 2024, Cornell University documented 1,200 instances of sexual misconduct, yet only a handful of disciplinary measures were taken. Merely seven students faced expulsion, and 14 others ...
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026
The far right power grab is global and entirely organized, moneyed & interconnected. No matter where it happens, every pillar of free society that falls has been and will continue to be everyone’s problem. It’s a domino effect.
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 05/10/2026
Looks like Brazil’s flirtation with strongman politics is not over. Brazilians seem hell-bent on turning democratic backsliding into a recurring feature. But it's still early in the process. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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water lady @pondgathering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wha- oh, uh, uhhhh, UMM OKAY HERE
lowest quality shitty "america" gundam horribly microsoft painted together
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Worm Girl @cataclysmtlg.com · 05/10/2026
Cataclysm: The Last Generation is on sale this week! It's also just free on Github, but the Steam version gets you cloud saves and automatic updates.
store.steampowered.com
Save 20% on Cataclysm: The Last Generation on Steam
A post-apocalyptic roguelike set in modern-day New England. Scavenge tools to craft an arsenal capable of dealing with the ever-evolving hordes of zombies, mutants, aliens, and robots in one of the de...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026
I really don't get it. Trump polls at like single digits across the world but then every country is like, but our right wing populist is different!
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s astounding this isn’t the only thing people are talking about. It shows how much power mainstream news, who are blacking out the climate element of this El Niño, still holds. #ClimateCrisis
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water lady @pondgathering.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ages ago saw a comment to the affect of "Trey Parker and Matt Stone don't really believe in anything", and that heuristic has never done me wrong with South Park
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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water lady @pondgathering.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think we are all going through a bad case of "shit life syndrome" right now, considering the state of the world
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
apnews.com
Newsom vetoes measure that would have penalized the use of smart glasses to secretly record people
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have penalized people for using smart glasses to record people without their permission in changing rooms, doctor’s offices and other spaces p...
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him.
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water lady @pondgathering.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Council of Jokzi Ozo (from corru.observer)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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water lady @pondgathering.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think New Vegas depicts many different answers to that question. You have Keely who has become a hardened scientist bad ass, you have Calamity or Raul who have been many different people over the years, or you have Grecks or Rotface who are just very experienced at being down and out losers
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water lady @pondgathering.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Okay but have you considered my brain calcified 30 years ago and all of my analysts whose brains also calcified 30 years ago are rubbing their hands together hunched over hissing "yesss sire, of course of course"
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the Allied post war "denazification" was a massive failure. nuremberg was a massive failure. the Nazis who survived were, in large, not held to account. suggesting otherwise is fantasy.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Only quibble here is the headline: the algal bloom was not "mysterious". It was another event exacerbated by climate change driven by burning fossil fuels. Government officials were also aware within the first months that hundreds of thousands of marine animals had been killed in the bloom.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/09/2026
They used the existence of kids with ADHD and autism to delay and dismantle care for trans youth. Now they're delaying and dismantling care for kids wtv ADHD and autism.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cops put this woman in solitary for three days on the strength of Flock "evidence" that she had killed people in a hit and run. Her car, meanwhile, had zero visible damage. But cops told her the "damage" was consistent with the accident. They believed Flock over their own eyes.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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water lady @pondgathering.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The writing in Colony Ship is so tight, everyone says exactly what they mean and no more. It fucking rocks. Even better than Underrail in that regard Need to get Iron Tower to lend out their editor to Owlcat or something, WoTR is great but the only thing longer than its runtime are those PARAGRAPHS
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Frozen Ocelot @frozenocelot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Once again a reminder. Don't give them a damn thing and CANCEL YOUR NITRO!
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Frances Larina @franceslarina.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...
ebar.com
Newsom vetoes bill aimed at protecting providers of transgender care
Governor Gavin Newsom used his veto pen over the weekend to ax legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026
Video appears to show an injured man — from being struck by an ICE agents’ car or from being beaten is unclear — and the ICE agents driving away with a flat tire (!) while the man is still laying in the street. Unreal.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty
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