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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 08/10/2025
Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration argues, adding that a law Trump signed guaranteeing back pay to furloughed workers in 2019 does no such thing.
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Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2025
NEW: Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Here is why MTG is for extending the enhanced premium tax credits (EPTCs) for ACA marketplace plans. In her district, GA14 there are 78,000 on ACA plans 74,000 receiving subsidies the average increase in premiums would be 85% for a 60-yr-old on a silver plan: 246% www.kff.org/affordable-c...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/10/2025
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The brazenness of Trump and his MAGA loyalists has turned out to be one ingredient of their power,” Thomas Edsall writes. nyti.ms/3IYjKn7
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Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.
After all, there is “an enemy within.”
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Mc Nelly Torres ☕️ @watchdogdiva.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
If you are surprised by this, you have not been paying attention and that's truly sad. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals
President Donald Trump is openly embracing the conservative blueprint he desperately tried to distance himself from during the 2024 campaign, as one of its architects works to use the government shutd...
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
a bit of a metaphor for the social media age in that quote there - “the more outrageous you are…” not just in terms of getting clicks and likes and (media/opinion-former) attention and focus, but getting the ear of now-powerful people by mere dint of saying something that used to be beyond the pale
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/08/2025
The Transportation Department is planning to take over management of D.C.’s Union Station. It’s not clear how dramatic the change will be for the transit hub, which connects regional trains and buses to the Metro system.
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U.S. Transportation Department plans to take over D.C.’s Union Station
Transportation Secretary Sean P. Duffy announced Wednesday that the Trump administration aims to take control of Union Station from Amtrak.
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Marc Fisher @marcfisher.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Post Exclusive: Under pressure from White House, Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum. Now the text reads that "only 3 presidents seriously faced removal," meaning A. Johnson, Nixon and Clinton -- not Trump. wapo.st/3HhfyxU
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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
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Sara Rhodes @sararhodes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
www.rageagainsttheregime.org
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Home | Rage Against the Regime - August 2nd
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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
NEW FROM @reuters.com: Top U.S. law firms have sharply scaled back their efforts to challenge the federal government in court, especially on behalf of pro bono clients, in the face of threats from President Trump. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 24/07/2025
Exclusive: ICE has directed personnel to increase the number of immigrants they shackle with GPS-enabled ankle monitors, as the Trump administration widens surveillance of people it is targeting for deportation.
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ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors
A June 9 memo directed ICE field officers to significantly expand the number of immigrants under round-the-clock surveillance.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 24/07/2025
News organizations Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Reuters and the BBC issued today a rare joint statement calling on Israel to allow journalists to move in and out of Gaza, and to provide more food for civilians in the besieged Strip.
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BBC and news agencies urge Israel to let food into Gaza as journalists face starvation
“We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families,” say AFP, AP, Reuters and the BBC.
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Frank Bajak @fbajak.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
“I have lost count of how many of my fellow national security professionals have told me they are grateful that I have spoken out, but in the same breath say they are afraid to do the same.” - Frank Kendall, former Air Force Secretary, describing being blacklisted. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...
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Opinion | Fear Comes to America
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Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"This is definitely wrong. I just called my wife and she said we didn’t. I don’t really work. Where would I get this much money?” www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...
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New Eric Adams ‘Donors’ Say They Never Gave to His Reelection Campaign
An investigation by THE CITY uncovered Adams donors who insist they didn't donate, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don't live where they claimed to.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Scoop! We got the agreement between ICE and Medicaid to share sensitive data with ICE agents. @leahfeiger.bsky.social @makenakelly.bsky.social @hudsongiles.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ice-ac...
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ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data
A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants.
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Frida Ghitis @fridaghitis.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs”, according to a report www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Migrants at Ice jail in Miami made to kneel to eat ‘like dogs’, report alleges
Incident in which migrants were shackled with hands tied of one succession of alleged abuses at jails in Florida
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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees says it has received ‘desperate messages of starvation’ from inside Gaza, including from its own staff.
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Live: UN receives 'desperate' starvation messages from own staff in Gaza
Meanwhile, Israel says it attacked Yemen's Hodeidah port
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
New from 404 Media: inside ICE's supercharged facial recognition app of 200 million images. After scanning someone's face, it can query DHS, CBP, FBI, State Department, and state databases at once. An unprecedented linking of government databases into a single tool. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
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Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images
404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just point...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We have been asking DHS for weeks whether it had any legitimate security concerns around the publication of these names, whether they have any info on where these people are, then finally are they in CECOT. DHS never replied despite talking to me about other articles www.404media.co/flight-manif...
404 Media asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over multiple weeks if the agency had any legitimate security concerns with these names being published, or if it could tell us anything about these people. The agency never responded, despite responding to requests for comment for other 404 Media articles. GlobalX did not respond to a request for comment either.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"For almost all of these people, there’s no records whatsoever. No court records, nothing." What an immigration expert told us when we dug through the data for three legally contested deportation flights to El Salvador. www.404media.co/flight-manif...
“We have this list of people that the U.S. government has not formally acknowledged in any real way and we pretty much have no idea if they are in CECOT or someplace else, or whether they received due process,” Michelle Brané, executive director of Together and Free, a group that has been working with families of deported people, told 404 Media. “I think this further demonstrates the callousness and lack of due process involved and is further evidence that the US government is disappearing people. These people were detained and no one knows where they are, and we don't know the circumstances […] For almost all of these people, there’s no records whatsoever. No court records, nothing.”
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/07/2025
We found hacked data that revealed dozens of people on deportation flights to El Salvador are missing. 🔗 www.404media.co/flight-manif...
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Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/06/2025
NEW: Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.
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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“We’re the good guys,” I tell myself as a 6-year-old leukemia patient pees his pants in fear. I adjust my black mask and sunglasses in the mirror, making sure to hide my identity. “I am not evil,” I whisper.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Mc Nelly Torres ☕️ @watchdogdiva.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
We need to educate our friends, relatives and neighbors about this bill and how bad it is for America. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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GOP budget bill faces nearly 2-to-1 opposition with many unaware: Poll
A plurality of voters oppose the sweeping tax-and-spending legislation, with mixed opinions on specific provisions, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll conducted earlier this month.
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WIRED @wired.com · 03/06/2025
Americans are taking to the streets and showing up in US cities by the thousands to protest a plethora of President Donald Trump’s second-term policies—from trans rights to travel bans from foreign nations and deportation policies. This is a WIRED guide on how to best protest safely.
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How to Protest Safely: What to Bring, What to Do, and What to Avoid
If you’re planning to hit the streets, here’s what you need to know.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
left: Zelenskyy looking tough, "took out 40% of Russia's strategic bomber fleet."
Right: JD Vance looking weak and sad "hasn't said thank you"
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Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Meme

The target is not Christians, it's Christian Nationalism.
The target is not white people, it's white supremacy.
The target is not heterosexuals, it's homophobia.
The target is not men, it's sexism and patriarchy.
Don't take it personal, join the work and dismantle oppressive systems.
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Democrats Should Make This A Big Part Of Their 2026 Platform….😊💙
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Arcas De Disco @puckarks.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Nurse to a girl in a hospital bed 

YOUre gonna die 
Because YOUR family is POOR
Here's a milkshake
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Opheliasblue @opheliasblue.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The fact that Fort Worth Texas has a back log of over 900 rape kits they 'don't have time' to test, but Texas Sheriffs did have the time to spend a month tracking a woman who MIGHT have been going out of state for an abortion tells you all you need to know about what Texas thinks about women..
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Marty Dart (@martinldart) on Threads
The fact that Fort Worth Texas has a back log of over 900 rape kits they 'don't have time' to test, but Texas Sheriffs did have the time to spend a month tracking down the license plate of a woman who...
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 03/06/2025
Ron DeSantis stranded drivers at a bridge with no warning just to stop rainbow colors from appearing on it.
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"In interviews, they described the federal government as retreating from the fight against extremist violence, which for years the FBI has deemed the most lethal and active domestic concern. States say they are now largely on their own." www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States
As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington. The result is a patchwork app...
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Donald Trump’s vote total in Alabama last represented about 37% of the adult population. “Didn’t vote” was a larger constituency.
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Trump’s HHS secretary: Processed foods had resulted in a “genocide” among Native Americans. Trump’s USDA secretary: Terminates the very program that dozens of tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, locally produced food @maryhudetz.bsky.social
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Trump Pledged to “Make America Healthy Again,” Then Cut a Program Many Tribes Rely on for Healthy Food
The USDA has ended a program that dozens of tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, locally produced food that is important to their traditions and cultures.
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Tracy Chou @triketora.com · 05/05/2025
when asked anonymously, 12% of vcs (in a survey of 361 international vcs) said they would not invest in female entrepreneurs and, 15% said they felt women make poor entrepreneurs, and 27% said they felt women’s participation in startup founding teams was overrated www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Gender bias and discrimination towards women entrepreneurs by venture capitalists – a randomized response survey
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A.D. Blair ❌👑 @adblair.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The wonderful folks at Liberal Currents were nice enough to publish some of my thoughts on how the pro-democracy movement can fight back against MAGA's attempts to install itself as a dictatorship. Needless to say I've been pretty unimpressed with Dem "leadership" in Congress.
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"There was no operational justification to demolish buildings. They posed no threat to Israel. It had become a routine: The army got used to the idea that when you enter a house, you blow it up."
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‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction
Bulldozers and explosives are flattening Gaza from the ground — what soldiers say is a systematic campaign to make the Strip unlivable.
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Lucia Walinchus @walinchus.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Oh wow what happened to that IRS data?! Incredible reporting by @jasonleopold.bsky.social and thanks @maggie-lee.bsky.social for flagging. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Nearly final CBO score of the GOP reconciliation plan is out. Their bill would cut program spending by $1.5 trillion but spend $312 billion more on defense, ICE, etc., for a total of $1.2 trillion in spending cuts. Plus $3.6 trillion in tax cuts. For a total of $2.4 trillion in higher deficits.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Busted. Yet again.
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Musk's Chatbot Epically Fact-Checks Leavitt After She Claims Trump's Budget Bill Won't Add To The Deficit
Busted.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 20/05/2025
An IT worker for the nat'l parks drove to a bridge & called a friend to talk him down. A Medicaid researcher killed herself after repeating "I’m not enough" to her family. A Social Security worker, whose data was under siege by DOGE, died at her cubicle. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working.
Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
“The Columbia footage that we subpoenaed conclusively proves that Mahmoud never attempted to run from the ICE agents, that the government lied once again, & that there was no valid reason for the arrest of a US permanent resident and human rights defender” - Ramzi Kassem to @premthakker.bsky.social
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New Video of Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest Shows Trump Admin is Lying in Court
The new footage of ICE’s warrantless arrest shows the Palestinian student fully cooperated with federal agents and was not a flight risk, as the government continues to falsely claim.
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Sara Rhodes @sararhodes.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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New 'Defendnot' tool tricks Windows into disabling Microsoft Defender
A new tool called 'Defendnot' can disable Microsoft Defender on Windows devices by registering a fake antivirus product, even when no real AV is installed.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Trump cut a secret deal with the Mexican cartels, Mexican security chief Omar García Harfuch confirmed cartel family members entered US in a deal with the Sinaloa Cartel and the Trump regime. President Sheinbaum is demanding an explanation from the US which tried to keep it secret.
 Mexican security chief confirms cartel family members entered US in a deal with Trump administration

A truck burns on a street in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Urista, file)

https://apnews.com/article/el-chapo-sinaloa-cartel-trump-border-harfuch-86572a31c88a216da7cd5f33006a0011
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Anonymous @youranonnews.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
We can't agree with these takes. None should be expected to die for an ideal. For those who choose to take risks and fight, more power to you. For those who escape and tell you why, take the message and prepare if you plan to stick around. "If you can't change your friends, change your friends."
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