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“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” -Paulo Freire

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment
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En Lilitu-Sin @enlilitusin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Republicans: are literally giving the Democrats hundreds and hundreds of issues to knock the elections out of the ball park Democrats: What if instead we throw trans people under the bus to court fascists that still won't vote for us. Again.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026
I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
Dario Amodei, the Anthropic CEO issued a call for a pause on Ai research and within hours Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed. I feel like something happened they aren't disclosing that spooked them. Musk in particular was saying the safety thing was a psyop to regulate the industry just 2 days ago.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Their response to everything is racism . And our refusal to actively respond to it or even to mount a cursory rejection of racism and an actual plan Is what is pushing them
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vanoreo @vanoreo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
liberals not having to think about politics is simply more valuable to them than trans people having rights
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026
So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."
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Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · 28/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed breaks it down for Fox News: Billionaires get richer just by being rich, not by working harder.
Abdul El-Sayed speaks on Fox News. "Billionaires don't make their money off their labor. If you have a billion dollars, your billion makes another $100 million. That's not the fruits of your labor, that's just the fruits of your money making money."
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 25/08/2026
Pete Hegseth: "This is a new department with a new focus on our core mission, where we're restoring the warrior ethos. And that means a focus—an unrelenting, uncompromising focus on lethality. ​It means no more DEI. ​It means no more trannies, just training."
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Elon Musk is a fucking Nazi.
Xenocosmography: Thanks to the tacit alliance of depraved race communists and bleeding-heart 'liberal' ethnomasochists, the coming European Reconquista is going to be vastly uglier than it needed to have been.

Elon Musk: Very much so.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ultimately nothing is changing because again the focus is how we “combat racism” / “protect standards” Rather than addressing the power imbalances and opaqueness And protecting people
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I cannot stress enough: the AI bubble has already popped it is just being kept on life support by corporations trying to squeeze even a dollar more out of their shit investment, and tech bros doing the same before abandoning their shit company startups. keep hating on AI, you're winning
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Pina ✨ ADHD Alien @adhd-alien.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ngl this has me kind of mad. Someone made AI slop of my art to advertise some slop app. I’m so mad because I declined hundreds of sponsorship offers for apps that felt exploitative of vulnerable groups and ADHD-curing vitamins, I’m here feeling bad advertising my book and they just go and do this
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 12/08/2026
#OtD 12 Aug 2017 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and 19 injured in a neo-Nazi terror attack in Charlottesville, VA. Heather was one of many protesting a white supremacist rally when a Nazi drove his car deliberately into the crowd stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8376...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Except for religious studies, the graduates of these "loan ineligible" majors are disproportionately women. Fans of this policy have probably never considered that social worker, cosmetician, teachers aide, etc might be low-paying jobs *because* women do them. newrepublic.com/post/213446/...
The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that the Education Department has finalized a rule that will force schools to prove that the loans students are taking out are paying off. 

Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music, and cosmetic certification programs will be hit the hardest. For-profit programs will also be hit particularly hard.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Just so everyone knows, this is a tried-and-true mainstream media tactic. For progressives/leftist candidates, every election is a “crucial test” and any loss would serve as proof to the media that the latest left-side moment is at its end. Any win, though, just means it’s time to find a new test.
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
my neighborhood 7-11 closed a couple years ago and tried to reopen but couldn’t get the permit approved because there’s a preschool next door and 7-11s sell alcohol (the previous permit was grandfathered in). i saw a fence going up around the lot recently and looked up what was moving in: a gun shop
gun shop next door to a preschool
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Jesse Thorn @jessethorn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Cheryl Reeve, winningest coach in WNBA history, defends transgender athletes against sports bans. “Exclusion is never the answer. Separate isn’t equal. Trans lives matter.” 💗🏳️‍⚧️💗🏀💗
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Wapshkankwet @wapshkankwet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you’re in a position to help a young Black Native woman get on her feet after surviving trafficking and assault. Please please help Lex. Her link is below and it’s free to share, a small amount goes a long way when community comes together to uplift the most vulnerable. gofund.me/1e3195f33
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Donate to Survivor Seeking Justice and Healing, organized by Alexis Perrote
Thank you for taking the time to read a small part of my story. I cannot and will … Alexis Perrote needs your support for Survivor Seeking Justice and Healing
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 30/07/2026
Here's the owner of that XX-XY clothing line the girls were wearing. She regularly calls trans people fetishists and approving of Nancy Mace saying tranny multiple times. It's not about sports. It's about stripping trans people of their rights and dehumanizing them.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
yup because why deal with problems today when you can play a futurist game and call it a good deed
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Netanyahu will do his best when he meets with Trump next week www.timesofisrael.com/as-trump-pau...
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026
A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.
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Today marks the six-month anniversary of Alex's murder. No one has been held accountable, no apologies, not a single phone call from any governmental official, hospital personnel, or the mpls police dept. Six-months of pain, a roller-coaster of trauma over and over. Every time another a death, another mention, a picture, a tribute, a sorrow so deep. I wonder how to move forward. Will I ever get over this loss and this pain?
Will I ever be able to enjoy life again? How does one live knowing that I have no power to change what has happened?

And yet the outreach not only from Minnesota, but from around the world has been nothing less than spectacular. Every card, every gift, every heartfelt letter has been read, touched, held, and cherished by us all. The kindness you've all shown us is beyond words. Please never forget Alex and what he believed in ~ equality and peace for all. I will remember the things that made you, you. It will never take your memory. As long as I'm here, you will never be forgotten.

For all you asking what you can do. Continue this fight. Never give up your right to speak out, protect your neighbor, your community and don't forget to spend time with those you love...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Everyone should be paying attention to the current Democratic party insiders' "policy proposals" around healthcare. It's going to be Obamacare redux and we see how that has gone for most of the country. A lot of people still uninsured and even more UNDERINSURED.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 17/07/2026
Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
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Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach
Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
How about a jet-lagged live posting while I read? Trying to read this because I keep getting tagged in posts about it, but the first paragraph already contains synthetic text (a quote from Claude). I will skip that bit and persevere... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Could AI be conscious?
Experts believe it’s at least possible. We urgently need a plan to navigate the ethical implications
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Jan Adriaenssens @verbeeld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”
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Christina Henderson @chenderson.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I wish more journalists would point out that Sen. McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean (missed 4 months of work) are/were essentially on paid sick & medical leave. The same employment protection they’ve spent their careers blocking other Americans from having.
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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“we gotta get out there and do the exact same thing we always do: appeal to conservatives“
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fuck the reflecting pool. This has not gotten nearly enough coverage or generated the proper outrage. People thrown in prison for 30-50 years for the "crime" ofmaking zines and belonging to a book club!! This is straight-up totalitarian atrocity. Political prisoners thrown in a gulag to rot.
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/06/2026
Here's JK Rowling comparing trans people to nazis and then calling them fetishists.
The image is a screenshot of a post on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) by J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling).
​The text of J.K. Rowling's post reads:
"Taking down WPATH would be the gender critical Battle of Stalingrad."
​Below this, she quote-reposts a message from Leor Sapir (@LeorSapir) posted 1 hour prior. Leor Sapir's post reads:
"NEWS: The Federal Trade Commission has just announced its lawsuit (with four states) against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. 👇"
​Sapir's post includes a screenshot of an official press release. The visible text on the press release reads:
"For Release
FTC, States Sue World Professional Association for Transgender Health Over Deceptive Claims Regarding the Treatment of Children
Agency and state partners argue WPATH's illegal claims profited its members
June 17, 2026"
​The metadata at the bottom of J.K. Rowling's post indicates it was posted at 2:05 PM on Jun 17, 2026, and has 48.4K Views.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 08/06/2026
By far the biggest problem with delegating judgement to machines is the people who own the machines can tune them towards outcomes they prefer but those who don't own anything can't. It's not the technology. It's a transfer of decision making power from rational accountable systems to capital.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
*when someone denies legal rights to a group I don’t belong to* Suck it up buttercup, free speech bitch, MURICA *when someone denies legal rights to a group I belong to* This is wrong. This is discrimination. How can you so this bsky.app/profile/andy...
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
🚨"Tear gas is being shot above us!" our Jon Farina shouts as NJ state police fire tear gas at anti-ICE protesters outside Delaney Hall ICE prison as police clash with protesters on day 9 of ICE prison hunger/labor strike. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️
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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What I especially love about the out in the open sneering racism of the Republican party is that Black women are always the punchline and their femininity is always in question. It's no different than it ever was in the Confederacy
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
subtle.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 21/05/2026
The developer agreement for Elon Musk's X (formerly Twitter) requires litigants to file cases in O'Connor's federal district. If that alone wasn't bad enough, O'Connor is also a SpaceX/Tesla shareholder. www.burnsnotice.com/this-federal...
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This Federal Judge is More Powerful than the President
Reed O'Connor is the right's go-to judge when they want to bend the law to their culture war will Think about the many high profile legal cases that have come and gone over the last ten years. There ...
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
And let's be clear for the few here who think Democrats shld "just focus on affordability": these Democrats voted to actively punish trans people. That's not "focusing on affordability." That's going out of your way, bucking your party, to hurt people.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 22/05/2026
These 8 Democrats voted to pass a national ban on trans teachers and mention of LGBTQ topics. Rep Henry Cuellar (TX) Rep. Don Davis (NC) Rep. Cleo Fields (LA) Rep. Laura Gillen (NY) Rep. Vicente González (TX) Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH) Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA) Rep. Eugene Vindman (VA)
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/05/2026
And this is why liberals always lose to fascists. They're so busy trying to preserve institutions that they never look up to see that the barbarians are at the gate and already set fire to those very institutions. You either fight these bastards or they will never stop.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below
The New York Times: The American president’s comments had been released over the weekend, after Mr. Trump left a summit with Mr. Xi in Beijing on Friday. He said he was keeping on hold a decision about a package of weapons to Taiwan worth around $14 billion, and described it as a “very good negotiating chip” that could be used with Beijing.

“I’m holding that in abeyance and it depends on China,” he said in an interview with Fox News. It was not immediately clear what Mr. Trump wanted China to do in return.The New York Times: The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises.

Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/05/2026
I rarely say “major breaking” and rarely put out these video hits, but this is pretty major.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
144 House Democrats joined 203 Republicans to vote for this bill which gives DHS and ICE new powers to collect personal information of both migrants and American citizens
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/05/2026
Bail is for people who haven't been convicted of a crime. This is voter disenfranchisement. This keeps eligible voters from voting & creates justifiable distrust of electeds among families, who then may not vote. When you blame your problems on non-voters, perhaps ask what disenfranchised them.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
32 House Democrats joined the GOP to vote to criminalize bail funds. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026169
Jim Costa (CA-21) 	Joe Morelle (NY-25) 
Henry Cuellar (TX-28) 	Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) 
Sharice Davids (KS-03) 	Frank Mrvan (IN-01) 
Don Davis (NC-01) 	Chris Pappas (NH-01) 
Laura Gillen (NY-04) 	Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) 
Jared Golden (ME-02) 	Josh Riley (NY-19) 
Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) 	Pat Ryan (NY-18) 
Maggie Goodlander (NH-02)	Hillary Scholten (MI-03) 
Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) 	Kim Schrier (WA-08) 
Adam Gray (CA-13) 	Eric Sorensen (IL-17) 
Josh Harder (CA-09) 	Darren Soto (FL-09) 
Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) 	Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10)
Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) 	Tom Suozzi (NY-03) 
Greg Landsman (OH-01) 	Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) 
Susie Lee (NV-03) 	Eugene Vindman (VA-07) 
Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08) 	George Whitsides (CA-27)
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow
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