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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The sheer injustice in Houston is sickening. Lorenzo was just going to work to support his family when his life was stolen by ICE. Seeing his father on his knees, consumed by raw, agonizing grief, is a heartbreaking reminder of the human cost of systemic violence. He deserves justice.

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Some of you may be impaled by fence posts, but that's a risk we're willing to take

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

After decades of screeching that universities are indoctrinating the youth, Republicans are proud to roll out the new course, Mandatory Youth Indoctrination 1001

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Courses will be required at University of Iowa Center for Intellectual Freedom

University of Iowa Students will now be required to take classes from the new Center for Intellectual Freedom in order to graduate.

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I mean, I can comprehend bribery and corruption, but it is absolutely unjustifiable

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The end goal is not to have you consuming AI slop. Because AI slop requires processing power. The end goal is for you to not have leisure time or engage with art at all. You sleep. You eat. You work. You work so you can eat and sleep. Slavery. The end goal is slavery.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 24/06/2026

I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes, that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable and unknowable dangers… —Marjorie Lotfi, “Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)” from THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2023

Picture of Girl and Small Boy (Burij, Gaza, 2014)
Marjorie Lotfi

I would like to tell her not to wear such flimsy shoes,
that rubble contains the whole spectrum of knowable
and unknowable dangers: sheets of metal ripped
to knife edge, live wires, bloated arms reaching

for light. Her hair, scraped back into a ponytail,
is open to sky; remnants of buildings filter down
one concrete chunk at a time, and the midday bells
of rockets ring out above her. She carries a boy

on her still narrow hips, his legs entwined around
her yellow dungarees. Like a rodeo rider, his left arm
grips her shoulder to steady himself, or her,
while his torso reels back and away; his body

is asking to slow down, to turn back. Instead,
her eyes comb the ground for a next step, fingers
of her free hand curled into a claw, as if
to frighten off what she somehow sees ahead.

A young Palestinian girl wearing a yellow t-shirt, yellow dungarees, and plastic sandals carries an even younger child – a small boy, wearing a pale blue vest and shorts – on her hip across a tangle of rubble from a building that police said was destroyed by an Israeli air strike, in the Burij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, August 1, 2014. The girl takes a long step forward across the concrete debris that litters the ground, looking down at her feet, one arm stretched out in front of her. The small boy leans backwards, cradled by her other arm.

REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly.

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Reducing the stigma and shame of getting conned is important - the con works because no one wants to be the first to admit they've been conned

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Empathy and cooperation are WHY humans are the dominant species. Our big brains, language skills, and opposable thumbs exist only in service to empathy and cooperation. And claiming that the world has TOO MUCH empathy as we bomb children and let them starve is bullshit. Divided we fall etc.

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What is Suicidal Empathy, a New Philosophy Promoted by Elon Musk and Bill Ackman?

The term is linked to preserving Western civilization in particular, which Saad describes in his book as 'in rapid decline.'

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Cody Ziglar @ NYCC AA-E38 @yayforzig.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Watching some folks in my industry trip over themselves to dogpile this lady to essentially say "shut up & dribble" has been so disappointing & it's the exact reason why so many below-the-line folks fear publicly talking about exploitive work conditions.

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Obsession art director doubles down after slamming low pay and working conditions

'I feel no obligation to clear any misunderstandings'

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

No gods, no idols except for Ms Rachel. No one's perfect, and she doesn't need the burden of supporting everyone's hope for humanity, but she seems awesome and I hope she's doing well

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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Police pushed out a couple of the attendees at a diabetes scientific meeting. The crime: Passing out printouts of a recent publication calling out the administration for destroying our research infrastructure. The right to free speech was infringed upon. Censorship is real. We have to stand up.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Honestly, this plumbing does look like lowest-bidder govt contract work...but I guess it's really end-stage capitalism race-to-the-bottom work

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

slightly increase a band Twenty One Astronauts

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The good news is that the 1992 Studio Ghibli anime "Porco Rosso" is still super relevant, warranting a retrospective article! The bad news is that 1992 Studio Ghibli anime "Porco Rosso" is still super relevant, b/c of fascism. Details in my new article: www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainmen...

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Why Studio Ghibli’s Porco Rosso Is More Important Now Than Ever Before

A look into the political weight of Studio Ghibli's Porco Rosso, from its stance on fascism to Miyazaki's message for world leaders.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I think it's telling that American media are so eager to treat this as some kind of debate or confrontation. Because that sort of "both sides" framing is the only way they know how to cover issues.

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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

We didn't deserve this day.

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Uninsured rate for children, by state. Texas accounts for a quarter of all children without health insurance in America.

Map showing the following data:
Children's uninsured rate by state, 2024 (ACS, under 19):
Alabama 4.3%, Alaska 8.8%, Arizona 9.3%, Arkansas 7.7%, California 3.1%, Colorado 6.0%, Connecticut 2.6%, Delaware 5.8%, Florida 8.5%, Georgia 7.9%, Hawaii 2.9%, Idaho 8.1%, Illinois 3.6%, Indiana 6.1%, Iowa 3.8%, Kansas 7.0%, Kentucky 5.0%, Louisiana 4.1%, Maine 4.5%, Maryland 4.6%, Massachusetts 2.1%, Michigan 3.5%, Minnesota 3.7%, Mississippi 5.8%, Missouri 6.6%, Montana 7.7%, Nebraska 5.3%, Nevada 8.0%, New Hampshire 2.3%, New Jersey 4.7%, New Mexico 6.1%, New York 2.7%, North Carolina 5.5%, North Dakota 6.7%, Ohio 5.6%, Oklahoma 8.5%, Oregon 2.7%, Pennsylvania 5.4%, Rhode Island 3.7%, South Carolina 5.9%, South Dakota 8.0%, Tennessee 6.5%, Texas 13.6%, Utah 6.6%, Vermont 2.6%, Virginia 5.2%, Washington 3.9%, West Virginia 2.8%, Wisconsin 4.2%, Wyoming 9.0%. National average: 6.0%.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 03/04/2026

It’s not just Ms. Rachel. The biggest names in children’s educational programming are coming out in force to call for kids to be freed from ICE detention. Here’s “Reading Rainbow” host @mychal3ts.bsky.social outside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

NYT quoting AOC when she says “um”: This dumb girl can’t talk NYT quoting Trump after sticking a fork up his nose into his brain and rambling about sharpie pens: Doth thine lion howl with instincts known not learned by man, or sound his sonorous roar as prophecy to gaze back upon history itself?

NYT on Feb. 13, 2026:

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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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026

justice alito talmbout it "seriously undermines" voter confidence when a "big stash" of mail ballots arrives and changes the "apparent outcome" sir do you mean when all the votes are counted? bc it sounds like you're just describing when all the votes are counted

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 23/03/2026

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I legit forgot about his fuckin ballroom. What a dickhead

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Appalling. One doctor “sent Mr. Epstein’s sexual partners elsewhere for gonorrhea treatment so that when their cases were reported to public health authorities, they wouldn’t be tied to Mr. Epstein. Some doctors also shared patients’ private health information with him”

nytimes.com

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Seriously, where the FUCK has our collective humanity gone

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This is some bigot bullllllshiiiiiiit...is anyone out there driving cars with their genitals? If so, I believe that's already against the law...

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 26/02/2026

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

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Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday

Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/02/2026

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 13/02/2026

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I think we should be able to appreciate and support a politician's humanity without starting a cult of personality. Mamdani seems to explicitly encourage empathy, happiness, and kindness - which is good!

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Wilfredo Torres @wilfredotorres.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

For Liam.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse. @lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...

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The Means-Testing Industrial Complex

The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

They are targeting children because they are trying incite violence. I have talked to many journalists today, and they all made the same observation: Border Patrol and ICE have been rolling around with maximum aggression, lingering for ages as crowds, gather, seemingly trying to cause a riot.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Which types of welfare fraud are politely litigated between white collar lawyers, and which types of welfare fraud are used to justify an immigration purge and shutting off resources to the poor?

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silty99.bsky.social @silty99.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I have underestimated how many times most people will believe the same lie. The Charlie Brown football meme explains everything!

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BNO News @bnonews.com · 13/01/2026

WATCH: Trump shows his middle finger and appears to say "fuck you" after Ford worker yells "pedophile protector" - TMZ

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/01/2026

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

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Street Sharks Explained 🇨🇺🇵🇸 @gaykwon.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

We have run this annual feature every year since 2012! Some unmissable work here. Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own! www.brokenfrontier.com/ten-uk-small...

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Celebrating 2025 – Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own! – Broken Frontier

Our 'Ten UK Small Press Comics You Need to Own!' feature returns for its fourteenth annual edition of picks of the year.

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