Reposted by LuckyAngry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Charlie Kirk’s assassination was horrific. That doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority of gun (and political) violence has been perpetuated by right wingers. You don’t get to change the narrative at will. 917232705052
Reposted by LuckyGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/09/2025Notice how not a SINGLE CLIP of Charlie Kirk is being shown on TV as the news organizations try to eulogize him kindly. Even Fox News. You cannot show a SINGLE THING he ever said that wasnt spewing HATE and violence. What a legacy. 192108782483
Reposted by LuckySoraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 11/09/2025Experiencing the terror of realizing that you're hearing gunfire and needing to flee is a violence. It's deeply traumatizing, and it gets inflicted on so many Americans and it's crazy that we don't talk more about the effects surviving such events have on people. 1335765
Reposted by LuckyMikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 11/09/2025There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power. The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office. 326124313992
Reposted by LuckySam @samuelhlowe.bsky.social · 15/07/2025In the 80s, if a boom box didn’t feel like playing a cassette tape, it would just fucken eat it. 27633122
Reposted by LuckyBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 08/07/2025Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you 32210345572
Reposted by LuckyJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 28/06/20251/ If Justice Barrett thinks we need to go back to what the Founding Fathers intended, I’ve got news for her. Their biggest concern was avoiding tyranny. So they created 3 branches of gov’t & divvied up the power the people (that’s us) were allowing the gov’t to use to create order for all of us. 789261227216
Reposted by LuckyMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/06/2025If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies. 15826579020263
Reposted by Lucky💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Sound familiar? That’s why they’re going after education, museums, books and literally trying to change history … So it’s not familiar and and they can get away with doing it again. www.instagram.com/reel/DLBFpBo... 718387
Reposted by LuckyPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.organizingmythoughts.orgProtest, Power, and the Violence Debate"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating." 271081606
Reposted by LuckyWIRED @wired.com · 12/06/2025yep! unpaywalled:wired.comHow to Protest Safely in the Age of SurveillanceLaw enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest. 8266923478
Reposted by Lucky∙ ᴘᴀᴜʟɪɴᴀ ∙ @iamthepaulina.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it. 295117466362
Reposted by LuckyTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025JUST IN: Two ballot measures to protect public libraries from the conservative city council in Huntington Beach are both ahead by very wide margins. Measure to repeal a 'book review committee' up 61/39. Measure to bar privatization up 63/37. That's already with 51K+ ballots counted. Context: 232121457
Reposted by LuckyHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/06/2025Sorry to keep banging this drum, but in ways big and small, the point of shoving “ai” into these devices is to insert the tech as a replacement for interpersonal relationships and foster distrust in your own assessments of how you feel. 516441
Reposted by Luckyestarianne @estarianne.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Any protest that would actually stop ICE would be labeled a riot lol. You can't say "the people will stop this via protest" and then pretend it's OK to send in the tanks when the protest starts working. 314246
Reposted by LuckyJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 23/05/2025They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare. 16076162792
Reposted by LuckyMariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 25/04/2025It's so depressing to me how quickly people have decided that safety regulations just don't matter. You really don't want botulism, listeria, or salmonella and there are very few companies who will put ethics over profits unless they're forced to. This is what government should be doing. 5324103
Reposted by LuckySym @symmering.bsky.social · 23/04/2025UPDATE: ION will have a WNBA doubleheader on Friday, May 2 with the aforementioned Wings-Aces game at Notre Dame and the exhibition between the Brazil National Team & Chicago Sky on the campus of LSU at 9pm ET- Angel Reese's return to the Bayou. ION will have pregame @ 6pm ET. 054
Reposted by LuckyAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1) 13580333949
Reposted by LuckyDavid Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp. 108111255041
Reposted by LuckyA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 07/04/2025I’m seeing a lot of posts about how certain immigrants sent to El Salvador are not actually criminals and this is true but I would also like to remind you that people with criminal records shouldn’t be subjected to this, either. 17167742898
Reposted by LuckyMother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/04/2025The message is: crowd large. Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift. Events like this puncture that delusion.motherjones.comYou can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere.People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next. 162116563195
Reposted by LuckyGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 05/04/2025Y’all gotta go read books. There’s no way around it. Read books. Form your own opinions. LEARN THINGS. READ BOOKS WHILE LIBRARIES ARE STILL AROUND 264142042879
Reposted by LuckyKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 03/04/2025Incidentally, since almost all the physical books from major publishers in the US are printed in China, that probably just increased the price by 50%, which massively lowers sales and means publishers will do much smaller print runs. 582578762
Reposted by LuckyDavid Berri @wagesofwins.bsky.social · 28/03/2025www.thesling.org/the-wnba-lab... I wrote an article for @theslingutah.bsky.social on the labor dispute that appears to be coming to the WNBA. A brief thread on why this dispute is all about the choices the NBA is making. ht @halsinger.bsky.socialthesling.orgThe WNBA Labor Dispute Is Just Another Choice Made by the NBA - The SlingIf you’re a fan of the WNBA, it’s pretty clear which side you should support in this dispute. The NBA owners are exploiting players by claiming losses, just as they’ve done many times in the past. It ... 43727
Reposted by LuckyYoni Appelbaum @yappelbaum.bsky.social · 01/04/2025NEW: In a court filing this evening, the Trump administration said that it had mistakenly deported a Maryland father to a notorious Salvadoran prison due to an "administrative error." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... 851090433
Reposted by LuckyCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Reminder: the First Amendment protects everyone who resides in our country. It doesn't matter if you have a green card or a visa or if you're undocumented. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that any person residing in the United States, regardless of status, is entitled to 1A protections. 408185064794
Reposted by LuckySarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now. 80142933420
Reposted by LuckyMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY 1130143187421
Reposted by Lucky Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 18/10/2024If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link. For example x.com/dril/status/... becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/... People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter. 1112526923
Reposted by LuckyBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now 147341386459
Reposted by LuckyMike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The US is scheduled to co-host the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028. Why would thousands of international athletes and millions of fans from around the world come to a country where tourists, asylum seekers, and visa holders are being disappeared to foreign prisons? 34158281772
Reposted by LuckyJeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The UK is supplying weapons to a country whose leader is wanted for war crimes. How much simpler can we put it? 311680561
Reposted by LuckyCovie @covie93.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better. 923344968543
Reposted by LuckyJeff Yang @originalsp.in · 19/03/2025I keep asking: Why does media and Congress treat Trump’s edicts like he can just wave them into reality? Why doesn’t NBC include anywhere in this piece that he CANNOT DO THIS without Congressional approval e.g. 2/3 support of the Senate, which he won’t get? THIS IS MANUFACTURING COMPLIANCE! 351620472
Reposted by LuckyAlvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement: 246148354120
Reposted by LuckyMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis. 371926577
Reposted by Luckymattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 17/03/2025why does everyone hate my car | patreon.com/lubchansky 10106771926
Reposted by LuckyAura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 17/03/2025A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul... 12713074113424
Reposted by LuckyCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/03/2025I think it has more to do with you might get locked up for absolutely no reason at all and then flown to El Salvador to die in prison even though a judge said you should be released 11582772274
Reposted by LuckyE. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 12/03/2025EPA is terminating more than two dozen protections against air and water pollution. It would overturn limits on soot from smokestacks that have been linked to respiratory problems in humans and premature deaths as well as restrictions on emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin. 37362782510
Reposted by LuckyK.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 16/03/2025In biology, I keep thinking of the bacterial strains, yeast strains, plasmids, mouse lines, worm mutants etc etc etc that will be lost to science FOREVER because the freezers and animal facilities won't be maintained Generations of work will be lost in essentially an instant 161396625
Reposted by LuckyBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal." 26703610114032
Reposted by Luckylauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15/03/2025"they're harming the good government pupperinos" could activate like 50 million people if it gets into the wider media sphere 583535903
