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gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social @gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Here is a cartoon I did of Danny Trejo & Harvey Keitel. Fuck ICE. Pen and ink on paper.

Here is a cartoon I did of Danny Trejo & Harvey Keitel. The cartoon is a drawing of them saying: “Hi we’re Danny Trejo and Harvey Keitel, and we’re starring in a currently filming movie portraying ICE in a positive light. We should never know a moment’s peace for this, but we’re banking on the decades-long mass casual acceptance of ethical apathy toward actors starring in political propaganda like pro-war films and movies promoting fascist values to enrich our careers and boost our social status. It’s pretty fucked up, and it’d be a shame if people stopped letting this happen”. Pen and ink on paper.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Have some Goats.😍

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Perhaps it wasn't a mistake, but intentional.

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bet you can't find anyone who feels that way about Fred Basset

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Saw a display at supermarket and sent pic + "Gross!" to partner who wasn't surprised... he said it's all the rage with MAHA. His response and your review confirm my initial reaction. Gross.

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Note: J Seegers is a director at Seegers Foundation which gave $100,000 to Turning Point USA and also donates to Heritage Foundation.

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Clallam County, WA, County Commissioner District 3 seat: incumbent Mike French vs Christian Nationalist Jake Seegers and his campaign to demonize unhoused people and the county's harm reduction facility

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Laura @tutusntinyhats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Help Crips for eSims for Gaza keep supporting Palestinians on the ground! 💖

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

THREAD. Did you know that Minneapolis police deployed 101 personnel to a 7-person vigil held one morning at Renee Good's memorial? The cops generated $1.92 million in overtime cash for themselves.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

We are ALL gonna have inconsistent politics. All of us. Either from simple ignorance or just the hypocrisy of being human. But you cannot be better than in seeking to become better. And that is where integrity lies. It’s fidelity to the journey of being better everyday.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

sherman, for the love of god!

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"These are enervating thoughts, the thoughts of despair. They crowd back, unbidden... Whether these thoughts are true or not I find less interesting than the possibilities for beauty they may hold. We are down here in time, where beauty grows." Annie Dillard (1945—2026), "Sojourner"

Photograph of a page from Annie Dillard’s “Sojourner,” showing the passage: “These are enervating thoughts, the thoughts of despair. They crowd back, unbidden, when human life as it unrolls goes ill, when we lose control of our lives or the illusion of control, and it seems that we are not moving toward any end but merely blown. Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end. Even nature is hostile and poisonous, as though it were impossible for our vulnerability to survive on these acrid stones. Whether these thoughts are true or not I find less interesting than the possibilities for beauty they may hold. We are down here in time, where beauty grows. Even if things are as bad as they could possibly be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and wing.”

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember how GW Bush dismissed the MILLIONS of us around the world who rallied to say NO to invading Iraq. Bush/Cheney viewed us as nothing more than a "focus group. The war machine will not be denied.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When we hit 1 million dead from covid (and we will, if we haven’t already, hit 2 million) nothing was said, no memorial was had, and I wonder how much of that is because we can’t go to war over it.

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

THIS. I am so exhausted by efforts to get healthcare workers to take Covid seriously and wear a mask. I've had doctors argue masking with me in the hospital after spouse's open heart surgery. Unbelievable disconnect and selfishness on their part.

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Adding my voice to the chorus of well wishes! You bring so much good to this planet and I'm glad to know you're taking steps to be here for years to come. May all your bird-love keep you afloat in the coming months. 🐦

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Sending those same wishes back to you, MK!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

@librariesftp.bsky.social is completely volunteer-led and run. We have no money and are essentially powered through t-shirt sales: www.librariesforthepeople.org/gear - But over the past 4 years, we have punched way above our weight. And it's been a great pleasure to work with terrific people.

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Gear — For The People

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thank you @swordsjew.bsky.social for Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America which is often a painful read but always an educational read. 10/10 recommend.

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A bit stunned that @perrybaconjr.bsky.social didn't include Kamala doubling down on U.S. support for Gaza genocide as a factor in her 2024 defeat.

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Public Health Action Network @publichealthaction.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A surge of COVID-19 infections is happening in multiple states in the U.S. and has been building for the past month, according to the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative, led by @michael-hoerger.bsky.social. The PMC produces weekly COVID-19 heatmaps of the U.S. based on wastewater data.

Maps of the U.S. from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative from the past month showing a growing level of COVID-19 infections from wastewater data in multiple states.

It's worth the effort to avoid getting COVID-19 or other airborne infections:
- mask up in public indoor spaces
- ventilate the air
- purify your air with air purifiers
- and move events outside or to virtual

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/08/2026

Normalise saying 'fascist propaganda' instead of 'culture wars'

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yeah, I was a monthly donor to Gravel Institute for quite some time and lost track of that until one day I thought, wait a minute, where'd they all go? That's when I finallystopped payments. Very disappointing.

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Highly recommend following Interrupting Criminalization to learn & act on protecting your community. Abolition is needed for our collective liberation.

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 17/08/2026

BREAKING: CBP just awarded $36 million to four companies to collect fines from people the U.S. has deported. All four had already been paid to locate people for ICE Enforcement & Removal Operations, or check on migrant children for ICE. One held a shelter Tennessee shut down after abuse allegations.

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CBP Formally Hires Contractors to Collect Fines From People It Has Deported

The $36 million effort, spread across four companies, relies on firms already working to locate immigrants for the government's deportation surge.

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Garrett Bucks @garrettbucks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

There will be plenty of takes today about what Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary means for broader rhetorical proxy wars. This isn't one of them. It's about what a dad and a son talk about while driving home from a night where their hopes both swelled and crashed. thewhitepages.net/p/what-do-yo...

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What do you tell your thirteen-year-old when you lose

It's never just one feeling

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 10/08/2026

From a journalist who's covered abortion for a decade: this is a HUGE deal. SBA Pro-Life America is the top political group in this space. It had so far refused to publicly embrace using the dormant Comstock Act to restrict abortion (like ADF, AUL, Students for Life). That reticence ended on Friday

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Friendly reminder that abortion care by mail is available discreetly in all 50 states and U.S. territories through plancpills.org and you don’t have to be pregnant yet to obtain pills for later- neither does any woman of childbearing age you know. Stock up!!

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PLAN C: Abortion pills by mail in every state

Plan C is an information resource for self-managed, at-home abortion with pills. Learn how people in the U.S. are accessing abortion pill options online.

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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

There are 15 COVlD hot spots across the US, according to our county-level map of CDC wastewater data. See Alt text for details. PMC Weekly COVlD Report: pmc19.com New Interactive Map: pmc19.com/interactive.php

The US has 15 hot spots. These include central California (Fresno, San Benito, Alameda), northern Oregon (Wasco County), Alaska (Juneau), Hawai’i (Kauai and Honolulu), southeastern Idaho (Bannock County), central Colorado (Summit County), northwestern Illinois (Whiteside County), the northern LP of Michigan (Gaylord area), central Kentucky (Lexington), northeastern Ohio (Ashtabula County), southern Florida (Palm Beach area), southeastern Pennsylvania (Lancaster County), central New Hampshire (Grafton County), and southern Maine (Knox County).

Southern Texas still has an outbreak (Webb County). Most Texas sites that had high or rising levels have not reported since July 11. Central Texas may have higher levels than depicted.

Note that these outbreaks are relatively isolated compared with the widespread high levels in the southern and western states at this time a year ago. Levels are rising but much more slowly than typical.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I consistently remind myself that we know and understand less than 5% of the total matter and energy in the universe. This counters the seduction of despair.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/07/2026

ALL MY DEAD CATS AND OTHER LOSSES, my book about grief; who is allowed to mourn and how; and why people want to pathologize the experiences that make us human, is available now in print, ebook, and audiobook formats, wherever fine books are sold (or loaned, shoutout to libraries).

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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses: Practicing Good Grief in a Culture That Fears Mourning

"Both a grief book that doesn't read like a clinician's notes and a memoir wrapped around a bigger subject, All My Dead Cats takes grief from the taboo to the universal." — BooklistHave you suffered a...

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America by Talia Lavin

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I am so excited to announce the pre-sale for my forthcoming book, The Struggle Is Always Worth It! This is also the first reveal of the table contents, and let me tell you, there are some superstars who contributed to this book. givebutter.com/SIAWI-presale

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Struggle Is Always Worth It book pre-sale

Pre-sale and fundraiser for the edited collection, The Struggle Is Always Worth It, coming out December 2026.

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JJ @jj.mcdonough.rodeo · 18/07/2026

They have a nice site with instructions in multiple languages, and for multiple countries. corsirosenthalfoundation.org/instructions/

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How to build your own Corsi-Rosenthal Box - Corsi-Rosenthal Foundation

Dedicated to providing cleaner safer air for all.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026

Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Yes, babies and the elderly are at great risk

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Do we have a roll call of votes?

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IMEU Policy Project @imeupolicy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thank you Senator @vanhollen.senate.gov for speaking out against integrating the US and Israeli militaries in the upcoming Pentagon bill - a measure that would reward Israel at a time when they are wrongfully detaining Palestinian American student Sama Safi under abusive conditions.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 14/07/2026

Holy shit. Buried in that DHS document about its desired “deportation airline” is a request for contractors to procure and maintain 1,000-bed “detention facilities” in foreign countries. Huge scoop from @charliearchy.bsky.social. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

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Exclusive: ICE eyes 1,000-bed detention facilities in foreign countries

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is looking for private contractors that could help set up "international staging areas" abroad.

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

There's still time to submit a comment. I just did so, sharing a family member's health situation that very much needs for research to continue based on science, not the whim of political appointees. Please take 5 minutes to submit your own.

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Tracy Abell @tracyabell.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Crying plus filling their diapers with piss

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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