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Eddie Utrata @eddieutrata.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Happy 10th Birthday to my favorite Godzilla of them all, SHIN GODZILLA! #ShinGoji #ShinGodzilla
Four photos of various sofubi and vinyl figures of Godzilla 2016, also known as Shin Godzilla
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Valerie @valeriedouglas.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The @raikesfoundation.bsky.social continues to dare to ask the question,"Imagine a future where all young people had a safe and stable home."
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Reaching Housing Stability for Youth
Ending homelessness is possible and it starts with preventing youth homelessness. We can change what’s possible if we work together.
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The Geekiary @thegeekiary.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
If you know of a trustworthy, reliable local food bank or similar organization that could take some donations right now during the US government shut down and SNAP benefit crisis, reply to this comment with a link! We’d be happy to share it.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 27/10/2025
🚨 BREAKING: Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will issue guidance blocking states from wiping medical debt off credit reports — siding with debt collectors over patients. The move could keep $220 billion in medical bills on Americans’ records. www.levernews.com/trump-aims-t...
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Trump Aims To Infect Your Credit
Trump’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is trying to stop states from wiping medical debt from your credit report.
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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
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Valerie @valeriedouglas.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I'm loving season one of #Murderbot, and can't wait for ART next season. BFFs forever! ❤️
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The media shuffles this aside because either oh it’s Trump being Trump or because they’re running cover for him. And it’s easy to dismiss as more nonsense. But suggesting members of the opposition party are clones/robots/NPCs is dangerous: it unpersons them, makes them likelier targets of violence.
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Valerie @valeriedouglas.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Cartoon of 2 chocolate rabbits. One with a bite off its behind saying, "My butt hurts" and the other missing its ears saying, "What??"
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Valerie @valeriedouglas.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Happy #Caturday! Text from Yuval Noah Harari's book, "Sapiens." Photo by Thomas Stephan
4. An ivory figurine of a 'lion-man' (or ‘lion-ess-woman') from the Stadel Cave in Germany (c.32,000 years ago). The body is human, but the head is leonine. This is one of the first indis-putable examples of art, and probably of religion, and of the ability of the human mind to imagine things that do not really exist.4. An ivory figurine of a 'lion-man' (or ‘lion-ess-woman') from the Stadel Cave in Germany (c.32,000 years ago). The body is human, but the head is leonine. This is one of the first indis-putable examples of art, and probably of religion, and of the ability of the human mind to imagine things that do not really exist.
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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
My latest piece @thenation.com is how perilous it is for us Jews to swallow the lie that a criminal regime of antisemites is really “fighting antisemitism”. The reality? Trump has ordered a hit on Judaism. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump’s Mob-Boss Offer to Us Jews: Accept “Protection”—or Else
Under the guise of “fighting antisemitism,” Trump is shredding our rights and telling us we are safe.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 08/03/2025
A little-noticed executive order may in the long run have the largest impact on US democracy.
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Independent Agencies Oversee Elections and Media. Trump’s Seizing Their Reins.
A little-noticed executive order may in the long run have the largest impact on US democracy.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This brain-dead take is becoming the conventional wisdom on the struggles of young men but it's false. From homelessness to suicide prevention to opioid regulations to higher minimum wages, Democrats' platform and rhetoric are *far* better for men than anything coming from the right.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
this argument about left scolding sounds initially plausible but does not survive contact with hearing how these manosphere people talk to young men
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Valerie @valeriedouglas.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy #Caturday! Luis Wain "Cat's Nightmare" 1904
A drawing of two cats tucked in bed with their eyes wide open as 13  owls, perched all around the bed, stare at them.
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Valerie @valeriedouglas.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"How is it that the same evangelical Christians who insisted on the highest standards of personal morality, who were deeply committed to the Constitution..who resisted leaders of authoritarian regimes do a complete about-face & support a president...who represented the opposite of all those things?"
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As The Fog Begins To Lift
An Epiphany On MAGA Christianity
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 08/02/2025
even when it's nazis doing nazism, the press has to call them communists
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Chairman Musk and his young acolytes bring a Mao-like cultural revolution to Washington
What is happening now is best understood as an outburst of homegrown Maoism in America.
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Valerie @valeriedouglas.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
As someone who has been working with and advocating for runaway and homeless youth for almost 30 years, I can tell you that this hurts children.
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Will C you in Hell @xer0.blacksky.app · 08/02/2025
FUCK YOU, MAKE ME
Picture of a meme with LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation. The top half of the image is him with a hand up in a "slow down" kind of manner, captioned with "do not comply in advance." A short list includes reasons not to use that phrase, including "it's bossy, it's already a cliche, and it implies permission to comply later." 

Then in the bottom half of the image, his "glasses" are flaring red and he's giving the go-ahead. This image is captioned with: "Fuck you, make me," with another short list, this one of reasons to use that phrase. The list includes: "leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, and easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner."
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The Asheville Blade @avlblade.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
On Feb. 3 a large anti-deportation protest swept through downtown Asheville. Over 300 people took the center of town while a major police response failed to intimidate them. More on this, and how it signals the depth of local opposition to escalating fascism: ashevilleblade.com?p=5269 #avlnews
Photo of flags and anti-deportation signs waving with blue police light reflecting, with words 'Abolish ICE' in large white print and "Large march against deportations sweeps downtown" in smaller print
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Tory Stephens @torystephens.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
California Just Debunked a Big Myth About Renewable Energy Myth: Renewable energy isn’t reliable. Reality: California just debunked that. Here's a thread based off of this @gristnews.bsky.social article: grist.org/energy/calif... #CA #California #Renewables #Energy 🧵
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California just debunked a big myth about renewable energy
Are renewables reliable? A new study says California ran on renewables alone for a record number of days last year.
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Eddie Utrata @eddieutrata.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
'The taxation of trade routes' and the like doesn't seem so funny now, does it?
Opening crawl of the movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace which says "Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute."
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Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Musk isn’t just the wolf who has been given the sheep. He’s been given the location of the sheep, their farms, their shepherds. He’s been given maps to get to his prey and the keys to the gates that keep them safe. Musk, unelected, now has his hands directly on the levers of power, illegally.
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Mary Doria Russell @mdoriarussell.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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Valerie @valeriedouglas.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
My aplogies, @tomzohar.bsky.social, if I've broken a sacred seal by cross-posting something you haven't shared here yet. But, it is just too good. 🤣
A  screen grab of a quote tweet from Tom Zohar responding to a tweet that asks, "How did we go from Brat Summer to Hitler Winter" with a pic of Liza Minelli from the film Cabaret with a blank speech bubble.
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is the Second Amendment moment that gun nuts have been fantasizing about for decades. But because it's their guy committing the tyranny, ain't nobody talking about the Second Amendment now.
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Jo McNally Romance @jomcnallyromance.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Same. I’m also old enough to remember when Canadian diplomats risked their lives in 1980 to save 6 Americans working at the US Embassy. They brought them home on Canadian passports (the movie Argo was a true story). The US went wild in gratitude, flying Canadian flags everywhere.
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FairDistrictsPA.com @fairdistrictspa.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Thank you @buckscountybeacon.bsky.social for an in-depth view of the January 28 press conference. A growing body of research suggests that gerrymandered voting districts lead to polarization, legislative dysfunction, gridlock and increasing voter frustration. buckscountybeacon.com/2025/01/stat...
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State Lawmakers Want to Strengthen Election Integrity in Pennsylvania by Ending Gerrymandering and Ensuring Fair Redistricting - Bucks County Beacon
“In a strong and healthy democracy, voters choose our representatives, but today we see too many power hungry politicians draw gerrymandered maps to silence voters,” said Common Cause Pennsylvania's P...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/02/2025
i think this should be factored into how states, counties, localities and hospitals respond to these executive orders. "we will investigate you if you teach DEI." okay, with what agents, specifically? with what state capacity?
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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This is the crucial point. They do not have enough people to enforce all of their cruelties. The best they can do is piecemeal while assuming people will wait passively for their turn. I am glad to see 22 states (and school districts) pushing back so fast.
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Valerie @valeriedouglas.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Children are not property.
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m @micdwy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Excerpt from Russo’s speech; white text on black background: “So, if I'm dying from anything, I'm dying from homophobia. If I'm dying from anything, I'm dying from racism. If I'm dying from anything, it's from indifference and red tape, because these are the things that are preventing an end to this crisis. If I'm dying from anything, I'm dying from Jesse Helms. If I'm dying from anything, I'm dying from the President of the United States. And, especially, if I'm dying from anything, l'm dying from the sensationalism of newspapers and magazines and television shows, which are interested in me, as a human interest story -- only as long as I'm willing to be a helpless victim, but not if I'm fighting for my life.”
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 01/02/2025
From southern plantations to modern prison systems, labor behind bars has a long history, and incarcerated people have organized to protect themselves for decades. Got questions? We’re digging into the issue—send yours in: boltsmag.org/ask-bolts/
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Ask Bolts: The Past and Present of Prison Labor | Bolts
Send us your questions about how prisons make incarcerated people work, from the history of the practice to the efforts to change it.
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Jessica Pieklo @hegemommy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
It’s a constitutional crisis yes. But it’s also theft. They’re looting public resources for private gain.
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muymanwell / booyah @booyah.net · 30/01/2025
friend sent me this illustration by @garyzilla.bsky.social , and it's perfection. TRANS RIGHTS, of course Godzilla stans
godzilla with the trans flag colors coming out of his mouth, and the words "TRANS RIGHTS! -GODZILLA" underneath
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Sara @aeirlys.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner
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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
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End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Reporters: Please stop calling things DEI that are not DEI. This is only cementing the propaganda being used to legitimize the dismantling of all types of initiatives that are not DEI as well as legitimize efforts to end civil rights enforcement. Be specific with your language. Be accurate.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 29/01/2025
Reposting because there are more new people:
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/01/2025
Here are just a few of the grant review panels that were cancelled *today*, setting back computer science research and education in the US by many months at best, and more likely permanently.

Proposal Review Panel for Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (1194) 
Date/Time: January 28, 2025 8:30am – 5:00pm 
Contact: Daniel McAdams, 703/292-4654 

Proposal Review Panel for Innovation and Technology Ecosystems (84685) 
Date/Time: January 28, 2025 12:00pm – 6:00pm 
Contact: Alastair Monk, 703/292-8050 

Proposal Review Panel for Innovation and Technology Ecosystems (84685) 
Date/Time: January 28, 2025 10:00am – 5:00pm 
Contact: Henry Ahn, 703/292-8050 

Proposal Review Panel for Electrical, Communications, and Cyber Systems (1196) 
Date/Time: January 28 - 29, 2025 9:00am – 6:00pm 
Contact: Dominique Dagenais, 703/292-2980 

Proposal Review Panel for Engineering Education and Centers (173) 
Date/Time: January 28 - 29, 2025 8:30am – 5:00pm 
Contact: Jesus Soriano Molla, 703/292-7795 

Proposal Review Panel for Computer and Network Systems (1207) 
Date/Time: January 28 - 29, 2025 8:30am – 5:00pm 
Contact: Nan Zhang, 703/292-8950
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Valerie @valeriedouglas.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Another Executive Order to terrorize us into line.
cnn.com
All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House | CNN Politics
The White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans, according to an internal memorandum sent Monday.
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Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA (BurgartBioethix) @alyssaburgart.com · 25/01/2025
Healthcare workers: Now is a great time to plan ahead before you’re face-to-face with an ICE agent. I’ve compiled 14 tips for healthcare workers ⬇️
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Be a Strong Link for Immigrant Patients 🔗
Enhance the ethical care of all patients when immigration agents enter hospitals
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
BRENNAN: “You campaigned on lowering prices, which Executive Order does that?” J.D. VANCE: *condescending pretty talk with buzz words but no answers*
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
globalvoices.org/2025/01/26/r...
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Reclaiming narratives: African storytelling as a path to justice and reparations
Centuries of being overshadowed and misrepresented by colonial and other external perspectives have portrayed the continent through a lens of primitivism and inferiority. Such depictions served to jus...
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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Here’s our answer on why books and not the internet… Books are targeted in schools because it’s an opportunity to redefine what a community considers “appropriate” in our public spaces. youtu.be/fTKBj9YemIg?...
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"Sarah Jessica Parker Joins Librarians Fighting Book Bans – Sundance’s Must-See Documentary
YouTube video by IndieWire
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ellery @ellery.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
ICE says it is conducting "enhanced" immigration operations in Chicago today. "Border czar" Tom Homan, a top DOJ official and................................. Dr. Phil.... are here to participate. (this is 100% serious unfortunately)
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 26/01/2025
Columbia Jrnlsm Review [Jan 24] Pulitzer-winning columnist & economist Paul Krugman says he quit NYT bec. it was killing his weekly newsletter, reducing his op-eds to one-a-week, & heavily editing & rewriting his op-eds. Krugman was well-known for his liberal views. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social‬]
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Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times
The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.
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