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Death @insatiableone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🚨 We are begging you, please don’t let Mahmoud die. His condition is deteriorating rapidly and he is in unbearable pain. He needs urgent medication and surgery to save his legs and his life. His daughters are terrified of losing their father. Please help us save Mahmoud.😭💔 chuffed.org/project/omsham

Mahmoud is a thin man with legs in bandages and metal frames sitting on a hospital bed

Three beautiful children, sad and worried

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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Nurse Soad and her child Omar are the only survivors of the genocidal war Soad lost her family and her home but she did not give up on helping people She still volunteers to treat patients Today she needs our help for her child Omar, who is suffering from malnutrition donation👇🏿 tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx

Two photos side by side. The left one is Omar sitting in a bucket of water as his mother Suad feeds him crackers. The right is Suad working at the hospital in head-to-toe PPE, grabbing an instrument off a table.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 16/07/2026

I see we are back to debating the humanity of people who live in red states and rural areas. My friends. This is not the path to justice. Doing a reverse fascism for our reasons is still a fascism. The people you are punishing are not the people making decisions. We take care of each other.

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Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy @vandoesthings.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Somewhat nice to know that our transit also disappoints people visiting.

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I have no interest in this man’s problems

Royal Match ad where some sort of King is trying to hold rocks from falling on him and you need to solve some matching puzzle to prevent it happening.

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Sonia Sulaiman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Is a good question. Personally, I have a deep belief that humans are creative and can create a better future through prefiguring. In that way, I don’t see the collapse of oppressive, life destroying systems as something to lament.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

So, a reason I keep sharing alterna-reads to HP is bc I'm not talking to superfan adults, I'm talking to parents/teachers/librarians who are making book purchasing choices for kids -- I really think it's a needed step in killing the cyclical support this series gets

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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Most writers have written stories that we hold close to our heart for one reason or another; that, secretly, we believe might be the best thing we've ever done; and that we think have not received the love or attention they deserved. +

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Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy @vandoesthings.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Someone: posts analysis of a piece of media that I don’t necessarily agree with Me: Interesting, but I’d argue that scene signifies – My inner self, the former teenage fan girl with zero sense of nuance and in the trenches of Glee tumblr: *tackles them to the ground*

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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

"Why are you so obsessed with Harry Potter when there's bigger issues?" Because this is literally the lowest bar. Can you clear it? If you cannot be trusted with "don't watch the wizard show" why would anyone trust you with anything bigger?

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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026

This is not the way you want your neighbors to find out about your illegal exotic animal collection

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

After COVID I noticed my students didn't even know how to write a thesis statement or use citations. So I redesigned my course to make these formative projects, unlike some of my colleagues who felt they were too precious to do this and it still makes me mad.

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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Shout out to every writer and artist I know who still has deadlines to hit and has gotta work somehow despite The Everything

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Every time we’re concerned with some new disturbing development, we’re told it’s unlikely. And then it happens. And then it’s the next thing that’s unlikely.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

WHICH ONE

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 43 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Hot take: the best journalists are, in a way, activists. If your journalism isn't guided by a desire to make the world kinder and fairer through access to factual information, you're simply a stenographer for the status quo.

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 27/04/2025

Vote as if your rights are on the line. Because they are.

Vote like your rights are on the line.

Because they are.

How to vote? -> elections.ca

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

You can donate to support the BC Filipino community here: filipinobc.com/donate

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Donate — Filipino BC

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Vanessa Vigneswaramoorthy @vandoesthings.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

As someone who was raised Roman Catholic I really hate how much joy this gives me.

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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I have thought about the phrase "may the groundskeeper forget your grave" at least three times a day for three days now

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Jenne (she/her) Go Birds @jenne.myatproto.social · 13/04/2025

These are stunning. If there's anything left tomorrow/ Tuesday, I'm definitely getting something!

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked. The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hun...

The biggest reason government officials aren't giving any specifics about the criteria by which these arrests and deportations are selected, is that the criteria is "pro-Israel think-tanks and advocacy organizations created lists of troublesome individuals and gave them to us."

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

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Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers. apnews.com/article/doge...

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Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/02/2025

taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?

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Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Big, growing crowd just west of the U.S. Capitol protesting Trump, Musk and DOGE on President’s Day. “Hey Congress, grow a spine,” they shout, gathering for a rally around the reflecting pool.

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Katherine Locke @katherinelocke.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The community note 🤌😘

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Because in the United States, it’s legal to feed chicken shit to cattle. That’s why. That’s literally the reason www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Why is the USA the only country in the world with bird flu H5N1 ripping through cattle herds?

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

If anyone claims that the current anti-trans panic was caused in any part by trans people advocating for our human rights, that person is lying through their teeth. The religious right lost on marriage equality, and immediately started going after trans people instead. That's what happened.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/01/2025

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

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Trump funding freeze a blatant violation of Constitution, federal law: Legal experts

The Constitution, federal law and court decisions make it clear: President Donald Trump's order to pause federal funding is against the law, legal experts tell ABC News.

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The government is not a business and should not be ran like one.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave. “Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

Farewell and Thanks (Again) - Illegal Activity in the USAID Front Office
Inbox
Nicholas Gottlieb
to amsofficercouncil, ALL, HCTM.ELR, Alpana, Danielle, Sheila, Sepideh, William, Anya, Stephanie, Lindsey -
All:
4:19 PM (4 minutes ago) #
Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees without due process. I refused and have provided Acting Administrator Gray with written notification of my refusal. I have recommended in that written notification that his office cease ar desist from further illegal activity.
It is and has always been my office's commitment to the workforce that we ensure all employees receive their due process in any of our actions. I will not be party to a violation of that commitment.
I was notified moments ago that I will be placed on administrative leave, effective immediately. It has been an honor working with all of you at this Agency, which i treasure.
Please be kind and considerate of my staff at hctm.eir@usaid.gov. who will be very short-staffed and pressed over the coming months. Until you hear otherwise, Kirsten Gunsolus will be acting in my absence.
If you would like to stay in touch, I can be reached a
wish you all the best.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Gottlieb
Director, Employee and Labor Relations
US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
HCTM, Rm. 4.07A RRB, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20523
USAID gov | @USAID

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