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@phantomharmonic.bsky.social

🏴‍☠️🚩 Build community Sabotage capital interests.

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Liberals always argue that progress must be slow. We shouldn't listen to them.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Actually, positive change is slow, difficult and incremental by nature. Destroying is fast, building is slow. It is easy to bring misery to people - any idiot can do it, as Trump shows - but very hard to improve their conditions. Building a better society is slow, careful, patient work.

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elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

union person@junlper.beer

its feels like a mass psychosis where tech leaders continue to insist you can be cruel, mean, and hurt the feelings of lines of code

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The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

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Gotta hurry...and get to the Grand Opening of Alternate Histories Video TODAY, October 3 from 12-4pm! The party is at 517 Greenfield Ave with free screenprinting, new artwork from friends, and VHS & DVDs for sale! I made a fool of myself on video so now you have to come!

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House Republicans and 13 House Democrats today voted to pass the Stop Insider Trading Act, which (1) Does not ban insider trading among members of Congress or the President (2) Imposes a stringent photo ID law and basically eviscerates mail voting

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Replying to @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals

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Sunday from 12-3pm I'm joining my pals at BOOM concepts for STOOP GAMES! Join us for a family-friendly afternoon of fun, music, games, art and more. You can get a tour of the new Rotunda at 327 N Negley and I'll be playing music & bringing Make Your Own Monster worksheets (plus free stickers!)

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Once again, fuck Gavin Newsom.

Frances Larina@franceslarina.bsky.social

"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...

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The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit newsroom, and our journalism is free for everyone to access. That means Texans can read our reporting whether or not they can afford a subscription.

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MONDAY is the last day to pre-order this sweatshirt! Net proceeds go to the National Immigration Law Center!

Alternate Histories@alternatehistories.bsky.social

My PROTECT YOUR NEIGHBORS design is back in a crewneck sweatshirt preorder, just in time for fall. Order before Sep 21; they’re printed by union shop Commonwealth Press and net proceeds go to @nilc.org. www.compressmerch.com/products/pro...

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When my colleagues and I started digging around in CDC data on pregnancy-related deaths, we noticed something surprising: the rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths had more than doubled in recent years. Nearly 200 women died between 2020 and 2025. So we set out to learn why 🧵

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During McCarthyism, it was common to target lawyers who dared to represent those who were accused of communism as if they themselves had done anything wrong. In the infamous Dennis v US trial, Judge Medina held defense lawyers in contempt and sentenced them to six months in jail. And now ...

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We're doing a run of Abolish ICE Monster Sweatshirts and looking for suggestions for a National charity to donate to. I have great places I've worked with before, just looking for suggestions to see if there's any orgs in need I'm missing. Prefer orgs that serve folks on a national basis. Thanks!

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Good thing he's not a Twitch streamer without any formal role in government or his entire political party would be compelled by the media to denounce him. Just a Nazi working in the State Department. No big deal!

Edward Wong@ewong.bsky.social

NEW: Nate Hochman was fired from the DeSantis campaign in 2023 after promoting a video with the Sonnenrad, a Nazi symbol embraced by white supremacists. He now works in Rubio's State Department, as deputy director of policy planning and chief speechwriter. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/u...

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Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

ProPublica@propublica.org

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

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Replying to @therealbrent.bsky.social

This is how Fetterman responded to a proposed meeting with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) because they were worried about Medicaid cuts, holy shit this guy needs to resign tonight

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Replying to @therealbrent.bsky.social

Norcross Panetta Gluesenkamp Perez Riley Schneider Scholten Schrier Sherman Soto Stevens Suozzi Thanedar Titus Torres Vargas Vindman Wasserman Schultz

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These 33 Democrats just voted for HR 4795, which denies federal funding to any university that boycotts Israel, including companies in illegal settlements: Auchincloss Castor Cisneros Costa Courtney Cuellar Davis Frankel Gillen Golden Gonzalez Landsman Latimer Lee (NV) Mannion Moskowitz

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Really truly was not expecting to see the second part of this after the quote that's just straight analysis of labor under capitalism in PC Gamer of all places????? Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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It’s mind-blowing that we have literal white nationalists in the White House carrying out unfathomably cruel, abusive, white nationalist policies, and the punditariat has spent the last two weeks debating if some people were too intemperate after a Black man was murdered by cops six years ago.

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Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.

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This is a really special feature on our co-founder Jordy, our story, and our new book, WTF America?!, from Pittsburgh City Paper. “We’re not striving for neutrality in a political landscape that demands moral clarity.” Give it a read:

pghcitypaper.comPittsburgh’s Jordy Meiselas and MeidasTouch are fighting for journalism, and democracy itselfThe Pittsburgh-based Meiselas and his two brothers have built a following of millions in just six years.

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Texas cannot enforce restrictions on some public drag shows after a federal judge again declared a 2023 law unconstitutional. “For those who find such activities offensive, the solution is relatively simple... just don’t go,” Judge David Hittner wrote.

texastribune.orgTexas’ limits on some drag shows found unconstitutional againA federal judge reasserted his 2023 ruling that the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals sent back for reconsideration. The law went into effect in March as the case proceeded.