I took a break from Bluesky only to come back and see that the CEO and the rest of the Bluesky team is inexplicably defending not banning bigots, all the while being incredibly arrogant and condescending with their replies to their user base

This is a good profile of Baltimore's Mayor Scott, and it's a good read. I only vaguely knew what Mayor Scott was like, and it's too easy to base opinions on people like him off biased headlines. So I'm glad this is fairly in depth www.thetrace.org/2025/09/bran...

I love the Baltimore food scene. There's so many good, affordable places to go. It sucks that the economy is going to shit right now, or else I'd eat out a lot more. I know a lot of restaurants and cafes will struggle cuz of the Trump Tax

ABOLISH ICE

the trump administration is elevating to quash protests, they want people to be scared so they don’t block the gestapo from rounding up and deporting americans. they will try to jail as many people as they can. this is a fascist regime in action

The Trump tax is hurting coffee prices all around the nation. It's completely unnecessary, completely avoidable, and only exists because Trump is an egotistical, hateful, stupid man www.thebanner.com/culture/food...

i hope they take sam altman for everything he's worth

I went to a Kilmar protest and there were so few people We were yelling into the void of apathy and fear I feel so discouraged How do we get more people into the streets? How can we inspire people and encourage them? I'm just a nobody I have no power My voice is small

In any other country what Trump is doing right now, sending in federal agents and the military into cities to assert control, would be called a coup Because that's what it is

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WCK’s mobile bakery in Gaza is currently producing 45,000 loaves of bread every day. With more supplies, including flour and fuel, we'd be able to more than double that daily output and support more Palestinian families in need. #ChefsForGaza

Cops have no fucking spine If they did, there'd be no capitalists left

Would love to hear a centrist explain what the specific crime threshold is that makes sending federal troops into a city reasonable

AUGUST 16, 2025

Under capitalism, every day you live in comfort is possible because someone you've never met is being exploited

Hey soldiers! I heard y'all fight and die for our rights or something like that We're losing those! Our rights are going away! A domestic enemy is currently attacking them! You gonna fight for our rights yet? No? You're gonna be the ones to take them away? Gotcha That tracks

What is the Democrat plan for when Trump inevitably starts arresting them for nothing? Hope that the cops wont obey Trump's orders? Hope that the next election turns out better? Wag their fingers in jail saying it's unconstitutional? Like seriously what's the plan?

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Proves again that workers don't need bosses

I'm never get over the fact that this administration's war on trans people is being carried out with the pretext of "protecting women and girls" while the president is a pedophile rapist.

“You can’t see rainbows from underneath the rubble. Equally, you cannot in good conscience celebrate Pride in the west while knowing that many of our countries are supplying the arms and funds that are killing queer Palestinians, along with their families.” There is no Pride in genocide.

Whatever you allow your government to do to others they will eventually do to you

A trans person being in the same room as you is not a violation of your privacy. Demanding to know whether a person in a room with you is trans or not IS a violation of their privacy. It's endemic of how fucking far the needle has moved that this simple fact is so lost on so many people.

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Nothing proves to me the complete fakeness of money more than the existence of billionaires

As an asexual person the absolute obsession people have with sex has always confused me So to say that men are more prone to become fascists because they aren't getting laid and fascists talk about getting laid? I dont get it I dont fuckin get it Your dick is not that important Grow the fuck up

Men are forced to be fascist because they are horny 😕

The only platform fascists deserve is the gallows

When a MAGA says that they "don't care if you're an immigrant as long as you do it legally" they really mean "we only want you if you're white or rich, preferably both"

Trump's use of ICE to target Latin populations in Cali is 1: ethnic cleansing 2: an attack on Cali's economy 3: an attack on America's food chain Latin Americans are Native American, a group he historically is extra racist towards Trump doesnt want Native Americans in America

I dont need more Trek We have enough Trek I'd rather take to the lessons that Trek taught me; To strive for a good, equal society where wealth is no longer the driving force for our lives, and we work to better ourselves and humanity So fuck Paramount Use your Library Get hard copies Go pirate

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PIRATE PARAMOUNT

Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.

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Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”

Anyone who has ever signed a bomb deserves to have their fingers smashed with a hammer

It's a death cult

Look, Chewy, I know I'm a trans girl but an ad for estradiol and a cat tree???

I studied history in college and all it gave me was a Cassandra complex

No time in history has a dictator getting a personal army ever ended well Trump's ICE will have a larger budget than most of the world's armies And it's all to enforce his will here No one will come and save us from afar We have to save ourselves

You're completely ignorant to the history then We're trying to make sure the concentration camps don't become extermination camps So yes, we NEED to compare them to Auschwitz To do any less is to forget the adage "Never Again"

History shows us that the best way to deal with fascism is to drag the fascists into the street and line them up You cant appeal to the conscience of a fascist They're evil They kill their empathy to be able to perform the worst atrocities known to man

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My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

MAN WHAT THE FUCK

This sentiment hits hard If my introduction to trans people was something positive and informative and not, ya know, shit like Ace Ventura and South Park, I wouldn't have lived my teens in shame for feeling the way I did

What is happening will continue until the Republicans are physically stopped. They have no fear They dont care about us They dont fear us They think they can sit pretty in their palaces and yachts and laugh at us as they rob us blind and kill us They are killing us Will we not defend ourselves?