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Red Wine & Blue now has more than 600,000 members. Its members and affiliated groups held 4,000 events last year, most of them in person. On Tuesday, they raised more than $100k in less than an hour to support Haitians in Springfield, OH & oppose ICE. 19thnews.org/2026/02/wine... via @19thnews.org

@shysterb.bsky.social pretty sure you're the one i should show this off to... it's not done yet but am i fulfilling the 'something beautiful' criteria?

THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM!!!!!

I can’t overstate that nearly every good headline coming out of Minnesota has been followed up by retaliation by the Trump administration—which tends to get a lot less attention. This is infuriating and devastating.

Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property

me trying scrounge up things worth selling: okay but would anyone even be interested in corsets? embroidered leather boots? adrianna papell floral lace sheath dresses? in the dystopian hellscape/economic ruin of 2026 where half of us can't afford FOOD? i am so fucked.

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

"we're all in the epstein files" okay then fuck all of you lololololol do these chucklefucks think that because there are a lot of them they're excused from doing horrific shit? THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS or it shouldn't be, anyway...

Name them shame them

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

...that just clicked, yup.

what if ghirardelli square s'mores but with maria biscuits?

You should read this. And Hello Sunshine. And everything else from Keezy Young. But you can start here.

Oh my GOD, the White House copied our ad but made it completely deranged. The Nazi slop factory is all out of ideas! SAD!

if you see dog, post dog (he is ADOPTABLE too!)

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

I DON'T EVEN WATCH THIS SHOW BUT I KNOW I LOVE BETTY thanks for keeping us updated @theferocity.bsky.social

If you can, take a few minutes to watch us run through the parade of lies from DHS.

BSKY I NEED YOUR INTERNET SLANG KNOWLEDGE (i think???) what the ever loving fuck does "low cap" mean in a signal name? i have found a dozen potential meanings in finance, computing, and manufacuring, and urban dictionary says it means a lie you don't want anyone to know. so wtf is "low cap til 9"?

overheard through our adjoining wall, amidst a cacophony of things being bumped dragged knocked around: neighbor: where's our marriage license? [ i presume the spouse asked why from a farther room, as i didn't hear anything, but then... ] neighbor: SO I CAN BURN IT we're all havin a time, huh?

Everybody has it backwards. Billionaires aren’t buying up these institutions to make money. They’re buying them to kill them. Same as the oligarchs destroying government and social programs and things like weather forecasting and regulatory bodies. They’re creating a world they control completely

an entire thread about cool shrooms

I think the big problem is that we’ve been taught that you’re supposed to somehow balance staying informed with being mentally stable right now, and I am here to tell you that’s wrong, you’re all supposed to be losing your goddamn minds right now, so good news everyone you’re doing great

...horrifying message without context, thank you

They just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

cool cool cool love having a car accident while trying not to hit somebody falling into the street and then being screamed at by the angry male driver who hit me in turn for "not paying attention" while trapped in the car... then having to fight an AI insurance agent for a tow also, i have to pee 🙃

.......................................veto, gothamist. veto. absolutely not.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

daytime repost, a lot is horrible in the world but you can help kitties and us stressed out rescuers trying to supplement a completely overburdened system! PSA if you're in nyc and have ever considered fostering a dog or cat, now is the time. seriously. heeeeeeeelp....

that "aid" is our own money!!! 90% of federal tax revenue comes from blue cities, which all sanctuary cities are. how it started: taxation without representation = revolution how it's going: actively paying the federal government to punish and attack us = strongly worded tweets from reps HMMM

DoorDash Discourse is entirely wrong. Since the pandemic, percent spending on groceries are up, food away from home is down, and this is especially true for young people. Trends point to food affordability being a real problem. Dig into the CEX with me! newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/stop-blami...

okay, for the kitties! between the bitter cold and a few hoarder houses in my neck of the woods, we have so many cats -- i do local mutual aid and animal rescue; the kitties need extra help the most urgently rn. i am doing 4-5 runs a week and local donations can't meet the supply needs!

i really hate that i'm too scared to post animal rescue wishlists now... we need way more dewormer and food and litter and carriers than are being donated for or we can fund ourselves, bc neighbors are stepping up to foster but we don't have enough food or supplies or carriers to go around, ugh 🫠

what generation do i blame for the people who reply all to confirm receipt of an email that specifically says no confirmations necessary but if you have a question please do not reply all here's a direct contact? bc a bunch of them are in my again-postponed HOPE group and i'm so annoyed...

An ICE agent covered head-to-toe in body cams, just thousands of tiny cameras, beating the shit out of an old woman. That's the bipartisan dream

GOOD. APPS ARE NOT ONLY SCREWING EMPLOYEES AND GOUGING CUSTOMERS, THEY **RUINED** NYC DELIVERY CULTURE. i will never stop hating them and would rather they not exist but you can't put the genie back in a bottle even if it's an asshole so CONSEQUENCES UNTIL THEY'RE AT LEAST LESS HORRIBLE PLEASE.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

relevant to many of yalls interests.

whoever's writing this timeline is a bit too on the nose

Noah Lanard spoke to Mamdani about ensuring New York’s largely immigrant delivery workers are protected from another potential threat: ICE. “We have to inform every single New Yorker—and that includes delivery workers—of their rights,” the mayor said. Read more: https://bit.ly/45GsoyT

tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY

this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough

somebody slammed a door elsewhere and my dogs began the boof/awoo chorus and from my seat crocheting i went "excuse me, children, you forgot your warm up-- with me! no no no no no no no no no / no no no no no no no no no~🎶" to the top of my range, at which point they were staring at me silently "🤨?"