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your friendly neighborhood chicana punk grandpa queerdo.
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Children Thrive Action Network
3 days ago
New blog post from
@americasvoice.bsky.social
amplifies the voices of some of the more than 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents due to mass deportation.
americasvoice.org/blog/the-ame...
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The American Children of Mass Deportation: āThe New Family Separation Crisisā - America's Voice
One report has identified more than 100 U.S. citizen children who have been separated from their parents due to mass deportationāand there are likely more out there Last year, a teen named Billy brave...
https://americasvoice.org/blog/the-american-children-of-mass-deportation-the-new-family-separation-crisis/
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Carl Winberg
5 days ago
This would never have happened if Peter Sellers was still alive.
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Ana Marie Cox
7 days ago
Tell your dog I said fuck the police.
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Don Moynihan
11 days ago
Kavanaugh stop
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onion person
11 days ago
if you already didnāt have enough reasons to cancel spotify:
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unraveled
11 days ago
Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now
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Christopher Wiggins
11 days ago
Rest in power, Miss Major.
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Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died
The LGBTQ+ community ā and particularly the transgender community ā has lost an iconic activist.
https://www.advocate.com/news/miss-major-griffin-gracy-obituary
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Aaron Cynic
11 days ago
We really don't talk enough about how decades of copaganda have contributed to the perception that "chaos" at protests can only be caused by demonstrators, and the only response is more repression. Elected officials just yelling "stop hitting yourselves" on repeat
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Keri Blakinger
12 days ago
SIX YEARS after Harris County deputies took a man's life savings - $41k - saying it ~could~ potentially be used to buy drugs at some point in the future, a Texas appeals court has ordered them to return it. Will be interested to see if the current DA tries to appeal this...
ij.org/press-releas...
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Texas Appeals Court Reverses Forfeiture of Innocent Americansā Life Savings and Orders Harris County to Return the $41,680 It Seized - Institute for Justice
Today, the Texas First Court of AppealsĀ reversedĀ a Harris County civil-forfeiture judgment entered after a six-day jury trial and rendered judgment for Institute for Justice (IJ) [ā¦]
https://ij.org/press-release/texas-appeals-court-reverses-forfeiture-of-innocent-americans-life-savings-and-orders-harris-county-to-return-the-41680-it-seized/
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Unicorn Riot
12 days ago
Cosmetician With Cancer Beautifies Displaced Cancer Patients During War on Gaza [Vertical] Forcibly displaced and suffering daily from breast cancer, Samar Al-Jaal finds joy in beautifying her cancer-ridden campmates using cosmetics. Full video available in quoted post.
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the arts are magic, i truly believe that.
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iām not gonna lie, this video has really f-d me up. it is an extremely stressful time to be a brown person in this country, let alone a brown, queer, femme in texas.
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Marisa Kabas
13 days ago
New ā Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday. Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says heās not allowed to speak to him āby lawā and another says āWeāve arrested American citizens for being too closeā¦If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.ā
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Craig Johnson
16 days ago
we are at the "throw electeds who are people of color under the bus in the hopes that it'll stop before it runs *you* over" phase of right-wing takeover
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Cate (Your Ghost Wife)
17 days ago
Really cool guys. Really glad we got to book them for Dreamgaze PDX last year. And yeah the record was produced by Robin Guthrie back in ā89 and didnāt see the light of day until Little Cloud pressed it.
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āthe kkk is bucking tradition this fall by pushing residents to install their own outdoor heating devices, along with what some extremists are calling ācontroversialā tree decorationsā - american media
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furiously searching āhow to face/off irlā
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āthe kkk is bucking tradition this fall by pushing residents to install their own outdoor heating devices, along with what some extremists are calling ācontroversialā tree decorationsā - american media
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no bonzo
17 days ago
cn: domestic violence _ _ your partner can beat and torture you leading to you fleeing them then they can just call the police and get them to track you down and investigate you for a "crime"
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David Buchanan
18 days ago
how to deactivate torment nexus torment nexus deactivation tutorial torment nexus deactivation tutorial working 2025 deactivate torment nexus no survey
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gather round, kids, as i warn you about a pos informant by the name of brandon darby
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon...
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18 days ago
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one of my bands is opening this show with
@homeiswhereforever.bsky.social
next week at antoneās. if you are a rock and/or roll type of person, come see us. we play some real gay post punk and my fav non-musical thing about us is we look like weāre each in a different band.
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Marjorie James Keenan
2 months ago
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Drew Harwell
18 days ago
The Sora AI disinfo nightmare is here For more like this:
tiktok.com/@drewharwell
instagram.com/bydrewharwell
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Bisexual Kaiju
18 days ago
So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people? Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help! A thread!
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one of the best to ever do it and he doesnāt get nearly enough recognition. los lobos are the real deal.
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Julia Doubleday
19 days ago
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
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When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-the-lion-concern-himself
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Ian Carrillo
21 days ago
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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The Ken in Yellow
20 days ago
Anyway props to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD for just flat saying "in times of crisis your supposed protectors reveal themselves as the racist lynch mobs they always were" 57 years ago
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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals
20 days ago
Fuck despair. Fascists should have to fight for every inch they get, on principle alone. The fight is over when the fascists are defeated, and not one minute earlier.
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Maya Sen
20 days ago
Brett Kavanaugh and his clerks need to read this --->
www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...
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From the AskReddit community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1nxmase/serious_people_who_have_had_a_direct_runin_with/
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AAUP chapter @UT Austin
22 days ago
Itās a 1ļøā£-2ļøā£punch: The State of Texas, the Regents, & the President dissolve the Faculty Council. Then Trump offers a compact that will affect academic freedom, curriculum, student recruitment, research priorities, the future of academic programs. Once faculty had a voice in such decisions. No longer.
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Andrew Couts
21 days ago
NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation.
@dell.bsky.social
has the scoop:
www.wired.com/story/ice-so...
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ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/
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Anjali Enjeti
22 days ago
My god. āWatson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothersā¦āIt was heartbreaking to watchā¦seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.āā
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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/01/massive-immigration-raid-on-chicago-apartment-building-leaves-residents-reeling-i-feel-defeated
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Radley Balko
23 days ago
I've been writing about the war on drugs for more than 20 years. There are some cases that have stuck with me -- names that have never left my head. For the last couple years, I've been working with The Intercept on a podcast to tell their stories. It launches in a week.
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Introducing Collateral Damage | Collateral Damage from The Intercept
The Intercept is launching a new podcast series reported and hosted by investigative journalist Radley Balko.
https://shows.acast.com/67d8a0616b89322b9dca968f/68dafed96d92c33f9cfb68cb
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Joseph Cox
24 days ago
New from 404 Media: ICE to buy tool that tracks locations of hundreds of millions of phones every day. Billions of pieces of location data. ICE previously stopped using data remotely harvested from smartphones. Now it's buying it again. Usually used w/o warrant
www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...
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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
https://www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-that-tracks-locations-of-hundreds-of-millions-of-phones-every-day/
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Aparna Nair
24 days ago
I swear to the goddess nothing infuriates me more than the faux-naĆÆvetĆ© of techbrosāthey will create and unleash tech that can have monstrous consequences for the most vulnerable among us, and if challenged about it, suddenly they become newborn babies knowing nothing of this cruel world
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein š
24 days ago
I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years
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Pamela Colloff
24 days ago
The men wrongfully accused of the Yogurt Shop Murders--two of whom were convicted, and one of whom was sent to death row--should've been exonerated long ago. Glad to see our D.A. doing the right thing. But we need a top-to-bottom review of police + prosecutor conduct.
www.kvue.com/article/news...
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Men wrongfully accused of Yogurt Shop Murders seek formal exoneration
In 1999, Michael Scott and three other teenage boys, ages 15 to 17, were arrested in connection with the killings.
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/yogurt-shop-murders-wrongly-accused-exoneration/269-a2161cb6-0ada-4378-a5fb-948d493f4232
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JVG éŖØ
24 days ago
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's
@nytimes.com
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Alanna Smith
25 days ago
Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
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Mychal Threets
25 days ago
š¶ Take a look, it's in a book š¶ š„¹ After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow šš
#FollowTheRainbow
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these kinds of people do not understand the weight of the moment and the realities of oppressed communities. they are not safe for you. it is past the time to coddle people willfully ignoring the dangers that bipoc, disabled, queer and trans folks & more experience daily. step up or step aside.
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The New Republic
26 days ago
The fatherāwho's lived in the U.S. for over two decades and has an active asylum applicationāwas reportedly driving with his daughter when he called his wife and said someone seemed to be following them. When they got home, agents got hold of the child.
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Chime School
27 days ago
OAKLAND Oct 17 @ Stork Club - playing a solo set at a fundraiser for FentCheck with some great bands. Come support a good cause!
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Jared Yates Sexton
27 days ago
The devaluing and crushing of art and artists has created the perfect environment for dehumanization, corporate control, a culture of self-service and transactional behavior, and has undermined our ability to imagine a better future than our present. Itās hard to overstate how devastating itās been
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lol/š thinking also about how happy i was to learn one of my bands was getting $500 for an upcoming gig. there are 5 of us. itās rough out there. i spend waaaaaaaaaaaay more creating music than iāll ever make back. there are so many artists weāll never get to know because of this cost barrier.
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boreian šØš¦
27 days ago
if wrestling is fake explain this š¤¼
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
27 days ago
If you were wondering how you can actively help to protect people in this moment and youāre a white middle-class American the way you can protect people now is by using your position of privilege and relative safety to call what is happening by its name and to get louder than you have ever been.
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Annie Zaleski
27 days ago
Pulp and LCD Soundsystem joined forces to cover Heaven 17ās ā(We Donāt Need This) Fascist Groove Thang.ā Nancy Whang and Jarvis nail it; so do the bands. š
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LCD Sound System x Jarvis Cocker (PULP) (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
YouTube video by kidchico
https://youtu.be/thZ6EFlmB_E
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