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Chef, musician, teacher, gamer, Linux enthusiast and voracious reader. Possibly 3 racoons in a trenchcoat. Novice 5e DM. Vegan and anti-capitalist for a livable planet and anti-fascist for one worth living on. Baltimore. He/him.
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support Black prisoners & don't forget about them on Juneteenth! send funds to their commissary accounts, send books, write letters! don't forget about Mumia Abu-Jamal, Kamau Sadiki, Ronald Reed, Rev. Joy Powell, and many more, too many Black liberationists are still in prison today. free them all!

You can see the ICE agents in their minivans then the LAPD cars in the back appearing to block the Dodger Stadium parking lot entrance. When I asked an LAPD officer if they are blocking ICE from entering the parking lot she said “put it this way. The Dodgers don’t want them coming in.”

full fascism

Iraq and Afghanistan all over again, but against China rather than russia.

The Trump administration told the national suicide prevention hotline to stop offering specialized support to L.G.B.T.Q. callers

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

the script for this iran war drumbeat is EXACTLY the same as the runup to iraq. ive heard almost verbatim "with us or against us" and "the smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud." neocon deep state stays winning

Bisbee is a tiny artsy town (less than 5000 population) with a vibrant queer community near the AZ-Mexico border and a bunch of Border Patrol agents rolled up to Bisbee Pride this weekend and snatched people up right as the parade was about to kick off.

All part of the plan. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/you...

Capitalism is funny because we could have $15k EVs in America but the big bad capitalist are scared of itty bitty communism.

Look I'm just going to get even transer and even gayer and then even transer after that. Like @erinyes.diy says, I'll be calling for unapologetic gender expansive trans jihad until I die. Be whatever gender(s) suits you. Be all the genders! Fuck the haters. Bodily autonomy is the FLOOR.

a world where everyone owns the home they live in and no one owns a home they don't

Current mood.

Current mood.

Would love to have reporters dig into this incident, which is reminiscent of the Portland arrests of protesters in black vans. My additional question: did these black vans even have government plates?

what turned me into the joker was a couple decades of being called a nihilist doomer by people who insist that the lesser of two increasingly horrifying evils is the best we can ever do as a species

"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country....all without hearings, debate or public input." wilderness.org/articles/med...

ICE throws gas at protesters who immediately cone it then use boards to help fan the gas back at ICE.

This myth is one of my big historical pet peeves. Life expectancy was low in earlier eras not because people were middle aged at 25 and died of old age at 40, but because a huge % of people died in infancy and early childhood, bringing the average way down.

Thank you to everyone who helped us meet (and exceed!) our fundraising goal for the launch of the official Blacksky app! 🕺🏾 What happens next: - If you haven't already, let us know what features you want here -> pol.is/6vmnfmi5ps - If you contributed, we'll follow up about claiming a @badge.blue

depressed? would a depressed guy do THIS?!? *goes into work and does his job*

This is next-level cringe.

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

Kinda wild that we all get to pay taxes to fund a civil war against us

“You deserve a peace that doesn’t ask you to disappear”

The Western public sphere is nothing but Zionists taking a very short break from masturbating to footage of genocide of Palestinians to tell everyone better things aren't possible and disagreeing with them is a hate crime.

I haven't said anything about the truly Islamophobic campaign being waged in NYC during this primary but it's absolutely DISGUSTING and another example of how accepted Islamophobia is as routine bigotry. All of us have had enough of this. It's building up more bad blood and resentment.

This Palestinian girl in Gaza is mourning her younger brother who was killed by Israeli forces while trying to collect aid from Rafah.

The Israelis are monsters. They must be stopped.

If we had a dictatorship of the proletariat I could be at brunch right now

For people with darker skin injured at protests, and the lawyers representing them:

The best prayer I ever prayed was that i would see myself like god sees me. That prayer changed my life. And i only prayed it because of my session with @heyitsjeida.bsky.social.

Denmark’s Ministry for Digitalization is looking to get off Microsoft products by the end of the year, starting with the adoption of LibreOffice. It follows similar moves by Copenhagen and Aarhus.

This is incredible. You don’t need to speak Spanish to fully enjoy this 60 seconds. Good luck buying any house built buy American workers during Trump 2.0

BORDER PATROL: “Are you an 🇺🇸 citizen?” 🔥 NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN: “FIRST ONES. We didn’t cross the border, the border crossed us… what are you? You’re not first born. You’re not from this f*ckin’ land. Punk-as* b*tches.”

ICE is now removing undocumented foster children from their foster homes for deportation! For those of you who are supporting this, there will be a reckoning for this … and for those of you who are sitting silently by while these atrocities are unfolding before our eyes, there will be a reckoning!

"Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna' be fooled again!" T. Pratchett

“If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because ‘violence’ is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as ‘peaceful’ are, in reality, quite violent.” Read more:

any society that would like to keep its basic functions - and aspires to democracy - has to discourage baldfaced lying. especially by authority figures.

I don't know how many times these people have to say "non-whites are not americans unless they are part of my inner circle, we want to do ethnic cleansing" before people start listening bsky.app/profile/pale...

California Senator Alex Padilla was physically assaulted by federal law enforcement and detained for attempting to attend DHS secretary Kristi Noem's press conference in LA.

The FBI agent at this press conference just said they arrested someone who was providing masks and face shields to protesters. Didn't realize that was a crime.

👀 We've got the ~distributions~ on Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill." Upshot: It takes a lot of money from the lowest 10% of earners and gives a bunch to the top 10%. Expressed in 2 ways here: - Dollar amounts - % of household resources (more in thread) www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...