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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

I don’t know who needs to hear this but, the powers that be are the most mad at Luigi because he punched up.

For the second time in 48 hours the United States has deployed B-52H Stratofortress bombers to the Middle East to "demonstrate force projection capabilities". ukdefencejournal.org.uk/american-bom...

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.

Who's up for some flag burnin'?

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

Happy Hot Fuzz Day

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%. That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.

We have a real beauty for #WingFriday

The cars keep lurching to the far right.

"Mass public formations all contributed instrumentally to removing Trump from office last time. We know it is possible, we can do it again, and we can do it better. Trump and company learned from that experience, but so have we. The fight continues." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Useful thread , even for those that think they know what they are doing or have been there before. Remember kids , everything can be used as evidence if you control the judiciary so don’t make their job any easier

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

what?? but we saved so much money on America by setting the country on fire and throwing it in the trash

Makes me question whether half of this country was dropped on your head at birth.....

Work really hard and you can make billionaires trillionaires. No it's not an incentive is it?

To all our followers on BlueSky in the UK - could you spare 2 minutes of your time now - or over the weekend? Your voice can make a difference. Write to your MP to say NO to disability benefit cuts. https://buff.ly/3WiBs8m #OpportunitySecurityRespect #DisabilityRights #Disability ♿

#SoupForMyFamily 😉😉

From now on, Google will be tracking you even more than it has in the past 🤯 Google’s ban on device fingerprinting has ended. Let’s explore the dire consequences this could have for your privacy and safety online... 🧵 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm21g0052dno

The talks are going well I see....

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

Just a little longer

Is their anything these cars can do except extract cash from losers

People need to understand this is a smash and grab. The billionaire oligarchs are looting the government right now. While most services and functions will be privatized and made worse, the real valuable heist is the data government has that Elon is stealing to feed his AI company.

If you wait, you may not be able to leave at all

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing *its own* history.

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

When Aaron Bushnell wrote "This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal," he wasn't talking only about Palestine. He was talking about how what we have decided to ACCEPT as normal corrupts us and weakens us.

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Why are some people too dumb to understand that billionaires buy farms because they never have to pay tax, and that if you don't tax it, farmland will keep increasing in price and only be owned by billionaires. It's not difficult.

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

(1,2) This is Jaime. She was funny and fun & made everyone laugh. Unfortunately, the laughter stopped 7 years ago today in the Parkland shooting. Because of what happened to Jaime, my family started Orange Ribbons for Jaime doing great work orange-ribbons-for-jaime.myshopify.com/collections/...

What could go wrong? www.npr.org/2025/02/13/n...

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Allotments are a great way to connect with nature, grow food sustainably and bring the community together. Allotments for all! www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/i%E2...

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

Jesus Christ, earth’s core, read the room.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any -Alice Walker #BHM

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” -Anne Frank www.democracynow.org/2025/2/6/hea...

🤫 You’re saying the quiet part out load again