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renandpen.bsky.social
I’m grateful to Alice Wong and feel fortunate to be on this planet in the time of her words and actions. Holding those closest to her in my thoughts as they grieve. This is an incredible loss for so many, none of us alone with our tears today.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” - Alice Wong
November 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
A colorful illustration with speech bubbles containing motivational phrases about change. A black ribbon reads "THIS IS HOW CHANGE HAPPENS" amid a blue sky with clouds and stars. Quote attributed to Dan Berger.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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jessicavalenti.bsky.social
Here's clinic protester Mark Baumgartner, arguing that that women need to be jailed or executed because...they flip him off and don't like being harassed

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November 15, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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greggberatan.bsky.social
#RestinPower Alice Wong The Disability Community is forever stronger because of your words, your strength, and your leadership! I am better because of your friendship which I can't begin describe how much I will miss. I will always be be grateful for that friendship.
November 15, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
Alice Wong, Presente. Thank you for everything.
thrasherxy.bsky.social Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 1d
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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prisonculture.bsky.social
More people should read David Walker's Appeal because it illustrates how writing can in fact shape history.
eji.org Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 1d
On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death.
Nov. 15, 1830 | NC Mandates Death Sentence for Dissemination of Anti-Slavery Pamphlet
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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November 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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gregsargent.bsky.social
Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence!

It gets even darker than that. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2032...
Trump Boat Bombings Take Dark, Unnerving Turn with Leaked Memo Stunner
A new Trump administration memo argues that those carrying out the boat attacks can’t be prosecuted. Why? Because the administration says so!
newrepublic.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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louishenwood.bsky.social
ICE are just arresting anybody that doesn't look white enough

ICE tries to deport Native American woman

Leticia Jacobo, a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix, Arizona
ICE tries to deport Native American woman
Leticia Jacobo, a member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, was born in Phoenix, Arizona
www.telegraph.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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emmz.bsky.social
I looked up who originated the term “throwing shade”, assuming it was like, rupaul, but
screenshot from history section of wikipedia page “Throw Shade” (which in itself is amazing): The term can be found in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814). Young Edmund Bertram is displeased with a dinner guest's disparagement of the uncle who took her in: "With such warm feelings and lively spirits it must be difficult to do justice to her affection for Mrs. Crawford, without throwing a shade on the Admiral."
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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blueheronfarm.bsky.social
No salad today, only pumpkin
November 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Back in my day you had to build your own tiny house for a couple thousand, cash!
criminalerin.bsky.social Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d
Brb taking out a $50yr mortgage on two parking spaces and a house that is the same size as two parking spaces
The proposed homes would range from 240 to 540 square feet, including loft-style and two-bedroom units. The community would be located near Lower Huntington and Winchester Roads. Prices are expected to range from $50,000 to $150,000, and each home would include one to two off-street parking spaces. Traditional mortgages would be available.
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Oh I missed it again
doctorallisona.bsky.social Dr Allison Andrews @doctorallisona.bsky.social · 2d
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
A comic panel from Watchmen, showing a partially muscled skeleton (Dr Manhattan) screaming in pain in front of two horrified security guards. Text reads: “November 14th: a partially muscled skeleton stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before vanishing…”
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
My kiddo just now:

I'm making a new show. It's gonna be great. It's called Cake Pop Demon Hunters.
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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moniqueforestwitch.bsky.social
I'm so excited! Check out my first article for @thedailytism.com
Helpful! Autistic woman discovers that “on-the-job training” means throwing you to the wolves
An autistic woman’s first job has ended in disaster after she discovered that “on-the-job-training” means chucking you in the deep end without so much as a pair of inflatable armbands, sources have cl...
thedailytism.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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trance.bsky.social
This tune sounds a whole lot like what they did to Link.
November 13, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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alopex-ii.bsky.social
A siege-breaking snowstorm followed by the strongest aurora in living memory is proof that Chicago has the Mandate of Heaven and its enemies will die by her sword
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social
Anyways back in olden times a red aurora meant the death of kings

JUST A FUN FACT NOT RELATED TO ANYTHING
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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jakestepansky.bsky.social
TIL that adding the 🌈📚 emojis to a post gets me in front of the Queer Bookworms. hello Queer Bookworms. it's me, a Queer Bookworm. i want you to know that i'm (with over 100 incredible volunteers) building you a queer & trans library called the @qtlibrary.org. i hope you love it as much as i do!!!
November 12, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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katz.theracket.news
It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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kevinmking.bsky.social
“People read Foucault,” ... David Brooks once wrote, ... “and develop an alienated view of the world.” God, did I love this. An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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butchanarchy.bsky.social
This was the first time I’d ever heard of Moral Scrupulosity OCD, spent an hour reading about it and about half that time also crying, I’ve never seen this part of my internal experience ever described before 🤯😭

Here’s a helpful article about it:
embrace-autism.com/moral-scrupu...
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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annaleen.bsky.social
This is new information for me, too. It's wild that the person who invented the most common reading education system in the US says point-blank that it doesn't matter if people don't actually read words, but just guess what they are. He says it's fine to see the word "pony" and read it as "horse."
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
gnomicheresy.bsky.social
Lisa Beans for Bluesky Poet Laureate
lisa-wills.bsky.social Lisa Beans 🫘🇦🇺 @lisa-wills.bsky.social · 4d
Both ornate. Lots of marble and brass. One is a work of art. The other is a work by arses.
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM