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Alt_Quinn (she/her/ally)
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Alt_Quinn (she/her/ally) @quinnrising.bsky.social · Feb 15
To those who didn't vote:
I get it. Both options were bad. It was like being given a choice between having your foot run over by a golf cart or having your leg cut off by an axe murderer. The correct answer is, "no, thank you, neither." But what you didn't understand is that "no" wasn't an option1/
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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nome.bsky.social
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
quinnrising.bsky.social
Would like to mention that my 20 year old's alarm is a small child screaming and it is VERY disconcerting to hear that for the first time at 7am...
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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kencaldeira.com
Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same.

And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.

@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.

ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
Two largest causes of death in the US are heart disease and cancer, but the media focuses on homicide and terrorism.
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
A 14 year old has responded to Megyn Kelly’s disgusting comments.

@cheeringforchange on TikTok

#EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheFiles #MegynKelly
November 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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wtafc.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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nikitagill.bsky.social
“Another week survived is another week won.”
"How Are You?" Another week survived is another week won. I see the sacred in leaves turning from green to gold. November is a melancholy animal, glad of another season where it gets to hibernate. The world is still burning but we are trying harder to douse the flames these days, I recognise this as the shape of hope. I want to call everyone I love and tell them I love them. I am learning to act on that impulse instead of deferring it till a tomorrow that was never promised. I have finally understood that the poem doesn't always live in the wound. It lives in the love that heals us. - Nikita Gill
November 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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thehighsign.bsky.social
Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe.

Share it widely.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
quinnrising.bsky.social
Oooh that's good
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8d
Ms. Brown speaking the truth 🔥
November 14, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Fact-check: true 😕
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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50501movement.bsky.social
District Judge Jeff Cummings ordered bond for at least 615 people in a lawsuit brought by civil rights groups. The people held were arrested in Operation Midway Blitz, President Donald Trump’s law enforcement operation in Chicago.

Via @msn

#FuckICE #ChingaLaMigra #Chicago #FDT
Photo of ICE agents with text: TRUNE Illinois Judge Jeffrey Irvine Cummings has ordered the release of 600 migrants arrested by ICE in Chicago 50501
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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altcdc.altgov.info
THE SUPREME COURT WON’T REVISIT GAY MARRIAGE

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
Supreme Court won't revisit landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges appealing damages she owed a gay couple after she denied them a marriage license.
www.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12d
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.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
quinnrising.bsky.social
I have not been meditating lately. I'm changing that. Here's a 21 day guided Deepak Chopra abundance meditation. It's public and free.

youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Deepak Chopra 21 day challenge - YouTube
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November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
This is so insane. #MedicareForAllNOW
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
BERNIE: “This senate is about to make a horrific situation even worse… health insurance premiums will double/triple/quadruple… some will pay 50% of their income… 15 million will lose insurance… 50,000 will die unnecessarily…”

#MedicareForAllNOW
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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sifill.bsky.social
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Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays
From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
capitalbnews.org
November 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
quinnrising.bsky.social
The part of religious persecution everybody
jackjenkins.me Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14d
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.

“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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warren.senate.gov
Emergency Press Conference:

Update on the government shutdown and health care from Senator Gary Peters.
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
quinnrising.bsky.social
This gives me hope that maybe people will see past their hate to the truth.
nothoodlum.bsky.social Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15d
Are they finally catching on to his eternal grifting and gaslighting?
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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sidneymorss.bsky.social
I’d like to speak to a manager…
October 14, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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sidneymorss.bsky.social
post-election coverage #satire
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM