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@laziah.bsky.social

I didn't choose this life, please choose to stand with me. Any support, sharing, or connection to assistance means a lot.💔🏳️‍⚧️⛓️😭

⛧ Nɯvꝡɩɛl ⛧ @nuvy-iel.bsky.social · 24d

Sophie @laziah.bsky.social has been on the run. She was outed by a social media video that called for trans people to be hunted in Sudan. She is starving and sleeping on a mat in the dirt in hiding. She needs medication and food.

Please help her!

gofund.me/ec8207f5

a blue mat is on an uneven dirt floor in a building made of branches and tarp

A screenshot of a video with the text "in our backyard"

The comments below show a picture with Sophie in it, outing her by user 99 OMACSON

User Afro Queen conscience. wrote "South Sudan has become a play group"

December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM

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The Onion

@theonion.com

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM

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Mike Sacks

@mikesacks.bsky.social

KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business.

-if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her.
-if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet.
-instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.

November 8, 2025 at 3:14 AM

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Kat Abughazaleh

@katmabu.bsky.social

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.

This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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🪿 Bird Holly 🦉

@hollyconrad.bsky.social

This was a super emotional interview for me, I’m so thankful to @memingless.bsky.social for letting me chat about my past and my journey to becoming a therapist.

Memingless Podcast @memingless.com · Oct 24

Had a great conversation with @hollyconrad.bsky.social about her first hand experience with public shaming, its effects on mental well-being and society, and the state of online culture.

pod.link/1712879936/e...

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October 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM

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Steve Vladeck

@stevevladeck.bsky.social

#SCOTUS denies a stay of execution to Alabama death-row prisoner Anthony Boyd, over *quite* a dissent from the three Democratic appointees, written by Justice Sotomayor, about the problems with nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution:

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Take out your phone, go to the clock app, and find the
stopwatch. Click start. Now watch the seconds as they
climb. Three seconds come and go in a blink. At the thirtysecond mark, your mind starts to wander. One minute
passes, and you begin to think that this is taking a long
time. Two . . . three . . . . The clock ticks on. Then, finally,
you make it to four minutes. Hit stop.
Now imagine for that entire time, you are suffocating.
You want to breathe; you have to breathe. But you are
strapped to a gurney with a mask on your face pumping
your lungs with nitrogen gas. Your mind knows that the
gas will kill you. But your body keeps telling you to breathe.
That is what awaits Anthony Boyd tonight. For two to
four minutes, Boyd will remain conscious while the State of
Alabama kills him in this way. When the gas starts flowing, he will immediately convulse. He will gasp for air. And

he will thrash violently against the restraints holding him
in place as he experiences this intense psychological torment until he finally loses consciousness. Just short of
twenty minutes later, Boyd will be declared dead.
Boyd asks for the barest form of mercy: to die by firing
squad, which would kill him in seconds, rather than by a
torturous suffocation lasting up to four minutes. The Constitution would grant him that grace. My colleagues do not.
This Court thus turns its back on Boyd and on the Eighth
Amendment’s guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment. Because the Court should have instead granted a
stay of execution and Boyd’s petition for certiorari, I respectfully dissent.

October 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal

@jayapal.house.gov

It’s been three weeks since Adelita Grijalva won her election, but Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in — all because she would be the final signature needed on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

He’s denying AZ-07 a voice in Congress. Swear her in now.

October 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM

Ochre

@earthenochre.bsky.social

Got really hooked on making pixel arts recently for reasons. Think I got it out of my system for now lol

A pixel art of a stone brick walkway overlooking a beach during a cloudy sunrise. The sun is a blinding white, with thick, light gray clouds seeming to radiate out from it. In the distance are two mossy rocks.

A pixel art of a Roman-looking town overlooked by a mountain range, in which the largest mountain is emitting smoke, seemingly a volcano. Meant to be Pompeii, but without reference, so not actually accurate.

A pixel art of the boss key from Wind Waker. A large, golden build, with a purple orb in the center of the handle(?) of the key. The purple orb contains a red eye, outlined also in gold. The handle(?) also has dark, curly lines in a symmetrical pattern around the orb, and has horns that come out of the sides. The gold and the eye both glisten in light.

September 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM

Ochre

@earthenochre.bsky.social

Hashtag new profile picture

Pixelart of Cthulhu in a lake, approaching a cliff.

May 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM

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Taniel

@taniel.bsky.social

a new GOP law that makes you risk losing your right to vote if you try to volunteer for democracy

Bolts @boltsmag.org · May 11

A new Florida law creates new felony charges for people who volunteer for ballot initiatives. People subjected to those charges could be disenfranchised themselves. “Here you are, trying to keep democracy going, and you can lose your right to vote." boltsmag.org/florida...