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ko-op.com
Large-scale bombing has begun again across Palestine, and families like Islam’s need support to survive the continued genocide.

When you donate $20 USD or more to the GFM, you'll receive one piece of artwork from current and former KO_OP artists. www.gofundme.com/f/rebuild-a-...
Donate to Rebuild a home for Islam Qadihy, organized by Crystalliaco Crystalliaco
Hello, everyone. I am Islam Qadiyh. I am a 15 year old in Rafah, and my fami… Crystalliaco Crystalliaco needs your support for Rebuild a home for Islam Qadihy
www.gofundme.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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gregpak.net
Here we go. The dam is breaking. Call your D senators and reps and tell them that Schumer has to step down as the minority leader in the Senate.

Find your reps here: reps.fyi
March 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
elzebet.bsky.social
Congress cut funding for MS research for the fiscal year 2025.

www.nationalmssociety.org/news-and-mag...
Empowering people affected by MS to live their best lives
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society exists because there are people with MS. Our vision is a world free of MS.
www.nationalmssociety.org
March 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
elzebet.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/KPmAb...
The Ballad of Tommy & Joey #funnysong
YouTube video by Carter Vail
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March 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
elzebet.bsky.social
March 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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griffinmcelroy.bsky.social
“If I don’t piss my pants,” Schumer explained, “there’s a very real chance he might tell me to shit my pants, and THEN what would you have me do?”
March 14, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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griffinmcelroy.bsky.social
Chuck Schumer pisses pants, gestures around the room as if to say ‘it feels good, actually,’ paving the way for everyone to just start rippin’ piss right in their pants
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Mar 13
UPDATE: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, said he plans to vote for a Republican bill to fund the government through September, paving the way for other Democrats to join him.
Senate Democrats signal plans to advance GOP bill to avoid a government shutdown
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, said he plans to vote for a Republican bill to fund the government through September, paving the way for other Democrats to join him.
www.npr.org
March 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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mystyrica.bsky.social
Well now... Good to know musky's space-x quality control is as good as the doge skills.
bnonews.com BNO News @bnonews.com · Mar 6
BREAKING: Debris over the Bahamas after SpaceX Starship falls apart during test flight
March 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
We know who the villains are in this coup. But so many heroes are showing up to oppose them, and many of them are federal employees, including judges. I give you supreme boss-hero champion Judge Ana Reyes, telling Team Trump they don't know shit and schooling them in the facts about gender and sex.
February 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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cheriepriest.com
Not willing or able to risk arrest with in-person protests? But you still want to resist? Shep’s got your back (thread starts here 👇)
neolithicsheep.bsky.social Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · Feb 6
Easiest Mode: text "resist" to 50409 to start annoying govt officials at all levels. Resistbot will walk you through it.

Harder mode: www.commoncause.org/find-your-re... will help you find phone numbers to call and annoy em.

Hardest mode: searching to see if there's an established chapt of (cont)
February 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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feralbw.bsky.social
abcnews.go.com/US/treasury-...

Cool. Cool cool cool.
Treasury Dept. gives Elon Musk's team access to federal payment system: Sources
If Elon Musk or his DOGE team were to attempt to block federal payments, it would likely face legal challenges given the money is approved by Congress.
abcnews.go.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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bendthearc.bsky.social
"Do not obey in advance."

@timothysnyder.bsky.social said it.

But is NYU-Langone listening?
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.” ― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
February 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...
THE ASK This week, between Monday and the vote on Vought, we're asking people from all over the country to plan a visit to Senate State Offices to demand Democrats fight and to hold Republicans accountable for their complicity. DEMOCRATS MUST USE EVERY PROCEDURAL TOOL TO SHUT DOWN TRUMP'S AGENDA Yes, we need Democrats to vote no on Vought's nomination, but no is not enough. Democrats have the power to grind Senate business to a halt and force Republicans to feel the political cost of backing Trump's extremist agenda. Here's how: 1. Deny a Quorum: If Republicans don't have 51 votes in the chamber, Democrats can walk out and shut down Senate business entirely. 2. Block Unanimous Consent: Object to every procedural shortcut, forcing Republicans to take the longest possible route for every step of the confirmation process. 3. Max Out Debate Time: Use all 30 hours of debate on Vought to expose Project 2025, Musk's Treasury takeover, and the funding freeze. 4. Delay and Disrupt: Force roll-call votes, quorum calls, and procedural delays to slow everything down. 5. Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump's other nominees, helping to install more MAGA loyalists into powerful positions in the federal government while this power grab continues. No Business as Usual: This is a constitutional crisis. Democrats must abandon the old rules and fight with everything they have. Bottom line: Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step of this process-no cooperation, no easy votes, no fast-tracking Trump's takeover. To learn more about how Senate Democrats can shut down Trump's agenda with procedural hardball, check out our explainer here.
February 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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jerasikehorn.bsky.social
Big Thanks to Canada for that! 😎✨

Pass. It. On. 👇

This could save someone’s life.
February 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
elzebet.bsky.social
There needs to be a little more Foo around here. 😍
A black and white cat, sleeping curled up in a fluffy cat bed, with his nose tucked underneath his paw.
February 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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wendylrouse.bsky.social
There is no LGB without the TQIA+

We stand together or we fall together.
🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
LGBTQIA+ progress flag.
February 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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readyforpolyamory.bsky.social
“But her emails!” www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
February 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors
Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together. I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian. So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last. You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom. You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs. My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete. You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us. Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered. I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA, Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness. FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY. I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same. Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
elzebet.bsky.social
Portland, OR
January 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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maile.bsky.social
“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.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
January 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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January 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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elevennames.bsky.social
Harvard just fired me and all of my colleagues. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Harvard Outsources Program to Identify Descendants of Those Enslaved by University Affiliates, Lays Off Internal Staff | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard University has laid off staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying direct descendants of ...
www.thecrimson.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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amispaceprince.bsky.social
This is terrifying
January 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
elzebet.bsky.social
Bye Instagram. Bye Facebook. Bye Threads. Bye Meta. Fuck you, Zuck.

Oh and bye to TikTok as well.

Hello to my friends who followed. Though with this place still not allowing private accounts, once again, I'm not sure I'll be keeping this.
January 22, 2025 at 5:56 AM