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Rachel
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Vegan nerd in Durham, NC 🐂
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Spread the word about NSPM-7 🗣️
🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...
FBI Readies New War on Trans People
“We’re looking at the entire web”
www.kenklippenstein.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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ah, well
a good arbiter of how close we are to bad hybrid regime shit is if the political comedy shows start getting pulled for whatever reason
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?
September 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Probably the issue I’ve become most conservative on as I’ve aged is helping business, especially small businesses. By their nature they can be goofy things with goofy owners but holy smokes do they ever make a community much better to live in
September 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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#OtD 1 May 1886 300-500k workers went on strike and rallies were held across the US, with the cry: "Eight-hour day with no cut in pay." The strike led to the Chicago Haymarket Affair and the start of May Day itself. More in this great book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/en-gb/collec...
May 1, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Laika almost never seeks snuggles, and even rarer tolerates being this close to her kitty sister! #greyhound #greyhoundsofbluesky
February 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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February 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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JD Vance sticking up for a guy that made racist comments about Indian people.
February 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Now more than ever.
February 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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A coloring page I drew for the ✨🔮 @bg3tarotdeck✨🔮
February 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Ohhhhh my god i ran a quick errand and didn't buy an iced coffee? should we tell everyone? Should we throw a party?should we invite bella hadid
February 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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"Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old former camp counselor who called himself 'Big Balls' on LinkedIn before being tapped to do the bidding of a billionaire, held a call with SBA staff ..."
NEW: DOGE has requested and is being granted “access to all SBA systems,” per an email sent to Small Business Admin employees today. Edward Coristine, a DOGE official, held a call with SBA staff detailing level of access they wanted, including HR, contract and payment systems
February 3, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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It's not just a coup.

It's a coup being executed by white supremacists and Christofascists.

And Darren Beattie isn't merely some new minor functionary—he's been given what's considered one of the ten most powerful jobs at Foggy Bottom.

He wants us to abandon Ukraine to Russia and Taiwan to China.
February 3, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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"At least 1,000 USAID staff have had our .gov accounts...deactivated and wiped overnight with no advance communications," USAID worker tells me. "This includes colleagues deployed in active war zones like Ukraine and Gaza who rely on USG technology for safety."
bsky.app/profile/kenk...
USAID employees overseas are no longer able to access their government security app, which gives them this error code (images provided to me by USAID worker)
February 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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When they come for one of us, they come for all of us. Together we are strong.

#sidequest #transrights #humanrights #advocacy #dnd #medieval #medievalart #fightback #lgbtqia
February 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The State Department website has replaced "LGBT" with "LGB"
January 31, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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January 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Employee of the month #catsofbluesky #cat #grayby
January 31, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Laika enjoying a lil grass flop #greyhound #greyhoundsofbluesky #dog
January 30, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Unexpectedly got to go to the @rebeccayarros.bsky.social talk at NC State last night! Was a great talk, devoured Onyx Storm in a couple days last week after going to the midnight release at @quailridgebooks.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM