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@panasonicdx4500.bsky.social

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal."

JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 15d

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM

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the artist formerly known as 'a slug'

@paizuri.moe

i have zero notes

September 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM

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Aeisha | VGen open!

@witchsyrup.bsky.social

today i feel....tomato...

August 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM

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Aria Winningson

@aria.labeledrude.online

nobody should have to be exceptional just to live. being mid is a human right.

June 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM

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Erin Fogg says Free Link

@criminalerin.bsky.social

FBI: Do u know Karl Marx

Mahmood Mamdani: Haven’t met him

FBI: No, he's dead

Mamdani: Wow, what happened?

FBI: No, no, he died long ago

Mamdani: Why are you asking me?

FBI: He wrote that poor people should not be poor

Mamdani: Sounds wonderful

readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...

BS: Was there a feeling of exile?

MM: It wasn’t exile. I barely had a sense of the world, even though, when I was a high school student, my father used to take me to political rallies. But I didn’t really have any sense of it. I thought the British had no business being there, but that was it, no more than that. I didn’t have a sense of outrage. I didn’t have a sense of great injustice. I did have [a sense] of the color bar, yes, because I knew there was a white area and you couldn’t go there – or if you went to see your scout master, who was British, you had to stand outside…all those things.

But it’s really here I got a sense of it, because a friend of mine took me to a SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee] meeting, six or seven months after I was here. At the end of the meeting they announced that buses were going to Montgomery, Alabaman, to demonstrate. I went there, got beaten up, thrown in jail…

MM: One night. They let you make one phone call, and I called the Ugandan Ambassador in Washington, DC, talked to him, and he said, “What are you doing interfering in the affairs of a foreign country?” I said, “What? We just got our independence! This is the same struggle. Have you forgotten?” Anyway, he got me out. Two or three weeks later, I was in my room. There was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen in trench coats and hats said, “FBI.” I thought, “Wow, just like on television.” They sat down. They were there to find out why I had gone – because this turned out to be big – it is after Montgomery that King organized his march on Selma. They wanted to know who had influenced me. After one hour of probing, the guy said, “Do you like Marx?”

I said, “I haven’t met him.”

Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.”

“Wow, what happened?”

“No, no, he died long ago.”

I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?”

“No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.”

I said, “Sounds amazing.”

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx.

BS: The FBI.

MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But, basically, it is the US – the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement – which gave me a new take on my own experience, and on the Asian experience in east Africa. It gave me a way of rethinking my own experience of growing up in east Africa and growing up in an Africa with a lens crafted by the civil rights movement.

July 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian

@janus.bsky.social

it’s that time of year again

July 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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Mo Ryan

@moryan.bsky.social

Fuck that guy, eternally. Link within to Lila Shapiro's definitive @nymag.com piece. Using this link because some folks might not be aware that NG is **suing** one of the survivors of his alleged abuse. something something "ally" something something "feminism" www.vulture.com/article/neil...

July 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM

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Ashley Rattner

@ashleyrattner.bsky.social

Tonight I'm texting Nancy Pelosi and asking HER for $5

June 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM

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Elise Schuenke

@troubledminnesotan.bsky.social

TIME FOR THE VERY RARE ACTIVITY: JOYSCROLLING

June 25, 2025 at 2:51 AM

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debra messing's ifs counselor

@themmefatale.bsky.social

It will always be Free Palestine.
It will always be Defund the Police.
It will always be Black Lives Matter.
It will always be Protect the Dolls.
It will always be Gay Liberation.

June 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM

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Micah

@rincewind.run

new pope!

*crowd goes wild*

American pope!

*crowd boos*

woke for an American!

*crowd goes wild*

bad on protecting abusive priests!

*crowd boos*

hates JD Vance!

*crowd goes wild*

May 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM

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Jordan DeVries🔜MAGFest

@jordandevries.com

My undying respect for Andor using the word and calling it what it is: genocide

May 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM

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Nathan Grayson

@nathangrayson.bsky.social

spoke to badru, the indie dev who recently decided to pull a game he considers his "baby" from xbox in solidarity with bds. he told me the team has received such enthusiastic support that they've already made back money lost, and he hopes other indies will follow their lead

"A lot of developers are on contracts or under situations where this would be a bigger decision for them to make. But now I see some other indies realizing that this is an option, a way to show solidarity with BDS,” he said. “So I do hope to see other indies taking their work off of Xbox. There's so many people like me where being on Xbox is not making or breaking your ability to survive, and it just feels gross."

In the meantime, Badru is just glad to see that people care.

"I know the gaming community has two very different faces, but the side of it that I see the most, especially among indie developers, is very progressive, cares a lot about peace and justice, and does not like to see what's been going on in Palestine,” he said. “People have been really enthusiastically positive about [Tenderfoot Tactics’ removal from the Xbox store]. It's been really nice to see."

April 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM

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X ΘΔ

@xkeeper.net

"fuck jd vance. my final message. goodb ye". some edit of another meme i'm not familiar with

April 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM

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Sooz Kempner

@soozuk.bsky.social

Wow if I was him I would just stfu forever and disappear but then I guess I also wouldn’t sexually assault vulnerable women so we’re probably just quite different as people.

Vulture @vulture.com · Apr 21

The author says she broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine. Wallner accused Gaiman of sexual misconduct during the time she lived and worked on his property in Woodstock.

Neil Gaiman Seeks $500,000 From Accuser Caroline Wallner

The author says she broke her NDA by sharing her story with the media, including with New York Magazine. Wallner accused Gaiman of sexual misconduct during the time she lived and worked on his property in Woodstock.

www.vulture.com

April 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM

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Jamie McKelvie

@mckelvie.bsky.social

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · Nov 26

jk rowling funded a case going before the supreme court that argues it should be legal to discriminate against and persecute trans ppl.

yet still we have to listen to ‘centrists’ claiming she isn’t bigoted she just has ‘a difference of opinion’.

no trans ppl have a voice in these proceedings.

April 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM

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More Perfect Union

@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

BREAKING: The FDA is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections, according to CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say

Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.

www.cbsnews.com

April 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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nattie winters

@utilitylimb.bsky.social

also worth reading the transcript of the first time hiv/aids was ever acknowledged by the reagan admin, via then-press secretary larry speakes

Lester Kinsolving: Does the president have any reaction to the announcement by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta that AIDS is now an epidemic in over 600 cases?
Larry Speakes: AIDS? I haven’t got anything on it.
Lester Kinsolving: Over a third of them have died. It’s known as “gay plague.” [Press pool laughter.] No, it is. It’s a pretty serious thing. One in every three people that get this have died. And I wonder if the president was aware of this.

Larry Speakes: I don’t have it. [Press pool laughter.] Do you?
Lester Kinsolving: You don’t have it? Well, I’m relieved to hear that, Larry! [Press pool laughter.]
Larry Speakes: Do you?
Lester Kinsolving: No, I don’t.
Larry Speakes: You didn’t answer my question. How do you know? [Press pool laughter.]
Lester Kinsolving: Does the president — in other words, the White House — look on this as a great joke?
Larry Speakes: No, I don’t know anything about it, Lester.

March 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM

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shaun

@shaunvids.bsky.social

i was asked why the democrats are so set on losing strategies, & sadly they are not, they are winning. they are one of two parties of capital, funded by the same rich donor class. as long as their class interests aren't threatened they only care about elections in terms of personal career ambitions

March 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM