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Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) I’ve been suspended from BlueSky. I don’t know why. I wasn’t online much today, and the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles. The suspension followed without explana...

What the fuck, bluesky
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11.11.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 239    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 30
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Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...

10.11.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 214    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 13

Mamdani is going to implement Schmear Law. Bagels with cream cheese for all!
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09.11.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Democrats Actually Win Something w/ Chris Hayes & David Plouffe | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart Democrats Actually Win Something w/ Chris Hayes & David Plouffe | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

URL above is broken:
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06.11.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ski goggles for cold-weather biking make my eyes so SO happy.

06.11.2025 14:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

05.11.2025 04:34 β€” πŸ‘ 7298    πŸ” 1406    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 76

The "why do you care so much about the NY mayoral election" takes strike me as pretty obtuse. The world's sole superpower is being taken over by fascists, and this was part of the struggle to define what the opposition to that will look like. That obviously has major implications for all of us?

05.11.2025 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 695    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 11

I think maybe people want to vote for good people?

05.11.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 338    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

It's already a meme. "I could smell the onions and mustard."
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04.11.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We had reason to believe the defendant was carrying an "Ultimate Italian" hollow-point sandwich

04.11.2025 20:41 β€” πŸ‘ 201    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 1

Reminder:

Food banks need money more than food!

They have access to buying things cheaper than you do, and they know what the community needs better than we do!

01.11.2025 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 966    πŸ” 323    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 13
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This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.

β€œWe may be living through a slow-moving immune decline crisis”

"...researchers are now beginning to see a link between repeat COVID infections and rising cancer rates in young people."

β€œ...a second infection doubles the long-COVID risk for a child.”

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

31.10.2025 14:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology β€œWikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...

"Meanwhile, you turned your information environment into a hypercapitalist post-truth digital snuff film."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

30.10.2025 12:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd like us to try the experiment where journalists could only report on what politicians did, and not a word of what they say.

28.10.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What would it even mean to get a deal? Moment to moment, any perceived agreement can be revised or cancelled with no penalties to Trump or the U.S.

28.10.2025 02:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œTell your children who the cowards were.”

27.10.2025 22:19 β€” πŸ‘ 9949    πŸ” 3667    πŸ’¬ 117    πŸ“Œ 369

i made a helpful reference

24.09.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5232    πŸ” 2158    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 125
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Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video) Cause for concern

"Stalinism and Stephen Miller: Cause for concern"
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10.10.2025 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1173    πŸ” 446    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 32

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

09.10.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5191    πŸ” 1363    πŸ’¬ 58    πŸ“Œ 56

Is the irony of the president’s friend buying something called β€œthe free press” and immediately installing a government truth compliance officer lost on everybody?

06.10.2025 13:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3908    πŸ” 802    πŸ’¬ 91    πŸ“Œ 14
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

05.10.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 44304    πŸ” 15743    πŸ’¬ 3458    πŸ“Œ 3026
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

01.10.2025 14:38 β€” πŸ‘ 25128    πŸ” 8371    πŸ’¬ 666    πŸ“Œ 2204

This @sarahkendzior.bsky.social post has become the evergreen comment to a regrettable number of stories in my feed. πŸ˜•
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02.10.2025 11:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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24.09.2025 11:42 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸ’―πŸ’―

22.09.2025 04:49 β€” πŸ‘ 558    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Foreground: A person's ankle and booted-feet 2/3 submerged under water at the edge of a lake. Background: the water surface, reeds and forest on the other side of the lake a few 100m away. The water is mostly transparent, fully showing the Keen boots standing on a sparkly sandy bottom with some small plants growing around.

Foreground: A person's ankle and booted-feet 2/3 submerged under water at the edge of a lake. Background: the water surface, reeds and forest on the other side of the lake a few 100m away. The water is mostly transparent, fully showing the Keen boots standing on a sparkly sandy bottom with some small plants growing around.

I love being able to cool down my feet mid hike (Slim Bay @ Charleston Lake Provincial Park) while keeping them totally dry! Thanks for the super comfy, 100% waterproof boots
@keenfootwear.bsky.social !

21.09.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve maintained this from the get. A small handful of people will own the entire agricultural industry and the land in the US. It’s been the plan for many years. It’s also been no secret what was coming yet it mystifies me as to why farmers have predominantly supported the party that wants this.

21.09.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 1
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Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

20.09.2025 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3639    πŸ” 1255    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 194

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