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If you’re able, please support Rudy and his team as they continue to build a separate community for us on #blacksky! They deserve all the support for how they’ve handled things from day 1 for our community.

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

I hear and see your concerns. Over the weekend, a couple users hosted on Blacksky's PDS were banned from the Bluesky app and thus the Bluesky API servers. This was a weakness of our system I've been aware of and hoped we had more time to address before any kind of public incident. 1/11

Suspension of accts from Bluesky has called into question the mission and very existence of Blacksky. "If bsky can still suspend you, what's the point?"

For one usually Bluesky doesn't just suspend you. They delete all of your data AND suspend you. Moving to Blacksky prevents that. 4/11

Trump would not be treating half the country (well, more than half, but half of all voters) this way were it not for the Electoral College.

It's an artifact of slavery and it has got to go.

BlackSky is the most influential and active community on this app, by far, but the executives and non-BlackSky active users really don't understand how or why it works that way and how much of their experience is downstream of what happens in BlackSky.

It's EXACTLY like how it was w Black Twitter.

The papers w/ orange triangles are "demo bags" taped up over the windows of one of the holding cells. They had no problem showing men detained in the room to the right, but clearly didn't want anyone to see the people or conditions in the other cell. Or didn't want them to see out.

1. He's trash
2. Do NOT call people single issue voters when they tell you they won't vote for him. Not after you told palestinian-americans they should have voted for Kamala, in spite of her Palestine position, because you cared about your queer friends
3. He looks like Mr. Mackey from South Park

It seems so obvious that this is what will happen and it’s utterly maddening

listen buddy, you were wrong online. I called you out, then you threatened me. that's as fucking weak as it gets

The film also invented (then, of course, disseminated) much of the spectacle we associate w the kkk--esp the white hood and cross burning

A 1926 klan parade marching down Pennsylvania Ave. The front of the column holds banners that read Connecticut & Rhode Island. Original available via the Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2001706338/

We really need to be thinking abt the current regime through the lens of the Second Klan, which helped to nationalize systems of Jim Crow state & vigilante violence & exploitation while creating an explicitly white nationalist immigration system. They even paraded down Pennsylvania Ave.

Here is a politician making a sensible and honestly pretty mild statement akin to wishing for “world peace” during the Miss America interview section.

The responses are predictably and tiresomely deranged.

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America. There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming." The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas. President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

hahaha yeah you have a super scary avatar, and your language choices clearly demonstrate your superior intelligence. keep it up, sweetie! you're doing great. I'm quaking in my boots 😱

Not helping the "just took some new funding we haven't disclosed yet" allegations.

All I know is I've seen some pretty evil lists out there accusing users of antisemitism or Islamaphobia and other labels that I know they aren't and that seems to be just fine with the mods

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

so basically EVERY single reason why we chose bluesky is a goddamn lie??

Sen. Josh Hawley falsely says FBI 'tapped' senators' phones during Jack Smith probe The Missouri Republican referenced FBI documents which revealed the time and duration of calls made and received by lawmakers.

www.politico.com/live-updates...

Another lie.

Also have to chuckle at the surprise around Hegseth being a Harvard man. Ivy League meritocracy has always been a myth. Stay woke!

Guys like this is exactly why phrasing like “stay woke” came about

Schiff gets Bondi so flustered that she starts blurting things out while he details what a farce this "oversight" hearing has been and the Republican members' lack of interest in doing their jobs

Okay but they do understand. They want to hurt their constituents. Because the more broke they get, the more they want someone to blame, and the more powerful the Republican messaging becomes. Poverty and destruction of services benefits Republicans. They want it. Why is this hard to understand.

The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.

Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back by Joshua Clark Davis

A bold retelling of the 1960s civil rights struggle through its work against police violence—& a prehistory of both the Black Lives Matter & Blue Lives Matter movements that emerged half a century later.

@joshuaclarkdavis.bsky.social's Police Against the Movement is now available: hubs.ly/Q03Mp5Ss0