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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 33m

Great piece.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2h

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are

-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act
-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

ballsandstrikes.org

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 27m

I feel like everyone’s just playing catch up with these lunatics, always on defensive ugh

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 39m

I want to demo self-hosted Ghost to see what customization entails, but confused as to whether to use the Local, Ubuntu, or Docker version of the installation guide? Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm on a Mac and plan to host production on Ubuntu/Digital Ocean, but I want some version control.

990000 @990000.bsky.social · 41m

Isn't gerrymandering just a bad side effect of our electoral system though (districting)? It just seems like a bug in the system that accommodates racism. The actual problem is a combo of racists + a buggy system, but that the system is needed in order to counteract unfair senate representation?

990000 @990000.bsky.social · 1h

Wow the landscape though

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1h

We're going to Streisand our way to history!

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1h

Every time the GOP lies about Saturday’s peaceful protests, our massive No Kings Day events get even bigger.

We thank Republicans for their attention to this matter!

Aaron Rupar on Bluesky: “Trump on No Kings: "They have their day coming up.
I hear very few people are gonna be there, by the way. But they have their day coming up and they want to have their day in the sun."”

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 1h

Or, your monthly streaming payments in the service of maintaining your sanity

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Jerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 8h

I follow a Norwegian lighthouse keeper named Paal Bjørndal whose whole bit is sharing profound things that are inaudible due to high winds. I love the internet.

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 1h

Hahaha we just learned the most important thing about lighthouses. Amazing

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 3h

Speaking of, shouldn’t he be on another vacation?

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 23h

It really is important to note how much Bondi is on TV and how dissimilar this is from literally any other AG, R or D.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Bondi claims that cities aiding residents hurt by immigration raids is breaking the law

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 3h

Probably because it's hard to codify against? I'm trying to wrap my head around the history of districting and it's kind of nuts, but also not entirely surprising as it seems complicated.

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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 22h

🔥🔥🔥 Today at immigration court 26 Federal Plaza this woman went ballistic to the masked ICE agents who detained her family member. Where are the people standing up to the Gestapo? I never saw this in 4 months I’ve been filming. 👏👏👏👏

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks Michael Jackson for haunting us from the grave

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Halie Soifer @haliesoifer.bsky.social · 4h

In the past 24 hours:

➡️ Politico revealed hundreds of antisemitic & bigoted messages b/n young Republican leaders;

➡️ A swastika was found in a Republican House office; and

➡️ Trump's Border Patrol posted a reel with an antisemitic slur.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 4h

Archived:
New York loses bid to prevent Holtec from dumping radioactive water into the Hudson River
archive.ph/M4o2V

#Holtec #IndianPoint

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

Oh

New York loses bid to prevent Holtec from dumping radioactive water into the Hudson River

A federal judge sided with Holtec, allowing the company to release radiological water from the Indian Point nuclear power plant into the Hudson River.

www.lohud.com

990000 @990000.bsky.social · 4h

Hello, what the fuck

www.wbur.org/news/2024/10...

#Pilgrim #PilgrimNuclearPowerStation

But approximately 900,000 gallons of the water used to cool those fuel rods remain in the
reactor building. The water is contaminated with radioactive elements, metals and PFAS, chemicals that last so long in the environment they're often called "forever chemicals."
Pilgrim and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health measured the radioactive contaminants in the water. According to Ken Buesseler, a senior scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, samples of one radioactive element, tritium, averaged about about a million times higher than average levels in the ocean. Another element, cesium-137, measured about 200 million times higher than existing levels in the North Atlantic.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h

This is Dave, by the way.

Dave Taylor, in a Carhart jacket, holding a black rifle with an array of other firearms behind him

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 4h

Wtf

990000 @990000.bsky.social · 6h

Did they confirm Adelita Grijalva yet?

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 6h

Apparently $20B of our taxpayer money wasn't enough to bail out Argentina.

Now Trump wants U.S. banks to divert ANOTHER $20B away from lending to American businesses, farmers, and families to prop up Milei's corrupt presidency and failing economy.

So much for America First.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Neguse: "What Trump is attempting to do is create a perception that he has all the power & create a sense of hopelessness or helplessness in the public. We've gotta resist the temptation. He's electorally unpopular. In fact, the most unpopular POTUS at this juncture than any modern POTUS in history"

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t help but wonder if Covid made all these people just a lil bit crazy. How did everything just completely turn to shit all of a sudden?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 7h

Not just Venezuela. Colombia, too. And not just extra-judicial, but indiscriminate: "the Pentagon was unable to determine the individual identities of each person on the boats before they struck them."

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990000 @990000.bsky.social · 7h

What the fuck is even happening? Lol man is everything off the rails or what?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. So that would be a total of $40 billion for Argentina,” he said.

@politico.com 🇦🇷
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...