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Sen. Maria Cantwell @cantwell.senate.gov · 2h

Throughout WA’s history, Hispanic pioneers, entrepreneurs, and activists have made us stronger. Hispanics are 13.5% of WA’s workers, including some of our top business leaders, judges, politicians, and athletes. This #HispanicHeritageMonth, we celebrate their contributions to our country.

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CosmicRay @bobful.bsky.social · 16h

The dilemma is resolved, ICE chose violence.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 18h

it’s great how any time you say “kamala” on this app random people pop up to do lib denialist bullshit like we didn’t all witness “i’m speaking now” or the parade of dnc-goers plugging their ears. or the thousands of anti-genocide activists @ the dnc. or the surge in support, killed on purpose, or—

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 2d

Cotton Mather wholly believed in the immanent reality of Satan working through Salem's witches to achieve the destruction of the Puritan experiment in New England.

He believed in the evidence of dreams. His convictions led to the deaths of innocents.

And he was still more coherent than this bozo.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Eric Badofsky @ebadofsky.bsky.social · 19h

“𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘥𝘪𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘪𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺. 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦, 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵.” – @aricohn.com

Cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social

10/11/25 editorial cartoon by artist Ann Telnaes depicting three figures with the letters "I", "C", and "E" on their uniforms, standing on the roof of a building. Beneath them on the pavement, the Statue of Liberty is shown on her knees, her torch and tablet on the ground, holding her wounded head.

The image reflects an incident on 10/9 outside an ICE detention center in Broadview, Illinois, where ICE agents on the roof of the facility inexplicably opened fire with pepper ball rounds on Pastor David Black, striking Black in the head. Video of the assault shows Pastor Black, of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago immediately falling to the ground; just before the attack, he was praying.

More reading on the shooting:

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/9/headlines/pastor_shot_in_head_by_less_lethal_round_at_chicago_area_ice_protest_joins_lawsuit

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 18h

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d

How it's going over there with the POTUS' companion Laura

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants: You Deserved Better

A Letter to America’s Discarded Public Servants

We appreciate what you did for America

robertreich.substack.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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David @dkuofu.bsky.social · 2d

A few other notable Dr. Seuss political cartoons:

Cartoon: Two men stand on a platform with an intertwined beard. One says "America First" and the other wears a swastika. A circus manager announces to the crowd:

Caption: And on this platform, folks, those most perplexing people... The Lads with the Siamese Beard! Unrelated by blood, they are joined in a manner that mystifies the mightiest minds in the land!

Cartoon: a woman with an "America First" sweater reads to two children from a book entitled "Adolf the Wolf"

Caption: and the Wolf chewed up the children and spit out their bones... But those were FOREIGN CHILDREN and it really didn't matter.

Cartoon: A man with a "Profiteer" emblazoned coat sells umbrellas during a flood to people taking refuge on rooftops. A swastika can be seen in the torrential rain.

Caption: Beware the man who makes a fortune in a flood!

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CosmicRay @bobful.bsky.social · 1d

Greta was robbed

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 2d

Deaths in ICE custody reach a 20 year high.
ICE announces death of illegal alien from Mexico in Missouri detention facility | ICE share.google/0iKVhSceR6qq...

ICE announces death of illegal alien from Mexico in Missouri detention facility

Leo Cruz-Silva, a 34-year-old an illegal alien from Mexico died Oct. 4 at the Ste. Genevieve County Jail in Missouri.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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CosmicRay @bobful.bsky.social · 2d

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CosmicRay @bobful.bsky.social · 2d

Greta was robbed

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Evergreen Intel @vcdgf555.bsky.social · 2d

"People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene."

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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CCscott @ccscott.bsky.social · 3d

@westex1.bsky.social
The baddest part of town 🎶

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 2d

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado www.wsj.com/world/americ...

Nobel Peace Prize Awarded to Venezuelan Opposition Leader María Corina Machado

The prize was awarded to the opposition leader for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship in the country.

www.wsj.com

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CosmicRay @bobful.bsky.social · 3d

smells like defamation

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Cozca @cozca.bsky.social · 3d

It is happening again and no one is looking. How can all our 2025 federal cases be ignored? I did not commit a crime. My federal charges are ridiculous!
Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump share.google/i9AdHlAP44Vh...

Homeland Security Admits It Tried to Manufacture Fake Terrorists for Trump

A new Homeland Security report details orders to connect protesters arrested in Portland to one another in service of the Trump's imaginary antifa plot.

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CosmicRay @bobful.bsky.social · 3d

9th circuit court in session deciding on the restraining order on troops to Oregon, etc. Live.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZQZ...

Appeals panel hears arguments regarding Oregon National Guard deployment

YouTube video by KPTV FOX 12 | Local news, weather Portland, Oregon

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 3d

Republican Senators have confirmed the corrupt incompetent boobs Tr*mp nominated. Republicans in Congress have handed over their Constitutional duty and their power to Tr*mp. Republicans fail to do their jobs and impeach.

Every awful thing Tr*mp's does is bc the GOP in Congress allows it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 20

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus?

NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country

HASSAN: That's incorrect

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

There are now one or two of Elon Musk's Starlink satellites falling back to Earth every single day.

According to Smithsonian astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, that figure is only going to keep climbing.

futurism.com/space/elon-m...

Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky

Multiple Starlink satellites from Elon Musk's SpaceX are falling to Earth every single day, an astronomer warns — and counting.

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CosmicRay @bobful.bsky.social · 3d

So no aircraft exhausting CO2 will be allowed over Florida anymore? Excellent.

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