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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 3h

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Chuck Schumer gets his preferred candidate, Janet Mills, in crowded Maine Senate race

Schumer had been aggressively recruiting Mills to challenge Republican Susan Collins.

www.politico.com

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 2h

Blegh

Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, I live in a red state. We survive bc of GOP infighting.

Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 3h

Superstar covered by Sonic Youth

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️ @sophianyx.bsky.social · 22h

Without saying Hurt, fav Cover Song?

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 4h

We're in the strategic timeout phase of government. Cool cool cool. 🙃🫠

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 17h

This sucks.

Now I wonder how all these Tragedeighs will fare in the future.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 17h

Yes, I've seen govt computer systems that required any of the following:
-a middle name or initial
-a surname of 3 characters or more

The same fields on diff documents have max 15 characters, some 22.

And that's all front-end, to say nothing of how it gets stored.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 21h

A typhoon hit the west coast of Alaska and several homes and communities have been washed out. Most of the communities are indigenous, so…no press coverage.

They also can’t count on FEMA.

Sad and ridiculous.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 17h

I don't trust any of them, but esp not Mace. She's the most Stefanik of them.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 17h

Even today, there are ppl whose names show up differently on different documents. This is why "no match" voter clauses are so evil and effective.

If you're Thai? Forget about it.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19h

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 19h

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 18h

They way I'd pay good money to see this come from MTG 🍿

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Oct 18

If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link.

For example x.com/dril/status/...

becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/...

People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent thread. Also: are most of the libertarian places in the US out west?

Arizona and Nevada are two that are top of mind. Yes, New Hampshire, but that's the only New England outpost that I can think of.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, who went viral on the "Humans of New York" account by sharing stories about her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970s, has died

A photo of Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, sitting down, holding a photo of herself

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 1d

This cat looks like it's wearing a cat fur coat of his enemies

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈