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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 7h

Public health should never be politicized.

In the wake of the federal government abandoning science for conspiracy theories, it's up to governors to step up.

Proud to join my colleagues in the Governors Public Health Alliance to keep communities safe and put our people first.

Graphic of the Governors Public Health Alliance that reads Disease doesn’t stop at state borders - and neither should state preparedness.

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endeavorance 🕊️ @endeavorance.camp · 2d

Hello, it is me, Technology Broseph. I will now dictate what the future of humanity looks like. My qualifications are that I once tripped balls with a billionaire who then funded my abstract eternal life research venture

Anyway, first thing we gotta do is install cameras in everyone's assholes

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Spay Or Neuter Your Computer @chaoticgaythey.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately that's just culturally what it means since you can't really get the other way

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Spay Or Neuter Your Computer @chaoticgaythey.bsky.social · 3d

What does that mean?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

People are asking why I’m so insistent that inflation doesn’t matter, but it’s not that I think it doesn’t, it’s that I think the null hypothesis is probably correct until demonstrated otherwise, and when the alternative hypothesis must be aggressively p-hacked to survive, I become skeptical of it

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Spay Or Neuter Your Computer @chaoticgaythey.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry but how the fuck is the age of marriage legally below the age of divorce

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Spay Or Neuter Your Computer @chaoticgaythey.bsky.social · 3d

Aren't they cousins?

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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 4d

The Trump admin is backing a court order that forces Second Amendment groups to hand over their membership lists, effectively identifying gun owners by name and opening the door to a potential registry.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

"Christians United for Israel, the evangelical Zionist group founded in 2006 by Texas pastor John Hagee, claims 10 million members, more than the entire population of 7.5 million Jews in the United States." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

God's "blank check": Christian Zionists are pouring billions of dollars into Israeli extremism

Evangelicals have become Israel's most important American allies.

www.motherjones.com

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Michael Küper gegen Faschismus, #SchutzschildDerDemokratie @mkueper.de · 4d

Eine Hand hält ein kleines, graublaues Exemplar des deutschen Grundgesetzes mit Bundesadler auf dem Einband. Darunter steht in großen weißen Buchstaben: „Ich bin Antifa und das ist mein Parteibuch.“

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6d

During the Red Scare of the 1950’s, two-thirds of the people questioned by McCarthy were Jewish. A war against the left is always going to disproportionately target Jews.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 5d

BREAKING: MIT rejects an offer of federal funds in exchange for agreeing to the Trump administration's education agenda, the first university to do so.

MIT is 1st school to reject Trump administration's agenda in exchange for funding benefits

"With respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology president wrote in a letter.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

Donald Trump ended the National Blue Ribbon Schools program this year.

But, I believe that educational excellence should be celebrated — and it's why we're picking up where they've dropped the ball.

I’m recognizing 28 schools in IL as the 2025 Governor’s Blue Ribbon Schools.

Governor Pritzker speaks behind the podium.

Governor Pritzker shakes hands with employees of Glen Oaks Elementary.

Governor Pritzker takes photos with principals and superintendents.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 5d

Tens of thousands of Palestinians returning to their homes in northern Gaza as the ceasefire takes effect.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 5d

Ian Carroll, whom Democratic representative Ro Khanna is featuring in this video, claims Israel invented Holocaust denial to discredit its critics, that the US is controlled by a "Zionist mafia," and that Jews did 9/11.

Really bad that Democrats are platforming overt antisemites like this!

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 6d

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6d

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 6d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6d

By the new standard universities are supposed to adopt and some media already uses as a style guide, the term for this is “fighting antisemitism.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

JD Vance describes Chuck Schumer as "one of the most famous Palestinians in the world"

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Spay Or Neuter Your Computer @chaoticgaythey.bsky.social · 6d

It's worth discussing but yeah that's not an uncommon experience. The next stage is wondering whether they're mistreating you because they read your gender correctly or because they clocked you

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Spay Or Neuter Your Computer @chaoticgaythey.bsky.social · 6d

One of the areas I'd be really interested to see comparisons for is specifically more technical and professional writing forms where there really isn't much room for variation culturally

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🦋🕊️🦋GinLy47 @ginly47.bsky.social · 6d

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 6d

You know, you could just not do that.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Spay Or Neuter Your Computer @chaoticgaythey.bsky.social · 6d

I hate that I was right about what it was

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