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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 9h

Komeito made the LDP more moderate, but their vote-getting operation, once an immaculate machine that help give the LDP is dominant majorities, isn't what it used to be, so Aso may have felt this was the time to boot Komeito and become a more ideologically coherent conservative party

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 9h

mystical books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 18h

Serious answer, Gino Bartali. He hid passport documents for Jews and messages to the Italian resistance inside the tubes of his bicycle when he was training for the Tour and Giro.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Pixels&AlchemyPhotography @pixelsandalchemy.bsky.social · 21h

Fireworks
I JUST got back from a LONG walk because the sun is out! 😎
I believe this is a #Sweetgum #Tree.
#FallColor #PNW #Photography

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eli @e1b.bsky.social · 8h

what is MSR, sorry?

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 12h

At some point the public will realize that China is racing past us in every way that matters and I don’t know what that will do to the country

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

The Chinese are likely going to return to the moon before Americans and it's going to hit the American space establishment like a nightmare

Reuters @reuters.com · 22h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 12h

It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Krasnovian Commando @krasnoviancommando.bsky.social · 13h

Exactly they’ve literally bought about two weeks before the “Soldiers not paid” headlines hit again.

Assuming they did actually pay the soldiers.

ATC is still not getting paid, that’s the actual break things button.

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eli @e1b.bsky.social · 8h

It’s the job. A Democratic politician was murdered just a few short months ago; they are still showing up. Maybe not doing the kind of opposing the collectively should be, but if it’s out of fear rather than a function of their feckless leadership, then they haven’t said so

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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eli @e1b.bsky.social · 8h

assholes too

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 1d

The thing that Republicans worked themselves into a lather claiming, without proof, the Biden family did

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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eli @e1b.bsky.social · 8h

they care more about being genteel than getting to the truth

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eli @e1b.bsky.social · 8h

i guess jews are technically “asian “, geographically speaking

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 9h

Gimli as a character is Asian-coded, so you might want to tone down the loathing.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 11d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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eli @e1b.bsky.social · 9h

…bc the Nazis and Hutu ringleaders may have been prosecuted and shunned, but that doesn’t preclude them from denying, minimizing, or mocking the genocides they perpetrated, so it doesn’t even make basic logical sense

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eli @e1b.bsky.social · 9h

ffs, this “even the Nazis!” shit has a track record at this point, and in particular when hasbaraniks deploy it. it’s one of those things you should double- and triple- check rather than casually drop. and in this case it’s worse…

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 15h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16h

Someday this could be you or someone you love

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 18h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 18h

i don't want to get too bleak but katrina was the warning shot. we are going to live to see perennially internally displaced populations and it will be, like many other things, largely a public policy choice.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 18h

this is an incredibly ominous beginning to a future with a largely carved out federal emergency response system

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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