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Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social · 20h

The World Is Burning, But Want to Meet Up for Thirty-Four-Dollar Cocktails? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The World Is Burning, But Want to Meet Up for Thirty-Four-Dollar Cocktails?

Want to get drinks next week? I know everything’s kind of crazy right now, so no pressure. There’s a cool new bar I read about—fine, saw a TikTok f...

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Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social · 21h

National Geographic says this Connecticut treehouse is New England's top fall foliage escape www.ctinsider.com/living/artic...

National Geographic names this CT treehouse New England's top fall foliage spot

The treehouse in Morris topped the magazine's list of the treehouses that provide "perfect views of New England’s fall colors."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

Today I took questions from more than a dozen South Asian news outlets and spoke about our agenda to make this city affordable for each and every New Yorker.

Zohran sits at a long conference table, back to the camera, with more than a dozen journalists, some with cameras, facing him.

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Common Cause @commoncause.org · 1d

Stephen Miller is attempting to take away millions of voters’ right to cast a ballot. All because they don't have a passport. You could be next.

Join us in fighting back against schemes to deny eligible voters access to the ballot box. www.commoncause.org/articles/mil...

Miller and His Allies Want to Silence Millions of Americans

Stephen Miller’s group is pushing a “show your papers” voter rule. Submit your comment to the EAC by Oct. 20 to stop this voter suppression plan.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded
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Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded

Models for your groups to take action, spread the love, and pop the bubble

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Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social · 2d

What You Need To Know About The Tish James Indictment
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What You Need To Know About The Tish James Indictment

A recording from Joyce Vance and Preet Bharara's live video

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 3d

It is creepy how the height of the pandemic has been scrubbed from popular culture, it was only 5 years ago when people were isolating, masking, Zoom learning, wiping grocery bags with bleach, listening to ambulances siren day and night.

A lot of people haven’t dealt with that trauma and it shows.

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Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social · 2d

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 3d

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Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social · 2d

On Liberal White Supremacy and the Democratic Party: A Response to Ezra Klein’s Call for “Big-Tent” Politics - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/09/o...

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Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social · 2d

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Live Updates: N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James Indicted After Trump’s Pressure Campaign

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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 3d

I love seeing all the little girls at WNBA games and am so glad they get to see faces that reflect their own playing top-level, ferocious basketball. I am just as happy to see all the boys in the crowds who are equally as inspired by these phenomenal players. That didn’t happen much when I was a kid

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Basketball Reference @basketball-reference.com · 3d

A'ja Wilson is the 3rd player in WNBA history to have 30+ points and 10+ rebounds in a WNBA Finals game. 💪

See the full stats here: stathead.com/tiny/BdDSU

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Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social · 3d

Everyone is confused about Tylenol and autism, but Republican women lean toward believing RFK 19thnews.org/2025/10/tyle... via @19thnews.org

Everyone is confused about Tylenol and autism, but Republican women lean toward believing RFK

Women are split along party lines on how much they believe the administration’s claims, but everyone trusts doctors the most for vaccine information.

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Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social · 3d

The Gift of Amiri Baraka
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The Gift of Amiri Baraka

A remembrance on the 90th anniversary of this giant's death.

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Andrea Plaid @ajplaid.bsky.social · 3d

Again, if *5* people gave $25 by 9:30AM, I'd be able to catch a Lyft to and from my job. Thankfully, I get paid tomorrow, so I just need to get through today.

Appreciate anything y'all can do, Bsky fam!!

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone else remember that old SNL sketch in which Jon Lovitz is playing Michael Dukakis and Dana Carvey is playing George H.W. Bush and they're debating and in mid-debate Dukakis turns to the camera and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"?

Yeah, *that*

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

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of males would be happier if they just put on a dress and left the rest of us alone to live in peace.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17d

NEW: The U.S. has long lagged behind other wealthy countries in reducing its stillbirth rate.

Now a new five-year, $37 million NIH consortium will prioritize this public health issue. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was intimately tied to this,” one expert said.

NIH Launches New Multimillion-Dollar Initiative to Reduce U.S. Stillbirth Rate

Clinical teams across the country are forming a five-year, $37 million consortium to research stillbirth, a long-neglected public health concern. “There’s no question that the ProPublica reporting was...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Ebony M @ebonyabsolutely.bsky.social · 3d

Erika Kirk’s Memorial Glam (Or, A Definitive Guide To MAGA Aesthetics)
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Erika Kirk’s Memorial Glam (Or, A Definitive Guide To MAGA Aesthetics)

Interview unlocked.

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