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GEORGIANS!!! Early voting for the Public Service Commission (PSC) is ongoing, through Oct 31, general election Nov 4. The five commissioners of the PSC set the rates you pay for electricity!

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 3d

GEORGIANS!!! Early voting for the Public Service Commission (PSC) is ongoing, through Oct 31, general election Nov 4. The five commissioners of the PSC set the rates you pay for electricity!

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 4d

Tonight Comet A6 (Lemmon) continues to near its closest appearance to Arcturus. Look west and northwest with binoculars after 7pm. Two days away from its closest approach to Earth. 🔭 🧪 #astrophotography

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

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Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 3d

What is left when a system loses the give and take of politics is force …

October 19, 2025

All last week, Republican leaders tried to portray the No Kings protests scheduled for Saturday, October 18, as “Hate America” rallies.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 5d

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 4d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 4d

This is the point of America right here: to be able to have this opportunity to protest…

October 18, 2025

Today, millions of Americans and their allies turned out across the United States and around the globe to demonstrate their commitment to American democracy and their opposition to a president and an ...

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 5d

Colonists saw the burning of Falmouth as proof that their government had turned against them, and began to suggest they must declare independence …

October 17, 2025 (Friday)

On the morning of October 18, 1775, a small fleet of Royal Navy vessels opened fire on the seaport town that is now known as Portland, Maine.

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 6d

Authoritarian regimes fear mass organizing and peaceful protest because they reveal a regime’s unpopularity and show that it is losing its grip on power …

October 16, 2025

Yesterday the Trump administration announced it would pay furloughed troops by using funds Congress appropriated for research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDTE) for fiscal year 2026.

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 7d

Striking down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act could eliminate more than a dozen districts in the South currently held by Democrats …

October 15, 2025

Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Louisiana v.

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 8d

We VOTED today!!! Early voting for local races and two commissioners on the Public Service Commission (PSC). VOTE VOTE VOTE — it’s your super power!!!

Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 8d

The No Kings event is about loving America, not hating it …

October 14, 2025

The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 9d

Government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life …

October 13, 2025

Last Tuesday, President Donald J.

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 10d

A society grounded in fiction, rather than reality, cannot function …

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 10d

A society grounded in fiction, rather than reality, cannot function …

October 12, 2025

On October 9, President Donald J.

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 12d

That Trump and his loyalists are standing with the autocrat Putin rather than democracy is clearer every day …

October 10, 2025

All of President Donald J.

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 12d

That Trump and his loyalists are standing with the autocrat Putin rather than democracy is clearer every day …

October 10, 2025

All of President Donald J.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 13d

Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration …

October 9, 2025

Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.

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Toni Blackwell Rhodes @historynerdling.bsky.social · 14d

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

October 8, 2025

Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

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