Isa Leshko ❌👑
@isaleshko.bsky.social
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Artist, writer & the author of Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Rescued Farm Animals. Ⓥ🏳️‍🌈 She/her https://linktr.ee/isaleshko https://www.isaleshko.com/ Banner: framed photos of farmed animals on gallery wall.
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
School can be challenging for kids with disabilities.

There’s ableism, discrimination and bullying.

Chronically ill kids are just learning what their “normal” looks like, and they need and deserve the support to adapt.

These cuts are going to harm kids in the poorest (and reddest) areas the most
lollardfish.bsky.social
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
Utterly evil
cmgiulini.bsky.social
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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willbunch.bsky.social
I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere
unraveledpress.com
Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.
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ruthz.bsky.social
There is so damn much trauma in the world. Endless amounts of it. Acknowledging someone else’s trauma doesn’t take away or delegitimize your own. There’s plenty to go around.

That’s what bothers me the most about whataboutism and enforced equivalencies.
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communitycatalyst.org
Lawmakers recently passed the biggest health care cuts in U.S. history—ripping coverage away from 15M ppl. Millions more will see costs soar if Congress allows enhanced premium tax credits to expire.

We're fighting back.

📢 10/14: Join us & @familiesusa.bsky.social for a #CareNotCuts day of action!
Families shouldn't have to choose between groceries and health care. Dark green background event flyer with two women standing side by side features details: Join Community Catalyst and Families USA for a Bluesky chat on why Congress must make the enhanced premium tax credits permanent. Tuesday 10/14 at 12pm PST 3pm EST on Bluesky. Use #CareNotCuts to join the conversation,
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jonathancohn.bsky.social
Anne Frank and Underground Railroad analogies write themselves.
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maggietokudahall.bsky.social
Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.
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klobuchar.senate.gov
There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.

But no $ for health insurance for Americans?
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dfeldman.org
Someone made at least $200 million trading crypto moments before Trump’s tariff announcement today.
In case you didn't know - the BTC whale closed 90% of his BTC short and fully closed his ETH short, making around $190-$200M profit in just one day on Hyperliquid.
The crazy part is that he shorted another 9 figs worth of BTC and ETH minutes before the cascade happened. And this was just publicly on Hyperliquid imagine what he did on CEXs or elsewhere. I'm pretty sure this guy played a huge role in what happened today.
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matthewcort.land
It looks like they're trying to kill the Epidemic Intelligence Service. I maintain this "rif" is unlawful.
sherylnyt.bsky.social
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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sarahdohl.bsky.social
Absolutely wild that congressional Republicans woke up today and decided to call millions of patriotic Americans terrorists. If you want to change your profile picture today to tell people you're showing up on October 18th, we've got you covered.
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leahgreenberg.bsky.social
HANDS OFF TISH JAMES
bkindivisible.bsky.social
Standing with our communities to say #HandsOffTish — keep your tiny hands off our badass Attorney General @newyorkstateag.bsky.social. Tish always fights for us, and we will fight for her!
#HandsOffNYC #NoKings

@indivisible.org @nywfp.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social
Protesters holding Hands Off Tish signs Protesters holding Hands Off Tish signs  and speakers at the rally A sign that says Hero over a picture of Tish James and Zero over a picture of Trump Sign that says Cowards We See You and Enough Distractions Release the Epstein Files
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audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
That's wild. If you know anything about ICE agents, looking scared, changing your demeanor, etc are eminently reasonable reactions
thematthill.bsky.social
Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
Not only is this rude, inappropriate, partisan, costly, and illegal, it reveals the fundamentally anti-American idiocy of this administration’s policy of handing over to China the most important economic sector of the 21st century.
jamiedupree.bsky.social
Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats
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acyn.bsky.social
Mamdani: I run against a disgraced former governor who, in this moment, has chosen to issue a statement in which he cannot even say the name Tish James, nor the name Donald Trump.

If you cannot say Trump’s name today—how will you stand up to him tomorrow?
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Another journalist is forced to the ground and arrested by ICE in Chicago. Her name is Debbie Brockman from WGN-TV.

ICE put a photojournalist in NYC in the hospital.

They’re attacking the press.

They’re attacking immigrants.

They’re attacking citizens.

No one is safe.
isaleshko.bsky.social
I didn’t know either. I think this is relevant:

bsky.app/profile/katz...
katz.theracket.news
This is literally an old joke.
In a private exchange between Jones and Republican Virginia Delegate Carrie
Coyner, Jones griped about how the then-Republican speaker of the House of Delegates Todd Gilbert was paying tribute to a former moderate Democratic
lawmaker who died, according to screenshots of text messages first reported by the National Review and obtained by CNN.
"Three people, two bullets. Gilbert, hitler, and pol pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head," the text reads in part, referring to Gilbert and the two dictators. - Return to Search Results
r/funny 14yr. ago
...
inmyrhyme
You're stuck on an island with Hitler, Stalin, and a lawyer. You have a gun with two bullets. What do you do?
Shoot the lawyer twice.
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mattbh.com
Glad to see Russ Vought is setting himself up to go to jail when accountability starts.
bbkogan.bsky.social
Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise
Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views
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andyoregon.bsky.social
The Qatari government has given Jared Kushner $5B over the last several years, and given Trump a luxury airliner.

Corruption out in the open.
atrupar.com
Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
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itsafronomics.bsky.social
Good MORNING #bluesky!!!!!!! Catch me on CBS News Boston PRIMETIME live in studio today online. Thank you Courtney Cole for featuring me on the show and for such a warm welcome.

If you haven't already, make sure to grab your copy of #TheDoubleTax: annagifty.com! #blacksky #news #booksky
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drnickiw.bsky.social
"A student in Maryland was left in a stairwell during a fire to wait for rescuers because she uses a wheelchair. And a high school student with a cane had trouble evacuating when a gunman killed two people at her St. Louis school. Police officers ended up pointing guns at her."
‘I Could Literally Be Left Behind to Die’: How a Student With a Disability Changed the Law
www.nytimes.com
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
New AI School should totally be fun and safe for academics. Totally.
joshsternberg.com
"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
www.washingtonpost.com
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eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social
Them Epstein Files got Little Mikey shook
fritschner.bsky.social
A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week
House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period. Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes. 

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.