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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · Jan 29

skincare hack don’t leave the house don’t talk to anyone

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Jun 11

Black rain frogs (Breviceps fuscus) look like angry avocados and I'm here to share them with you.

(📷: Tony Rebelo, iNaturalist)

Black rain frogs (Breviceps fuscus) is swollen up with air to make it harder to eat, and it has a downward facing mouth, making it look like it's sad or angry or grumpy. It's black and bumpy like an avocado, with undersized limbs sticking out from underneath. It's sitting in leaf mold that is indistinct.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 11h

Yes, because NYT is a fascist institution

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 11h

People are gonna die.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

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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Jason Collette @jasoncollette.bsky.social · 11h

This dude is having a moment

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Beka @itsbeka.bsky.social · 11h

Beautifully said

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Beka @itsbeka.bsky.social · 11h

They love you again

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Beka @itsbeka.bsky.social · 11h

happy 4 u seattle

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 12h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 12h

literal Anne Frank stories being told in real time

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 18h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 15h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 18h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 14h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 16h

There is no way this is economically feasible. A private jet for TEN people? To a land where they have no ties?

At least make it somewhat plausible that you are not also drug running or selling slaves.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 18h

The Sameer Project’s donations are down 45% today but their work is unfortunately far from over. Give to the South campaign, which supplies 200,000 liters of water a day: chuffed.org/project/1132...

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

**With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

chuffed.org

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17h

According to Civil Defense in 130 bodies were recovered from various areas of Gaza today as hundreds of thousands returned to their neighborhoods and found nothing but rubble in many areas.

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 19h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Beka @itsbeka.bsky.social · 17h

More quiet moments with my girls

My boxer bear is in her back while my itty bitty pittyTazzy attacks her legs

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pye @raptor.on.computer · 19h

when the autism pays off and you zoom in on a 1989 British history museum liopleurodon for 99p in a charity shop, which goes for £62 on ebay ✨️

SCREAMS

a liopleurodon figure sitting on a wooden table

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 18h

We cannot, must not, forget this and the scars it will leave on generations already traumatized since the nakba.

I Believed I Had Seen the Worst Humanity Could Inflict — Until Gaza

A doctor who has led four medical missions to the territory describes the war’s devastating impact on its inhabitants and hospitals — and his fellow medical professionals

newlinesmag.com

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Beka @itsbeka.bsky.social · 18h

So good

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mattlaslo.bsky.social @mattlaslo.bsky.social · 19h

“There’s a hospital in the state of New Mexico — an IHS facility — that no longer offers support for moms delivering kids or having babies. And that’s all because of the Trump administration,” Sen. Luján tells me.

My latest for National Native News is live: www.nativenews.net/friday-octob...

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