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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

We have leverage over Russia in that when we delay or signal doubt on Ukraine's cause, the Russians attack more and harder. In that sense, we are also participating in the killing of Ukrainians. www.thebulwark.com/p/mixed-sign...

Mixed Signals from Washington Cost Lives in Ukraine

Dithering, delaying, and doubting only invite Russian attacks.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 7h

Right now, our amazing service members with the California National Guard are helping power expanded food bank operations across the state.

California refuses to let the Trump government shutdown's halt to federal food assistance abandon Californians in need.

As the ongoing government shutdown disrupts critical food benefits, service members from California Volunteers and the California National Guard began work assisting food banks with preparing meals for families facing food insecurity.

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Senator Molly Cook @mollyfortexas.bsky.social · 4h

Houston, we’ve got some possible serious weather heading our way this weekend. Before the rain moves in, you can prepare by signing up for CenterPoint’s Power Alert Service and bookmarking their Outage Tracker (English and Spanish) at CenterPointEnergy.com.

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Bridget 🧟‍♀️ Oooo Brains @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 5h

Went to a prayer service tonight at St. Mary of the Lake, where they have cardboard cutouts throughout the church representing parishioners afraid to come to Mass because of ICE.

a photograph of the interior of a church. Several people are visible sitting in pews. In the pew immediately in front of the photographer, a black human-sized cardboard cutout in the outline of a woman is visible, as though a shadow is sitting in the pew in front of you.

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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 5h

Happy Halloween!

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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 5h

I hope you're right! Lotta haunting is in order!

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

The promises (cheap, serviceable recaps of news stories) and the perils (not grokking how our democracy is being wrecked) of AI news www.thebulwark.com/p/ai-and-the...

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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 5h

I'm with you, Sister...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

We Have to Move

"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 5h

I'm screaming, too...🤬💔

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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 5h

They acknowledged disappointment that this was going to happen & were just glad to have the opportunity to save stuff. I've read that many involved in the destruction had to sign NDAs, tho not sure if that includes the WHHA.

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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 5h

Another article mentioned a storage facility specifically for things for the Park Service? It's a thing. There are so many items that they can't all be displayed. I agree that the Administration lies. I don't know that the Historical Association did.

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Christa Brown @christabrown.bsky.social · 14h

56% of Americans now agree that “President Trump is a potentially dangerous dictator whose power should be limited before he destroys American democracy.”

From @prri.org & @robertpjones.bsky.social
baptistnews.com/article/most...

Most Americans now see Trump as a dangerous dictator – Baptist News Global

After months of data collection and analysis, we at PRRI have just released our 16th annual American Values Survey, conducted in partnership with our colleagues E.J. Dionne Jr. and Bill Galston at the...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

The Epstein Recess continues.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h

Trump didn’t get the funding from oligarchs to destroy our WH because he was trying to save taxpayer money. He knew that Congress was not going to fund it, & even making the ask would have given the public advance notice and led to hearings. He wanted to do it like a King would.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

A federal jury this week found a private company that runs detention centers liable for the 2015 death of an inmate in Louisiana and awarded the man’s family $42.75 million in damages.

Jury Awards $42 Million in Death of Inmate at Private Jail in Louisiana

Erie Moore, a retired millworker and father of three, died in 2015, a month after guards slammed him headfirst to the floor at the Richwood Correctional Center, lawyers for his family said.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 9h

Fixed it, you shitty cowards @nytimes.com

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 17h

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

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Jaypay @jaypay.bsky.social · 5h

The White House Historical Association told PBS that things inside of the East Wing were removed & put into storage; which means that this was kept a secret just long enough for the damage to be done to the structure.

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Chris Strider @strider.bsky.social · 6h

What once was.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 6h

Maybe he just really wanted to be First Lady--redecorating the White House, hosting lavish parties for dignitaries, and looking pretty on camera.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

#ICYMI: Among the citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 8h

[Melissa forecast analysis, Friday 10/24]

The forecast is looking increasingly dire for Jamaica. Model guidance has increasingly clustered on a direct hit - Jamaica has only had close calls from five category 4 hurricanes on record - with catastrophic flooding a major concern.

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 8h

The latest forecast from WPC calls for up to & over 2 feet (over 500mm) of rain in Jamaica, with higher amounts possible locally.

In addition to destructive winds near Melissa's core, this may very well rank as one of Jamaica's most destructive hurricanes.

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