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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 14h

never forget

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 14h

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Trump’s lapdogs in North Carolina are now trying to rig their maps and save the Republican Party from being wiped out in the midterms.

It’s time we fight fire with fire. California needs to vote YES on Prop 50 — and every blue state needs to do what it can to balance the scales.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 20h

When ICE says they’re enforcing the law "with compassion," this is the group photo.

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Leah Shaffer @leahshaffer.bsky.social · 22h

No Kings is going to be the world's largest Halloween parade, and I can't wait.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Judy B🎃tt @judybott.bsky.social · 22h

Harness that feeling for the fight

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

Major airports are refusing to air Kristi Noem’s propaganda video blaming Democrats for the shutdown, and there’s a reason: it violates the Hatch Act

You can’t use taxpayer resources for partisan attacks. Period.

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Judy B🎃tt @judybott.bsky.social · 22h

They grow up so fast

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Mark Thompson @sonofathomp.bsky.social · 22h

The President of the United States doesn’t have time to get our government reopened because he’s busy social media whining about a magazine cover showing his neck wattle.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 23h

Good discussion with @gregsargent.bsky.social on No Kings and the right to protest: "They’re trying to turn it into something really evil. But that’s because they’re scared of it, and they know it turns public opinion... I think they should be worried, because nothing they’re doing is popular."

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 22h

The NY state apple harvest season is in full gear. Workers are out in the apple orchards on a daily basis climbing up and down ladders to fill these huge 900 lb bins so we can enjoy this sweet fruit. #WeFeedYou

A bin partly filled with apples and two more bins empty and one more at the end partially filled

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Martin J. B. Burns @burns1mjb.bsky.social · 1d

(Point well made.)

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 4d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Judy B🎃tt @judybott.bsky.social · 4d

Meanwhile

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 4d

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

nbcnews.to

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d

Vicious authoritarianism built on a pretext of shameless lies under the cover of scolding Christianity.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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MKrebs 🇺🇦🇲🇺🇪🇺 Antifa under secretary @mkrebs.bsky.social · 4d

Lots of frog suits to choose from, folks!
www.amazon.com/s?k=frog+sui...

Amazon.com : frog suit costume

www.amazon.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 4d

Somebody muzzle me rn

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Greg Abbott tells Pritzker to "stop complaining and do some pushups"

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 4d

PEACE! Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons.

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Judy B🎃tt @judybott.bsky.social · 4d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 4d

"Ari" is working in the poblano chilis in Santa Clara County. He explains how workers harvest the chilis, then take their full buckets over to a conveyor belt & dump them on it. The conveyor belt goes up lifting the chilis & "Ari" then directs them into different bins. #WeFeedYou

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 4d

Would I could find a fine frog!

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Ed Bott @edbott.com · 4d

First they ignore you, then you put on an inflatable suit, then they laugh at you, then more people in inflatable suits show up, then they fight you, then you win.

Pretty sure Gandhi said that.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 5d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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