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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 18h

Oh and The Mountain Goats (well, John Darnielle at least) is also here.

Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 18h

Mike Flanagan is also here snd if you don't know who that is go watch everything he's ever done because you won't regret it.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 2d

This is community care!!! Be there for your neighbors, use your privilege if you have it to protect the vulnerable.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 2d

I had my 1st hydrotherapy PT visit today and it was so wonderful to be in the water, I didn't even mind having to exercise. I've missed swimming so much but when everyone stopped taking covid precautions beaches and pools became petri dishes of nasty mouth germs. Seriously, why'd y'all stop masking?

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Bad Atheist @badatheist.bsky.social · 3d

How about the US releasing all the hostages that ICE has recently taken?

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 2d

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/w...

Dozens rescued, over 1,000 people displaced and hunt for missing ongoing following monster storm in western Alaska | CNN

Rescuers in western Alaska are working to find missing residents and help the over 1,000 people displaced after ferocious, hurricane-force wind gusts from what once was Typhoon Halong tore through rem...

www.cnn.com

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 2d

I did see a CNN article, but that's it so far.

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, I'd put the "" on progressive in this case, cuz that's gross.

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, ew to those people but also I haven't seen a single far left friend suggest that so where is that happening? I'm feeling argumentative, I'll take em down.

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Freethinkers United @freethinkersunited.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘Locked up for 24 years’: joy and sorrow as Palestinian prisoners return home

Nearly 2,000 set free from Israeli prisons, though some families believe their loved ones have been deported

www.theguardian.com

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder, Christopher Columbus is in the bad place because of all the raping and genocide.

a woman in a purple vest is clapping in front of a man in a striped shirt with the nbc logo on his back

ALT: a woman in a purple vest is clapping in front of a man in a striped shirt with the nbc logo on his back

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Kelly Carlin-McCall @kellycarlin.bsky.social · 6d

Who needs A.I. when coincidence is so much more fun.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6d

😈😈

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 6d

a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a mug

ALT: a woman in a blue tank top is drinking from a mug

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 6d

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 6d

We're so grateful for an AMAZING speech therapist when my kid was young. She helped him SO MUCH that he graduated from Speech in 3rd grade when the doctors thought he'd need it til he graduated. Every kid deserves the same.

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1234_5 🕯☽ ⛤ 🔮🖤 @bunnylove403.bsky.social · 6d

Medicaid cuts will lead to fewer school-based support staff, including speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, psychologists, social workers, and nurses, reducing the quality and quantity of care available. #DisabledRage

Graphic by Finnegan Shannon with a white background and black text. Below is a QR code and hashtag #DisabledRage. Text reads: “KIDS IN SPECIAL EDUCATION WONT GET THE SERVICES THEY NEED DUE TO MEDICAID CUTS.”

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 9d

It's very demoralizing knowing how many people don't care about anyone but themselves. We somehow forgot that we belong to each other.

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 10d

My kid has decided that reading nonfiction, especially historical nonfiction is even better whn it's not a school requirement. Life-long-learning without obligation is the best!!!!!

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10d

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 10d

AI is ensuring no one will ever be sure of what's real ever again. Fucking dangerous. This shit should have been heavily regulated before it was ever allowed to roll out on this scale. Imagine not just celebrities and politicians but revenge porn, faked evidence, even bigger conspiracy theories.

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 10d

I've had my share of loud cats too. lol This one is very special though. He's the least cat-like cat I've ever met. He thinks he's people.

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Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 11d

It's quicker to just show a picture of my dad, honestly.

Kiera Brown @kierabrown.bsky.social · 11d

No flag has ever been so desecrated.

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📎 Otto Von Danger @ottovondanger.bsky.social · 11d

To my fellow service members,
They are just about to use you against Americans. You have 4 choices now. 1) Go AWOL 2) Kill whoever gives you illegal orders 3) Get hung as an Oath Breaker or 4) this...

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