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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 7h

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The Guatemalan Dragon | Iowa Life

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 7h

The first British Professional Boxing Association was formed in London in 1885 at the Blue Anchor, Shoreditch. Its founding members numbered around 60. I believe Hezekiah Moscow to be the first Black man to be elected, but the digitised Sporting Life in which they're all named is too faded to read!

Two photos of a nine and a half stone Black or Black mixed heritage Chinese man in his late 20s. On the left he is posing shirtless in white tights, fists raised against a painted backdrop of tropical plants in a studio portrait. On the right in the same studio he is wearing a typical late-Victorian working man's outfit, a dark velvet looking jacket, waistcoat, shirt, trousers.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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IowaRural.bsky.social @iowarural.bsky.social · 12h

I wish people in Cedar Rapids would see this.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 12h

Oh what’s that? They will depreciate at roughly 3 times the rate previously touted and require constant replacement and 2-3x the revenue to match initial expenditure?

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Blog for Iowa @blogforiowa.bsky.social · 12h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS!! NO COVER!! IOWA CITY!” - sign up now to join me! #iowa #nokings

NO KINGS!! NO COVER!! IOWA CITY! · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this cou...

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 1d

I myself have not fucked a 37 year old in almost 13 years but if you find one agreeable, my best to you both.

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck a 37 year old.

ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 1d

everyone on this site has to take sides in the "is Bluesky for 37 year olds or 38 year olds" fight

no, you can't pick another age. you're either with the 37 year olds, or you're our enemy

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 1d

As @johnrogers.bsky.social said, a billion dollars is the economic equivalent of a loose nuke.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 1d

I taught history for a little bit and trying to explain the Cold War to 19yo in 2008 was tough enough. This? No thank you.

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Meghan Kita @meghgrace.bsky.social · 1d

The demonstration I went to in June was one of the most uplifting experiences I've had since the inauguration. The only hate I saw was from the handful of drivers who flipped us off. It was nice to be surrounded by people who care. Now accepting ideas for a sign. (My best idea is just "NOPE")

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The House Majority Whip is also insisting that a peaceful "No Kings" demonstration is in fact a "hate America rally" held for the "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Really feels like they're trying to manifest a violent reaction to it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

they are clearly trying to terrify everyone out of showing up to the No Kings protest and I simply do not think it is going to work

see you all there

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: A federal judge hands win to clergy (and others) who say ICE agents violated their religious freedom by, among other things, shooting them with pepper balls.

Also: a pastor tells me senior Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino personally shoved him last week. religionnews.com/2025/10/09/f...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

Some good news for Chicago: Texas National Guard troops ordered to retreat; Cubs win.

front page of chicago sun times.

lead story: Federal judge hits Trump administration credibility in siding with city and state against National Guard deployment
Judge’s order bars ‘federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois’ for at least 14 days.

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Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 2d

Senate adopted by voice vote: Kaine amendment #3337 to repeal the authorizations for use of military force against Iraq.

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 2d

"Bright could be my Star Wars" being the (inadvertently) funniest thing Max ever wrote.

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 2d

Bright (fine if dumb) was a million times better than Wrestling Isn't Wrestling (hopelessly up its own ass).

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 2d

I can't believe Max fucking Landis wrote Mr. Right.

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 2d

It's too bad John Landis is such a piece of shit. He can make the hell out of a movie.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 2d

You couldn't make this movie today because where would you find an honest-to-goodness porn theater in this day and age?

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 2d

'A werewolf's victims are stuck in limbo til the werewolf dies' is an utterly wild concept and I'm stunned I've never seen it anywhere else.

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Lee Casebolt @leecasebolt.bsky.social · 2d

That actually is the next one on the list!

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