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Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 13h

This is an important Parnas update. What Republicans are saying on Telegraph. It's worth it to know who is the future of this "party".

aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-young...

NEWS: Young Republicans Exposed For Embracing Hitler and Making Horrific Remarks

Young Republicans exposed for embracing Hitler and making horrific remarks, Trump floats restricting press access at the White House, Trump threatens to move the Olympics, and more

aaronparnas.substack.com

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way.

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HockeyDad @mouserincincy.bsky.social · 2d

Biden’s secret service left Abe Lincoln unguarded at Ford’s theater

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a start. Keep making phone calls to keep partisan politics out of airport safety PSAs.

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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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pajo2009 🇺🇲 🦅🐕 @pajo2009.bsky.social · 1d

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical election and voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy. I explain what is on their docket and what cases deserve your attention.

Please watch and share.
youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

"In an authoritarian context, all journalism will tend toward propaganda unless it is explicitly formulated as anti-authoritarian. Unless an institution is explicitly designed to counter authoritarianism, it will end up aiding the authoritarians."

The Washington Post and CBS News are dying. The Bulwark is the future.

We drink their milkshake.

www.thebulwark.com

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Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 2d

Such projection. We are no longer getting Bureau of Labor, public Health, NOAA weather, and more statistics from his cabal. We won’t have numbers from CDC, jobs or economic reports.

How do we know? Because there are a lot of people in the United States, who know good data from no data and BS.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 3d

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 2d

That sounds like fun!

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 3d

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Poster with QR code linking to the position

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 3d

I'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

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Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 3d

I heard about someone in Alaska yesterday. They got a letter telling them their health insurance was going up from $600 to $2000!

It makes seeing or hearing House Speaker Mike Johnson say we are terrorists and that we hate America - well, it just makes it clearer to me who really does care.

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Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 3d

These are not only not only lies - it hurts the soul of our nation for leaders to talk - even pretend to think like that.

The rest is in the photo.

This is a short essay reminding us of what our three branches of government are supposed to do, but they are failing us. If our leaders hear only from the very, very rich they cannot represent, protect, or govern us. We become dispensable. I say: Mike Johnson and the majority, get back to the table and set a better example or get another job.

This is a picture of AOC giving a tour of Congress to a group of visiting high school students. She’s doing this because the government is shut down and there is no one else to assist the visiting students.

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Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 3d

I heard about someone in Alaska yesterday. They got a letter telling them their health insurance was going up from $600 to $2000!

It makes seeing or hearing House Speaker Mike Johnson say we are terrorists and that we hate America - well, it just makes it clearer to me who really does care.

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Ardent Freedom Atheist ⚛ 👨 🧍‍♂️ @potatoe.bsky.social · 3d

And that's a ship load of truth their Paul.
Their deity was passing out brains and they all said, no thank you, we have trains. harr harr!! 😁
The Republican party is being lead by not benevolent actors but by foreign spies intent on dismantling and controlling this country.

Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 3d

They "unfired" the CDC employees when they figured out what a gigantic mistake that idiot Russell Vought had made. The Trump Administration is one idiot show after another. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 4d

In places throughout the world and in moments of great social duress, such as in Poland during the Solidarity movement and El Salvador during St. Oscar Romero’s episcopate, “people’s Masses” have been organized by grassroots Catholic communities.

Amid Chicago ICE raids, a people’s Mass is an example of ‘political holiness’

Several hundred Catholics and people of faith gathered on Sept. 13 to celebrate a people’s Mass, or Misa popular, outside the gates of the Great Lakes Naval Station in the city of North Chicago.

www.americamagazine.org

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USpolitics 🇺🇸 @uspol.skyfleet.blue · 4d

MIT Rejects Trump’s Loyalty Pledge, JD Vance Protested In Indiana, and A Portland Frog Becomes An Unexpected Resistance Hero

www.dworkinsubstack.com

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NPR @npr.org · 4d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 4d

Of the ~35,000, they’ve returned 8 - and this is news? A direct line and you’ve found 8? You/We won’t live long enough at this rate.

Shame on this administration for working for Putin.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

‘Basically impossible to get them back’: Russia’s mass abduction of Ukrainian children is a war crime, say experts

As territories shift and divide families, desperate parents are travelling to Russia to find their children, many of whom have been moved into military camps or orphanages

www.theguardian.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Maggie WW @maggieww.bsky.social · 4d

I love the WNBA. But I’m not opposed to baseball. I actually have a story about my talk on Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson given to the NIGMS Advisory committee - back in the good old days.

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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 4d

on why there isn't a progressive media ecosystem the way there is on the right

Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 4d

I really do think this is a lot of it. The battle is inherently asymmetrical because people whose sole goal in life is to accumulate as much money and power as possible tend to not generally be on the side of human rights and egalitarianism.

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