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Bill Sheehan
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Astronomer on a pale BLUE DOT, 🇨🇦 wannabe, psychiatrist, author of books on Mars. Disgusted by Trump, Musk, GOP, Roberts court. No MAGAs, white Christian nationalists, or other porn and filth. Am part of the reality-based community, ❤️science. No DMs
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Bill Sheehan @marsisblu.bsky.social · 2d
Though I admit I was somewhat surprised that our dovish president was passed over for the Nobel Peace Prize, I was shocked that RFk, Jr did not receive the Nobel for medicine. His deep insight into circumscision and autism came too late. There’s always next year.
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 3h
J.D. Vance Got Punched In The Face

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J.D. Vance Got Punched In The Face
Respectfully, of course.
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Tony Almquist @tony-almquist.bsky.social · 3h
by @andrewtorrez.bsky.social @lizdye.bsky.social
"prosecutors would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that James concocted a scheme to get an 0.8% reduction on a modest loan that she voluntarily paid off 11 years early … all so that she could earn a couple thousand dollars in rental income"
The Tish James Indictment Looks Like Country Fried BS
Yeah, don't faint.
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Tony Almquist @tony-almquist.bsky.social · 3h
2/2 "..and to secure these rights governments and other institutions are implemented, deriving their powers from the consent of the governed. That’s, I think, not a bad statement of liberalism"
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Tony Almquist @tony-almquist.bsky.social · 3h
by @dkthomp.bsky.social and Steven Pinker
1/2 "You probably couldn’t do a whole lot better than the Declaration of Independence. When Jefferson wrote—and I’ll update for modern sensibilities—all people are created equal and are endowed with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..
Has Liberalism’s Very Success in Delivering Human Flourishing Doomed It? Steven Pinker and Derek Thompson Discuss at LibCon2025
It’s the only system that puts self-correction at the heart of its project and so can revitalize itself
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Tony Almquist @tony-almquist.bsky.social · 3h
by @jenrubin.bsky.social
"A strong majority of Americans do not approve of deploying military troops at home. “Some 58% of Americans—including 7 in 10 Democrats and half of Republicans—think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats.” Trump’s approval has dropped to 40%"
It Turns Out, Americans Don't Want a Police State
Voters, Courts, and GOP Governors slam Trump’s militarization of cities
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Tony Almquist @tony-almquist.bsky.social · 3h
3/4 ".. That quest for knowledge has been intertwined, Geroulanos argues, with a quest for dominance—seeking the roots of the human is also a search for the justification of power. Secular discourses, like religious ones, have long been marshalled in the service of imperialism and fascism..
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Tony Almquist @tony-almquist.bsky.social · 3h
by @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
1/2 "hardly anyone voted for this shit. apart from the brain-dead cultists, nobody voted for polio. nobody voted for planes falling out of the sky. nobody voted for a preening fascist declaring war on his own people. nobody voted for armed troops in the streets..
Republicans are losing, and they know it
they’ve MAGA’d themselves into a corner
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2h
"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h
Portland leader says Trump’s portrayal of the city is ‘completely disconnected from the truth’

A Q&A with new city council president Elana Pirtle-Guiney.
Portland leader says Trump’s portrayal of city is ‘completely disconnected from the truth’
A Q&A with new city council president Elana Pirtle-Guiney.
www.politico.com
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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 3h
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...
Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver
Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.
www.wweek.com
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3h
#FuckICE #FedsOutOfChicago
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h
We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h
Of all the excuses not to show up to work while still collecting a paycheck, refusing to show up for 2 months so you can conceal info about sex trafficking because the perps are wealthy and powerful can only be conjured up in the toxic mind hive of Trump & House GOP leadership.
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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 21h
ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care.

Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park.

His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...
Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho
The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.
www.chicagotribune.com
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RepJackKimble @repjackkimble.bsky.social · 5d
President Trump doesn’t get enough credit for ending the war between Azerbaijan and Acetaminophen
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 20h
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 17h
This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.
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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 19h
“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”
Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 1d
You were president on Jan 6th, Puddin’ Brain.
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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 1d
Who was President that day, Pumpkin?????
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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
A rare admission from the administration that policy choices have knock-off effects.

In this case: immigration crackdowns raise your grocery bill.

@washingtonpost.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
“Are these tariffs ‘Liberation Day 2’?” Or will we get another ‘TACO Tuesday?’

This is how we all talk now. Absurd. 🌮
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d
#GA14
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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d
Marjorie Taylor Greene: "We have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them."
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d
OUR tax dollars are being used to bail out Argentina, OUR troops are being put on the ground in Israel & OUR soil is being used by Qatar for a military base of their own.
While OUR government is shutdown.
Anyone who believes OUR so-called “president” when he says he is “America first”, is an idiot.
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Rhonda 🩵🦋 @rhondasrealm.bsky.social · 1d
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