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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 14d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 15d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 13h

Imagine dressing like a Temu Richard Petty and criticizing anyone’s appearance

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 18h

Some immigrants have tried to self-deport using a Trump-promoted app. Many are still here, despite the government giving them departure dates and promises of safe travel. @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social and @mariamelba.bsky.social have a deeply reported, riveting account of people stranded in America.

“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

😕🇺🇸

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, the underlying reason for the need for this is horrifying, stipulated, but watching so many people stand up and defend their neighbors and their community is a heartening reminder that the people who suck are not the majority even if they are the power

Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 19h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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Slackermom @slackermom.bsky.social · 19h

Was just at a neighborhood school at dismissal. Hundreds of people with whistles surrounding the school and stationed down every block making sure ICE doesn’t snatch anyone. The same is happening at all the schools around here. I love my neighborhood and I love Chicago.

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 4h

As the genocide in Gaza began its third year, there was some hope that the end might finally be in sight, but if history has shown us anything, you can't fully trust Israel or the U.S. for that matter.

Cartoon by @LatuffCartoons

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Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 4h

🫡 Update: my challenger has withdrawn his name from the ballot for the general election on Nov 4, meaning I’ll be uncontested this year. With all races and ballot questions now finalized, you can view Sample Ballots here: www.somervillema.gov/departments/.... I’ll be sharing endorsements soon!

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TLAnde @tlande.bsky.social · 21h

Brave resister video taping and taking the information to pass on. 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

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Jo @service-worker.bsky.social · 21h

Blatant incompetence all around

The man who was already detained in the van did not identify himself, Thomas said.
Once Brockman was handcuffed and placed in the van, the agents pulled out, clipping the rear bumper off of a stopped car partially blocking their path and speeding away past an approaching elongated CTA bus and through the busy intersection.

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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 21h

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 3h

#medsky

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 3h

Rep. Ro Khanna said we all have to contact our Members of Congress and demand they pass this bill to release the Epstein files--YOU CAN DO IT NOW HERE:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act

Contact Congress today!

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 3h

I bet it wasn't even 5 years ago that the standard belief was that without more transmission there would be no energy transition. Then I started hearing about VPPs. Now there are plenty of amazing real world examples of their success and it is still so early.

VPPs look to be a huge thing.

GN @w1ts3nd555.bsky.social · 13h

“Virtual power plants” are one of the cheapest, most equitable ways to make the grid more efficient, making costly infrastructure buildout less necessary.

Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 23d

11) At the high end of the grid reinforcement cost estimate range, VPPs could reduce grid buildout costs by *$340 billion*. That's our estimate of the "money on the table" for deploying VPPs: The achievable societal value of avoiding poles-and-wires upgrades at the distribution level.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective supports organizations led by Sudanese civilians: including emergency response rooms, mutual aid, labor and farmers’ unions. Please give what you can and/or share.

Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 6h

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective

Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

Trump and Stephen Miller have relied on an army of MAGA "influencers" widely disseminating a fraudulent picture of Portland in chaos, to bolster the case for deploying military.

NYT has a good new piece on this. But it made several missteps worth highlighting. 2/

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. has been accused of nearly 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

The state COULD have fined the company more than $3M...

BUT

Regulators are only seeking a penalty of $242,800.

By @anjeanette-damon.bsky.social and Dayvid Figler

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h

By the way, this is obviously good and necessary, but let's remember that this is a Republican "solution" to a problem they created.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h

Posts like this should specify it is tariff revenue from last year, because otherwise it seems like this is money from Trump's new tariffs

The Trump administration has used $300 million in tariff revenue to fund WIC and ease funding concerns amid the government shutdown.
http://www.wcvb.com/article/wic-funding-trump-shutdown-tariff-relief/69003737

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 4h

If SCOTUS were not also simply an organ of Trumpist rule, Voughts entire vast papertail of "I hate the government and will break laws to destroy it" would make these layoffs illegal & the workers could rightfully expect court to rule in their favor. Unfortunately, SCOTUS

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

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Madeleine Berenson @madberenson.bsky.social · 3h

A lot of us here have quit facebook and twitter in protest of their founders' financial backing of Trump, and won't go back. Please continue to post here, just continue your thoughts in comments below your first post.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 3h

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician detained last year, and Dr. Marwan al-Hams, the Hamas-appointed director of field hospitals in Gaza, detained in July, will not be released from Israeli custody.

www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Israel won’t release two Gazan medical officials as part of deal, Hamas source tells CNN

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