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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

what about the murdered guys

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

Ecuador says no evidence to detain survivor of US strike on suspected drug vessel reut.rs/48GiDmO

Ecuador says no evidence to detain survivor of US strike on suspected drug vessel

Ecuador's prosecutor's office said on Monday it would not detain the Ecuadorean survivor of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 8h

ATLANTA (AP) — Man who planned to 'shoot up' Atlanta airport is arrested in the terminal following a tip from family, police say.

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 17h

Where was the big tent energy when you were trying to ruin my career by saying my job was worthless compared to a guy that sold dead Uyghur nfts, Melissa

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1h

Trump earlier today when asked about the construction of the new ballroom:

“It won’t interfere with current building. It won’t be. It’ll be near it but not touching it — and pays total respect to the existing building, which I’m the biggest fan of.”

This is how it was left now overnight ⬇️

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1h

The government abrogating its responsibility and leaving nonprofits to pick up the tab means that this is a VERY good time to donate specifically to local direct services organizations.

FEMA has denied or not advanced most Kerr County aid applications after deadly July 4 flood

Advocates are questioning why so many applicants from the flood-ravaged county have not received federal disaster help. Nonprofits are trying to fill in the gaps.

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 1h

The Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni, 1597, 📸 via @RoysEnergy

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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 2h

finally updated my all of mpls blog with the september 2025 finance report to include every donor this year. a lot more big contributions than the june report! i'll highlight some notable ones in a thread here - taylordahlin.com/f/who-is-fun...

Who is Funding All of Mpls in 2025? (Updated Oct 2025)

All of Mpls was founded in 2021 by Richard Forschler, a former lobbyist who represented corporate and capital interests such as the Minneapolis Downtown Council (who donated $35,000 to We Love Mpls in...

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1h

I mean Canada is Midwest-coded and vice-versa.

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 1h

Let’s not let AIPAC buy our senate seat, ok?

Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 4h

The second email on Sept. 15, also sent by AIPAC, encourages donations to Angie Craig in MN, Haley Stevens in MI and Laura Fine in IL-09

Links to all three of these candidates lead to the same "Pro-Israel Network" donation page using Democracy Engine as the vendor

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

poutine for every body

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

what’s the over and under for trump closing the canadian border so the blue jays can’t play the world series games in LA

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

Remember when the @nytimes.com had a public editor? And remember how they said they no longer needed one because "social media" would function as one?

Didn't seem to work out...

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

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Michael Lund Markussen @mlmarkussen.bsky.social · 8h

Lilac-breasted Roller
Lillabrystet Ellekrage
Coracias caudatus
#birds #birding #Kenya #photography #nature #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #wildlife #ornithology #birdphotography #animalphotography

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Overstaying its welcome. Making New Yorkers’ days grimmer. Something we should relegate to the past.

No, we're not talking about Andrew Cuomo. We're talking about scaffolding.

Today we released our plan to take it down more quickly.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Georgia’s Sweeping Anti-Voting Law Suppressed Black Votes, New Data Shows

Read more here.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2h

why not
isn’t this something they are proud of

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 3h

it's kind of wild how "active destruction of the White House for a new ballroom costing $200 million" is one of several Jet2 Holiday-level news stories today

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 7h

The truth is, Social Security hasn’t missed a payment in 90 years.

The lies about Social Security are proven wrong every time we make a contribution or receive our earned benefits.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.

You clearly didn’t get the response you wanted—which was information handed over to you without having to dig into the facts of the case to craft a truthful story—so you thought you’d “tattletale” to main justice. Lindsay [sic] Halligan was attempting to point you to facts, not gossip, but when clarifying that she would adhere to the rule of the law and not disclose Grand Jury information, you threaten to leak an entire conversation. Good luck ever getting anyone to talk to you when you publish their texts.

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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 15h

Despite the severity of the allegations, Macomb County Prosecutor Pete Lucido has not taken any action.

Experts say Warren police broke the law in brutal beating of mentally ill man - Detroit Metro Times

Civil rights attorneys, former law enforcement officials, and mental health experts tell Metro Times that the Warren Police Department’s handling of 26-year-old Christopher Gibson was not only unneces...

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4h

this is why the whole world, the whole thing and not just the united states, canada, japan, south korea, and a few countries in the caribbean and south america call baseball "the beautiful game"

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Ian Ramjohn @iramjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like they’re burying the lead a bit

In one video, an agent can be seen pointing a weapon toward bystanders from the back seat of a truck with the window rolled down.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2."

Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...

This morning masked ICE agents pulled me out of my car at gun-point, threw me in the back of a van and took me to their facility in Broadview. I had been following the van down Harvard honking my horn and blowing a whistle to alert the community that ICE was in the neighborhood.

Just across from Lincoln elementary school, where my daughter is in second grade, they jumped out of their van with guns drawn and threatened to smash my windows.

They removed me from my car and drove me to Broadview.

They tried to determine if I was an American citizen (I am). After sitting handcuffed in the van for about 30 minutes, they issued me a citation for "impeding" them, claiming I cut them off (which is not true). They then drove me back to my car. While in their van, I could see they were receiving text messages that were part of a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2." They also stated they also spoke to someone on their phone saying they were going to meet someone else near where they were dropping me off, and that they were going to proceed to conduct enforcement activities with that person.

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