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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 1h

Stay strong friend.

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Jonny Johns @jonnyjohns.bsky.social · 3h

Yes he is. But, then so is his entire party.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2h

Trump’s war on the left: Inside the plan to investigate liberal groups
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Jonny Johns @jonnyjohns.bsky.social · 2h

The lady in the video says '' Well at 2:22, when the bomb arrived at the house, everything was burning. The man's brother was taken to the hospital, whether his legs will be saved or not? I say: "Three years in captivity
to die at home!" ''

російську нечистість!!
t.me/operativnoZS...

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Jonny Johns @jonnyjohns.bsky.social · 2h

Locals reported that the father of the deceased boy was held in ruzzian captivity for three years. Now he came under fire, during which his son died and, according to locals, he himself may lose his legs.

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Jonny Johns @jonnyjohns.bsky.social · 2h

🤬🤬🤬🤬

❗️In Zaporizhzhia, the ruzzian scum struck a private house, resulting in the death of a 7-year-old child and injuries to 7 more people — State Emergency Service

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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 1h

africabizmonitor.com/2025/09/13/e...

Emergency Response Rooms Strengthening Civic Democracy in Wartime Sudan

Women-led Emergency Response Rooms in Sudan are turning emergency relief into civic politics, fostering grassroots democracy amid the ongoing war.

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Hans Offen @hans-offen.bsky.social · 8h

the "plan" is for billionaires to buy up the farms for pennies on the dollar like they did last time

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Pat, aka Auntie Phaa 👵 @four-torpedoes.bsky.social · 5h

Do like they did in AZ: sell to the Saudis, who are sucking the state aquifer dry growing alfalfa to ship to SA for cattle feed.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5h

The frogs are multiplying

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Niki @nikkiuk.bsky.social · 13h

I miss the days when we talked about the trees ….. now its a compete meltdown -for what-just to cut corners and keep more money in the pockets of big busibess?

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 13h

The Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board
may be eliminated entirely under the proposed 2026 federal budget. It raises the risk of more, & more serious, chemical disasters—not just in the US, but around the world.

No pay wall.

Refinery fires, other chemical disasters may no longer get safety investigations

Because of the federal government shutdown and proposed budget, key federal investigations may stop, including into what happened at a Chevron refinery in California in October 2025.

theconversation.com

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humboldthunnybunny.bsky.social @humboldthunnybunny.bsky.social · 5h

Charging Assbackwards into stupidity.

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👻🗳️Ghost of Democracy 2.0 @ominousrabbit.com · 3h

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twist @pvdork.bsky.social · 3h

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Phil Waring @philwaring.bsky.social · 10h

Proper dancing.

Haddaway - Life (Dance Compilation)

YouTube video by SKYPINK

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5h

Must resist the temptation to buy Battlefield 6...for the kids.

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Patrick Skinner @pmskinner.bsky.social · 4h

Home again. We don’t have to be this way. Back at it in a few hours

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 4h

With receipts!

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...

‘Amoral, evil’: vitriolic backlash builds against comics who played Riyadh festival

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury being directed at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chapp...

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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 5h

October 8, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

The Fascists and the Anti-Fascists ...

October 8, 2025

Yesterday, journalists observed members of the Texas National Guard at a U.S.

open.substack.com

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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 5h

Still hard to believe that he actually said this, and got elected, but he did.

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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 4h

Truly good news!

Don't mess with librarians!

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 9h

Some good news!

A librarian got fired for refusing to remove LBGTQ books and sued the county, its board of commissioners, the library board, and members of both government boards for violating her 1st amendment rights, and discriminatory and retaliatory firing.

www.rawstory.com/wyoming-libr...

Librarian gets massive payday after firing for refusal to yank LGBTQ books off shelves

A librarian fired by county officials in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves got the last laugh with a $700,000 settlement. According to The New York Times, "Terr...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9h

Well, issuing a statement is more than what he’s done before, and this is a promise to voters to hold people accountable. We’ll see if he backs it up once able to do so

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