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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 15h

Portland 🔥

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 7h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

we need to abolish this shit

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 5h

Republicans. Care. Fuck. All. About. The. Debt.

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

Partisan shutdown standoff ignores key risk to US stability: rising national debt reut.rs/4nY0dSY

Partisan shutdown standoff ignores key risk to US stability: rising national debt

The ongoing shutdown debate between Democrats and President Donald Trump's Republicans is largely avoiding the difficult fiscal issues clouding the country's future - the rising national debt and the long-term financial health of Social Security and Medicare.

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 9h

Obvious stuff aside, can you imagine how much it would cost to guard that thing from vandalism 24/7?

If El Dotardo wants an arch he can build one on that land in Miami that DeSantis just gave him for his “library” (lol).

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 18h

Here’s the New York Times’ own Clyde Haberman (Maggie’s dad) repeating it in 2018

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About the Dodgers, I recall Brooklynites' raw emotions when Walter O'Malley moved the team to LA in the late '50s.
Question back then: What do you do if you're in a room with Hitler, Stalin & O'Malley, and you have a gun but only 2 bullets.
Answer: You shoot O'Malley twice.
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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 10h

It’s particularly funny since a good portion of MAGA is convinced Biden *never was* president.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10h

Unprecedented grift & corruption, happening daily right in front of us

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 10h

The conservative edition of Clue:
"Barron in the back counting stacks."

Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 10h

“If this is so, which it is..."

This is how I imagine Conservative GROK writes code.

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erin*carly @erincarly.bsky.social · 11h

Piggybacking on this to share a story I overheard today. Lady in front of me was USAID. Got fired while she and her family were stationed overseas. Kicked out of their home and kids pulled from school. Moved back here, living in a shared apartment, and she’s selling things on Etsy to get by. 💔😡

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 14h

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

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

www.nytimes.com

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 12h

And now, a brief musical interlude...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEbj...

It Can't Happen Here

YouTube video by Frank Zappa - Topic

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 1d

New from me on @autonomynews.co: The popular abortion pill resource Plan C relaunched this week with a new design that better displays the many, many options for medication abortion in all 50 states

Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 2d

The online abortion pill guide @plancpills.bsky.social has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost. The redesign comes as state officials have threatened investigations and potential lawsuits against the organization.

An Autonomy News exclusive:

Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks

The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.

www.autonomynews.co

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 1d

The horrific South Carolina abortion ban that lawmakers held a hearing on last week would also consider it “aiding and abetting” an abortion to host or maintain a website that informs women and pregnant people how to obtain an abortion. First Amendment attacks on abortion are coming

Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 1d

Plan C will keep publishing information in the face of free speech threats, cofounder Amy Merrill said. “I don't believe that people in those states want to be uniquely blocked from accessing all dimensions of the internet...We still get to talk about abortion, and we're going to keep doing that.”

Exclusive: Plan C Doubles Down on Abortion Pill Info Amid Political Attacks

The online abortion pill guide has been redesigned to make it even easier to learn where to get pills, including at no cost.

www.autonomynews.co

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 12h

You’d think that would be setting off a crap-ton of bells down at FLOCK headquarters.

Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 12h

Certainly not the immediate focus here... but when do those prosecutors go on trial? How does the state intend to even begin to make up for those 43 lost years?

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 13h

Del Toro, as expected, was an absolute damn delight in every scene.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 16h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 13h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4gS...

The Sock Contamination HD | Monsters, Inc. (2001) | Disney Pixar Studios

YouTube video by Aarush Boi

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 13h

> The Benton Police Department said in a statement that the officer believed the vial contained a controlled substance “based on the totality of the circumstances known to the officer.” <

Translation: We only require a 3rd grade education for our officers, and even that’s a doggone high hurdle.

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 13h

“What’s this button do?"

*click*

[global anger intensifies]

“Aw, crap... QUICK!! UNPUSH IT!!!"

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 14h

“The Heritage Foundation [which spearheaded Project 2025] says it will ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors over alleged bias.“ 9/18/25 … 1/ www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

The right wing is coming for Wikipedia

The Heritage Foundation says it will "identify and target" Wikipedia editors over alleged bias. What does that mean for Wikipedia’s future?

www.wbur.org

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 14h

Thinking about that one scene in Superman II (or III?) where Richard Pryor did the “funnel all the partial pennies into an anonymous account” bit and he rolls up hot to work the next day in a new sports car.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Rudely Van Gelder @rudelyvangelder.bsky.social · 15h

Feels like Johnson and Emmer and their ilk are trying to whip up some hatriot groups like the Plowed Boys into making a scene at these rallies... so look out for rented box trucks milling around (which could also be hauling some of Noem’s goons).

Frak all these Khaki Klad Kunts.

#NoKings

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