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SallyB @sallyb33755.bsky.social · 1d

Kat Dennings' cat, with Kat
#Caturday

SallyB @sallyb33755.bsky.social · 1d

Australia doesn’t just excel at big renewables and big batteries. Four million homes produce rooftop solar; a few weeks ago, those households temporarily supplied 55 percent of demand on the National Electricity Market, Westerman said.
www.wired.com/story/as-coa...

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

www.wired.com

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SallyB @sallyb33755.bsky.social · 1d

Larger trials are needed to confirm the findings in more diverse populations. While azelastine nasal spray shows early promise in viral load reduction view it as a complementary tool, not a substitute, for vaccination, rapid testing, & other public health measures
www.healthline.com/health-news/...

Common Nasal Spray May Help Lower COVID-19, Cold Risk

Researchers say people using a common allergy nasal spray, azelastine, were 69% less likely to contract COVID-19. Participants in the trial were additionally 71% less likely to catch the common cold t...

www.healthline.com

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SallyB @sallyb33755.bsky.social · 1d

The shooting happened at around midnight on the main street in Leland, a small town 120 miles (190km) north-east of the state capital Jackson, the city's Mayor John Lee told the BBC.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Four killed in mass shooting after Mississippi football game

Twelve others were injured in the incident, which happened at around midnight.

www.bbc.com

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SallyB @sallyb33755.bsky.social · 1d

The Brooklyn Museum has brought together 19 of Monet’s original Venetian paintings for a new exhibition, “Monet & Venice,” running from Oct 11 to Feb 1, 2026. After the show closes, it will travel to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in March 2026. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/c...

Claude Monet's Beautiful Paintings of Venice Are Headlining an Exhibition for the First Time in More Than a Century

The paintings came from the French Impressionist’s time in Italy with his wife, Alice, in 1908

www.smithsonianmag.com

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 2d

Federal workers are locked out of their jobs or working without pay. These workers inspect our food, make it safe to fly and so much more. They’re not political pawns—they’re the backbone of our country.

Fund the government.
Fix the health care crisis.
Put working people first.

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Tracy @tracydeepbluesea44.bsky.social · 1d

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Valhalla @vallahha.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you need blanket immunity, then you know what you're doing is against the law, and therefore, no one should get blanket immunity. The SCOTUS we have now, I wouldn't trust them to move my car.

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Wayne 🏀 Tennessee 🏈 Vols.🍊 @volswayne.bsky.social · 1d

War torn Portland Oregon.😁🇺🇸

Looks so bad the terror there.😁
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Trump is such A Jackass.😝

Miko.The.Cat @mikothecat2025.bsky.social · 2d

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SassySenora701 @sassysenior70.bsky.social · 2d

United we ribbit, divided we croak. 🐸🐸🐸✊

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest news story of the week that you may have missed is the real possibility that TikTok will go MAGA. Subscribe now to have all of Democracy Docket's premium content, including my exclusive newsletters, sent straight to your inbox. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Women's Equality Day @womensequalityday.bsky.social · 1d

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

What an emblem of the billionaire class—descending on a peaceful city in a private jet on the horn to NYT asking for the place to be invaded by federal authorities because the rent-a-cops you employ for a week to harass a few junkies outside the convention center cost too much.

Mr. Benioff spoke as his annual Dreamforce conference is set to begin Tuesday in downtown San Francisco, bringing 50,000 visitors to the city. He is scheduled to deliver a keynote address about the benefits of "agentic enterprise," a business model in which humans and artificial intelligence bots work together.
Speaking by telephone from his private plane en route to San Francisco, he lamented that he has to pay for nundreds of off-duty law enforcement officers to help patrol the convention area and said that San Francisco needed to "re-fund" the police.
The city never actually "defunded" its police force, and San Francisco's violent crime rates are below those in many other U.S. cities.
But San Francisco has struggled to recruit and keep officers, and it still has problems with lower-level crimes and open-air drug use, especially in neighborhoods like the Tenderloin near City Hall. It has about 1,500 police officers, and Mr. Benioff says it ne → another thousand.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 2d

We’re eight days away from #NoKings Day, and over 2,500 protests planned in all 50 states and across the world.

October 18 is going to be the biggest day of nonviolent protest in US history — because Courage is contagious.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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SallyB @sallyb33755.bsky.social · 1d

“At this time, we have recovered no survivors,” Chris Davis, sheriff of Humphreys County said. Officials will be on site Saturday detonating explosives because “chemicals are more unstable” than previously thought.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/u...

A massive blast at a Tennessee explosives plant obliterated a building and left 18 people missing. Here’s what we know | CNN

Early Friday, a thundering blast at a military and industrial explosives plant reverberated across a tight-knit community in central Tennessee, razing an entire building on the plant’s sprawling campu...

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 2d

Anti-vax onstage, Pfizer backstage.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Do ICE have MRE provisions? Oh, no. That’s a damn shame. All that income and no place to buy a meal. Hey, I know what they can eat… 1/2

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

What he not saying is that his friends and cronies invested a fortune in Argentina since their guy Milei won, they stand to lose a big chunk of those fortunes the way things are going, and Argentina’s elections are in two weeks and we are tampering in them to bail Milei out.

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Earthbound420 @earthbound420.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣💥🤪

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Thee NYC angry black latina mom! ♉️🇩🇴🗽 🐝💛 @urbanmodernism.bsky.social · 1d

People like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk aren’t tech creators — they’re tech colonizers.
Rich white men who used privilege and capital to seize an industry built by real innovators, exploiting the minds and labor of creators while branding themselves as “visionaries.” #Pinks

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