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@selsworth4.bsky.social

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To a healthy planet for all living things. Anyone can do the right thing. You know when you don't. You can't un-know what you know. It's awful when you can't tell someone is lying to you. It's a disaster when you lie to yourself. DMs ONLY 4 crdts/remvl

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S. Elsworth 🇺🇲🏛️🗽⚖️🎵🎥🌻🐝🌱 @selsworth4.bsky.social · Nov 14

We've been complacent viewers for years. News outlets, specifically cable news, are now little more than celebrity-building machines. It's up to us to stop feeding these beasts by rewarding irresponsible journalism with our eyeballs. Let lower ratings bring them to their senses.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

The best and the brightest

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 21h

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Mina @minerva1.bsky.social · 1h

Tough to impose martial law when you can’t deploy troops.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1h

Note that this is the same compromise position adopted by the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday in advance of oral arguments (and in both cases an administrative stay) bsky.app/profile/josh...

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2h

#BREAKING The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals PARTIALLY grants the stay sought by the Trump Administration.

The stay is GRANTED as to federalization of the National Guard.

But it is DENIED as to deployment.

So deployment still BLOCKED, but troops "do not need to return to their home states."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

You know there are about a dozen despicable trash people in DHS and ICE and the administration working to find out who this guy is so they can go after him.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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S. Elsworth 🇺🇲🏛️🗽⚖️🎵🎥🌻🐝🌱 @selsworth4.bsky.social · 15m

I dunno. When mediocrity continues to rise in an organization, I always suspect multiple blowjobs are involved.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Nicole Quinn @thegoldstonegirl.bsky.social · 8h

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Cora (งಠ_ಠ)ง @corabora5.bsky.social · 20m

www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

Supreme Court likely to strike down Colorado's conversion therapy ban

A lesson in how defining the case often resolves the case.

www.lawdork.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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S. Elsworth 🇺🇲🏛️🗽⚖️🎵🎥🌻🐝🌱 @selsworth4.bsky.social · 21m

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 23h

Karma is a bitch

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S. Elsworth 🇺🇲🏛️🗽⚖️🎵🎥🌻🐝🌱 @selsworth4.bsky.social · 23m

Recall this Seinfeld character on the left, the Soup Nazi, who told George and Elaine, "No soup for you!"

The Nazi on the right says the same thing, except he says it to starving children.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 2h

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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S. Elsworth 🇺🇲🏛️🗽⚖️🎵🎥🌻🐝🌱 @selsworth4.bsky.social · 25m

Recall this Seinfeld character on the left, the Soup Nazi, who told George and Elaine, "No soup for you!"

The Nazi on the right says the same thing, except he says it to starving children.

Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 1d

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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 1d

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

TSA workers told Forbes the agency’s increasingly partisan rhetoric makes them feel like they are being “used as props.”

TSA Warns Staff ‘Illegitimate’ Absences During Shutdown ‘Will Not Be Tolerated’ In Partisan Email

TSA workers told Forbes the agency’s increasingly partisan rhetoric makes them feel like they are being “used as props.”

www.forbes.com

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 38m

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump said Saturday that he was directing Defense Department officials to pay members of the military next week, despite the ongoing federal government shutdown.

Trump authorizes troop pay amid government shutdown

The president said he would direct Defense Department officials to pay military members on Oct. 15.

www.nbcnews.com

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Catherine Subsisting in revolting times...Unbelievable @glasscatty.bsky.social · 38m

First the plan/reason
Then the implementation and supporting propaganda.
Encouraging a maggot #RittenhouseEvent please stay safe peeps.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Poor old Trump. No Nobel Prize. Some days he solved 6 wars, other days it was 9 wars, today its 7 wars. And like magic he can end wars between countries that aren’t at war, or that don’t exist, or that are still at war. All without leaving the golf course or the gold plated WH rooms.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 16h

No, Speaker Johnson: The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a “hate America” rally. Quite the contrary. It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country.

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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 1h

She was an absolutely wonderful actress- and a rare and fascinating person. Thoughts with her children and sisters. Rest in peace Diane.

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you, Diane Keaton, for showing us a way.

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More Movies @moremovies.co.uk · 2h

RIP wonderful Diane Keaton 🤍🎬
#filmsky #moviesky #cinema

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 1d

why are Hakeem Jeffries tweets and press conferences so ass when he's doing stuff like this in real life?

"you're here chasing clout" is that even the same man? more of this please

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

We've all heard that there is no free lunch.

Well, guess what?

There is no free 747 either.

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