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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8h

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 1d

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 1d

Actually its more like a love the America that respects our Constitutional rights and values rally.

Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 1d

No great loss. We're all over here!

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 1d

Amen.

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 1d

I call BS. Oct 18 will be many thousands of peaceful Americans exercising their right to free speech at over 2000 locations across the country. The feds may try to instigate violence, but we will not take the bait. ⏬️

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds good to me!

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 1d

💡 Spotlight | This week, Carbon Brief examines how Fukushima helped to recover from nuclear disaster by building solar farms on contaminated farmland.

Read more here ➡️ buff.ly/rxBff7B

View of Shinchi town, Fukushima in 2011 (top) and 2016 (bottom). Credit: Newscom/Alamy Stock Photo

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 1d

Actually, past a certain age the simple draw a clock type test is required annually by Medicare.

Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 1d

Is this circumcision of the dad or the baby? Either way it's batsh*t crazy. Can't Congress (in theory) impeach RFKJr? The epitome of unfit for office.

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Prof Caroline Mala Corbin @carolinemalacorbin.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects Compact

"The premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone...America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking....Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach"

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

Dear members of the MIT community,

orgchart.mit.edu

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 1d

Telling you to lawyer up? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

zeteo.com

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 2d

You don't blow up Venezuelan & Colombian boats in international waters -- killing 21 people -- and expect a Nobel Peace Prize.

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 3d

We need more of this. A LOT more.

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Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 3d

The regime’s proposed approach to avoid “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers (because the regime is injuring, killing, and disappearing them)?

Bringing in “guest workers” through the H-2A program at even *lower* wages.

So, near-slave labour.

Joshua Failé @joshuafaile.bsky.social · 3d

The regime’s Labor Dept has stated, in no uncertain terms, that due to their own escalating violent and unconstitutional pogrom targeting immigrants (and, increasingly, US citizens), there is a “risk of supply shock-induced food shortages”, because most Americans are not interested in farm work.

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 4d

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 3d

#ClimateReality #Ice #Greenland #Antarctica

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 3d

Last month observed above average temperatures across large portions of both the #Greenland and #Antarctic Ice Sheets. Anywhere in dark red shading is more than 5°C warmer than the 1981-2010 climatological average.

Data available from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

Map of Greenland showing 2-m air temperature anomalies in September 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer than average temperatures, and blue shading is shown colder than average temperatures. Anomalies are calculated relative to 1981-2010.

Polar stereographic map of 2-m air temperature anomalies in the Antarctic for September 2025. Red shading is shown for warmer anomalies, and blue shading is shown for colder anomalies. There is a sharp gradient in temperature anomalies across the region. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline.

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 3d

Wish we could say the US was doing the same!⏬️

John Hanger @jrfhanger.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning with good news: China's solar generation skyrocketed 43% in H1 2025, compared to H1 2024!

What about wind?

Wind surged 16% (POTUS falsely told UN that China builds turbines but does not use them).

Nuclear jumped 11%.

So, coal output fell!
ember-energy.org/latest-insig... #energysky

Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 3d

This is the ONLY reason that DT is pushing EU to cut Russian LNG imports. To justify US increasing FF extraction.⏬️

UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 3d

⚡️ Turkey is moving to slash its reliance on Russian gas as US LNG imports surge.
united24media.com/latest-news/...

Turkey Prepares to Cut Russian Gas Dependence as US LNG Imports Surge

Turkey aims to cut its reliance on Russian gas, boosting local production and US LNG imports to meet over half its energy needs by 2028.

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 3d

And those specific circumstances have not occurred.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3d

The Insurrection Act gives the president power to deploy the U.S. military domestically and to federalize National Guard troops during specific circumstances. It has been used before, but not in decades.

Trump keeps threatening to use the Insurrection Act. What is it?

President Donald Trump has said repeatedly he could invoke the 1807 statute, which gives the president the power to deploy the U.S. military domestically.

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Susan Conard @sgconard.bsky.social · 3d

She didn't say no because, obviously, the answer is yes. She was trying to avoid perjury charges by stonewalling--throughout the hearing.

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 3d

Hoo boy.

I imagine the pictures and videos are probably much worse and Trump is not the only one included in this.

students-watch.bsky.social @students-watch.bsky.social · 4d

Bondi wouldn't even answer with a simple "no" that Epstein did not have photos of the Don with half-clan girls.

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