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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

YAY ❤️! We Need More Latina
Women in Our Government, Congrats Helena Moreno.......

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20h

Pretending to the world that you are the president of peace while waging war at home is diabolical.

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I'mjustagirljm🌻 @justagirl52.bsky.social · 1d

Good Tuesday morning. It's now 5
7:15 AM and 49° outside, with a pre-dawn dark sky.

Today, my daily post features four photographs from my files of very small flowers for #Tinyflowertuesday.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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ShawnFnLucas @shawnfnlucas.bsky.social · 6h

Bolt cutters are a sub-category of pliers.

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ShawnFnLucas @shawnfnlucas.bsky.social · 6h

Pliers is the larger category for any hand tool with a set of handles meeting at a fulcrum & pivot hinge, to gain mechanical advantage at the working end, for greater grip strength or cutting.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani is going to win. The question will now be, "Can you reproduce this?" It's doubtful. He's talented. But it's possible, first of all, if you remember all politics is local, and the more local you get - the more people recognize you - the more things like age and parties cease to matter.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 5d

If you think Trump cares about peace
more than Trump cares about Trump;
wait for his reaction
when someone else wins the Nobel Prize.

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necromaunzer.bsky.social @necromaunzer.bsky.social · 1d

If you actually believe that he's always telling the truth, how do you account for the fact that he did not, as he had promised, solve the Ukraine war on day one of his presidency, to name only one example? Anyway, if you believe Trump never says untrue things, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 1d

That @JoeBiden put out this magnanimous & gracious statement AFTER all the horrible, dishonest things Trump said about Biden today, says so much about who Joe Biden is as a person. And reminds us all once again of what an utterly horrible, small, bad, & insecure person Trump is.

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ShawnFnLucas @shawnfnlucas.bsky.social · 6h

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oh-my-oh-my.bsky.social @oh-my-oh-my.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently you don't know the meaning of the words/terms "pledge" "subject to private market factors," and "no binding agreement." You don't know the answer, thus would have replied using these terms. The "investments" you referenced are NOT signed deals, precisely why you can't provide copies.

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oh-my-oh-my.bsky.social @oh-my-oh-my.bsky.social · 5d

Post a signed copy of the deals. Haven't seen the details. In the meantime, farmers projected to lose $49B this year AND next year. Argentina bailed out during gov't shutdown, but not U.S. farmers. Argentina bailed out but U.S. soldiers working with no pay. Health care premiums/food costs rising.

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necromaunzer.bsky.social @necromaunzer.bsky.social · 6d

Mhm. Gotta be either pro-fascism or willing to go all out to protect a pedophile at the top to make it in this admin. Bonus points if both.

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necromaunzer.bsky.social @necromaunzer.bsky.social · 6d

Ohhh. But now I'm confused. Why is Trump then firing the accomplished black generals but elevating the drunk major to secretary of defense? Couldn't be because that one's the one praising his every brain fart on TV.

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ShawnFnLucas @shawnfnlucas.bsky.social · 7h

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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Barack Obama has endorsed California’s Proposition 50, bold move to redistribute representation within California, countering efforts by Texas to poach congressional seats.
I stand with Obama and Gavin Newsom. How about you?

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Catherine Subsisting in revolting times...Unbelievable @glasscatty.bsky.social · 11h

Today's truth.
One amongst many.

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Flipturns 🏊‍♀️ 📷 🦋 @flipturns.bsky.social · 8h

#StephenColbert
10/15/25

youtube.com/watch?v=F13K...

The Worst Photo Of All "Time" | GOP To Blame For Airport Chaos | No Kings Protests Return

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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WHO @who.int · 7h

Between 2018–2023, antibiotic resistance increased in over 40% of the pathogen–antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual rise of 5–15%.

Resistance is highest in the WHO South-East Asian & Eastern Mediterranean Regions, where 1 in 3 reported infections were resistant 👉 bit.ly/438Ta1u

Text reads “Antibiotic resistance is rising,” with an upward arrow and a “40%” warning icon. Below, a text box says: “Between 2018 and 2023, resistance increased in over 40% of the monitored pathogen–antibiotic combinations, with an annual rise of 5–15%.”

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 1d

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
t.co/joY390u4V0

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 19h

🚨BREAKING: Arizona’s 7th District is certified — Adelita Grijalva is now U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson’s last excuse is gone. No more lies. No more delays. Swear her in NOW so she can do her job. They can delay, lie, and hide—but the Epstein files aren’t going anywhere. The cover-up is cracking.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 14h

There's a little library that straddles the US-Canadian border:
the "Haskell Free Library and Opera House".

Since 1904, it's been free to use for people in Stanstead, Quebec & Derby Line, Vermont, with just a black tape line to indicate the international border.

(📷: Don Emmert, AFP, 2017)

Black tape marks the U.S.-Canada border inside the Haskell Free Library and Opera House in 2017.
Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 14h

It’s been 21 days since Adelita Grijalva won her election, yet Mike Johnson still hasn’t sworn her in.

Why? Because she said she would be the 218th signature on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files.

Her constituents deserve a voice in Congress. Swear her in NOW.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

I run a pay-whatever-you-can law practice. I'm proud of that. However, please do not say you will "pay" me by helping me find Jesus. I do not want to be Christian, and honestly it's a little bit weird. I'd rather do your case pro bono.

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