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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 13m

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3h

#NoKings #NoKingsDay

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 3h

When Republicans are pre-butting a pro-democracy rally like No Kings and making shit up left and right to scare people, you know they're losing and in panic mode.

Pedal to the floor.

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 3h

In its recent ruling, the Hawaii Supreme Court vowed to protect the due process of Hawaii residents; the majority opinion stated that the state constitution offers more safety than the federal constitution’s “suddenly fluid protections.”

Hawaii Supreme Court Expands Rights of Defendants, and Once Again Rebukes SCOTUS

The justices ruled that Hawaii’s constitution requires police to record interrogations. And they vowed to protect due process for Hawaii residents—unlike, they said, the Roberts Court.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 7h

Ukrainian drones struck another oil refinery in Ufa, 1,300+ km from Ukraine

The Bashneft-UNPZ refinery caught fire following the Ukrainian Security Service's drone strike, with the blaze breaking out near the ELOU-AVT-6 crude oil processing unit, an SBU source told media.
📷 Supernova+, Astra

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

CARTOON OF THE DAY

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 11h

obsessed with the antifascist frogs in Portland, I hope they continue to multiply 🙏

Person in frog costume with poster saying 'frogs together strong'

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

Page One in Boston.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 7h

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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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h

153 kids are in quarantine in South Carolina.

118 kids in Minneapolis.

This is what happens when we ignore the science.

When we stop vaccinating, long eradicated diseases come back.

The kids deserve better than this. Measles can disable. It can kill. And it’s completely preventable.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 16h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

The Gilded Age may have revealed the excesses of an unchecked oligarchy, but at least it left behind centers of learning, culture, and philanthropy. Today’s roster of plutocrats seems uninterested in that. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15h

There are more of us than there are of them—and we know our right to assemble peacefully and protest. I’m counting on my fellow Americans to prove that at the No Kings protest on Oct. 18.

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Royalrash @theroyalrash.bsky.social · 15h

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When is enough enough

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Today Mike Johnson and Steve Scalise called these No Kings rallies antifa terrorism. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Top Signs from No Kings Protests

So many great ones to choose from, but here are my top pics of signs/photos from yesterday’s No Kings protests.

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 15h

A diseased population is easier to control

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15h

RIFed: National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Office of Director

OD sets tone for the rest of the center, determine priorities, review high profile science, etc

NCIRD focuses: Flu. Whooping cough. Polio. Covid. Meningitis.

Yeah, you want this center to fully function 🤯

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Roger ZenAF @rogerzenaf.bsky.social · 18h

See? It's all a fuckin' game.

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 18h

A Kentucky man with a green card was detained at a toll booth while traveling to West Virginia, his wife told a local news outlet.

ICE Detains Green Card Holder for Weeks After Going Through Toll Booth—Wife

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 19h

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

Florida's surgeon general isn't just guided by science...his beliefs are shaped by a wife who says she can speak to spirits and levitate, and an energy healer guru.

Our latest on Joseph Ladapo:

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 19h

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

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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Royalrash @theroyalrash.bsky.social · 19h

Must be all those SC
Elected officials

Leading the charge to get vaccinated

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 19h

A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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