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nme @theunknownnme.bsky.social · 39m

a woman covering her mouth with her hands and the words " i have no words " above her

ALT: a woman covering her mouth with her hands and the words " i have no words " above her

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court temporarily allowed the Trump administration to keep the National Guard under federal command in Illinois — but blocked its use for active deployment. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Appeals Court Allows Trump to Keep Control of Illinois National Guard but Bars Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 23h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway. Free Palestine and End Antisemitism. These are not remotely conflicting statements.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 1d

If you still think Mike Johnson won't be up for some fuckery in 2026, just look at how he's treating Adelita Grijalva

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin endorses Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral race

The endorsement comes as prominent New York Democrats have so far declined to endorse Mamdani.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin endorses Zohran Mamdani in NYC mayoral race

The endorsement comes as prominent New York Democrats have so far declined to endorse Mamdani.

www.nbcnews.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1h

This is what it looks like when your community stands up.

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Trae Crowder @thetraecrowder.bsky.social · 22h

Start your weekend off right by watching a hillbilly make a swirly cake

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

Imagine that

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 4h

The museums are being shutdown.
Are we great yet?
Everyone’s being fired.
Are we great yet?
Food is rotting in our fields.
Are we great yet?
The market’s crashing greatly.
Diseases are now running rampant.
At what point aren’t we great?
Our military’s in line at food banks.
So super great.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism ... you don't say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

www.nytimes.com

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1h

Remembering Diane Keaton 🤍

More on her life and legacy: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5h

Stay strong, stay beautiful, Chicago. c

Tweet from Fred Wellman: “Weird. I was told it’s a war zone.”
Below is a Time Out Chicago post showing a scenic city skyline at sunset with the text: “Chicago has been voted the Best Big City in the U.S. for the ninth consecutive year.”

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 1h

RIP Diane Keaton — the news of her death sent me looking for this excellent piece about her and her serious interest in photography by her friend Larry McMurty

www.nybooks.com/articles/200...

Diane Keaton on Photography | Larry McMurtry

1. My friendship with Diane Keaton began about twenty-eight years ago, when I found her, one morning, sitting in the flower bed outside the Madison Hotel,

www.nybooks.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h

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...

t.co

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4h

Reminder that a billionaire owns what is now this rag outlet & his only goal is to stroke Trump's ego so Trump helps him become a trillionaire.

Cancel these rag media outlets & invest in people committed to actual justice. No paywall. Paid sub is entirely optional:
www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4h

Listen—it's all connected. If you oppose $50B of our taxes to ICE to abuse people in the USA—but support $38B of our taxes to fund Israel's military occupation of Palestine as they abuse Palestinians far worse than how ICE abuses Americans—then you don't actually oppose ICE abusing people in the USA

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 4h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 4h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2h

"The Economics Prize isn't an actual Nobel Prize."

Yes, it is. It's done through the same nomination and selection process, announced alongside the other Nobel Laureates, and presented at the same awards ceremony. It is 100% a Nobel Prize.

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nme @theunknownnme.bsky.social · 5h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Boston” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Boston · No Kings

**BOSTON SAYS NO KINGS!** We’re wicked pissed. Wicked loud. Wicked united. Join us Saturday, October 18, as we take to the Parade Grounds of Boston Common! We’re standing together against the abuse...

www.mobilize.us

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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 13h

Woke up to trending Peter Thiel, who'd be a Hanna-Barbera Bond villain if he weren't so dangerously deluded, and Kid Rock, a John Wayne stool that's so dense it immediate sinks to the bottom of the bowl and cracks the enamel.

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Smörhuvud (he/surprise me) @guncelawits.bsky.social · 8h

Absolutely not the point, but the second we put a $10M ceiling on wealth Peter Thiel becomes just another bloodshot golfer with a big ugly car.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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