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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

New blockbuster reporting on the secretive map drawing process in Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New Details Emerge in Federal Court About Texas’ Secretive Redistricting Map

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 8h

Sorry, is there a question here?

27 children died.

Close the goddam camps if you can’t comply with safety measures.

This isn’t the first time flash flooding in this zone has killed campers, just the most well known with the highest death toll.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/10/t...

Texas youth camps say cost of implementing new safety requirements will force them to close

During a Friday state hearing, parents of July 4 flood victims said camps should prioritize the safety even if costs are high.

www.texastribune.org

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 8h

When "all of this" is over and the centrist pundits and politicians are kissing Musk's ass again, don't let them. Don't let anyone ignore that Musk is a mass murderer.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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🎃🎃🎃 @3carrots.bsky.social · 7h

"Do you even hear yourself?" 😜 🖖🏻

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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🎃🎃🎃 @3carrots.bsky.social · 8h

Fight this evil

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

Guatemala receives first flight from US with third-country migrants reut.rs/3W08Z6Q

Guatemala receives first flight from US with third-country migrants

Guatemala's IGM migration authority said late on Friday it had received a first flight from the U.S. carrying foreign migrants returned from the United States, as well as Guatemalan citizens.

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Samantha is the spectre haunting bluesky 👻 @bolshevikmilf.bsky.social · 8h

hey why did you share a fake video and then disable replies on it? that seems like a shitty thing to do if you pretend to care about journalism.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 9h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Usdi Crittenden @lilusdi.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Doug Mack @douglasmack.bsky.social · 9h

just randomly looking around and found a place that sells these outfits in multiple sizes, if anyone's interested

www.favounicorn.com/inflatable-f...

Inflatable frog costume in kid and adult sizes, $54

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8h

it is frustrating how much space NYT gives to people with nothing worthwhile to say

just an uninteresting man with stale, despicable views talking to a lazy man with no intellectual curiosity

like wow, a white Christian nationalist? is he just like the other ones? is he wearing a suit? fascinating

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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🎃🎃🎃 @3carrots.bsky.social · 8h

And you've reduced the price 1500%!!! 😜

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Arinn Dembo @erinys.bsky.social · 9h

This is something I would urgently like to see.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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🎃🎃🎃 @3carrots.bsky.social · 8h

I had this peach body wash once that smelt like I had just bitten into a fresh peach

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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🎃🎃🎃 @3carrots.bsky.social · 8h

I'm going to spend my ICE-has-been-abolished money on community farms where people with jobs can pay for fresh local produce and people without jobs can choose to work on gardens or just receive fresh produce to make their menus fresher

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

Let's make a promise here, friends... we ARE going to abolish ICE. Not REFORM it. ABOLISH it. And we're going to put that massive budget back into funding all the things that actually HELP people.

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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 17h

Black Americans:

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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 8h

WELP.

CDC has fired their disease detectives and…

The MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) staff who according to a poster in the thread, is a KEY FRONTLINE INDICATOR of OUTBREAKS

AIDS as a new disease first showed up in this report…

Mask up and vaxx up folks

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

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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DonP @donfoolery.com · 8h

I admit, I'm curious as hell whether the dynamic of being Gestapo together changes how the White folks in ICE relate to the Black and Brown folks in ICE and if so, how...? 🤔

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

Black people - Do you have any members of your family who joined ICE? If so, what drove them to make such a horrible decision, and what is your family dynamic like?

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 9d

“Daddy…we just want to live like before”
Small words from my kids, yet they fall on my heart like a mountain.

I'm trying to provide my family with the simplest of needs.. but sometimes I feel the weight is too heavy to carry alone.💔

Your support can ease this burden.🙏

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🎃🎃🎃 @3carrots.bsky.social · 8h

These are great leads!!! 💙💚💛

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 11h

Pritzker’s Joint Command brandishing chemical weapons is an escalation. He’s ratcheting up the pressure to shut down the Broadview protest, so ICE is free to rampage in Chicago.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 13h

NEW — Both Broadview police and Illinois State Police aggressively pushed demonstrators back behind the barricades during today’s demonstration.

They didn’t deploy teargas or any other chemical agents, but some carried pepper ball launchers.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/no-t...

No troops in Broadview yet, but anti-ICE protestors say state and local police used intimidation tactics in crowd control • The TRiiBE

Several hundred demonstrators gathered in Broadview to continue calling out the federal government for its aggressive immigration enforcement and the treatment of detainees at the facility.

thetriibe.com

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🎃🎃🎃 @3carrots.bsky.social · 8h

Rich white men trying to divide us with bigotry. Don't take **that** bait

Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 9h

An extremely rough day for Edgewater in Chicago. ICE activity near schools. People kidnapped while working in yards, standing on hiring corners. So many rapid responders biking, walking, driving, whistles around necks, trying to protect their neighbors, but up against such well-funded forces.

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#FreeHer #DismantleChangeBuild @nameisparadise.bsky.social · 9h

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Aaron McCall @aaronmccall.bsky.social · 9h

I do not feel like the American public has the humility or disposition to atone for the sins this administration is committing - given that we have failed at reconstruction & desegregation.

But there are too many people “just following orders” that they know are wrong, I don’t know how we move on.

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