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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 3h

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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two12green.bsky.social @two12green.bsky.social · 4h

Really?
Because the current administration has changed my mind about what the Russians did to the Romanovs.

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Barbara Appleby @barbapple.bsky.social · 3h

The figures in the US are that 1 in 9 people executed are innocent-people who claim & defend their innocence are more likely to receive a death penalty

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bennydiego @bennydiego.bsky.social · 4h

I’d like to know how many innocent people we’ve executed. One is too many.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7h

NEW VIDEO: The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy, the Voting Rights Act, and election law nationwide. I am fighting to protect free and fair elections and defend election integrity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iKo...

Supreme Court's Shocking New Agenda Revealed

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

www.youtube.com

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alancorpe.bsky.social @alancorpe.bsky.social · 1h

Dear Maria,

Donald sends his regrets, as he is much too busy conquering freedom right here in the United States.

P.S.: Little Marco will pick up that medal the next time he's in your neighborhood.

P.S.S.: Enclosed please find a gift card redeemable at any local McDonald's Restaurant.

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tunalapumpie.bsky.social @tunalapumpie.bsky.social · 2h

Oh-(IMO) Rudy is hopeless for sure. I’m not rooting for Cohen, but I’ll give anybody who breaks away from Trump credit for being able to do so. Especially a guy who knows where the bodies are buried.

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alancorpe.bsky.social @alancorpe.bsky.social · 2h

Rudy doesn't seem to have come away with the same level of rehabilitation; but then, he hasn't done "time", per se... whereas Cohen seems to've really had an "epiphany", it seems to me Rudy is stuck in enjoying his criminality, still...
Cohen's salvation is likely due to family, as I see it.

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alancorpe.bsky.social @alancorpe.bsky.social · 2h

I question how much "hoping" Giuliani is doing. It appears he remains largely a Trumper / election denier; still concealing what assets he can (from court) & on...

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alancorpe.bsky.social @alancorpe.bsky.social · 3h

aha... thanks; makes sense.

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stilljackrabbit.bsky.social @stilljackrabbit.bsky.social · 8h

America needs a Machado in this moment.

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Kaybee🐎💙 @kaybeeraut.bsky.social · 7h

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Sister Jean was a role model in Illinois — inspiring us to embrace our neighbors.

As a lover of life, she taught us to channel positivity to keep us hopeful in times of need and kept that attitude all the way to a life well-lived at 106 years old.

May her memory be a blessing.

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vagabondpainter.bsky.social @vagabondpainter.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog - the hero we didn't know we needed

A small, simple watercolour of a stylised frog with a blue kerchief around its neck

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ememitch.bsky.social @ememitch.bsky.social · 10h

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 9h

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.