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Here for people who are politically like minded i.e. The Democrats as presently constituted will not save us; any and all animal photos, especially those featuring opossums ; gardening tips, old friends from Twitter, and anyone with a sense of humor.
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1h
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2h
Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors
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Spunky to my Friends @almagirl.bsky.social · 1h
That's what infuriated me. He could easily have non-factory farm raised meat any time he wants, but no he has to kill a pheasant to please his palate.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 3d
"Bondi is a patent lightweight & essentially a programmed attack dog for Trump. She is destined to be remembered as a consummate traitor to the DOJ mission,her portrait gathering dust in the basement. But her service to Trump captures the admin's great contempt..."

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A Ridiculous Attorney General
Bondi’s smug evasions revealed volumes about the Administration
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 3d
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 4h
"I’ve found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing."
– Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
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Alicia Victoria Lozano @aliciavlozano.bsky.social · 1d
Someone showed up with a cart of inflatables. The protest is now a dance party outside the PDX ICE facility. Federal police have mostly stood back but did unleash a toxin into the air @nbcnews.com
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Spunky to my Friends @almagirl.bsky.social · 4h
What more could they do to say "We do not give a flying fig about how ordinary people survive"? I don't understand how ordinary voters aren't abandoning them in droves.
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CNN @cnn.com · 9h
Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.
GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics
Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 22h
The letters demand records, communications, and internal risk assessments about transactions linked to Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their network. Trump loyal Republicans on the committee reportedly blocked prior subpoenas for the same records.
#OpDeathEaters #Epstein
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Spunky to my Friends @almagirl.bsky.social · 4h
I know people who hunt to put food on the table, and that I can understand, but that's not the case here. Killing for sport is nothing to brag about.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 4h
Bird down.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 10h
American spirit exports to #Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group

Distilled Spirits Council of the United States CEO urges 'lasting return to tariff-free trade'

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American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News
American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 4h
The guy who illegally accrued over $5 billion this year by abusing his power is prosecuting a black woman for getting a $50 a month discount on a loan.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 6h
The grand jury indictment against New York AG Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased.

James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, the indictment alleges.
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Letitia James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, indictment alleges
The grand jury indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased in Norfolk, Virgini
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h
The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity
In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 4h
Uh you think so?
And the indicting GJ never heard her testimony.

“Ms. Thompson’s testimony that she has lived in the house rent-free —Ms. James pays even for basic upkeep, — cd make it difficult for prosecutors to convince a jury that the house was meant to be used as a rental investment property.”
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4h
Anyway, one way that people who object to Trump’s reign of terror can exert their power is to stop visiting states whose governors and legislatures support and encourage him.

And visit places like Chicago and Portland and LA instead.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 17h
RIFed:

Office of the Director, Center for Chronic Disease

Am I hallucinating? Because these are continuing to get crazier and crazier.

🧠🪱: “If we don’t fund it, diabetes just won’t exist.” Ummmm that’s not how this works.
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
Programs in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4h
We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 5h
lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.
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Spunky to my Friends @almagirl.bsky.social · 5h
In 2025,the administration is choosing"to let the cancer win," leaving people like the author no alternative but to die. "No claim of controlling“waste” could possibly justify what the Trump Administration has done."Extraordinary cruelty in the name of cost cutting." www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/i...
I Want A New Drug. A Vaccine Even. And A Functioning FDA, CDC, NIH, Etc…
My cancer is back. This is disappointing but not unexpected; of the 2/3 of people who survive their first bout with ovarian cancer, 80% usually have it recur at some point. For me it was sooner tha…
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h
Trump is shocked at how easy it was to turn the US into a personalist dictatorship (we're squarely on the way but not quite there) & claims to be having a lot of fun
All these actions reflect a buoyed commander-in-chief who feels emboldened to go further after feeling as though he has faced surprisingly little resistance to his ambitious agenda in the first 9 months. He has even remarked to aides that he is shocked how easy it is all proven to be. While the war in Ukraine continues to bedevil Trump, causing him the most frustrations, he doesn't face the discontent, sniping and disagreements that characterized his first term, said David Urban, a long time ally. " This time, he's having way more fun," Urban said.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
Imagine that
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6h
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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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 18h
Hours into the GAZA Ceasefire, Israel is Bombing Lebanon

Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on the Al-Masliha area in southern Lebanon.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 21h
To all the Americans losing their jobs and farmers losing their farms, take comfort in the fact that the people in Argentina are doing great.
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 18h
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A Fan Of Charlie Kirk And Andrew Tate Killed Two Teenage Girls Last Week
He had been stalking one of them for months.
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NewJukeboxCafe 🇨🇦 📎 @newjukeboxcafe.bsky.social · 18h
‘I Am Worried About My Community,’ Says Frog Who Daily Confronts Federal Agents in Portland

“I don’t want to see anybody treated inhumanely,” says a local resident who wears the costume to show that the narrative that demonstrators are “violent terrorists” is “ridiculous.”
'I Am Worried About My Community,' Says Frog Who Daily Confronts Federal Agents in Portland | Common Dreams
In Portland, a protester known for wearing a frog costume speaks out against the Trump administration's actions. Despite being targeted by federal agents, Todd remains committed to nonviolent resistan...
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 18h
Extremely bad news if true (and unlikely this reporter would run with it if not). The MMWR has been the earliest warning bell for outbreaks since it announced the first US cases, in 1981, of what was later identified as AIDS.

This will be a grievous shock to what remains of US public health.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 19h
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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