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NPR @npr.org · 53m

EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on

Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

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🌈 MAZZ @tornfeathers.bsky.social · 16d

i saw this and i’m not gonna lie i needed to see this.

i hope it helps others not feel guilty that we can’t do more

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daryl "shut down, ass up'" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 1h

ok wait let whoever drew this cook

Raven Paine @ravenpaine.bsky.social · 2h

my friend just shared this with me

Dr Eggman Robotnic drawn in two images, Designed with Gamers in mind: Caked up Robotnic, Designed with activists in mind: no ass Robotnic looks sad

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1h

EDITOR'S NOTE: "I teach my children that their lives have purpose. That they come from ancestors who made something out of nothing," Torsheta Jackson writes.

Editor’s Note | What Bees Can Teach Us About Community

Torsheta Jackson writes about how bees are wired for community and about her own role in her own “hive.”

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 4h

I think, in the long term, historians will view the executive branch seizing unilateral control of the power of the purse as the the inevitable result of decades of legislative dysfunction.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

Trump says he’s ordered Hegseth to pay the troops during the government shutdown.

“We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS.”

Trump: Chuck Schumer recently said, "Every day gets better" during their Radical Left Shutdown. I DISAGREE! If nothing is done, because of
"Leader" Chuck Schumer and the Democrats, our Brave Troops will miss the paychecks they are rightfully due on October 15th. That is why I am using my authority, as Commander in Chief, to direct our Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to use all available funds to get our Troops PAID on October 15th. We have identified funds to do this, and Secretary Hegseth will use them to PAY OUR TROOPS. I will not allow the Democrats to hold our Military, and the entire Security of our Nation, HOSTAGE, with their dangerous Government Shutdown. The Radical Left Democrats should OPEN THE GOVERNMENT, and then we can work together to address Healthcare, and many other things that they want to destroy. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 21h

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Jeremy Youde @jeremyyoude.bsky.social · 1h

I love my city.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 9h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 13h

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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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1h

Wow.

Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 2h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 20h

If this reminds you of an extremely famous book you might have read in high school… yes.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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BixByte @bixbyte.bsky.social · 1d

It's been a week with no interest and I'm getting desperate, so I lowered the prices.

Shop: ko-fi.com/bixbyte/shop

#Furry #Fursuit #Furries #Fursona #Fursuiting #FursuitSale #FursuitForSale #Fursuit4Sale #FursuitMaker #FurryFandom #FurryArt #Halloween #SpiritHalloween #Premade #Costume #Fox

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Gordon🔞🏳️‍⚧️🌸 @notamamiboye.bsky.social · 10d

"A call, a disconnect, a transfer, a hang up"

Inspiration in replies #spamton #deltarune

Two variations of Spamton stand back to back. One is dressed in a red suit jacket with a yellow tie, holding a phone with a stretched out cord that connects to a phone being held up by Tenna's hand. Tenna's phone has two spotlights shining down on Spamton. On the reverse, Spamton is in his puppet form and wearing a dark jacket with a white turtleneck sweater. He is gripping a phone upside down as the bright green cord is wrapped around his neck, the cord is connected to a phone being held by Gaster that has two cones resembling the dark fountain shooting out of it. The background is two tone, one side red with bluish purple polka dots and the other blue with black streaks.

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janet @unusualdolls.bsky.social · Nov 28

gay ass toon clown dog

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Robbyn @mitsukirobbyn.bsky.social · 6h

I'm convinced this is how Zeb walks

#tinderkell

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20h

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Oakland Abolition & Solidarity @oaklandabosol.bsky.social · 1h

Pic of someone 8n a full Boba Fett costume, standing with a platic weapon raised vertically in one hand, a 'wanted' poster of Netanyahu in the other.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 8h

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 10h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 8h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 7h

You need to understand: this administration is not merely destroying access to treatments, but the possibility that they might exist at all.

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Allison Pregler 📼🎃🇨🇦 @allisonpregler.bsky.social · 1d

Craig and April start a romance, but Dr. Shark has returned to put a stop to it. The Baywatching on No Way Out is now public, please share!
youtu.be/98Nq34ktWCU

My thumbnail for Baywatching: No Way Out. Craig and April smile at each other. Dr. Shark (a shark in a doctor's coat) sits sinisterly between them.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Zephyri Wolf @zephyriwolf.bsky.social · 7h

Day 2 ACFI! Give it up for day 2!!!!
#furry #furryart

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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bunny dog 𓍊𓋼 - MFF @chibbutts.bsky.social · 18d

bad mental day.
i'm tried.

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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 9h

As I argue in #PlatypusMatters, Australia has the world's best mammals, but is sadly the worst place on Earth to be a mammal, with the planet's worst #extinction rate.
The Christmas Island shrew is now the latest species to be officially declared extinct.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And then there were none: Australia’s only shrew declared extinct

The tally of Australian mammals extinct since 1788 is now 39 species – far more than for any other country

www.theguardian.com

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