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BirdLife International @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social · 6h

Today is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay !🌏🐦

Celebrate the wonder of bird migration by birdwatching in your local area – every bird counts!🙌

You can contribute to conservation science and raise vital funds!🔎

Want to get involved? There’s still time!

Find out more👉 www.birdlife.org/getcounting/ #WMBD2025

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12h

We need something like a “Fascistpedia” to keep track of those who collaborated with the regime.

Later, they'll be scurrying to hide their cowardice and moral rot.

A permanent record will guarantee enduring shame.

Let’s give them their own museum.

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Callies Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things @calliedot.bsky.social · 22h

I do think it would be amazing if hundreds of protesters just showed up dressed like ICE. They’d be absolutely baffled, they’d have no way to tell who’s who. They’re all dressed in off-the-rack Cabelas clothes since they don’t seem to have a standard uniform so it’s easy.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 12h

RIFed:

Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.

You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)

Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

Ebola disease

WHO fact sheet on Ebola: key facts, definition, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, WHO response.

www.who.int

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 20h

So they are adding new wrinkles to the #KavanaughStops

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 16h

I love this image.

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record-guy59.bsky.social @record-guy59.bsky.social · 9h

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CNN @cnn.com · 9h

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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Barbara Appleby @barbapple.bsky.social · 21h

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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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21h

Still not going away...

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Saikat for Congress @saikatforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Something important to note here: it doesn’t matter if these cases have no legal standing. The point is to tie up the opposition in legal morass.

This is taken exactly from Erdogan’s playbook in Turkey. Read Ece Temelkuran’s How To Lose A Country.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1d

The government has executed more people in 2025 than any year in over a decade — and there are five more executions scheduled over the next week.

Just a handful of states are responsible for these executions, and they’re increasingly out of step with public opinion.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 23h

I sure hope I get reimbursed by Soros for the inflatable frog costume I bought.

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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 1d

The fact that so many US citizens have no idea Bad Bunny is also a US citizen (and don't believe he can be a US citizen) tells you that when they say "citizen," they really just mean white.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 21h

Jumping spider that looks like a wise old man

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h

Pay strict attention to this when considering forthcoming US elections.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 22h

Unable to hold territory, Russian forces are now destroying it. In Sumy region, the 119th Airborne Regiment is deliberately leveling the village of Yunakivka. Sources report that its commander personally ordered strikes on civilian infrastructure.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 22h

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

Trump administration had offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing on to an agreement to protect conservative voices and use test scores in admissions, among other things. M.I.T. is the first to say it will not sign

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Sebastiaan (Female version of it!)(They/Them) @cenobiteyogapunk.bsky.social · 22h

Well this is cute............I am going to guess looking at that boat that the folks on board were in fact NOT drug runners but fishermen..............

jflem2.bsky.social @jflem2.bsky.social · 22h

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Colombia's president says boat struck by US was carrying Colombians (BBC News)

Truth Social/@realDonaldTrumpColomb...

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 23h

📌BREAKING: MIT just politely told Trump to go fuck himself:
"... the premise of (your) the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

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Ain’t Complicit 🇺🇸 @charlene411.bsky.social · 23h

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DarthHelloKitty all over the place @darthhellokitty.bsky.social · 22h

Amazon!

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Amazon.com: JASHKE Inflatable Frog Costume for Adults - Blow up Halloween Costume : Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry

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