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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · 2h

I sense a lot of “vote no, hope yes” from Democrats. This shutdown has not been an enjoyable exercise.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 3h

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 3h

None of this is my fault, don’t doom in my mentions, don’t be a bitch, kick the shit out of everyone in our way until you see daylight, hope this helps

30-50 feral dolls @danielbd.bsky.social · 3h

Unfortunately today’s politics basically make it impossible to become a senator without being a bitch.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 3h

I feel more like this with every passing year.

We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.

We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · May 12

This pretty much sums up the entire ideological dispute between the two American political parties.

What they are arguing about, on almost all issues, is either methodology or magnitude. That is literally it.

The party of We Will Kill You vs the party of We Will Let You Die.

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · May 12

To be clear, Lindsey Graham, an American senator, has gone on the most popular Sunday morning current events show in the country and suggested that we drop nuclear bombs on Palestinians.

While they may differ in methodology, both parties agree that Palestinians should be eliminated.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Reporting from @ddayen.bsky.social says Schumer almost orchestrated a team of Democrats to concede to Republicans without any hard commitments. Then his caucus, including some members of a supposed working group, balked.
prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

Why Does Schumer Keep Trying to Cave? - The American Prospect

Most commentators, including me, concluded that the Tuesday election victory saved Democrats from capitulating to Republican demands to pass a simple continuing resolution to re-open the government, i...

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Michael Washington @adefwebserver.com · 1d

#TeslaTakedown

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Tesla Takedown UK @teslatakedownuk.bsky.social · 1d

And, well done to the bonfire society for their effigy of Elon that they burnt in Lewes this year.

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#TeslaTakedown

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 1d

Truly just a mechanism to double down on American household debt

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to think of a worse idea but I'm coming up short

FHFA's Bill Pulte pitches a 50-year mortgage.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.

We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

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armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 1d

Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.

He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.

By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force

A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: A civil rights organization sued the Trump administration Saturday over a new policy barring nonprofits from helping new U.S. citizens register to vote. The lawsuit calls the policy part of a “broader effort to ensure that new Americans cannot exert their democratic will on the nation.”

Lawsuit Blasts Trump’s Bid to Keep New Citizens From Registering to Vote

Read more here.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 1d

A Waukegan councilman was briefly detained by U.S. immigration agents on Friday, and he says the agents drew their guns on him while he was sitting in his car with his hands raised.

“My life flashed before my eyes,” said Ald. Juan Martinez.

Waukegan alderman says federal agents pulled guns on him: ‘There were four barrels pointed at me’

As soon as he felt he felt he was safe, Martinez said his first call was to Waukegan Mayor Sam Cunningham.

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Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

This is an incredibly petty and hateful and racist and enraging action by the Heritage Foundation and the American Battle Monuments Commission. Fuck both of them.

Gordon Darroch @gordondarroch.bsky.social · 1d

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

NRC @nrc.nl · 2d

Op Margraten zijn twee panelen over zwarte Amerikaanse bevrijders van Nederland opeens weg. ‘Past bij beleid van de regering-Trump’

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Jun 6

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked.

But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

These cases are nightmares. Many people had removal proceedings “administratively closed” for years; the case is off the docket and the person can stay indefinitely.

Now, suddenly, ICE is restarting them. And if they miss a physical letter, they might get ordered deported without their knowledge.

Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 2d

Hundreds of immigration cases in San Francisco have been closed for years, even decades, often b/c they are not an enforcement priority.

Many involve victims of crime & abuse.

This summer, Trump attorneys tried to bring them back.

missionlocal.org/2025/11/sf-i...

Hundreds of S.F. immigration cases were paused for decades. Trump tried to revive them.

Federal attorneys tried reviving some 2,000 deportation cases in San Francisco, many involving alleged victims of crime and abuse.

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

What we’ve heard after a day of reporting is that some states couldn’t complete benefit payments, and some SNAP recipients could not use their cards.

The Trump admin continues to block food stamp aid

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Millions of Americans on food stamps found themselves in limbo Saturday, after the intervention of the Supreme Court. The order froze states' efforts to provision full benefits, and in many parts of the country, there was a severe lack of info about what's next www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...

Families in Limbo After Supreme Court Order Interrupts Food Stamp Payments

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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 1d

The CA Supreme Court this week unanimously rejected a challenge to policies against misgendering in long term care centers, ending a first amendment challenge similar to the recently wrongfully decided Sixth Circuit case that overturned an Ohio school board pronoun policy.

California Supreme Court rejects free speech challenge to LGBT protections in nursing homes

A 2017 California law is meant to protect the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes, including by forbidding employees from misgendering those patients

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Federal immigration agents once again moving through Chicago's Little Village neighborhood this morning; Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino among them.

Video shared online a little after 10 am shows Bovino and another masked federal agent carrying long guns in the street near 26th and Troy.

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino in Little Village, carrying a long gun and flanked by masked federal agents, at least one other who also has a long gun.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

initially thought that this was a shadow being projected on his face. didn’t realize he was in blackface

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 1d

incredible new trump photo

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Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

Cover of Ry Cooder’s 1972 album “Into the Purple Valley.” He’s driving a Buick convertible in the rain. His then wife Susan Titelman is the passenger. Photo shot on the Warners Bros lot per Wikipedia. An excellent album for 2025!

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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 1d

Here's one from the archives of a tiny and quite fuzzy longhorn beetle (Lophopogonius crinitus) that I found in my backyard. It's the only species in its genus. I haven't seen one since, which isn't surprising given that they're virtually invisible on bark. 🐙🌿📷 #Bugsky

A macro photo looking down at a small longhorn beetle next to a shiny penny, both sitting on weathered, gray wood. The beetle's body length is only about half the diameter of the penny. The beetle is perfectly camouflaged on the wood; it has antennae longer than its body and is covered in fine, fuzzy hairs.

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Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

Generalissimo Stadium has a nice ring to it

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Bill Corcoran @billcorcoran.bsky.social · 1d

And see @meganwachspress.bsky.social thread.

My thread is necessarily brief about a much deeper story, but IMO it is more about how to prepare for and implement change than about social justice per se. Lessons to be learned!

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