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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

Thinking about what we loss going from the Obama years to this makes me sad. We're literally living the modern day version of redemption.

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Winifred Tylenol Spice Burton @authorwinifred.blacksky.app · 7h

Yes some of y'all are mad whiteness is no longer enough to protect you. The denial and exceptionalism that erases the embrace of anti-Black racial terror that got us here in the first place.

Gotta block and treat you like the quicksand you are and stay focused on where the REAL solidarity is.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 7h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, ofc. That's what he was going for. 🙃

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 6h

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced later this morning, a day after a Gaza deal likely reached too late for US President Donald Trump to have any chance to win the award.

Nobel Peace Prize set to be announced

The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced later this morning, a day after a Gaza deal likely reached too late for US President Donald Trump to have any chance to win the award.

www.rte.ie

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22h

I strongly suspect that as the legal case is adjudicated and becomes clearer, this number will only grow: www.timesofisrael.com/poll-nearly-...

Poll: Nearly four in 10 US Jews say Israel has committed genocide in Gaza

WaPo survey also finds 68% blame Hamas more for civilian deaths; 76% say Israel's existence is vital for Jewish future; 31% feel unsafe in US; two-thirds have negative view of Netanyahu

www.timesofisrael.com

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 6h

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Sakher and Reem 🍉🇵🇸 @sakher-gaza.bsky.social · 6h

They say the war is over... but the pain inside me hasn’t ended.
The bombs may have stopped falling, but the struggle is far from over.
I'm Sakher — a young man who lost everything in this war.
My home… gone. My memories, my work, my future all destroyed
More talk in the comments

gofund.me/f116bf44

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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 6h

Part of what to take from this is that solar power is The Future. Whoever has their hand up Trump's ass is only further isolating the US from the rest of the world. It's shameful and devastating and hurts so so many people, but they're guaranteeing the world will leave them behind.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 12h

tbh I think Microsoft is going to blink right before October 14, and if they don’t… well, that’s a very, very bad decision on their part.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 7h

I was literally just about to type lol Staten Island

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 7h

Thank you

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John Gorman @jpgorman.bsky.social · 8h

Coming to terms with it being so many of my own people that did it has been a real mindfuck, too, though an important one. Gotta know who's responsible, and never let them off the hook again the way I can now see I did on the road to getting here.

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

Thinking about what we loss going from the Obama years to this makes me sad. We're literally living the modern day version of redemption.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

It looks like Khanna has addressed this on Twitter. But even if he stands by what he said, he still shared a video clip with Ian fucking Carroll.

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This was a documentary made by Tommy G who interviewed me. I did not speak to or meet lan Carrol. I stand by my words and should be judged by them.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Ian Carroll is a bad dude. He appears on Alex Jones and regularly dabbles in anti-semitic conspiracy theories about 9/11 and the holocaust.

If Ro Khanna is not only sharing his videos but sitting down to talk with him or his allies, something is fundamentally broken within the Democratic Party.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

Um holy shit. Did Ro Khanna really sit down for an interview with far-right influencer Ian Carroll and share a video of it?

This is really fucking bad. What the fuck is going on?

Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 14h

I don't take a dime from any PAC or lobbyist, including AIPAC.

I am proud to be one of the handful of Democrats standing up against Big Money.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 8h

Thinking about what we loss going from the Obama years to this makes me sad. We're literally living the modern day version of redemption.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 9h

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 17h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 9h

Here’s the thing: “give me the Nobel Peace Prize, or else” is not a talk that reflects the commitment to peace typically associated with winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.

D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 9h

One of the more bizarre stories I've ever read in the NYT. I don't remotely understand what its thesis is.

And it has a world-historic "to be sure..." graf in the 26th paragraph.

NYT headline

Trump Has His Eyes on a Nobel Peace Prize.
Will He Get It?
President Trump has coveted the prize for years. The winner will be unveiled 48 hours after President Trump announced a breakthrough in the Israel-Hamas war.

Ms. Graeger also noted that some of Mr. Trump's foreign policy aims run counter to the prize's criteria - such as peaceful disarmament and international cooperation - given the U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear program, its withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and its cuts to international humanitarian aid programs like U.S.A.I.D. She added that Mr. Trump's domestic policy agenda points to an
"infringement of the basic democratic rights."

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 11h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Reagan Gomez @reagangomez.bsky.social · 10h

My Congress person just called me (a constituent) to join a live call with reps from Covered California Health, to explain why our insurance is about to go up and why. They’re taking questions. This is very good. Lots of information.

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danhowley.bsky.social @danhowley.bsky.social · 10h

This enrages me. They don't have any claim of going after the worst of the worst. They've hired the worst of the worst. Targeting parents and grandparents picking up their children from school.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10h

It's hard for me to believe that this album is almost 6 years old! I still remember laying in bed and listening to this after everyone got sent home because of Covid.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 11h

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Lubna 🍉 @lu--02.bsky.social · 16h

Every day, my children and I wake up among the ruins of what was once our home. The war isn’t over for us ,we lost everything: our house, our jobs, our safety.
Hunger and fear follow us even through ceasefires. Your support can give us a chance to survive and start again💔🫂
tinyurl.com/HelpRamiFamily

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech.

We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 12h

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12h

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

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