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Carolyn Barthel ❌👑

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Longtime climate activist, mom, wife, grandmom, UU, singer Avoiding climate breakdown will require cathedral thinking. We must lay the foundation while we may not know exactly how to build the ceiling. --Greta Thunberg

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Carolyn Barthel ❌👑 @carolyncbarthel.bsky.social · 1h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine that

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine that

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1h

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious.

Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.”

“That sounds terrible.”

“What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

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Carolyn Barthel ❌👑 @carolyncbarthel.bsky.social · 14h

I'm shaking my head: we're already in the Anne Frank stage.

Everyone, sign up to attend #October18 #NoKings Day:
www.nokings.org

WE'RE ALL ANNE FRANK.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23h

Is there any precedence in the history of the United States for having a foreign airbase on American soil?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 23h

Notice the subtle shade being cast on Dartmouth here. Dartmouth put out a piously smarmy statement last week about their values, which implied they were rejecting the compact... but never actually said no. All media are now reporting correctly that MIT was first. They saw what Dartmouth did.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23h

This is the way

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

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

www.nytimes.com

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The Lever @levernews.com · 19h

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.

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Dusti Wales RN @dustiwales.bsky.social · 23h

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15h

First, you can’t fire altCDC and our #altgovs so we gonna be here. Pissing you all off by sharing the tea, giving real info and supporting our government employees.

The government is only as strong as its employees.
And you’ve pissed off a lot of super smart and super skilled employees.

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Carolyn Barthel ❌👑 @carolyncbarthel.bsky.social · 13h

That certainly changes the calculus for him, doesn't it?

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h

The US military stops getting paid from next week.

White House has, for now, ruled out legislative fix for military pay

Over 1 million military paychecks could go unfulfilled on Oct. 15.

www.politico.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20h

The US military stops getting paid from next week.

White House has, for now, ruled out legislative fix for military pay

Over 1 million military paychecks could go unfulfilled on Oct. 15.

www.politico.com

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Carolyn Barthel ❌👑 @carolyncbarthel.bsky.social · 13h

Is EVERYTHING a horse race?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

now do jan 6th

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 20h

I love it.

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 18h

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Do they have a prize for blowing up boats in the Caribbean and then bragging that people who made their livelihood fishing there for generations are now afraid to go out on the water?

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 16h

There are very few stores left in Portland that aren't made of wood. FYI

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 17h

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

The Transportation Secretary’s threat is not going over well with aviation safety experts.

Air Traffic Controllers Who Call In Sick During The Shutdown Won’t Be Paid, Duffy Warns—But Will Intimidation Backfire?

The Transportation Secretary’s threat is not going over well with aviation safety experts.

www.forbes.com

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

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: