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christine norrie @christinenorrie.bsky.social · 3h

🗳️ VOTED FOR MAMDANI! + other officials and props! waited in a cheerful line for my ballot at our beautiful voting site— st. john the divine 💫

after on amsterdam ave, met a sweet older couple and we happy hollered together. cut thru a fun childrens street fair to get a coffee. perfect nyc autumn.

selfie of my shoulder, with a sticker afixed to my lapel that reads “Manhattan VOTES EARLY”

VOTE NYC sign sign outside the doors of Synod Hall at St. John the Divine.

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Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 16h

If a business throws food away rather than giving it to their employees or people in need, they should pay a massive fine.

I mean more than the profit from the food if they sold it. We should ruin any business vile enough to throw away surplus and let people go hungry.

Sable, Sapphic Wet Nightmare 🏳️‍⚧️ @ghostlysable.bsky.social · 16h

Nobody in the most prosperous time in human history should starve, and we should all treat anyone who suggests otherwise as a danger.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18h

If you want or need SNAP benefits, literally the only barrier should be...signing up.

"But what about fraud?" My sibling in red, white, and blue, THE PENTAGON HASN'T PASSED AN AUDIT IN YEARS AND MONEY IS FAKE. I don't care if too many people have food assistance.

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 2d

This is it. We know exactly how to fix the climate crisis. We have all the technology and we know what actions we need to take. What people are hoping for is a technology that will fix everything without us having to change anything at all, and that's a fantasy. We have to do the work.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

We must fight back.

• Get connected to the resistance:
fiftyfifty.one/groups

• Get trained on noncooperation:
nokings.org/rise

• Get bold for rapid response:
nokings.org/next

• Get involved in mutual aid:
mutualaidhub.org

• Get engaged in politics:
pol-rev.com

• Get started:
Choosedemocracy.us

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Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social · 1d

The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.

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christine norrie @christinenorrie.bsky.social · 21h

our sweet aussie shepherd, who heroically guards our chicken flock from foxes and eagles, in her wonder woman fit! complete with tiara 💫

a sweet aussie shepherd smiling in her doggie wonder woman costume for Halloween

a sweet aussie shepherd being pet while wearing a doggie wonder woman costume for Halloween

a sweet aussie shepherd wearing a doggie wonder woman costume, complete with tiara, for Halloween

a sweet aussie shepherd, kissing her human lady, while wearing a doggie wonder woman costume for Halloween

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

hi just a reminder that the primary uses of "A.i." are cheating, fraud, disinfo, and harassment.

ban it from your life as much as you can, friends.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16d

For @spitfirenews.com, I found that increasingly realistic AI-generated videos are being deployed to harass, smear, and create endless offensive content of influencers, whose likenesses are already readily available online. It’s happening to private figures, too.
spitfirenews.com/p/ai-generat...

AI-generated influencer scandals are here

Now anyone can play with the hyperrealistic likenesses of public figures.

spitfirenews.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Hey, the @handsoffnyc.bsky.social just emailed with their flyer - you could print the last two pages back to back, cut 'em in fours, and hand 'em out to adults tonight if you want!!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

I just sent this email to Matt Mercer, NC GOP Comms Director:

Hi Matt-

In a story published today by ProPublica about NC Chief Justice Paul Newby, there's a quote from an email you sent to them in response to a request for comment. It quotes you as saying “I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration and I’m sure they would be interested in this matter. I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”

What are your connections to the Trump administration? Why do you think they would be interested in this story? And what do you believe they would do about it if they became aware?

Thank you,

--
Marisa Kabas
Independent journalist
The Handbasket

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2d

Eternal shame on @schumer.senate.gov @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social and @danielsgoldman.dg4ny.co for not endorsing Mamdani ESPECIALLY in the wake of Cuomo's inexcusably racist heel turn in these final days. Eternal shame.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

Here is another absolutely spectacular Mexican WWII poster

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christine norrie @christinenorrie.bsky.social · 3d

yes; stats from criminal convictions to allegations to their public conversation state so.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3d

Will Cuomo change the look of NY because all the women will have to hide or wear anti-groping body armor?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

www.nytimes.com

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The Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change @lancetcountdown.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 JUST PUBLISHED 🚨

⚠️ The 2025 @lancetcountdown.bsky.social report reveals climate change inaction is costing lives and livelihoods, and harming the economy.

❤️‍🩹 Protecting people’s health demands all hands on deck.

Read more: www.lancetcountdown.org/2025-report/ #LancetClimate25

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 4d

Just in: Zohran Mamdani caught calling someone "bro", but our investigation has unearthed the truth. This person was not, in fact, his biological brother. Why did he lie? Tune in tonight at 10 for this and more breaking news.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d

It should be called Hurricane Exxon.

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 4d

To understand the climate connection to Hurricane Melissa, check out our real-time attribution page at @climatecentral.org: www.climatecentral.org/tropical-cyc...

"Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely."

Screenshot that says "Melissa has passed over waters made 1.4°C warmer, on average, by climate change." and "Climate change made the ocean temperatures along Melissa's path 500 to 900 times more likely." along with a map of Hurricane Melissa's path.

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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 4d

when we did the most *conservative* accounting of this (using advertising data, because of course they're also not transparent about it), the NYT alone had taken in $20 million from oil and gas companies in just THREE years. it's absolutely wild drilled.media/news/drilled...

Reuters, New York Times Top List of Fossil Fuel Industry’s Favorite Media Partners

Taking a hard look at the media industry’s relationship with the fossil fuel industry.

drilled.media

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Jews For Racial & Economic Justice Action @jfrejnyc.bsky.social · 6d

Spotted around NYC 👀 Early Voting is in full swing! Still in search of a voter guide? Check out ours: jfrej.org/ballot

Sign on wall that says “ICE OUT OF NYC” in various languages

Signs on wall that says “JEWS FOR ZOHRAN” and “ALL FLOURISHING IS MUTUAL” in various languages

Signs on wall that say “JEWS FOR ZOHRAN” in various languages and “Hindus for Zohran”

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 6d

re last repost about library letters, here's my response if you are an nyc based author/illustrator as i know many of you are & want to write in. took me like 3 mins . link here actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

Dear Councilmenbers,
I am a children's author/illustrator who lives in Brooklyn. The city's libraries have allowed me and my colleagues to connect with young readers in books, the workshops we teach and the talks we give, who might otherwise not have access to author visits or arts classes in their own schools.

My local branch of the BKPL and the other branches of the NYPL
have allowed me access to valuable research materials for my own writing and art that would have otherwise been blocked by financial barriers.
A well funded library system ensures the continuation of arts
and culture, and perhaps most importantly in this age of online misinformation, access to accurate and verifiable facts. Thank you for your time and attention.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 7d

It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7d

Y’all, Spotify’s stock price sunk by 5% in 1 day. YOU did this by spreading the word to boycott them for running ICE ads.

These billionaires only speak one language—money—so let’s keep up the pressure. Tell everyone you know to cancel their Spotify subscriptions. Send them to BoycottSpotify.com.

Spotify stock graph showing a decrease of $28 in one day (Friday 10/24), the day after Spotify’s boycott became a trending topic on Bluesky. This is a roughly 5% decrease in value.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, Chicago.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9d

You are not alone.

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