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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 2h

HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case that could end one of the last safeguards against racial gerrymanders, and lock in GOP control of the U.S. House for generations to come. We’ll be providing real-time court updates at the blog below👇

LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Gut the Voting Rights Act

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1h

you would think governments might have a vested interest in telling microsoft "no you can't do that" but i suspect they look at it as an opportunity to incentivize consumer spending and synthetically juice the economy

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1h

New from 404 Media: the end of Windows 10 support is an e-waste disaster in the making. 400 million computers that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 set to be cut off from receiving free security updates. Set to affect as many as 42% of all Windows computers worldwide.
www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

www.404media.co

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 9h

The nativist right keeps talking about “heritage Americans.” It's a buzzword engineered to move the goalposts on immigration even further, argues @alibreland.bsky.social.

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why the far right wants to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War.

bit.ly

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 1h

As Publius famously opined in The Federalist, "Ye minion Americans, prostrate thyself before thy king, bestow upon him emoluments, and then thy shall get thy bag maybe"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Citizen X @citizenx.bsky.social · 1h

Such two faced bullshit

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 11h

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Citizen X @citizenx.bsky.social · 10h

We officially turned Chicago into the streets of Baghdad

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

Bailing out Bessent’s billionaire friends on Wall Street from their bad investments is much more important.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 11h

The fall of Roe has made pregnancy unsafe in America…
Even if you live in a blue state.

They want to control our bodies, and if we die because of it? That’s considered an acceptable loss.

Avoid period tracker apps. Don’t discuss your cycle or pregnancy online. Discretion could save you.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 14h

This thread is…concerning.

(I get more understated the more alarmed I am.)

Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · Aug 1

In a two week period:

Trump fired 7 of the 8 members who do independent federal oversight on nuclear waste.

Peter Thiel (Palantir) is found to be backing the first privately developed uranium enrichment facility in the US.

Billionaire Peter Thiel backing first privately developed US uranium enrichment facility in Paducah

A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in fa...

www.wkms.org

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 14h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11h

Pete Hegseth hasn’t briefed Pentagon reporters in FOUR MONTHS.

The DoD’s own press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, hasn’t briefed reporters for TWO MONTHS.

The Pentagon is now, effectively, a dark site.

Meanwhile, the world’s largest military continues to assassinate dozens in international waters.

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The Real Zanetta @therealzanetta.bsky.social · 11h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Not at all surprised
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WHERE YOU.
Come for the RACISM,and STAY FOR THE PEDOPHILIA.
#SheShed

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 12h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 20h

Consumer Reports finds that some protein shakes and powders contain extremely high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 1d

Hi #PortfolioDay - I am Kim Hu
Freelance Illustrator & Concept Artist

Looking for cool new projects to work on in 2026 💫

Portfolio: kim-hu.com
✉️ [email protected]

Cover of Killtopia Comic Anthology, featuring a despairing man in a tech helmet.

The cover to Blister City
In the background in orange and pink tones sits a massive city, behind which orange mountains rise into a dusty orange sky
In the foreground 3 punks perch on the edge of a building, surrounded by litter and soda cans. The punk on the left wears a blue jacket that says die young on the back.

The text Blister City can be seen in the sky above the city.

Illustration of Clippy the Paperclip in a Mad Max style truck, blasting through the wasteland; Done for Autonocast.com

Photo of a shirt, showing a girl with a nailbat on top of a smashed robot, holding up its severed head. The text says: Destroy AI; Done for Aftermath
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#kimgakaku

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 23h

Many people might not be aware of this, but a big majority of Ohio’s public-school students already receive free breakfast and lunch at school.

via @ohiocapitaljournal.com

Analysis: Universal school meals in Ohio would pay for themselves — and then some

Many people might not be aware of this, but a big majority of Ohio’s public-school students already receive free breakfast and lunch at school. Making free meals available to all students wouldn’t…

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Dave Stieber @dstieber.bsky.social · 1d

“…the LANDBACK movement is about changing the power structures that created the possibility of our genocide & oppression in the first place. We’re fighting to return public lands to Indigenous people and undo the structures that allowed them to be taken”
inthesetimes.com/article/indi...

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, We Don’t Need Celebration. We Need Our Land Back.

We’re fighting to return public lands to Indigenous people and undo the structures that allowed them to be taken in the first place. Join us.

inthesetimes.com

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FOX8 WGHP @myfox8.com · 23h

American consumers shouldering 55% of Trump tariff costs, Goldman Sachs says

A new Goldman Sachs analysis says American consumers will shoulder 55 percent of the costs from President Donald Trump’s tariffs this year.

myfox8.com

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Liam Elward Paleoart 🇵🇸 @paleobyliam.bsky.social · Nov 24

I'm Liam Elward, paleoartist looking for work in scientific illustration & paleontology. Specializing in detailed, well-researched digital paintings of extinct & extant organisms.
portfolio: www.artstation.com/prehistoryby...
email: [email protected]
#paleoart

Digital painting showing a fiery, apocalyptic landscape somewhere in North America, several months after the Chicxulub Impact. Two partridge-like birds forage in the foreground, illuminated by the orange flow of distant wildfires. Looming above waves/piles of carcasses & logs is the charred skull of the iconic horned dinosaur Triceratops.

Reconstruction of the pycnodont fish Scalacurvichthys naishi in the style of classic scientific illustration plates.

Digital paintings of the trilobite Gabriceraurus, the gastropod Trochonema, the crinoid Iocrinus, the cystoid Pleurocystites, the nautiloid Plectoceras, the bryozoan Constellaria, & the brachiopods Hiscobeccus & Platystrophia in a poster format on a white background.

Digital painting of the huge ceratopsian dinosaur Titanoceratops ouranos foraging in the swampy jungles of what is now New Mexico, some 75 million years ago.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 1d

"Russia’s exit from the anti-torture convention is a stark declaration: the Russian state will act as it pleases and reject the oversight that might restrain its worst impulses," writes lawyer and serviceman Nestor Barchuk in his recent op-ed.

Russia has tortured Ukrainian POWs for years. Now they're even more vulnerable

On Sept. 29, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, symbolically making Russia the first country in history to aban...

kyivindependent.com

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unstuck in time @billypilgrim26.bsky.social · 1d

Soon Florida will be so ignorant and backwards teaching your daughters to read will be illegal.

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

FLORIDA now requires public schools to share space with charter schools, and “one charter operator intends to occupy space in more than 100 public schools (!)” 🤔

Privatizing public schools at breakneck speed, filling their pockets with taxpayer funds. www.fox13news.com/news/charter...

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Shannon Starks @shianomom.bsky.social · 1d

Please show up on October 18.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 1d

Just saying

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