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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 3h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

Watch my supercut of things Mike Johnson doesn’t know. You can see the whole show here: www.youtube.com/live/Ams4OLn...

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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 8h

Two little devils have appeared!

Two black and white cats wearing small bat wings sit side by side, both licking their noses with their tongues out as they look at the camera.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6h

the kids are alright

NPR @npr.org · 6h

Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.

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Benedick @eleventhdoctor.bsky.social · 3h

21. Yes! If I sit in a certain chair my tuxedo drops whatever she is doing and sprints to my lap for pets, and I have been sitting there a little more frequently because of this.

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Benedick @eleventhdoctor.bsky.social · 8h

Dartmouth President Sian Leah Beilock said in a letter to students and faculty on Saturday that she did not think "a compact — with any administration — is the right approach to achieve academic excellence."

As deadline for Trump's colleges compact looms, schools signal dissent

Of the original nine schools that received the Trump administration's Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education, the majority have indicated they are not planning on signing.

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Benedick @eleventhdoctor.bsky.social · 8h

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A smiling dog runs through a field directly to camera.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23h

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

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Benedick @eleventhdoctor.bsky.social · 22h

The Ocean's movies are so cool witht the intricate planning and coordination of a face, a contortionist, munitions expert, security specialist hacker, etc and in real life they just throw a ladder up against a window in broad daylight and move quickly. Its why I'll forever be enamored by fiction.

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Benedick @eleventhdoctor.bsky.social · 22h

"Nuñez said the robbers used a basket lift mounted on a truck to reach the window and later tried to set it on fire as they fled. He described the suspects as "a very experienced team that acted extremely quickly," adding that all central police units in Paris have been mobilized to track them down"

Masked thieves steal 'priceless' jewels from the Louvre Museum

French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez called the heist "a major, highly organized operation" that lasted just seven minutes. Authorities were still drawing up the value of the stolen items.

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Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 1d

"Person impeached for insurrection sends billions to Argentina during US gov't shutdown" and "Felon convicted of fraud pardons felon convicted of fraud" and "Long-time Epstein associate posts video depicting himself as a king dumping diarrhea on Americans from a fighter jet" are factual statements

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Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social · 1d

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue
Of all the photos and videos on social media, the ones showing massive crowds, hundreds of thousands of people in NYC, Boston, LA, DC, etc. … it’s this photo of little Highlands NC that does it for me.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 2d

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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Benedick @eleventhdoctor.bsky.social · 1d

Uriah Kitchen of Delaware, who attended the protest with his son Elijah, told NPR "we made a pledge of allegiance when we were in school and this is what it's all about."

"This is why we're here, we're here to protect America," Kitchen said.

3 takeaways from the second No Kings day of nationwide protests

Organizers said some 2,600 protests were planned in the U.S. on Saturday. The protests were largely peaceful, as demonstrators united in their stated aim to safeguard the country's democratic values.

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28. Reposting this meme and answering some of its questions, jk, but I might redo this one if you share more.

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14. Winter bc knits, long pants, and layering

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20. I always have some combination of chocolate and peanut butter in my fridge (currently Tillamook chocolate peanut butter), but at a scoop shop i go for butter pecan or rum raisin or apple pie or a berry (in italy my go to gelato was frutti di bosco).

Tillamook chocolate peanut butter ice cream.

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Benedick @eleventhdoctor.bsky.social · 1d

16. JC

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