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Amy M @englishteacher75.bsky.social · 3h

Holy shit. Just. Barf.

Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 8h

Napoleon Donaparte wants his Arc de Trumphe…

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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 11h

The highest concentration of people who have lied to Congress is in the White House and the Supreme Court.
The DOJ can start there and work its way down to themselves.

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🦋 Phenomenally Autistic 🦋| Ayanna Sanaa Davis @ayannasanaa.bsky.social · 4h

“High-functioning” means people ignore your struggles.
“Low-functioning” means people ignore your strengths.
Stop boxing us in.
Start listening.
Labels don’t tell the whole story, labels harm

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Resistance Rangers @resistancerangers.bsky.social · 4h

🫠It’s day 11 of the government shutdown, and there have been reports of human impacts & resource damage across parks. You love the parks! We get it, we really do - but the best way to support parks is to leave them alone right now.

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jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous @jazzrat2000.bsky.social · 4h

Kidnapping

Maggie McNeill @maggiemcneill.bsky.social · 5h

Reporters: stop using the deferential term "detaining" when talking about ICE goons' abduction of innocent people from US streets. You proper term would indeed by "abduction", but if you want to pretend neutrality you could use "capture", which at least says nothing about the captors' motives.

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P Pekka @prepekka98.bsky.social · 12h

The #glow of sunrise over the farm. (Panoramic photo merge)

#BlueskyArtShow #Sunrise #FarmLife #PanoPhotos #Panoramic #MobilePhotography #Photography 📷

Soft orange, pink, and purple clouds at sunrise over a farm. The rising sun creates a subtle glow on haystacks in a field. Silhouette of tree in foreground.

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 4h

How long before they call him a terrorist?!

NPR @npr.org · 10h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Ambassador Luis G. Moreno (ret) @ambassadormoreno.bsky.social · 7h

For pipsqueak Mike Johnson to basically say that protesting this administration is the equivalent of being a terrorist is obscene and terrifying. And for those of us (myself and many friends and colleagues) who personally experienced real terrorism-highly insulting.

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Minka @minkab.bsky.social · 4h

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Judge Shuts Down Trump's Chicago Troop Deployment And Questions Administration's Grasp on Reality (Common Dreams)

A federal judge on Friday night released her full opinion justifying an earlier decision to block President Donald Trumpfrom deploying Texas National Guard t...

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 5h

The museums are being shutdown.
Are we great yet?
Everyone’s being fired.
Are we great yet?
Food is rotting in our fields.
Are we great yet?
The market’s crashing greatly.
Diseases are now running rampant.
At what point aren’t we great?
Our military’s in line at food banks.
So super great.

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Susan Cushing @sdcushing.bsky.social · 11h

Hello friends & happy BlueSkyArtShow Saturday, with the theme Glow! How are you?🙋‍♂️

It’s about 6:30am 🕡 EDT here & ☁️, so I’m making our rich & aromatic #BlueBrew coffee for the community. Who’d like a cup?☕️

In any case, please do stop by & say hello!👋

We’ll close at 10:30am 🕥 EDT😊

#EastCoastKin

a cup of coffee is being poured into a bowl on a table .

Alt: Coffee is being poured continuously into a bottomless cup.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

[bitterly] No one’s ever given ME bubble enrichment

ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 2d

At the Saint Louis Zoo, one-year-old rockhopper penguin Bumi had a blast with bubble enrichment! Keepers set up a bubble machine for the indoor habitat at Penguin & Puffin Coast for a fun bubble party!! 🫧🥳🫧 #WildlifeWednesday

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Amy M @englishteacher75.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know, those dancing inflatable suits just look so menacing. Not sure Portlanders feel safe. 🤣

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greenmamalama.bsky.social @greenmamalama.bsky.social · 1d

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Literally destroying
USA Democracy

Republicans reject effort to curb Trump’s military strikes in international waters

GOP senators balked at the chance to limit the deadly military strikes the president has approved against civilian boats in the Caribbean.

www.msnbc.com

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

The evidence is overwhelming: outrageous costs and prolonged indebtedness for students; poor outcomes, with too many students left unable to find meaningful work after graduating; some talented domestic students and scholars have been crowded out of enrollment and employment opportunities by international students; and a high degree of uniformity of thought among faculty members and administrators, which can result in a hostile environment for students with different ideas.

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

Makes sense because Musk has no idea what it takes to produce anything, and Weiss doesn't understand what it takes to produce journalism.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

Dear NYT: When an anti-education fuckwit billionaire submits an op-ed on why we should dismantle higher education as we know it, you aren't obligated to print their nonsense.

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Amy M @englishteacher75.bsky.social · 1d

Hating Trump = Loving America

Don’t get it twisted Mike. History will show you for the schill you are and you don’t need to dig your grave any deeper. True patriots will be at #NoKings on Oct 18 ACROSS THE NATION not just in DC. You have no clue what’s eventually going to catch up to you.

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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 1d

The inconsistency on back pay is insane. GEFTA clearly requires back pay. But Congress will need to explicitly provide back pay to all furloughed employees because the administration is doing everything in its power not to comply with existing personnel law.

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IRS backtracks on back pay guarantee for furloughed employees

An IRS employee told Federal News Network that earlier guidance emailed to employees on Wednesday was automatically deleted from their inboxes by Thursday.

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Amy M @englishteacher75.bsky.social · 1d

No. The United States does not help authoritarian states with their military. This is so insane.

AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 1d

1. Holy shit this is insane.

2. Whats the grift?

3. Does Congress approve of such a move?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

Amy M @englishteacher75.bsky.social · 1d

I call complete and utter bullshit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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Miss Chanandler Bong @debbeec.bsky.social · 1d

24 hours outside Portland ICE.

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24 hours outside ICE: What is really going on in Portland

Starting Thursday, Oct. 9 at midnight, we will begin a 24-hour livestream outside of the Portland ICE Facility. Our aim is to show the public everything we see.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Earlier this year, the DHS handed a massive aviation contract to a relatively new company.

The “rushed” deal worth up to $915 million was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival’s lawsuit alleges.

Massive DHS "self-deportation" contract challenged as secretive and "unlawful"

The “rushed” deal worth up to $915 million was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

www.motherjones.com

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Do you carry documents that prove your citizenship everywhere you go? Cause I sure the fuck don't, and to do it would need to carry birth certificate, previous marriage certificate, and name change order to prove the man on my ID is the baby girl on my birth certificate.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 2d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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