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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 9h

Texas court blocks execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/r...

Texas court blocks execution of death row inmate Robert Roberson

Roberson was scheduled to be executed Oct. 16 after being convicted of capital murder in 2003 for the death of his two-year-old daughter Nikki.

www.texastribune.org

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 10h

“Time to do conversion therapy about it.”

(Yes, conversion therapy, which is considered torture for neurotypical queer kids, has its roots in ABA, and you’re just all sort of fine with that.)

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10h

🚨 BREAKING: A federal grand jury indicts New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) on one count of fraud. The indictment comes after Trump ordered the DOJ to go after his perceived enemies more aggressively last month.

In Latest Political Prosecution, Trump’s DOJ Indicts New York AG Letitia James

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Kath 🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁 @kathnotkathy.bsky.social · 13h

I have a mighty need.

The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 14h

And yes, we did listen to our merch survey…

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 13h

here it is! my CareFax 1.2 update, with a link to a template I made on Canva so you make your own edits, fill it in digitally, or just print copies to try it out with your people IRL.

I would love your feedback and to hear about your experiences if you try it out!

template: bit.ly/3KAAul4

carerax
In a world that profits from our exhaustion and isolation, taking care of each other is a radical act. CareFax is a body-centered friendship tool that helps us emember how to live differently-to build webs of care strong enough to hold us through grief, burnout, and transformation.
CareFax is a starting place for conversations about mutual aid, community care, nd tenderness, designed to help your people show up for you (and you for them) in ways that resist the myth of self-sufficiency.
Because we can't do this all on our own. While corporations and self-help grifters try and sell us the idea that the right thing will cure us or make us happy, what we actually need is each other. start your own carerax:
Gather your friends, family, or community members and fill out your CareFax forms-either together over tea, or on your own time. You can print them and keep them in a binder, or make a digital folder that you can update as your life shifts. You can even keep your own CareFax filled out to share with folks as your relationships grow and blossom.
Over time, your CareFax can become more than a set of forms, but a practice of collective tenderness and interdependence. miigwech, ashley fairbanks find me at ziibiing.com or as ziibing on all socials

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Haunted Rickobrine @abnormal.gay · 13h

The “we can’t stop thinking about children’s genitals” party strikes again

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17h

I interviewed @tcfdotorg.bsky.social fellow and former Obama health official Jeanne Lambrew at @motherjones.com about the issue central to the government shutdown—Affordable Care Act tax credits are expiring, which will lead to health insurance rates to skyrocket. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

www.motherjones.com

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 18h

I will laugh so hard if the judges move these hearings to Zoom.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 19h

Good morning. A few overnight developments on the National Guard deployment in Illinois, including the filing of this document.

It confirms plans to have troops at the ICE facility in Broadview — AND to send troops to Chicago's downtown federal courthouse for Friday hearings.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 1d

This lays out the situation in IL so far.

200 federalized National Guard troops in the state as of 3 p.m. on 10/8.

Two requests for protection support: 1. The ICE facility in Broadview, and 2. The Dirksen Federal Courthouse on Friday "due to two high profile cases involving DHS activities."

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 21h

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 1d

So much tear gas that people who aren't even protesting are getting sick when they leave their homes to run errands: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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Grayson (he/him) @graysongoal.bsky.social · 1d

This enforcement of passport changes is going to harm folks

More on this: www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/u-s-customs-...

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BooBiscuit 🎃👻 @harpomarxism.bsky.social · 1d

For everyone angry at Bluesky, a direct way we can help northsky is by tossing them a few bucks.

They're all working multiple jobs trying to make this happen for us.

Northsky Social Cooperative @transrights.northsky.social · Aug 8

Northsky is a Non-Profit Worker-Owned Cooperative and operates from the generosity of our donors.

Donations help keep our lights on and are greatly appreciated: northskysocial.com/products/rec...

Recurring Support

northskysocial.com

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10d

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 10d

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

"Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians not directly taking part in hostilities, even if they are believed to be smuggling drugs."

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

bsky users each day spinning up our respective flavors of neurodivergence like beyblades to find out if either of ours bumps the other into needing to be blocked nothing personal they're just not both going to stay in the same arena

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Good rundown of the current situation on Bsky (written before Rudy's update that Blacksky is going to make Link available to its users)

plus.flux.community/p/banning-co...

Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

plus.flux.community

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🪷NINEVEH🪓 @nineveh-aka-nini.bsky.social · 1d

This is why there is no choice but to fight or run. U aren’t being apprehended by people who follow rules that the People voted on n will protect us. U are being snatched—n u may live through it, u may not.

Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 2d

The ICE stories in this Reddit thread should shake every American, regardless of party, to their core. We no longer have a Constitution. This is fascism, pure and simple.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Abigail Thorn @theabigailthorn.bsky.social · 1d

Please sign up to the Philosophy Tube Patreon if you can. The show depends on crowdfunding; it goes towards paying the crew who work so hard on making it awesome 🙌

www.patreon.com/c/Philosophy...

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Sara Lang @saralang.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how you can read this and not cry.

‘They Are Hunting Us’: Child Care Workers in DC Go Underground amid ICE Crackdown - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. From her home-based day care in Washington, D.C., Alma ...

nonprofitquarterly.org

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Laura Packard @laurapackard.com · 1d

“This is a great victory for patients in Colorado, because what good are medications to patients if we can’t afford to access them?”-me

Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 2d

Colorado just became the first state to cap the price of a prescription drug. What comes next is uncertain. coloradosun.com/2025/10/07/p... #copolitics #coleg

Colorado just became the first state to cap the price of a prescription drug. What comes next is uncertain.

The Colorado Prescription Drug Affordability Review Board imposed a first-in-the-nation price cap on the drug Enbrel, starting in 2017.

coloradosun.com

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 1d

Gov. Tim Walz said he anticipates President Donald Trump will send troops to the Twin Cities as part of the president’s campaign to target Democratic-led cities under the pretext of stamping out violent crime.

via @minnesotareformer.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/walz...

Walz: I anticipate Trump will send troops to Minnesota

Gov. Tim Walz said he anticipates President Donald Trump will send troops to the Twin Cities as part of the president’s campaign to target Democratic-led cities under the pretext of stamping out viole...

www.newsfromthestates.com

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a powerful antibody, known as 04_A06, that is able to neutralize 98.5% of MORE THAN 300 different HIV strains AND permanently reduce HIV viral load to undetectable levels, making it one of the broadest-acting antibodies against HIV identified to date.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Robin Marty @robinmarty.com · 1d

Read this immediately

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2d

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
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Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

www.spiegel.de

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