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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5h

Just bone chilling. And when the imprisonment of critics is combined with his offer to enrich and immunize his loyalists, this is how democracies die fast.

But it's still our choice. Don't let him silence you.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 7h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

organizingmythoughts.org

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JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · 8h

Happy to do my part by giving up the internet 😀. As a genXer, I feel like I spend half my life adopting technologies that we then decide not to use.

a man is using a dell computer while a woman looks on

Alt: Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec throws a desktop computer into a dumpster

media.tenor.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15h

No Kings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 1d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · 1d

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JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · 1d

My dad was a high school teacher, and I remember every couple of years as I was growing up, the local Republican party in my NY town would organize busloads of elderly people to vote against money for school programs.

Let's support our young people.

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JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · 1d

I also found the vocational courses that I took in junior high and HS very helpful. It is because of those classes that I learned how to type, sew, cook, and handle tools.

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JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · 1d

Rest assured, UM has a college writing requirement. I taught college writing when I was a graduate student at UM earning my doctorate in English literature and language.

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

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver.

Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park.

Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

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

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · 1d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Should elected officials be imprisoned for speaking out against an invasion of their cities? Hard to say. Very technical question. Really one for the lawyers to sort out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 1d

a fortunate quirk is that doing food and medical support for impoverished children, foreign and domestic, *also* is about the biggest bang it is possible to get for our buck.

so you can analyze aid on a moral basis or a realpolitik basis and you get the same answer: we should do it

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the thing. I am a lucky person and pay a fair bit in taxes. I can think of no better use for my tax dollars than feeding children, because I think all people are equally deserving of basic humanity.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

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JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · 1d

That dog has the patience of Job 🤣

JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · 1d

Do you have pictures of the cookies?

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JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · 1d

For a meeting that starts at 5:30 p.m. and continues until past 10:00 p.m.

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JeanEEK LeverWITCH @jeanniel.bsky.social · 1d

Not enough public transit

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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