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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

He speaks like a poet.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 10h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

Trump just installed Michael Ellis as CIA general counsel, possibly to green light legally dubious CIA ops to do this as an end run around congress.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 8h

Kelly: I really worry about those aviators, drone operators, special forces guys that are in the Caribbean right now striking these boats and whether or not this is legal..

There’s no authorization for the use of military force. The Congress has not given that to the president. He hasn’t asked.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 8h

12 October 1940 | Dutch Jew, David Costima, was born in Amsterdam.

In October 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork. He was murdered in a gas chamber with his elder brother Isaäc.
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The first two gas chambers created near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Photo of two boys. Elder is sitting and wearing a dark suit. His baby brother in white clothes is sitting in front of him.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 9h

Ah yes tell me again about that brown-skinned refugee you worship, Christian nationalists

skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 1d

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 15h

"The World of the Dark Crystal" documentary (1983, 1 hour) is available for free on Youtube.
>> www.catsuka.com/breves/2025-...

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📷 Black and White and sometimes Color 📷 @thismaxpro.bsky.social · 18h

Just seen it that way! #7/1
Who also sees a leopard head? Thank you😉 @zeroswolf.bsky.social

#Photography #Nature #Flowers

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Jim Ferguson 🫘 @jimferguson.bsky.social · 7h

That pot looks delicious.

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Endless @extraunknown.bsky.social · 12h

Shadows and light

Sun streaks from clouds just before the setting

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Jim Ferguson 🫘 @jimferguson.bsky.social · 8h

Do you know if chicken of the woods that grow on conifers taste different from those that grow on hardwoods? I'm guessing they don't, but I the only ones I've seen and eaten are on our hardwoods - oaks and hickories.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 1d

This take is actually anti-immigrant, though. Let’s not do that.

“Bad Bunny is more American than the First Lady and Elon Musk.”

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 14h

12 October 1906 | Czech Jewish woman, Helena Hoenigová, was born in Prague.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. Registered in the camp. She did not survive.
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Women at Auschwitz

Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/2022_kobiety_en/

Vintage black and white portrait of a woman, featuring a smiling individual in a light-colored shirt and a polka dot tie.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 11h

The reason Mike Johnson is able to keep the House closed and not pass bills to pay the military or fund the government is because Trump is going to circumvent congress and illegally steal that money from other government programs. All to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 11h

12 October 1921 | A Pole, Maksymilian Wolański, was born in Radom. A train conductor.

In #Auschwitz from 25 February 1941.
No. 10490
He perished in the camp on 25 July 1941.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 11h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 11h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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F/f Photography @ffaelan.bsky.social · 1d

“All Fungi are edible.
Some fungi are only edible once.”
~Terry Pratchett

Really, I'm a Fungi. 🤣

#BNWmacro #Fungi #Mushroom
#art #Photography #Photographer #ArtChallenge #EastCoastKin #SmArtist #PhotographersOfBlueSky #PhotographersUnited

An infrared black and white of a mushroom. It grows upwards like a cup to catch rainfall.

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Witchspace @witchspace.bsky.social · 1d

By elfin fingers deftly strung
Along each gleaming silver thread.
The hairy spider-witch has fled,
And crouches in a huddled heap,
Beneath a daisy, half asleep.
-- Enid Blyton

As with the poem alas, the one thing its lacking ... the #spider

#Photography #Spooktober #EastCoastKin #smArtist

Color photograph of a spiders web in the early morning, each drop of dew on the strands, a glistening ball, against a blurred fall foliage backdrop. the bottom right quarter of the web is missing, and consists of just a sole strand

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Vox 🇺🇸 @voxrox.bsky.social · 1d

#StatuesOnSaturday
#SaturdayStatues
#Philly #Statues #Pennsylvania
This "Freedom" Sculture by Zenos Frudakis is #bronze & symbolically captures the act of breaking free. The series of humans emerge from a wall, progressing from stillness to full motion.👍🌊
#smArtist #ArtYear

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Kilian Schönberger @kilianschoenberger.bsky.social · Aug 31

Rainbow Reflection
Upper Bavaria, Germany

#landscapephotography #Landschaftsfotografie #rainbow #regenbogen

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PacBirds @pacbirds.bsky.social · 14h

Although black under most lighting conditions, when the light hits them just right Brewer’s Blackbirds show a green iridescence over most of their body and a purplish head. I think it’s fit for #stunday

#birds #photography #birdphotography #birding #nature #naturephotography

Blackbird perched on a white stake with golden background in early morning light with purplish and green iridescence and bright yellow head

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Moonchylde @moonchild1117.bsky.social · 14h

A Painted Lady butterfly, perfectly camouflaged, resting amidst some wood chips. #Stunday #Photography #Nature #OnlyBeautifulThings

A Painted Lady butterfly sitting on some wood chips

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Fred Bergman Photography @fbergmanphoto.bsky.social · 14h

Morgan Library and Museum in New York City

#Stunday #AlphabetChallenge #WeekOforOpulence

#photography #photos #photoart #EastCoastKin #streetphotography #photography #city #cityscape #urban #citylife #street #streetart #canon #streetscenes #lightandshade #UrbanGaze

Two ladies sitting on a bench in the Morgan Library and museum admiring the decorative and ornate design surrounding three stories of books

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Bryon Hobbs - Photographer @bryonlhobbs.bsky.social · 14h

Desire on a Street Corner (Stella)

#stella #stellasdiner #desire #stunday #streetcorner #chicago #illinois #blackandwhite #bnw #blackandwhitephotography #bnwphotography #throwback #photographersunited #Madisonphotographer #wisconsinphotographer #IsthmusLife #PicOfTheDay #bryonlhobbsphotography

Image of a diner on a street corner in black and white with a wide angle lens.

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Ben @tarka79.bsky.social · 14h

St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, earlier this week.

#photography #EastCoastKin #stunday #cityscape #London #cathedral

The dome of St Paul’s cathedral at night, floodlit and flanked by two large trees.

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AndiF @aferguson.bsky.social · 14h

This meadow along the Healy Pass Trail in Banff is everything I could ask of a meadow. #StunDay
#photography #Canada #hiking #NationalParks

In the foreground, the meadow is covered in purple, red, and yellow flowers. In the background is more green meadow with a scattering of evergreen trees and further back a rock promontory rising along a long ridge.

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