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Kate Cunningham
@katecunning.bsky.social
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Rational liberal, gregarious introvert, retired academic librarian. “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” Saul Bellow
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d
Just incredibly, unnecessarily cruel. And I’d be shocked if there wasn’t wanton corruption going on here, too.
karlbode.com Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d
It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually
F.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d
A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 1d
Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"

I've saved her some time.
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 3d
Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women

www.huffpost.com/entry/multip...
Democrats Call Out Trump Administration Over ‘Terrifying’ New Reports
In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged DHS to mandate ICE agents to “visibly and clearly identify themselves" when making arrests.
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Matthew Cooke @matthewcooke.bsky.social · 1d
How do you stop the Nazis from coming back? We've known for 81 years.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hCL...
Why Are the Nazis back
YouTube video by Matthew Cooke
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Joseph 'zeruch' Arruda @zeruch.bsky.social · 2d
Dickerson has been a quiet giant of actual quality. His departure is a fairly damning indictment of Ellison (and it should be, as there is no way he's going to lead CBS in any kind of quality programming).
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d
Behind the scenes, John Dickerson had been negotiating his exit for weeks after deciding to resign as the network heads in a new editorial direction under David Ellison's ownership.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/john-dicke...
Dickerson’s CBS Departure
As turmoil grips CBS News, "Evening News" co-anchor John Dickerson’s emotional exit marks the first major talent departure under Bari Weiss—with more upheaval ahead for the network.
www.status.news
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Matt Ford @mcford.bsky.social · 2d
Entirely predictable. An honest man of kindness and character as never going to last there. Hope he lands somewhere great.
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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 4d
In the poverty of Trump’s American faith comes the impoverishment of our founding ideas — and the fractures ripping America apart

The destruction of the White House was visceral, sacrilegious

It profanes our secular American religion

My latest:

www.greatpower.us/p/the-sacred...
The sacred American spaces desecrated by the American president
The American faithful must find their voice if the divine American idea is to survive
www.greatpower.us
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 3d
never increase the motivation for voters to support your opponent
headline of New York Post, "Andrew Cuomo says he 'will move to Florida' if Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC mayor"
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Kris M Beal @krismbeal.bsky.social · 3d
I ran into this and fell apart. Again. We’ve been through so much. youtu.be/Mnx_YLFBI9U
Joe Biden | Decency | Campaign ad | October 14 2020
YouTube video by Raymond Tomlin
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Kate Cunningham @katecunning.bsky.social · 3d
Plus misogyny & the Electoral College & allowing monopolistic media without a Fairness Doctrine & allowing Fox to propaganda & lies without consequences.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 3d
October 26, 2025
October 26, 2025
Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 3d
And for the love of dog, if your storytelling relies on showing texts on phones, I BEG you to add a text bubble or caption because I'm fucking done pausing my TV and getting closer to read the fucking texts you're relying on for important plot points. Fucking hell.
jillybobww.bsky.social Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 3d
(clears throat)

PLEASE STOP FILMING ALL YOUR FILMS AND SHOWS IN SUCH DARKNESS THAT I HAVE TO TURN OF MY LAMP AND MY COMPUTER JUST TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.

Thank you.

(closes laptop, exits back to darkened room)
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 3d
Despicable

“Earlier this month, the Trump administration declined to draw on a contingency fund that would have continued benefits, saying the money was needed for potential emergencies such as natural disasters.”

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Food stamps: US government says it will stop paying for food aid next week - BBC News
Food stamps will not be distributed from November due to the ongoing shutdown, it said.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d
The $ math isn’t mathing, and the square footage isn’t squaring up.

I know I’m not the only one thinking Trump’s not building a ballroom but an alternate White House, lined in plenty of tacky gold to match his ego. He’s not planning on leaving.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6d
It's ever incredible to me that all it would take is for a handful of people in Congress to stop pretending this is all fine and yet, nope. Survivalist nihilism is their north star.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d
Proof that the U.S. government social media accounts are in fact white nationalist propaganda accounts, funded by our tax dollars.

You’ve got to see this…
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Johnny Mack @johnnymack3.bsky.social · 3d
If you own a building, and rent it out to lawyers, you're not a lawyer. If you rent it out to doctors, you're not a doctor. And if you rent land to farmers, you're not a farmer. IF the Democrats had working cohesive messaging team this would be repeated eleventy billion times.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 3d
CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.
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The Economist @economist.com · 3d
Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, a redistricting frenzy and whether the Supreme Court will gut the Voting Rights Act.
Map quest: gerrymandering and a race to the bottom
Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, a redistricting frenzy and whether the Supreme Court will gut the Voting Rights Act.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3d
Amen.
abigaillarson.com Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 3d
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..." "not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..." "...you're rich. If you have, whatever-" "- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d
President Trump is reportedly trucking dirt from his White House demolition to a D.C. golf course he plans to take over.

If any other president was doing this kind of thing in office, they’d be eviscerated with accusations of greed, or at least a lack of focus. trib.al/7vXIQ6Q
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d
What is a good American? trib.al/PoDUCJI

It’s simple: One who believes in the Constitution, representative government, the rule of law, and certain inalienable rights for all. That’s it. No Jesus. No God. No Christianity. The title “American” is open to all.
Mike Johnson Understands Nothing About the United States of America
The speaker led a rogues’ gallery of Republicans impugning the patriotism of the No Kings rallygoers. On Saturday, the real Americans had their say.
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