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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 37m

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 6h

That a politician would be standing up for trans people in this moment is deeply important and meaningful.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 8h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 23h

It's been here 17 years before your feets. 😜

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

It's just so weird because it's never done this before. Before you guys came I thought it was just a fluke, since I'd abandoned the bathroom for so long. But if it happened again so fast... 🤷‍♀️

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno. I cleaned it again and Aria is here tonight so I'm going to have her do the observation and let me know what she thinks too.

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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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Great time to be an actual criminal of any kind because federal agents are busy hog tying children and grandmas bsky.app/profile/wash...

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3d

Breaking news: Nearly a quarter of FBI agents across the country are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement.

The large number of reassignments reflect a vast reshaping of the agency and could put other priorities at risk.

A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data

Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

Not this time. 😜

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 1d

Oh!

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 2d

STOP DOOMSCROLLING

it's time for the ✨️cronch report✨️ with Binky.

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 2d

Trump does real estate fraud himself, so he thinks everyone is doing it.

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful quiche isn't even for dinner. Husband wanted a roast, but I've got this for breakfast tomorrow.

Quiche seen from above, spinach and cherry tomatoes visible.

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 2d

I washed this little-used bathtub thoroughly, because I'd found it much like this but worse.

After 2 weeks normal use it looked like this again. Anyone have any idea why? There's a constant drip from the faucet but it doesn't spatter that far and it's never been like this before.

White bathtub floor with spots of black mildew.

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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 2d

Bonus daughter's fall break happens while we're out of town.

So she put in her request for leftovers she hoped to find in the fridge. 🤣

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

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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Leah Petersen @leahpetersen.bsky.social · 3d

Being old today. Scheduled a mammogram and a colonoscopy.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 3d

you don't get to count on votes from people you are letting get exterminated. if you let a fox kill the chickens, should you still expect eggs in the morning?

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Andi Newton (she/her) @andimn.bsky.social · 3d

Verity showing how #WeirdWednesday is done

#CatsOfBluesky #Cats

A black cat in a window pod resting on the back of a couch. She's laying backwards out of the middle of the pod, upside down, with her front legs stretched out wide.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 3d

mike johnson and his son have an app on their phone that alerts the other one if one of them has a moment of weakness and shows kindness to the least of these

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Matt @tesel8s.bsky.social · 3d

www.reddit.com/r/GenX/s/Rz7...

BehavioralSink's comment on "For all my homies starting their path down Prostrate Lane, a little thing they don't tell you about..."

Explore this conversation and more from the GenX community

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

It's clear by now that the Democrats won't press this case as aggressively as it needs to be pressed, and the media won't do that unless they have Democrats' quotes to use as a springboard either.

They won't do this work, so it's even more important that we circulate these stories ourselves.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 3d

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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