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Portland Press Herald @pressherald.com · 21h

Thousands of Mainers face loss of SNAP benefits as program undergoes historic cuts

The changes will put more pressure on food pantries, which are already seeing a rise in need and warning that they won't be able to fill the gap.

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Tammi, yeah, that one. 2.1 @tammi.bsky.social · 12h

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

A huge chonk of a fluffy cat sitting on a table near an open fire. The cat is cream and grey and appears to be shaped like a barrel in a fur coat. They are scowling fiercely with their moustache and bewhiskered ears apparently flowing back into the cold wind. There's a definite vibe that this villainous cat twirls their moustache as they evict orphans into the aforementioned blizzard and think Scrooge was an easy-going lightweight. They are magnificent.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 5h

Can we just send teams of comedians out to roast ICE?

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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Dix Broussard @mamacocodrie.bsky.social · 4h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Am4BFd/

#climatejustice #alaska #fyp

TikTok video by char <3

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Dix Broussard @mamacocodrie.bsky.social · 5h

Tonight we watched The Alabama Solution.
This country is as bad as Saudi Arabia when it comes to human rights.
The documentary needs to be seen by everyone in this country. Louisiana has the highest incarceration rates. And private prisons are run like plantations. ICE = plantation overseers.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Dix Broussard @mamacocodrie.bsky.social · 5h

What a strange thing to say or admit to. Acknowledging he has harmed others?
It is never too late. He can admit his crimes.
Fire his entire administration & then resign.

I know unrealistic. Le sigh.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 9h

I was not there, but I knew folks who were. One is still with us; the others, I think, all died long ago.

Time for a new generation of committed activists.

Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 16h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 10h

Graham Platner again going super viral for making a point that the Dem base (seemingly) desperately wants to hear...but that for whatever reason few Dems currently wielding power are actually willing to say.

(The reaction in the room is also telling.) #MEpolitics

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 16h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

TEXAS senate candidate Rep. @jamestalarico.bsky.social (grandson of a Baptist preacher): “I put my hand on a Bible and swore an oath to the constitution, not the other way around.”

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Dix Broussard @mamacocodrie.bsky.social · 7h

He was a great actor & comedian by the way! He was very lovable & had a big heart. Which made his murder even more painful for all of us that knew him & grew up with him.

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Dix Broussard @mamacocodrie.bsky.social · 7h

I knew him. He was my little brother’s best friend. They grew up together in Saudi & went to high school in EU together. His murder was devastating.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 14h

Nobody wants it as a story but I have multiple NYPD sources who voted for Mamdani, are eager for his win in November, and who say their colleagues quietly feel the same.

They like that he wants NYPD to focus on crime, not quality of life enforcement.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Dix Broussard @mamacocodrie.bsky.social · 13h

The worse music ever.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 16h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

we need to abolish this shit

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19h

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14h

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

Traitor, survivor or influencer? Mexico rethinks story of conquistador translator Malinche

The woman long blamed for the fall of the Aztec empire in 1521 is finally getting a modern makeover.

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Dix Broussard @mamacocodrie.bsky.social · 14h

Just realizing that Diane Keaton was trump’s age.

a woman is sitting at a desk with the words that 's not fair

Alt: a woman is sitting at a desk with the words that 's not fair

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Dix Broussard @mamacocodrie.bsky.social · 16h

They wiped out the special education department.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

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onefinekitty.bsky.social @onefinekitty.bsky.social · 17h

At least nine people have been killed in shootings across Mississippi since Friday.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

oh this guy is delusional delusional

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 20h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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