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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

This! Even if you can't or don't want to march, showing up is important. Come to the start of the march or hang out on the route to support those who are marching. Some locations may just be holding a rally of solidarity rather than a march. Your presence and voice are power.

Mike Fragassi @refrag.bsky.social · 1d

I would like to reiterate that everyone - even those of us who don't usually protest - should go to a No Kings March on Saturday, October 18th. Find one near you at this link. You do not have to register to participate.

www.nokings.org

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

What could possibly go wrong? 🤬

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 1d

"HELP Minority Staff asked ChatGPT to analyze job descriptions catalogued by the federal government for the entire U.S. economy and predict tasks that could be performed by AI and automation."

www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...

NEWS: Sanders Releases Report on Big Tech Oligarchs’ War Against Workers, Warns AI Could Eliminate Nearly 100 Million U.S. Jobs » Senator Bernie Sanders

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), today released a sweeping report warning that artificial inte...

www.sanders.senate.gov

Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

These are not serious people.

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

Wars will continue until he gets the peace prize

a person is laying on the ground with leaves around them .

ALT: a person is laying on the ground with leaves around them .

media.tenor.com

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

CBS is no longer a serious news org.

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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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

Too bad we can't withhold House and Senate paychecks and benefits during the shutdown. Especially when they are off on vacation instead of doing their jobs.

Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

It was a blast. Needless to say, I had no luck. Hanging out in the pub and that hotel were fun. The town is a great base for sightseeing, too.

Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

Can confirm it’s great craic! I went with my mom, and she ended up with a line of guys waiting to talk to her in hopes of an intro to me 🤣

NPR @npr.org · 1d

Most won't leave the town of Lisdoonvarna with a partner. But for a few nights each fall, they find something rarer — company, ritual and the comfort of not looking for love alone.

In the age of algorithms, one Irish town still does love the old-fashioned way

Most won't leave the town of Lisdoonvarna with a partner. But for a few nights each fall, they find something rarer — company, ritual and the comfort of not looking for love alone.

n.pr

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

❤️❤️❤️❤️

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

The resistance will be inflatable

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

Fearless and fierce!

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

Someday I will be able to afford a meal before shows again. In the meantime, I've developed a post-show chocolate milk habit. Hey, it's dairy so it's healthy!

Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

True story

The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · May 17

Men’s pants: Your waist is 30 inches, therefore you are a size 30.

Women’s pants: Your waist is bad inches, you have wide hips, a small butt, short legs, a long torso, a prehensile tail, and we don’t like your face. Therefore you are a size whatever the fuck we want, but only at this store.

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 1d

I kind of wonder what would happen if the Nobel committee told him he needed to undo all the harms he's done since taking office in order to get the prize (assuming peace actually holds in Gaza, which I'm not confident about).

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

someone should tell Trump they don't give the Peace Prize to people who blow up boats and murder those on high seas nor to those who deploy military against their own people. NEVER.

Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 2d

I think they circumcised the wrong end of RFK Jr

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 2d

No. Just...no.

Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 2d

The bros are at it again! and make no mistake, they are LITERALLY calling it "Vibe Lawyering"

Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 2d

Even his lapdogs are just making shiz up to appease the mad felon king.

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 3d

It me!*

*On the rare occasion I'm on a short enough flight to tolerate being wedged into a window seat

The Onion @theonion.com · 3d

Passenger Glued To Airplane Window Like It Fucking 1956 https://theonion.com/passenger-glued-to-airplane-window-like-it-fucking-1956-1832728158/

Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 3d

Definitely. The messaging system is clearly much older than the member page. But I guess health insurance profits aren't high enough to pay devs to hide the mess from users. Granted, it's not always easy with legacy systems, but it is def do-able.

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 3d

When MTG speaks sense, you know the Repug party has gone completely insane.

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 3d

Why on 21st century earth do I need to create a separate account to view an encrypted email response from my health insurer instead of viewing a response to the message I sent through my online account page ON said account page? Which already requires a 2FA sign in???

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Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social · 4d

with the upcoming 50th anniversary of Patti Smith's HORSES, just a reminder that you can read all about how she got there in my book WHY PATTI SMITH MATTERS, and bookshop dot org has free shipping rn: bookshop.org/a/22613/9781...

Why Patti Smith Matters

Check out Why Patti Smith Matters - <p>Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. What she found--what she fostered--was a cultural revolutio...

bookshop.org

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 4d

No. Nobody goes fishing. The fish now magically hurl themselves into processing plants to become food for humans and cats.

Ok, bears fish. But they don't have boats.

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 4d

Bailey concurs

Dilute tortie cat laying in sun on beige cat tree

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Maud Pauncefoot 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇱🐧 @maudpauncefoot.bsky.social · 4d

RIP CBS News

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."