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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 7h

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 7h

🧵:
The world’s extremely poor are also often extremely remote, with limited access to healthcare & health education. In many developing countries, the government—often with the help of the UN and, until this year, USAID—maintains health posts that bring these services to people living off the grid.

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SoMuchPanicVeryLittleDisco @justanothergourd.bsky.social · 7h

I am seriously considering the purchase of a large inflatable frog costume and wearing it to every protest until 47 is impeached and removed from office or croaks, whichever comes first.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 7h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Red Dirt Girl and Her Hound @reddirtgirlhound.bsky.social · 8h

#UglyDogs

www.akrvo.org?fbclid=IwdGR...

Alaska Rural Vet Outreach asking for donations for dog food due to flooding

I know it's a tough time for many, we give when we can.

Can Amazon food to them

Or donate through link and comment for dog food

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trickyNOtreat 🎃 @trickykat.bsky.social · 18h

real shitposters only use lower case because we are anti-capitalism

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 7h

A federal judge has ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its removal by 11:59 p.m. Tuesday.

Judge orders controversial fence around ICE facility in Broadview to be removed

A federal judge ruled that a controversial security fence constructed around the ICE detention facility in Broadview is violating the west suburb’s right to access its own land and ordered its remo…

trib.al

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 1d

19TH CENTURY ENGLISH PROVERB: may you live in interesting times
ME, IN 2025: first of all, fuck you

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Felinária @felinaria.bsky.social · 7h

Batman! 🐾🐨🦁✨

Gato cinza em cima de uma estátua de leão

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 7h

Release the Epstein Files.

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Megs @megshensley.bsky.social · 7h

As it's almost Samhain, can we summon Hamilton to go smack Don Quixote and his enablers?

Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 8h

Holy footnote, Batman!

Hamilton: What kind of stupid, self-defeating, tyrannical maniac would send the National Guard hundreds of miles from home to oppress people in other states?! Sit down, Don.

$1 “A sample of this is to be observed in the exaggerated and improbable suggestions which have taken place respecting the power of calling for the services of the militia. That of New-Hampshire is to be marched to Georgia, of Georgia to New-Hampshire, of New-York to Kentuke and of Kentuke to Lake Champlain. Nay the debts due to the French and Dutch are to be paid in Militia-men instead of Louis d’ors and ducats. At one moment there is to be a large army to lay prostrate the liberties of the people; at another moment the militia of Virginia are to be dragged from their homes five or six hundred miles to tame the republican contumacy of Massachusetts; and that of Massachusetts is to be transported an equal distance to subdue the refractory haughtiness of the aristocratic Virginians. Do the persons, who rave at this rate, imagine, that their art or their eloquence can impose any conceits or absurdities upon the people of America for infallible truths?$

If there should be an army to be made use of as the engine of despotism what need of the militia? If
there should be no army, whither would the militia, irritated by being called upon to undertake a distant
and hopeless expedition for the purpose of rivetting the chains of slavery upon a part of their countrymen
direct their course, but to the seat of the tyrants, who had meditated so foolish as well as so wicked a
project; to crush them in their imagined intrenchments of power and to make them an example of the just
vengeance of an abused and incensed people? Is this the way in which usurpers stride to dominion over a
numerous and enlightened nation? Do they begin by exciting the detestation of the very instruments of
their intended usurpations? Do they usually commence their career by wanton and disgustful acts of
power calculated to answer no end, but to draw upon themselves universal hatred and execration? Are
suppositions of this sort the sober admonitions of discerning patriots to a discerning people? Or are they
the inflammatory ravings of chagrined incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts? If we were even to
suppose the national rulers actuated by the most ungovernable ambition, it is impossible to believe that
they would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs.”
The Federalist No. 29, at 186-187 (Alexander Hamilton) (Jacob Ernest Cooke ed., 1961).

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 9h

Judge Sara Ellis' opinion in IL v. Trump is an absolute banger:

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants’
declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants’ declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a
lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne
Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609
(N.D. Ill.). In addition to demonstrating a potential lack of candor by these affiants, it also calls
into question their ability to accurately assess the facts. Similar declarations were provided by
these same individuals in Chicago Headline Club et. al. v. Noem, 25-cv-12173, Doc. 35-1, Doc.
35-9 (N.D. Ill.), a case which challenged the Constitutionality of ICE’s response to protestors at
the Broadview ICE Processing Center. In issuing its TRO against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem,
the court in that case found that the plaintiffs would likely be able to show that ICE’s actions
have violated protestors’ First Amendment right to be free from retaliation while engaged in
newsgathering, religious exercise, and protest, and Fourth Amendment rights to be free from
excessive force. Id. at Doc. 43. Although this Court was not asked to make any such finding, it
does note a troubling trend of Defendants’ declarants equating protests with riots and a lack of
appreciation for the wide spectrum that exists between citizens who are observing, questioning,

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8h

This Newsmax host compares the ordination of a PC(USA) pastor to a Universal Life Church online ordination.

PC(USA) ordination requires a three-year masters of divinity, passing an ordination exam, and a host of presbytery requirements.

The Presbyterian tradition is older than the U.S.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 13h

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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jfc why didnt yall tell me about my dry ass up there wtf @feel-the-fasc-tasy.bsky.social · 15h

i already have a copper IUD so he's not selling me on abortion on demand, i have abortion on demand at home. he's gonna have to throw in human rights or a $20 play card at incredible pizza for me. he could also bonk lil mike off to the side there with a rubber mallet so he goes back down into hell

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 10h

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Kendyl Hanks @kendylhanks.bsky.social · 8h

We have the cutest Airbnb right in town, a little oasis for Birdie

Cavalier, King Charles puppy hanging out in the backyard with a painted fence with the words on it FBG and feelin’ free

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Reading this now. It’s the opinion explaining the reason for granting a TRO (the order came out yesterday) against the National Guard deployment in Illinois. It begins with a quote from Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers against the idea.

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 10h

New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #70: memorandum opinion and order

Download PDF | View Full Case

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

Many were asking that since Judge Perry granted the TRO "in part," which part was she not granting. The answer: "The Court declines at this time to enter a Preliminary Injunction, and also to extend the scope of the TRO to include the military..."

This is the TRO blocking deployment of the NG to IL

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Reading this now. It’s the opinion explaining the reason for granting a TRO (the order came out yesterday) against the National Guard deployment in Illinois. It begins with a quote from Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers against the idea.

Big Cases Bot @bigcases.bots.law · 10h

New filing: "Illinois v. Trump (national guard deployment)"
Doc #70: memorandum opinion and order

Download PDF | View Full Case

#CL71559895

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Tia 💜 & Phoebe 🧡 @tia-phoebe.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Friday!
It was chilly outside this morning so I didn’t stay out for long, I had fun indoors with my butterfly instead.
Have a lovely day dear friends 🤗💜
#Hedgewatch

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Dan Williams @dano50.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Friyay Simon! 🐈‍⬛🖤🐈‍⬛

Tazzie the orange cat with a Friday smile!

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Saffron & Her Majestic Floof @saffronsfloof.bsky.social · 18h

Orange is the new spooky black. Boo! 👻

#cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

Color photograph. Long haired gray, black and brown tabby is looking at the camera with a side glance. She wears an orange pumpkin harness.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 8h

I think this guy is actually president imo

Trump is a doddering old man, barely aware of his own surroundings, getting worked over by underlings.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 10h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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