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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 13h

A man named Nicky Crawford transformed a school bus into a mobile laundry service for the homeless called “Flowing with Blessings” He teamed up with Georgia Tech engineering students and created the bus, which provides free laundry, showers, haircuts & meals for the homelessness

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 13h

Worst part for me is living in a world riven through with hypocrisy. Luckily, I'm a Scorpio rising 😈

Mr. Stefan @revizion.me · 13h

Worst part of being a Libra?

Having the “no wait, I really like you! I was just joking with everyone else!” conversation

N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 14h

Thank you for mentioning Gift of Gab. His shit changed my life. I want everyone to listen to Way of the Light at least once a day

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 14h

What country (or billionaire) is using the US military as a mob enforcer to wreak havoc on the Caribbean? Because we know Trump does not care what happens there and has no problem lending out our institutions to his corrupt besties.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 17h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 14h

Pope Francis, with that sweet, kind face, smiles down on us.

(I'm not Catholic nor even religious but I have a very tender spot in my heart for that man.)

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 1d

I was trying to explain to my daughter and her friend the absolute *vast scale* of just our solar system and was having a difficult time. I dug this video up and...my god. At 1:1 billionth scale, Uranus is 3.5 miles away. Breathtaking.

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To Scale: The Solar System

On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in…

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 1d

Very consistent with the 'everything is a scam now' thesis

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 1d

You best bet I updated my pfp on some old man shit. I'ma be 40 in a week so I gotta honor that 😂😂😂

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

It’s essentially an emergency that you see One Battle After Another in the cinema immediately. Sean Penn will win an Oscar & it has the best car chase in many years. And those aren’t in the top 3 best things about the film. Jesus shitting Christ.

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 1d

I got a similar reaction on a policy paper assignment where I outlined a (very modest, sensible!) national property tax via constitutional amendment to fund a reparations trust for Black American slave descendants and Native Americans. Look at us 😎

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 1d

First & foremost among them is the Treaty of Fort Laramie. The territories defined need to be returned to the Lakota & other Plains tribes - the Black Hills are their holy place of origin and, if you've ever been, it's a place so deeply infected with white supremacy that it would be a potent symbol.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

The United States is currently in material breach of over five hundred legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations. We violated even the treaties we coerced at the point of a sword.

We cannot talk about restoring the rule of law until we acknowledge and repair this fundamental truth.

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 2d

Why didn't the gov't shutdown stop the Gronk USAA commercials

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 2d

What a lovely piece of my childhood - thank you for the reminder to give a rewatch 😊

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2d

God you gotta love Ulysses Grant

As for provisions, Grant remembered what he had learned after Van Dorn’s destruction of his supply base the previous December. This time he intended to cut loose from his base, travel light, and live off the country. Although civilians were going hungry in Mississippi, Grant was confident that his soldiers would not. A powerful army on the move could seize supplies that penniless women and children could not afford to buy. For the next two weeks the Yankee soldiers lived well on hams, poultry, vegetables, milk, and honey as they stripped bare the plantations in their path. Some of these midwestern farm boys proved to be expert foragers. When an irate planter rode up on a mile and complained to a division commander that plundering troops had robbed him of everything he owned, the general looked him in the eye and said “Well those men didn’t belong to my division at all, because if they were my men they wouldn’t have left you that mule”

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

Levitating

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 3d

My daughter and I just watched both Father of the Brides this past week 😢

Lost Under the Couch Barbie. @wstafrican.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no!!!!! people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The Oscar award-winning actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' ...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Glyn Bowerman @glynbowerman.bsky.social · 4d

“Progressives don’t care about the issues facing men today.”

We do. It’s why we’re socialists. Ya dinguses.

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Chamberlain and Little Round Top beating down the slave owner fascists with extreme prejudice 😍😍😍

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 7d

we as liberals don't actually need to cede the idea of military effectiveness to the right. we should point out that these meathead morons are going to lose us a fucking war.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 5d

oh are we talking great lyricists?

Flight of the Conchords Ep 3 Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros

YouTube video by r8dkid

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 5d

The best part of this will be to threaten them with reforming the court by adding 8 new justices, fixed-year term limits, and major ethics compliance requirements and then, in Trumpian fashion, DO IT WHETHER THEY ALLOW THIS OR NOT. Fuck those snake ass hos.

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 5d

This is why I think the next Democratic president needs to use the EXACT tools that SCOTUS has handed Trump. Don't leave room for any distinctions.

Impound funds for deportation. Give ICE the USAID treatment. Refuse to collect government-backed debt. Purge MAGA loyalists from the executive branch.

N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 5d

So so much.

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N8er @midwestenthusiast.bsky.social · 7d

I swear to all that is good and right and just, the people who've perpetrated this in our country will be held accountable under the law to the fullest extent for the crimes they've committed. Hegseth will be extradited to Venezuela. Miller will sit in federal prison. And many more.

Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 7d

I don't doubt that Trumpism will soon crumble and things will return to a seeming normal. But what worries me is whether we will again make the mistake of offering impunity to these degenerates because if so, we're just waiting around for fascism that sticks.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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