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Linda Tirado @killermartinis.bsky.social · 1h

Hey I need to get a guy a wheelchair. He can't work enough hours this month to cover it without messing up his medical coverage over income restrictions.

But I could y'know just buy the dude a chair. Decent ones run $500 or so for his needs.

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PayPal bootstrapindustries@gmail

Hard to be mad at anything when the sunset is pink fire

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M. Tullius Cicero 🇺🇦 @tulliuscicero43.bsky.social · 58m

Here’s more info about Fr. Dowling. He definitely walks the walk. catholicsmobilizing.org/people/fr-la...

Fr. Larry Dowling, M.Div, D.Min. - Catholic Mobilizing Network

Fr. Larry Dowling, ordained in 1991, retired on June 30, 2024 as 18-yr pastor of St. Simon of Cyrene Parish (locations at St. Agatha & St. Martin de Porres Churches), a predominantly African American ...

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1h

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.”

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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 1h

"....what Fitzgerald has done is force an immediate disclosure of this stuff, which he can then use to make arguments that effectively put Lindsey Halligan’s — and through her, Trump’s — behavior on trial" www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/11/p...

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey - emptywheel

Unless prosecutors find a way to make the Jim Comey prosecution go away, in nine days, we'll get details (in the Vindictive and Selective Prosecution motion) of the efforts Trump has already made to p...

www.emptywheel.net

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 3h

Shirt with frog and toad cycling that says FUCK THE POLICE

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mjfGatesToAnEldritchRealm @mjfgates.bsky.social · 46m

I like the confirming video from the two Ukrainian drones that hit it, down in the thread. Here's the nice shiny truck! Here's the rather battered truck! And here's the truck on fire, with Russian swearing.

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Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! (86 47) @halftongue.bsky.social · 1h

Current Republicans' great-grandchildren will deny they were "really" Republicans. They just joined the party to get a job, or because their parents were Republicans, etc.

Guess how I know this now.

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2h

Let’s not forget that every single Republican who stands by and enables Donald Trump could stop this recklessness today, tomorrow or any damn day of the week. Their failure—their refusal—to do so makes them complicit in his crimes and the crimes of his corrupt, lawless regime.

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mjfGatesToAnEldritchRealm @mjfgates.bsky.social · 1h

Heavy lies the head that bears the crown. Heavy hangs the head? Something like that.

mjfGatesToAnEldritchRealm @mjfgates.bsky.social · 1h

The ones you've been cooking up lately just aren't terrible ENOUGH, that's the trouble.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 5h

*inhales*

SCIFI.radio @scifi.radio · 1d

Groundbreaking Image Shows Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs (with the caveat that we might just be looking at one big blazar instead of two…

Groundbreaking Image Shows Two Black Holes Orbiting Each Other

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs (with the caveat that we might just be looking at one big blazar instead of two of them).

scifi.radio

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

The Army isn't being paid because the President doesn't want anyone to know about his connections with Jeffrey Epstein and since Trump also dismantled the whole "protect people from fraud" part of the government it seems like this is all entirely his fault and people should write on it and say so

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 5h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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mjfGatesToAnEldritchRealm @mjfgates.bsky.social · 4h

Just think of it as "Half-Life 3." If you can just get into the back corridors and clear out the transdimensional horrors, you'll find the elevators to the surface!

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 4h

This is the 3rd time in five years I’ve tried to get a rental car out of the Atlanta airport, and the 3rd time I’ve seriously considered just getting back on the plane and going home.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 6h

I love how the big news on Trump’s tariff announcement is how moments before he made it a bunch of people made insanely profitable shorts on crypto, a thing that Bitcoin Bros are all astounded to see happening in a completely unregulated market of a fake currency primarily used by criminals.

BREAKING: Look at this.

A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning.

30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF.

The market dumped.

The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours.

Unusual.

JUST IN: An anonymous trader opened massive crypto short positions just 30 minutes before Trump’s tariff announcements yesterday.

They made an estimated $192M in profits.

Donald Trump needs to go to jail. He is thief, he is literally robbing people internationally.

He announced 100% Tarrifs on China and sends the US stock market into a death spiral.

At the same time someone put over 1 Billion dollars into crypto with orders for 100 million being placed on Ethereum and Bitcoin and other crypto currencies across the board whilst markets got wiped after what he said. Billions, and I mean fucking billions got wiped out, whilst Bitcoin had it a biggest dip ever in a single candle losing 20k per Bitcoin, Whilst alt coins lost over 60-70% of value, everyone with leverage on the market with even 2 x leverage got murdered and robbed.

This was co ordinated, this was market manipulation with one anonymous wallet making over 200 million dollars in one day with trades showing that they knew Trump was going to announce this and crash the market.

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mjfGatesToAnEldritchRealm @mjfgates.bsky.social · 6h

There's only one *important* civil war, which was of course the First War of the Polish Succession.

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 7h

Haven't been to the post office in ages; surely someone needs a #sciart artologica.etsy.com

various science themed ink and watercolor paintings

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 6h

As always, today's issue of my friend @katharinehayhoe.com's newsletter has good climate news, not-so-good news, and info on what you can do to make an actual impact on saving our planet.

mailchi.mp/1148a2d0bdbf...

Collective climate action – it’s loud and unstoppable!

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Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 11h

Pope Leo Calls on U.S. Bishops to stand up for migrants rights
my latest...

Opinion | Why Pope Leo gathered more than 100 Latino Catholics at the Vatican this week

The pope met this week with a group of more than 100 Latino Catholics from the National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry.

www.msnbc.com

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mjfGatesToAnEldritchRealm @mjfgates.bsky.social · 6h

Franchesca Ramsey could do a "No one could have predicted" song, and it would work for SO MANY THINGS.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 7h

Only people interested in weakening the United States would make such a decision. The real “enemies within” are part of this administration.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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alison (she/her) FREE LINK @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 8h

This place is less good without Link.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10h

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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

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