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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Friday afternoon folks. Here be some leaf sheep wishing you a lovely day 🌊

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10h

Platner is a proponent of a Medicare for All health care system, a position that 72% of voters in Maine support.

He has also voiced support for a billionaires tax, which is supported by 79% of Mainers.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10h

Platner is a military veteran and oyster farmer making his first run for public office.

So far, less than half of voters polled have heard of the 40-year-old newcomer.

The 45% of voters who have heard of Platner, however, feel overwhelmingly positive about him.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10h

NEW: Democratic oyster farmer Graham Platner is the candidate best positioned to defeat Susan Collins in Maine's Senate race, according to a poll of likely voters conducted by Zenith Research for More Perfect Union.

Poll: Platner Best Positioned Maine Dem to Defeat Susan Collins

After respondents were shown short biographies for both candidates, Graham Platner leads Sen. Susan Collins by 14 points, while Gov. Janet Mills leads Collins by 8 points.

substack.perfectunion.us

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Umbire @umbire.blacksky.app · 2d

Wolf was one of many people to stand ten toes down regarding Gazans even when the position was at its most unpopular, well before October 2023, and it'd mean so much to me if you could help them and their child in their time of need.

please look at pinned post 🔻⭕️ - ذئب @habibiwolf.bsky.social · 6d

So here are the days I’ll go w/no pay before summer hits & then the pay disappears for 3 months again 😞

I wanted to finish our 2025 goal in 2025 but it looks like it’ll spill into 2026💔

I’m very close to my bachelors too & am trying to finish that for a small pay bump @ work. Plz, PLZ help us 🙏

A screenshot of our school calendar and I have highlighted the days that I will not get paid for throughout the year or I guess throughout the school year since it’s not an entire 12 months. Some months I go many days without pay and others. It is anywhere from 1 to 4 days but altogether it adds up and takes away a lot of money from my son and I, which is why I am doing this one time larger fundraiser for us.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 2d

imagine never having to hear hakeem jeffries talk again. he could campaign on that alone.

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 2d

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Cyrus, Goober Unicorn 🦄💙💜 @gooberunicorndad.bsky.social · 13h

Boyfriend and I were talking last night about why the Portland Frog protests have been so effective and I believe it's all tied back to the same thing.

Why calling them weird worked
Why they go after comedians
Why a stalled escalator is devastating

To them, Humiliation is worse than Death

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Clocky {Wolf} @mcmonstructuk.bsky.social · 1d

I might colour this later but I felt it was too silly not to share now so my bsky followers get to see this before I render it and post to tumblr giggle

This was made as a joke response to a friend's piece of art but. I ended up liking it a lot

#greatgodgrove #gggking #ggggodpoke

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 9h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 13h

If Democrats said that Republicans refused to pay the troops in order to prevent the release of the Epstein files, Republicans would have to deny it. Just saying.

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 15h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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@wscotgrey @wscotgrey.bsky.social · 10h

See your politicians suffer! Donate now to the internet dunk tank that is to make a Kat Abughazaleh 24 hour livestream happen!

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 10h

I made a horrible decision last night and told chat that I’d do a 24-hr livestream if we raise $100k with these streams by the 19th.

So if that’s an incentive to tune in… there you go.

Joe McKirdy @joemckirdy.bsky.social · 1d

. @katmabu.bsky.social
promises to do a 24 hr livestream if her campaign reaches $100k in donations. If you want an unapologetically pro-democracy Congress, please consider donating. If you want to see her stream for 24 hours, please donate to the stream specific url.

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Matt @xenomatt.bsky.social · 9h

World octopus day, you say? Very well, then... here is an octopus (possibly a male argonaut). No clue what the jellyfish is. The jellyfish is swimming down to try and get away from the bright flashing lights.
Pic from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao.

🦑🌿 #Invertebrates

A jellyfish, upside down because it's swimming downwards. On top of its bell is an octopus; it is translucent/white with some visible brown organs.

#Nature #Wildlife #Macro #WildlifePhotography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 8h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

findmeatherapist.org

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 8h

I was born and raised in CAs Central Valley and I'm voting #YesOnProp50. Farm workers and people of color are suffering under this administration's racial profiling. Prop 50 gives us the opportunity to fight back on the power grab that TX Republicans and Trump are attempting.

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temmie @tuyoki.bsky.social · 15h

tem make cake (carrot)

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee @alexandragallant.com · 15h

Frogby is a fan of the Portland frogs

my little frog Frogby in the style/colors of the Portland protest inflatable frog costume, his eyes are red, he has a lighter belly and darker spots on his arms and legs and is smiling

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.

Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund

The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 7h

Just to make sure we're all on the same page- the Democrats *are*, in fact, pushing for the prosecution of anybody who assists Trump and Vought in their illegal RIFs:

democrats-budget.house.gov

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 14h

I've said "they can't do this forever" about a lot (and was right on most of it), but their plan of essentially dissolving parliament and making Trump a monarch, but without any money to do monarch things with, can't last for very long at all. Like, this is "Maidan protests in a month" territory.

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 14h

You know, "Refusing to pay the troops, signaling that you intend to keep the government shut down indefinitely, and then trying to fight a trade war you literally cannot fight with the government shut down" is the stuff regimes do when they're pretty deep in a death spiral.

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wolfgirl woes ⚢ @quixin.bsky.social · 18h

I guess the real question I have with this is

Why are you taking TERFs seriously? Why are you conceding to them? Why are you letting them define lesbianism for lesbians?

I feel like that should maybe be a question you take away from my thread. Why do you let TERFs define lesbianism?

wolfgirl woes ⚢ @quixin.bsky.social · 21h

there's always this false idea (mostly touted by TERFs even) that lesbians are hyper exclusive and we need to invent new non-lesbian terms that "include trans people" or whatever as if lesbianism hasnt like. always done that

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 1d

As someone else pointed out, notwithstanding anything else, this hero has at a stroke reclaimed amphibians for progressives from fucking Pepe.

Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 1d

’He is not the hero we deserve, but he is the one that we need right now.’

The Portland Frog, a guy in an inflatable frog costume, facing off against ICE troops in riot gear.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 1d

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray.

No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye.

Thank me later,

An actual expert

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🍓🍒Ominous Fruit🍎🍉 @seconddeath.bsky.social · 14h

Hey yall a really good dude from this community got a wrongful conviction bc the judge was a slime covered piece of pig shit who cowardly submitted to the wills of fascists & they’re in urgent need of a good lawyer

Please help if u can he helped me not quit art bc of this

#furry #mutualaid #resist

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