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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

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Ms. Schlax @msschlax.bsky.social · 2d

Agree with your overall point, but where do you get 5 pizzas for $5?

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d

Shutdown Day 33: 900k federal workers furloughed. That’s nearly the population of Austin, TX without paychecks.

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Lori Tecler @loritecler.bsky.social · 2d

Our school's readers love the DORK DIARIES & DIARY OF A WIMPY KID books so much that many of our copies are a disaster & need to be replaced.

This #DonorsChoose project will put fresh copies of these reader favorites on our library shelves.

#ClearTheList

www.donorschoose.org/project/our-...

Description of a DonorsChoose project reads "Help me give my students new copies of well-loved books in their favorite Dork Diaries and Diary of a Wimpy Kid book series." No progress shown on the progress bar with $178 needed to fund.

Cover of DORK DIARIES #15 TALES FROM A NOT-SO-POSH PARIS ADVENTURE by Rachel Renee Russell
Red cover with black polkadots. A yellow rectangle with a blackline picture of a girl with flowing hair wearing a beret, jeweled sunglasses, and a scarf knottedn around her neck and the Eiffel Tower in the background.

Cover of DIARY OF A WIMPY KID by Jeff Kinney. Red cover with drawing of main character Greg Heffley on a piece of torn notebook paper taped to the background.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 9d

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

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White Rose Resistance @whiteroseresistance.org · 9d

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 9d

I know this is obvious. And I know we all know this.
But if the President can raise taxes because an advert annoyed him, without even consulting Congress, then the US constitution is simply not functioning as intended.

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Ms. Schlax @msschlax.bsky.social · 10d

Is Kees open today?

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 15d

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

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Sarcasmorator @sarcasmorator.bsky.social · 15d

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

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TheRoadie. @roadie63.bsky.social · 17d

ANY ARRESTS? Among the millions upon millions of "violent leftist radicals" that took to the streets today I cannot find word of a single arrest. Even when everything is peaceful there is usually an overzealous cop or something. This is unheard of. We need to beat the media over the head with it.

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 17d

The #NYC contingent of the
@mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social
joined tens of thousands of their fellow New Yorkers at the #NoKings demonstration in support of the First Amendment - especially: freedom of assembly and a #PressFreedom.

Demonstrators in NYC American Flags and sign "You only target journalists when your enemies are truth, reality and democracy"

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 17d

This is a blatant attempt to silence and isolate us. He’s stopping the trains, closing the freeways and firing live rounds into California. We will not be intimidated. We will not be silenced. #NoKings

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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 18d

When you equate opposing Trump with hating America, you're kinda making the whole point of the No Kings rally.

Find a protest near you:

www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23d

This is truly grotesque. Teachers should not be using this stuff. If a school was pushing it on teachers who work with kids I care about, I'd make a big effing stink until they stopped. We have to not give into this.

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Julianne Wingate @julieannewingate.bsky.social · 27d

Let us try this.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 27d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 29d

Whether you like it or not, this is our painful truth in America.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Oct 5

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · Oct 5

If you showed this tweet to James Madison, he would be like, "yes, this is why I wrote the 2nd Amendment"

@Sec_Noem on X: Chicago, we’re here for you.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 26

These are your words of the week

chonky
acetaminophen
biosignature
rapture
equinox
rebarbative
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

The Words of the Week - Sept. 26

Dictionary lookups from autumn, Mars, and Fat Bear Week

www.merriam-webster.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Oct 5

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Cycling in the buff is a Portland specialty, and one organization has announced a naked ride ‘in response to the militarization of our city,’” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes. “Such is the war zone here.”

Opinion | Troops Could Help Portland if They Rented Office Space

Trump’s dispatch of National Guard troops to Portland is another dangerous step toward politicizing America’s military forces.

nyti.ms

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Daniel Connerton @lordnad.bsky.social · Oct 4

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · Oct 5

"Fuck ICE" is a patriotic sentiment. Perhaps the most patriotic in this moment.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · Oct 4

When a president sends troops into American cities to “restore order,” what he’s really doing is testing obedience. Portland and Chicago aren’t war zones…they’re warning shots. Authoritarians don’t announce takeovers. They practice them. One city at a time. However, each practice destroys families.

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