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MikeM3 @mikeg80.bsky.social · 1h

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 1h

Indeed
fat malignant useless cowards

#nokings
#nofascists
#nopedofiles
#noice

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SHIT SHOW DAY 262 (SHE, HER, ANGRY BITCH) @yieldcurve23.bsky.social · 1h

@democrats-armedservices.house.gov

WHY IS QATAR ALLOWED TO PUT AN AFB IN IDAHO???

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R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 1h

Erasmus demonstrates there is a rich tradition within Christian thought that defends children’s rights over and against the crushing weight of the current evangelical obsession with parental rights.

Desiderius Erasmus and The Child’s Right to Education

Erasmus demonstrates there is a rich tradition within Christian thought that defends children’s rights over and against the crushing weight of the current evangelical obsession with parental rights…

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

BREAKING: An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant leaves multiple people dead and missing, sheriff says.

Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves multiple people dead and missing, sheriff says

An explosion at a Tennessee military munitions plant has left multiple people dead and missing. The blast occurred Friday at Accurate Energetic Systems, about 60 miles southwest of Nashville.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

BREAKING: White House budget office says "substantial" firings of federal workers have started as the Trump administration exerts shutdown leverage.

Budget office says 'substantial' firings of federal workers have started in government shutdown

The White House budget office says that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 1h

READ: Do you realize it yet, America? The joke’s on us.
www.treason.io/p/read-do-yo...

READ: Do you realize it yet, America? The joke’s on us.

When Trump says something outrageous, his aides call it a joke. But the punchline is always the same — he means it.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1h

To avoid swearing in a duly elected Democratic House member who will force a vote to release the Epstein files, the House is in recess indefinitely

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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 1h

Bravo to M.I.T.!

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1h

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

Trump administration had offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing on to an agreement to protect conservative voices and use test scores in admissions, among other things. M.I.T. is the first to say it will not sign

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MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 1h

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1h

A federal judge has ordered the fence outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Broadview to be taken down immediately.
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Judge orders Friday removal of fence at Broadview ICE facility

U.S. District Court Judge LaShonda A. Hunt issued the temporary restraining order Thursday ordering the fence be taken down immediately.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 3h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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Vagabonding @vagabonding.bsky.social · 1h

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ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1h

⚡️The UK and Ukraine will jointly produce 2,000 interceptor drones every month to fight off Russian Shahed swarms.

UK and Ukraine to Jointly Produce 2,000 Interceptor Drones a Month to Counter Shahed Swarms

The UK and Ukraine are collaborating to manufacture interceptor drones to counteract Russian Shahed drone attacks, aiming for 2,000 units monthly.

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Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 2h

If you went back in time even like five years and surveyed the most rapture-believin’ evangelicals if the “legionnaires of the Antichrist” would be the AI critics or the AI boosters they’d definitely say the boosters.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 1h

No Nobel For You, Donald
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No Nobel For You, Donald

Plus: The Humiliation of Pam Bondi

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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 1h

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Government shutdown threatens food assistance program relied on by seven million families

The WIC will run out of funds in a week or two if the administration’s budget is not approved

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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 1h

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Houston, the city that nearly ended homelessness and now criminalizes it

Despite the success of The Way Home, lack of housing and funding cuts have led to a renewed rise in the city’s homeless population

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newmexicanextexan.bsky.social @newmexicanextexan.bsky.social · 1h

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Olivier de Schutter: ‘A 2% tax on billionaires would provide social protection for 820 million people in low-income countries’

‘The money is there,’ says the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. ‘All that is needed is the political will’

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❌👑 Suz Brockmann @suzbrockmann.bsky.social · 2h

Here it is with alt text:

Statement Re: Speaker Johnson Comments on No
Kings
Washington, D.C. - Today, House Speaker Mike Johnson blamed the peaceful No Kings Day of Action on October 18 for the ongoing government shutdown. After a few moments of laughter, the No Kings coalition issued the following statement:
"Speaker Johnson is running out of excuses for keeping the government shut down.
Instead of reopening the government, preserving affordable healthcare, or lowering costs for working families, he's attacking millions of Americans who are peacefully coming together to say that America belongs to its people, not to kings.
"We'll see everyone on October 18."
All No Kings events adhere to a shared commitment to nonviolent protest and community safety.
Organizers are trained in de-escalation and are working closely with local partners to ensure peaceful and powerful actions nationwide.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2h

"After a few moments of laughter..."

The No Kings organizers with a fun, tidy response to Mike Johnson's shenanigans.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2h

Some Democrats are already doing this, but I think all of them should treat No Kings protests as mid-term mandatory attendance events, like the local fish fry or county fair. Push back on the sweaty Republican attempts to make them seem scary.