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Pigeon Post @pigeonpost.cafe · 1h

“Indoor cats live longer!” Bumper stickers available now! pigeonpost.cafe/products/ind...

Bumper sticker that reads "Indoor Cats Live Longer!"

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 2h

This is partisan hack analysis. This is "obvious" only to ideologues that already believed this. The Dems were hurt by rising prices, a doddering, unpopular incumbent, and the administration's enabling of a genocide. They tried to fix the second problem by dumping Biden, but it wasn't enough.

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · 2h

What's Left of the New Deal State? - Michigan Law Review buff.ly/MagIgp0

What's Left of the New Deal State? - Michigan Law Review

New Deal Law and Order: How the War on Crime Built the Modern Liberal State. By Anthony Gregory. Harvard University Press. 2024. Pp. 473. $45. Introduction A vast body of scholarship situates itself…

buff.ly

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dandythistle @dandythistle.bsky.social · 1d

She's 10 this year and I had a lot of feelings so I made a painting about it.
#dandythistleart

Painting of a cat with tuxedo markings, on her back so you can see her fluffy belly and stretching out one paw towards the viewer. The background is a variety of foliage.

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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 18h

This is a message I got from a constituent in Watertown, WI. Republicans are raising her health care costs by nearly $2,000/year! This is completely unaffordable for her.

I’m fighting to make sure this👇🏻 doesn’t happen.

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Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social · 22h

So, in the middle of EVERYTHING ELSE, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It's the last day of October, and I'm at the clinic for my 2nd annual radiology follow-up (after surviving breast cancer in 2023), so it seems like a good time to say:

MAMMOGRAMS SAVE LIVES.

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Mark Pocan @markpocan.bsky.social · 23h

If @SpeakerJohnson decides his GOP members deserve a 7th week of paid vacation next week, I think I’ve got done plans for WI’s 3rd Congressional district.

Hard to believe I do more work in @derrickvanorden’s district than he does.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

i don’t think you can maximin vote share with polls and spreadsheets, and i think it is a problem that the most prominent and influential political commentators right now are more devotees of data than experts in narrative

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

this is blood libel gutter racism of the kind that you only encounter if you or your staff are spending a lot of time in online spaces that are avowedly white supremacist

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Speaking at the Univ of Mississippi in Oxford, Vice President JD Vance claimed that when settlers arrived in the New World, they “found widespread child sacrifice,” adding that “Christian civilization ended the practice.”

JD Vance talks Israel, abortion, AI and immigration at Ole Miss Turning Point rally

Thousands packed Ole Miss’ pavilion as Vice President JD Vance took unscripted questions on faith, policy and Trump-era politics.

www.clarionledger.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 2d

FL is moving forward w/ plan to end all childhood vaccine mandates. Starting with hepatitis B, chickenpox, and the bacteria causing meningitis and pneumonia. Then next year GOP FL legislature is expected to revisit 1977 law re: whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and tetanus.

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John Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very telling that opening your publication to MAGA “thought” requires a massive downgrade in quality control.

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Toscha @poemless.bsky.social · 1d

Out of curiosity, I looked to see if Chewy had a pet food donation program, and they do:
www.chewy.com/g/give-back

Enter your location and it lists area organizations, including pet food pantries, and their needs. Also seems to be a good place to start if you are in need of pet food too.

Chewy Gives Back

At Chewy, we share your passion for pets. You can help us make an even greater impact by donating items to your local shelter or rescue through their Wish List. Ready to bring love home? Search for yo...

www.chewy.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d

The selection of Garland as AG and his failure to act was about ten bajillion times more consequential than any campaign strategy decision

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

In fall 2022, ahead of the midterm elections, Garland opted to freeze both the classified documents and election investigations because of what some officials believed was his overly cautious reading of a DOJ policy not to take any public action close to an election.
Trump was not even on the ballot and had not yet declared his presidential candidacy for 2024.
But Garland nonetheless imposed the freeze.

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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 1d

We need to lower folks’ costs – not raise them. But these are the prices that many Wisconsinites will have to pay next year if Republicans keep refusing to act and jack up their health care costs.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 2d

Just a reminder that my story "Here Instead of There" about dirtbags squatting on a seastead, meteorology, corporate capture of government, and a beagle named Henry is available on the internet for the first time at Escape Pod this month.

Links at my Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/140906...

"Here Instead of There" in audio at Escape Pod! | Elizabeth Bear

Get more from Elizabeth Bear on Patreon

www.patreon.com

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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 2d

Trump could feed hungry families if he wanted to. He is CHOOSING not to and instead using them as a bargaining chip.

Come Saturday, when families find out their food stamps have been taken away, they’ll know who to blame.

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Mark Pocan @markpocan.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. @derrickvanorden is in the wrong Capitol today. He’s in Madison lying about his vote to cut SNAP by over $150 billion in the Big, Ugly Bill, rather than bring in DC doing his job.

He admitted he didn’t ask for an earmark to help a veterans facility in his district.

AWOL.

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 2d

do you like ebooks

do you like ebooks about haunted architecture

did you ever wish THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE was more ... SFnal?

just in time for the height of spooky season, my ROSE/HOUSE is on sale for only $2.99 at all ebook retailers! until November 2nd!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Rose/House

Rose/House is a breathtaking and taut sci-fi gothic thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire.“I’m a piece of arc...

us.macmillan.com

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Marissa Lingen @marissalingen.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting news! I've been working all year on a vertigo arts project in collaboration with others in academia, physical therapy, puppetry, and dance. Now the first part is out: I'm running a creative writing workshop for people who are directly or indirectly affected by vertigo. >

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 4d

Retired U.S. Army Major General Randy Manner: "The deployments we’re currently seeing inside American cities…are not only un-American and wrong, they’re being done at the expense of our young men and women in uniform."

newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/i-helped-l...

I helped lead the National Guard. Troops don’t belong in our cities.

We must not permit this gross misuse of the military to be normalized.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3d

Israel killed at least 104 people in Gaza, including 46 children, in overnight strikes on the Palestinian territory.

The attacks came after Israel claimed its soldiers came under attack by Hamas militants, though the group denied responsibility.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3d

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming.

Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

www.nytimes.com

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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 3d

So let me get this straight: Donald Trump sent $20 BILLION (in U.S. taxpayer dollars) to help his friend out in Argentina, but refuses — yes, he is literally refusing — to use funds available to make sure food keeps flowing to hungry families across America.

This is appalling.

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Senator Tammy Baldwin @baldwin.senate.gov · 2d

🚨NEW🚨Wisconsinites don’t have to wait until Saturday to see how much Republicans are going to raise their health care costs in 2026. Right now, families can log onto healthcare.gov and see it for themselves. 👇🏻

Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace®

Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace®. Official government website.

healthcare.gov

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