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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 1d

Love it! Future leaders of society.

"The fact that it is so difficult to have a book club where we read banned books feels like exactly why we were doing it," Gooblar-Perovic said. "Because it’s so important.”

Great story @iowapublicradio.org

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them

Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years...

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

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Whitney Johnson @randomatoms.bsky.social · 6d

I can hear Putin‘s brainstorming session now. “Can we just have him come in and tear the White House down to the ground?… No no wait, how about we just have a remodel sections and tear it down that way?“

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6d

Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

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Whitney Johnson @randomatoms.bsky.social · 7d

They don’t like him either.

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Whitney Johnson @randomatoms.bsky.social · 7d

Yes!

JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 7d

My new favorite sign. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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Whitney Johnson @randomatoms.bsky.social · 7d

And George Santos is loose.

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Whitney Johnson @randomatoms.bsky.social · 8d

Fuck established media.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 8d

it remains irreplaceable in many ways. but it takes my breath away the sheer corruption and power-set values that animate the Times

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 8d

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 8d

No kings. No masters. No gods.
Just freethinkers, celebrating reason and freedom together.
#FFRFConvention #NoKings #FreethoughtInAction #FreedomFromReligion

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 9d

Amazing changes can happen in a mere couple of months.

The Trump regime's lies about No Kings protests are getting more desperate and inflammatory as the White House gets more scared of the power of the people.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 10d

“Asked what % of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice “told ProPublica: ‘I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.’” (Justice is now with The Heritage Foundation of Project 2025 infamy.) 10/8/25… 1/ www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 10d

Our enemy here is not Trump, says @ezralevin.bsky.social, one of the organizers of tomorrow's No Kings march: "our enemy is fatalism, nihilism and cynicism"
www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/u...

‘No Kings’ co-organizer responds to GOP officials who have ripped the rally | CNN

CNN’s Dana Bash speaks with Ezra Levin, one of the organizers for the “No Kings” rallies. Levin responds to GOP officials who have criticized the protests.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11d

Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally.

Print it.

Put it in a frame.

Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy.

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Mallory McMorrow @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social · 12d

People think politics is corrupt… all of it. And to fix it, we need to rebuild trust.

That’s why I’m running on:

- Banning stock trading by members of Congress
- Overturning Citizens United
- And not taking a dime of corporate PAC $$

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12d

"Chatbot, show me something that is the *opposite* of what a Republican would do to help the disadvantaged?"

Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 12d

A man named Nicky Crawford transformed a school bus into a mobile laundry service for the homeless called “Flowing with Blessings” He teamed up with Georgia Tech engineering students and created the bus, which provides free laundry, showers, haircuts & meals for the homelessness

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Man on a Wire @manonawire.bsky.social · 12d

LOVE

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 13d

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 13d

Phoenix-Mesa Gateway, home to ICE Air hub, and Sky Harbor both refuse to display Democratic blame message

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Arizona airports refuse to play Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown | Arizona Mirror

Airports refuse Noem shutdown video blaming Democrats, citing policies that ban political advertising content

azmirror.com

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14d

‘I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore’: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America talkingpointsmemo.com/news/they-tr...

‘I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore’: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

This article first appeared at Propublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16d

Inventive People of Portland Dressing as Animals:

Please don't dress as dogs. Your life will not be safe with psychopath Kristi Noem on the rooftops.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 17d

This is awesome.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 17d

Oh no, what if Kristi Noem mistakes them for defenseless puppies?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 17d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17d

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Whitney Johnson @randomatoms.bsky.social · 17d

We’re doomed…