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@readerofthetime.bsky.social

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#BlueCrew. Retired Army. Follow news, tech, science, & books. Politics junkie. Lifelong Dem, proud to be woke, Ukraine supporter, "I dissent," fan of animals. Grieving for this country. My dog runs the house.

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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 4h

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Rebecca Makkai @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social · 21h

Anyone who needs me, I’ll be here all day teaching people how to pronounce Krasznahorkai 🇭🇺

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readerofthetime.bsky.social @readerofthetime.bsky.social · 4h

How embarrassing--the President is hawking merch.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Think the website says “Made in the USA”? Think again.

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Marga @margasib.bsky.social · 19h

If I hear #spotted when talking about birds, my mind goes straight to flickers. So here's this Northern flicker for #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

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ItsFlanoy @itsflanoy.bsky.social · 11h

Howe To Cate - Chabter elebben. Sum of mine #flanatics alreddy noe dis, but not menny Cates noe howe to get into an hammock #catsoforanjtober
#catsofbluesky

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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 11h

Calling your dog without calling

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Riffler1776 @riffler1776.bsky.social · 15h

McLaughlin should read the actual Fourth Amendment. It says “probable cause” not “reasonable suspicion “. That’s a much higher standard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

McLaughlin: "Pritzker said there's racial profiling, which is absolutely false. Our officials use reasonable suspicion. That's protected under the US Constitution 4th Amendment."

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 18h

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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 11h

I was awakened by loud explosions
Air raid alert was announced 3 hrs ago due to a drone attack
But now Kyiv is under attack by ballistic missiles

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10h

katu.com/news/local/2...

24 hours outside ICE: What is really going on in Portland

Starting Thursday, Oct. 9 at midnight, we will begin a 24-hour livestream outside of the Portland ICE Facility. Our aim is to show the public everything we see.

katu.com

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 12h

Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldn’t have to say this.

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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: A librarian fired by in Campbell County, Wyoming, for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from shelves just got the last laugh – a $700,000 settlement for violating her first amendment rights. 👏 May this be a warning across the nation.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 7h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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DianeC @dianec.bsky.social · 9h

My granddoggos Luma and Daisy 💗

Two golden retrievers getting out of pool.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 7h

ANTIFA:

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

One thing we've learned from the American judicial system: The first 34 felonies are on the house*.

*Terms and conditions may apply. See prosecutors for details if you're not white. Or rich.

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Touhin Panda🤍 @touhin.bsky.social · 21h

10.7.25 Yang Yang (Zoo Atlanta) update - papa bear was spotted out in his yard at Chengdu Panda Base~enjoying bamboo shoots~🩵

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 6h

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 5h

Haven’t mentioned my non existent series of cartoons & caricatures lately…….

Here’s one for Volume 10

The Trump Experiment -
A Study in Failure

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 8h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 22h

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 18h

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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𝓥𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓪𝓷 𝓡𝔂𝓮 @vivianrye.me · 1d

Nostalgia is easier to manipulate than anyone would care to admit.

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 1d

Was reading about the invasions of Portland and Chicago today and it caused me to remember this panel from a Walt Kelly Pogo strip.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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