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Sally McLean @sassamalinka.bsky.social · 35m

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4h

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10h

BREAKING: The RNC sued Hawaii, demanding access to its voter roll maintenance records.

It’s the latest GOP lawsuit targeting Democratic-led states, as part of a nationwide campaign to cast doubt on secure elections.

RNC Sues Hawaii for Access to Voter Roll, List Maintenance Records

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, color me shocked.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 1d

Lord Pocketsquare cares not for the homeless. Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie announced on Thursday that the existing requirements for developers to include 20% social & affordable housing in the Woolloongabba Priority Development Area would be removed. #qldpol www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

‘Good planning, not red tape’: Opponents speak out as Gabba housing quota scrapped

Developers no longer need to include social and affordable housing in the Woolloongabba Priority Development Area, sparking the ire of the state’s peak social services group.

www.brisbanetimes.com.au

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

WAR-TORN PORTLAND

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Fenway health in Boston has stopped providing gender affirming care to trans youth.

I was previously on the board of this organization and I've never been so disgusted with their leadership cowardly capitulating like this.

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Statement from Fenway Health explaining that due to new federal requirements effective October 1, 2025, they can no longer provide medical gender-affirming care such as hormones and puberty blockers to patients under 19, but all other services for patients of all ages will continue unchanged.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 1d

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Alice K @coalisdead.bsky.social · 1d

Attribution science just got more specific

Australian researchers have just proven and itemised harms caused by a single fossil fuel project - Woodside’s Scarborough project.

Their study can be replicated in legal cases everywhere

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Scientists calculate the cost on climate and human lives of gas project emissions

Fossil fuel companies and governments have argued it’s not possible to link climate impacts to specific projects, but Australian researchers have done the numbers.

www.abc.net.au

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Respect to those who got here first.

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 2d

We know sexual assault & DV are the biggest problems in Qld. Most recent ABS report encompasses 10 months of Labor & 2 of the LNP. That's why we need a full year of data to see any change from the Crisafulli government's youth justice changes. Due Sept 2026. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Sexual assault victims in Queensland at 32-year high, data shows

Sexual assault victims in Queensland have hit a 32-year high, as new data reveals the state remains the nation leader in victims of crime.

www.abc.net.au

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Sally McLean @sassamalinka.bsky.social · 1d

Linda is an absolute fucking cunt

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 1d

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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Oscar&Felix @oscar-felix.bsky.social · 2d

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

49-year-old worship minister
Jon Paul Sheptock was arrested on child sex abuse charges. Sheptock possessed and was involved in producing child sexual assault materials.

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Kath Mallott 💔🇵🇸💔 @kathmallott.bsky.social · 2d

NSW police wrongly categorise ‘significant’ number of incidents as antisemitic www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW police wrongly categorise ‘significant’ number of incidents as antisemitic

Anti-Palestinian graffiti and verbal abuse of pro-Palestine protestors incorrectly recorded as antisemitism in figures government cited to defend restrictions on protests

www.theguardian.com

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 2d

"The so-called 'independent research' gives vested interests a veil of credibility, which they exploit to lobby parliamentarians and the broader public, distorting the framing of policy debates"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

ACCC urged to probe 'distorted research' behind government gas policy

Advocacy group Climate Integrity has accused the gas industry of using "distorted research", produced by the accounting firm EY, to influence the Australian government's Future Gas Strategy.

www.abc.net.au

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 2d

It’s astounding how stupid and cruel ICE can be apple.news/ALy2WoMqiTVi...

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic — NBC News

Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

apple.news

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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