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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 1h

It’s like I live in a parallel universe

If I wasn’t so strong willed, I might start to question my own sanity

What’s real? What’s fake?

I’d like to be reincarnated in 100 years, and come back as an American teen
in high school, studying The Trump Years

In absolute HORROR and misbelief 😳😳😳

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 13h

“Frogs, sir. Thousands of ‘em.”

Stanley Baker and Nigel Green, in Victorian red army uniform, in Zulu

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Democracy is not a spectator sport! 🇺🇦 @grrlscientist.bsky.social · 7d

Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science

#SciComm🧪 by @grrlscientist.bsky.social

#Biodiversity #Spider🕷️ #NewToScience #NewSpecies #Thailand🇹🇭 #Gynandromorph #Wildlife #Halloween🏮 #SpookySeason😵‍💫 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...

Half Male-Half Female Spider Discovered In Thailand Is New To Science

Not only is this species new to science, but this remarkable individual is the first record of a rare biological phenomenon in this previously unknown species.

www.forbes.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

In this video I run through all of the big voting and democracy cases the Supreme Court will hear this term and what we need to be watching for. youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Kakistocracy (Jay) @crankypacifist.bsky.social · 1d

I can't help but think about all the wonderful creative stuff we're missing out on by not having UBI, housing, and healthcare.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 2d

What is wild about this story is that Deloitte has been allowed to keep 80% of the massive fees it charged for using ChatGPT to produce rubbish and passing it off as actual work. (One might add, why was a consulting firm purporting to give legal advice anyway, hmmm?)

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Reg Schofield @rws63.bsky.social · 1d

A UBI would help so many more than all the band aid programs the federal government keep doing and reduce the cost of running all those programs.

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BNO News @bnonews.com · 12h

BREAKING: At least 4 people killed, 12 injured after shooting at high school homecoming game in Leland, Mississippi - CBS

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bethjacksonlb.bsky.social @bethjacksonlb.bsky.social · 12h

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Unions File Temporary Restraining Order to Block Trump Administration’s Threatened Mass Firings of Federal Workers

AFSCME, AFGE ask court to block potential Trump firings

www.afscme.org

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MT Punk @muaythaipunk.bsky.social · 12h

They’re using voting records. It’s targeted.

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 13h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 14h

We’re deporting the people who pick our food so we can pay more to starve patriotically. Gifted article:
wapo.st/48Iuil5

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

wapo.st

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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 14h

Congratulations to your family! Hope they re satisfied & proud of the end result.

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David in Setouchi @david.setouchi.social · 21h

Is "firm views" the new way to say "xenophobic"?

Jay Allen @gaiaslastlaugh.bsky.social · 22h

"Firm views"

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Molly! @moll.bsky.social · 17h

I think being noisy about it is the most efficient way to make sure you don’t get it. very obviously wanting it solely because Obama got it also doesn’t help.

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 1d

genuinely wild ombudsman report into the NDIS participant service guarantee, including disagreeing with the agency about whether they have delivered on it, and that rules haven't been finalised since 2022! [very good plain English report too btw]

www.ombudsman.gov.au/__data/asset...

www.ombudsman.gov.au

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

As a group, District Judges (from across the ideological spectrum!) performing as well as just about anyone right now in defending democratic liberty.

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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 22h

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 1d

Minnesota cops pulled over a black postal worker who was having a stroke. They assumed he was on drugs, threw him in jail, and didn't seek medical treatment. They left him alone in a cell for hours as he lost all bodily function. He died several days later. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/10/l...

Lawsuit: Minnesotan died after Eagan, Dakota County law enforcement ignored serious stroke symptoms • Minnesota Reformer

Jensen muted his equipment just as Moseng told him, “Before you got there, I was like, ‘Is this dude having a stro—’”

minnesotareformer.com

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

I love this image.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 23h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Tabby 🪶 @findmeinthecreek.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I was something fast and scary with jaws strong enough to crunch bones.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 1d

I have a soft spot for the National Indignation Convention — a far-right movement of voluntarily aggrieved white people based in Dallas in the early ‘60s — just because of the hilariously confessional nature of their chosen name.

Anyway, their big issue was the US training of Yugoslavian pilots.

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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 14h

Oh same! Two actually

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