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An Indigenous nation of fewer than 1,000 people in South Florida, the Miccosukee Tribe doesn’t often get involved in local politics. But then private contractors showed up to an abandoned airport and ...

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StellaMarie @StellaMarie.bsky.social @stellamarie.bsky.social · 2h

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We Need More Than a Party — We Need a Movement

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain recently laid out four priorities he says should form the nucleus of a workers’ political program. And he said that a broad strike in May 2028 is one way to fi...

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StellaMarie @StellaMarie.bsky.social @stellamarie.bsky.social · 2h

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Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

The Department of Labor’s new rule cutting farmworker wages bluntly states that souped-up immigration enforcement has devastated the agricultural workforce and created a significant “risk of supply sh...

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StellaMarie @StellaMarie.bsky.social @stellamarie.bsky.social · 2h

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Half of Senate Dems Help Pass $925 Billion Pentagon Bill

Senate Democrats are blasting President Donald Trump’s increasingly authoritarian behavior and congressional Republicans for shutting down the US government to preserve devastating healthcare cuts, bu...

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StellaMarie @StellaMarie.bsky.social @stellamarie.bsky.social · 2h

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Why the Deck Is Stacked Against Workers Under Capitalism

The death of German sociologist Claus Offe on October 1 marked the passing of one of the last postwar European socialist intellectuals. Famous for his analysis of the contradictions of advanced capita...

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StellaMarie @StellaMarie.bsky.social @stellamarie.bsky.social · 2h

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Philly overdose deaths keep declining as wellness ecosystem expands

Providers say Narcan availability is saving lives. But has the city’s huge investment made an impact?

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StellaMarie @StellaMarie.bsky.social @stellamarie.bsky.social · 2h

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O’Rourke proposes rent rebate and permanent funding for free SEPTA passes

Councilmember Nicolas O'Rourke argues that more public transit aid for low-income residents would show that government can work.

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 1d

I like this quote, and I agree it’s true. What about you?

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StellaMarie @StellaMarie.bsky.social @stellamarie.bsky.social · 1d

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The Boat Strikes Are Just the Beginning

The videos of carnage on the open seas have, by now, become almost routine: A small, fast-moving boat skips along the waves. Seconds later, it erupts into a ball of flame after munitions flying too qu...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

With weeks to go before Mainers decide on a ballot initiative that could radically restrict voting in the state, the GOP backers of the measure seemed to have received a gift from heaven. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick.

Read more here...

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Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 2d

In which Marjorie Taylor Greene advocates for @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social to be sworn in & “can’t conclusively say” the shutdown isn’t just a tactic to block the Epstein file release.

“…why drag this out? That is going to have 218 signatures, so I say go ahead & do it. Get it over with.”

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

REMINDER: American businesses and consumers will pay the 100% import tax www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/t...

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CDN ᔅᑏᕕᓐ 🍁 @cdnhistory.bsky.social · 1d

What could possibly go wrong?

Act 1: lose election.
Act 2: blame everyone, anyone and anything for losing.
Act 3: scream election interference louder.
Act 4: buy company to actually cause election interference.

Democracy in America y’all.

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Dominion Voting Systems, at centre of false 2020 election claims, sold to former Republican election official | CBC News

Voting technology company Dominion Voting Systems (DVS), founded in Toronto and a target of conspiracy theories in the 2020 U.S. presidential election spread by Republican Donald Trump and his allies,...

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@PennyCees @pennycees.bsky.social · 2d

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🦋💔🇺🇸SEB🇺🇸💔🦋 @sebastiangarof5.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn’t it be cool if this photo of Obama receiving his Noble Peace Prize went viral today? 🔄

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Today, the National Guard began patrolling in Memphis.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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StellaMarie @StellaMarie.bsky.social @stellamarie.bsky.social · 2d

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Work Therapy or Wage Theft?

The Salvation Army runs “180-day residential work-therapy programs” that allegedly “provide[] spiritual, social, and emotional assistance to people who have lost the ability to cope with their problem...

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StellaMarie @StellaMarie.bsky.social @stellamarie.bsky.social · 2d

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Mexican President Sheinbaum’s Triumphant Year One

On September 15, Claudia Sheinbaum — the first woman president in Mexico’s history — stepped onto the balcony of the National Palace to perform the ritual grito, or cry of independence.

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StellaMarie @StellaMarie.bsky.social @stellamarie.bsky.social · 2d

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Russ Vought Is Going To Damage Trump Even More Than Elon Musk Did

Russell Vought has been “dreaming” of a government shutdown “since puberty”—at least according to Utah Senator Mike Lee, who boasted about the head of the Office of Management and Budget’s mastery of ...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Mabel & I hope all our fellow Californians vote YES on Prop. 50!

#FightFireWithFire

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Shapiro: I filed that amicus brief last night to make it very clear that the Pennsylvania National Guard is under my command.

The way the President has chosen to deploy the Guard in other states—and, in at least one case, deploy the Guard from one state into another—is extremely dangerous.

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