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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 3h

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Wynton Marsalis - The Seductress

YouTube video by Austin Casey

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 13h

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

We take a look at ICE's skyrocketing expansion, the agency's failing standards, and where detention centers are planned for next.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

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crimzen75.bsky.social @crimzen75.bsky.social · Mar 14

I remember Los Angeles looking like this when I was a kid. You could see, smell, and taste it. We do not want to go back to this.

Jill 💙🌊🌊💙 @pumpkin061.bsky.social · Mar 13

CALL YOUR REPS! @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

"A Chicago Heights Catholic priest began a 50-day pilgrimage in support of immigrant children, from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton, IL to New York ...

'This is not only a physical act of endurance, but a spiritual act of solidarity, a prayer in motion'..."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/06/c...

Chicago Heights priest begins walk for immigrant children from Pope Leo’s childhood home in Dolton

Gary Graf, a Chicago Heights Catholic priest, began a 50-day justice walk from Pope Leo’s boyhood home in Dolton to New York.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 7h

All lies, all the time.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5h

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.

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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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 15h

Just a heads up: lots of Republican women get abortions too.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 5h

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 6h

Emperor Donnie unveils the Arch de Trumph

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Thomas Fortenberry @thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · 6h

Though the churches have backed theocracy since Reagan-Bush, now they’re starting to realize that after they arrest all the “others” they are coming for them.

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John @writeroftruth.bsky.social · 6h

Dump treating the military like a toilet again

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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