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Jane Thurber

@thurberteam.bsky.social

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Strongly pro Carrot Cake. This account is mostly paintings, plants, birds & jokes. The U.S. should use the metric system. The UK should drive on the right side of the road. I made a Starter Pack that is just for fun, no politics, no culture wars.

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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · Mar 21

'NO' is a complete sentence.

Jasper Johns @jasperjohns.bsky.social · Mar 21

No http://www.moma.org/collection/works/90693

Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 9h

Hot new item. Flying off the shelves.

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 11h

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Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social · 13h

This is a choice made by rich people who don‘t live paycheck to paycheck that’s inflicted upon people who do.

This is a choice to intentionally fire public servants, many of whom live and work here in Virginia, from an administration that just wanted the pretext to do it anyway.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 13h

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues. https://to.pbs.org/3KRpD6d

'RIFs have begun.' Vought announces start of mass firings during government shutdown

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have started in an attempt to exert more pressure on Democratic lawmakers as the government shutdown continues.

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13h

I think it is wild that the Republican leaders of Congress are publicly delegating their branch of government's constitutional spending powers to the president. Why not just let him vote on Supreme Court cases, too?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 13h

Here's the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TF1...

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h

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Veterans, Who Saw One of Their Own Arrested by ICE and Charged, Say Feds Are Undermining Democracy

Days after a 70-year-old Air Force veteran was among five people charged while protesting outside a suburban U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, fellow veterans and others gathered at t...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11h

They are unamerican fascists and they have to be stopped

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 12h

ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11h

Opposing a power mad despot is literally the most American thing an American can do. These guys got a lot wrong but they nailed that one. It is fundamental to the core of this country.

Signing of the Declaration of Independence

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

You break it, you own it. Kudos to @akalhan.bsky.social.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15h

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“Is this the start of a Liberation Day Two?”

@nytimes.com $SPX
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Jane Thurber @thurberteam.bsky.social · 10h

Good.

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Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you so much!

Flipboard @flipboard.com · 11h

A must-read post by @edeggans.bsky.social on finding news outlets to trust, and keeping them accountable. "The audience has never had more power over the media industry than it has right now," he writes.

Eric Deggans @edeggans.bsky.social · 12h

After trading messages with so many readers asking this question, I pulled together a post on how to find trustworthy news sources. The bad news: It means a LOT more work for consumers. READ: https://loom.ly/lG92xgs

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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 10h

Kerry James Marshall, “De Style” (1993)

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/07/kerr...

a painting by Kerry James Marshall of Black figures in a barber shop

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Betteridge’s Law @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social · 10h

Can Smart Glasses Save AI Gadgets From Certain Doom?

Can Smart Glasses Save AI Gadgets From Certain Doom? - Betteridge’s Law

No.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 11h

Honestly think these need to be the symbol of resistance to fascism

Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 13h

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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The 51st @51st.news · 12h

"Every day I wake up, I feel like I am in a mental obstacle course."

New data shows evictions in D.C. have surged past pre-pandemic levels, fueled by shrinking aid, high rents, and weakened tenant protections.

In partnership with @streetsensedc.bsky.social and the Investigative Reporting Workshop:

Evictions rising in DC as housing costs increase

New data shows evictions have surged past pre-pandemic levels, fueled by shrinking aid, high rents, and weakened tenant protections.

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The 51st @51st.news · 12h

This article is part of @streetsensedc.bsky.social's D.C. Homeless Crisis Reporting Project, in collaboration with other local newsrooms.

See more from the project here: bit.ly/DCHCRP

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 12h

"Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism: The head of a conservative watchdog organization acknowledged that its report did not find evidence that the network of liberal billionaire George Soros had broken the law."

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Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11h

Not only is this rude, inappropriate, partisan, costly, and illegal, it reveals the fundamentally anti-American idiocy of this administration’s policy of handing over to China the most important economic sector of the 21st century.

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 9d

Next move from OMB - canceling $8 billion in clean energy funds. You will note, all of the projects are in states led by Democrats

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 11h

This isn't legal.

And yet these fuckers are doing it anyway, knowing that by the time Congress and the courts* intervene it won't matter because the damage will have been done.

How can you do this to your country?

*not the Supreme Court, obv

SpacePolicyOnline @spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 12h

OMB Director Russell Vought says the government layoffs -- Reductions in Force (RIFs) -- that the White House has been threatening if Congress doesn't vote to reopen the government have begun.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 15h

"At one point, a masked officer strolled into the waiting room, walked up to a young Latin American woman wearing a paper mask and a Lilo & Stitch hoodie, ordered her to remove her face covering, stuck his phone in her face, and took her photo. He then left, with no explanation."

It’s the Place for Immigrants Who Do Things “the Right Way.” ICE Has Turned It Into Hell.

Immigrants come to court-mandated appointments in search of citizenship. They find masked, armed agents instead.

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Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 15h

Obviously need to wait for size of Federal layoffs and impact on Virginia

Could be really big deal as Election Day is 3 and half weeks away

The last week has been brutal for Virginia Dems

But this could once again change dynamics in race

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

Family says Border Patrol agents shot and killed their dog after being given permission to search the house for undocumented immigrants.

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El Paso family claims Border Patrol killed their dog during search, CBP reviewing incident

U.S. Customs and Border Protection says they are reviewing a "use of force incident" in El Paso, after a family says a Border Patrol agent unjustifiably shot...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15h

Just a reminder that the Constitution gives Congress the power to set tariffs. It could end this madness any day they chose to discover their power.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

Immigration raids in Nashville have made crime victims afraid to cooperate with police and seek counseling.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 14h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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