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Johnny ❌👑 @johnnyscience1.bsky.social · 4h

I’m shocked. Shocked, I say! 🫤

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.

(Published June)

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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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 9h

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 10h

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@GeorgeAtomic @georgeatomic.bsky.social · 6h

So where's Tyler Robinson? You know, the guy who shot Charlie Kirk?

What the hell?

Where's the maga outrage?

For that matter, where's ANYTHING ABOUT IT????????
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Can we say 'set up'???

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 6h

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 8h

Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldn’t have to say this.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 10h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

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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Leah-Bug @leah-bug.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon's Attorney General went to jail while Nixon did not.

Pam, your freedom is about to be curtailed.

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Leslie 💙🇺🇸💙 @truebluern.bsky.social · 9h

Excellent song! Fabulous group! I could not get enough Thompson Twins back in the day! Aaahh the 80’s!!

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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 18h

He's effing scary

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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MadAsHell-NeverTrumper 🌊💙🌈 @janl99.bsky.social · 1d

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Leslie 💙🇺🇸💙 @truebluern.bsky.social · 9h

This whole f-ing world is going to hell. It all needs to just stop! I miss COVID, when the whole world paused and was mostly kind to each other.

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Leslie 💙🇺🇸💙 @truebluern.bsky.social · 9h

Justin Salhani @justinsalhani.bsky.social · 10h

Israeli attacked a residential building in Gaza City and, according to Al Jazeera, killed and injured more than 70 civilians with most of them still under the rubble.

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nypapajoe.bsky.social @nypapajoe.bsky.social · 20h

There's nothing more enlightening than embracing another culture. America continues to treat the indigenous with disdain.

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Leslie 💙🇺🇸💙 @truebluern.bsky.social · 10h

A difficult FAFO if she voted for this current horrible regime

Rosegarden54 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 11h

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maxwineinger.bsky.social @maxwineinger.bsky.social · 11h

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 15h

Dorothy Arzner (1897-1979): one of the first women in Hollywood to successfully move from silent to sound film; directed over 20 features.

#GirlPower
#RadicalWomen

Dorothy Arzner (1897-1979): Hollywood Pioneer

Born in 1897 and coming of age in the silent-era studios, she was one of the first women in Hollywood to successfully move from silent to sound film, directed over 20 features between 1927 and 1943, and became the first woman member of the Directors Guild of America. After studying pre-medicine for a time, she shifted to the film industry in 1919, taking a job as a stenographer at Famous Players-Lasky (later Paramount). She soon worked as an editor and writer, cutting films like Blood and Sand (1922), and by 1927 she directed her first feature, Fashions for Women.

At a time when female directors were rare and often ephemera, she sustained a career over more than a decade, directing for major studios and commanding real authority on set. In 1929 she directed *The Wild Party*, not only one of Paramount’s early talkies but also the scene where she innovated the boom microphone: confronted with the difficulty of hidden mics restricting actors’ movement, she rigged a microphone to a fishing pole so sound would follow the performers fluidly. That innovation wasn’t just technical—it was symbolic of the freedom she believed cinema could afford.

Throughout her career she cast and nurtured actresses like Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Lucille Ball and Rosalind Russell, giving them parts that dared to question conventional femininity. Behind the scenes, she lived boldly: she dressed in trousers and suits when most women were pressured into skirts, and she maintained relationships that defied norms in an era of strict social conformity.

After leaving mainstream directing in 1943, she taught filmmaking at institutions like Pasadena Playhouse and UCLA, influencing later filmmakers. She died on October 1, 1979 in La Quinta, California.

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Leslie 💙🇺🇸💙 @truebluern.bsky.social · 11h

I am out of fucks…I just can’t …seriously???

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 12h

TRUMP
YOU
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EVIL
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ORANGE
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THE FIRST LETTER
OF EACH WORD IS
HIGHLIGHTED RED.

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Leslie 💙🇺🇸💙 @truebluern.bsky.social · 11h

Oh FFS!! If the Nobel Prize committee caves to the fat orange felon ….ugh! I don’t even have words to express how sad, hurt and disappointed I will be

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Leslie 💙🇺🇸💙 @truebluern.bsky.social · 11h

What a POS! Israel with US support destroys a country “with tremendous wealth” so they can fucking split the proceeds 🤬🤬🤬🤬

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