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Veteran. Volunteer. Vegan. Vagabond. I have seen the ugliness in the world. This will get very bad. Please, be ready.

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P.T. phone home 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @voluntold.bsky.social · Aug 8

Religious extremists have taken over the world’s most powerful government and military.

They disdain free elections and the rule of law.

They have used, and continue to use, political violence to maintain and cement power.

One way or another, this ends in the streets.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 9d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3h

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TGIF.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 3h

Trump has sold out our entire country.

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Catherine Zoltan @catherinezoltan.bsky.social · 3h

The U.S. Military has inherited the country of Qatar as a military responsibility while our military families are forced to get their food from food banks. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 11d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 9h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Vegasdebbie123 @vegasdebbie123.bsky.social · 3h

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 5h

Benny Johnson is a well known plagiarist, grifter, & Christian nationalist who was being paid by Russia - to the tune of well over a $100,000 a month - to push Russian propaganda on the American people - the perfect bio for a MAGA influencer. We no longer have a Justice Department.👇

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 5d

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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P.T. phone home 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @voluntold.bsky.social · 3h

That is just so horribly true 😔

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DataportDoll @dataportdoll.bsky.social · 7h

In the 50s MLK had to turn down some causes because the optics were unfavorable. Newsmax is like the opposite of that.

If they can turn a priest into a bad apple, then that's just one more pillar of society they can demolish until the only thing left to form community around is skin color.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 9h

Black is a Presbyterian pastor who has done anti-poverty work in Chicago since 2020. He grew up in an evangelical household and went to seminary for years, he didn't pay a site online 25 dollars.

My understanding from my nun friends is he's spent most of his time working on running a free pantry.

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 10h

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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💙@AL- I’m here @phoenix-al.bsky.social · 9h

Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a chilling warning in her dissent:

“We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.”

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MBlue.Bsky.social 🌺MB🌺 @mblue.bsky.social · 11h

Just whoa.
#FraternizingWithPutin

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Jen in Motion @jeninmotion.bsky.social · 11h

More and more people are saying that the Dems won the shutdown AND have used it to point out that OBBB stole American healthcare in a way that broke containment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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P.T. phone home 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @voluntold.bsky.social · 11h

Totally agree. Their best outcome is to burn it down and rule over the ashes…

And they know it. And that’s their best case.

P.T. phone home 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @voluntold.bsky.social · 14h

Democratic leaders. Hahaha.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15h

THIS!! 👇👇

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P.T. phone home 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @voluntold.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe they can share next year’s Nobel peace prize.

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 1d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 20h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 18h

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Aftyn Behn won the primary to be the Dem nominee for last of this years special Congressional elections.

This is a red to blue flip opportunity in TN, so let’s show her some support.

EVERY seat in Congress counts and we need new blood.

IT'S OFFICIAL: I'M THE DEM NOMINEE FOR TN-7 I’m so grateful to my team, our volunteers, and every voter who believed in this grassroots movement. You made this happen. This is the last red-to-blue rac...

TikTok video by Rep. Aftyn Behn

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 2d

I wanna say thank yall as we have had an uptick in donations recently. Its beyond appreciated because I do all the fundraising, grantwriting, emails, social posts, & deliveries so its hard. Especially while working a full time job & writing.

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🇪🇺 @veertjephilips.bsky.social · 2d

I prefer a desintegration of the states of the former Soviet Union. 😏

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P.T. phone home 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @voluntold.bsky.social · 2d

Such violentness 😱😱😱