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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Mina Markham @minamarkh.am · 17h

Evergreen.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 17h

In my “Fine, I’ll do it myself” - era.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12h

Yet another incident that would’ve gotten any other president immediately impeached that is only the 127th worst thing Trump has done in 2025.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 12h

I'm still going to be doing BDS, by the way, until the Occupation ends or I'm dead.

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Erica @ericasinthegarden.bsky.social · 12h

I’m just going to put this here…

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

The largely forgotten history of Philadelphia’s police bombing of Black organization MOVE

This week marked the 40th anniversary of one of the worst tragedies in Philadelphia’s history. In May 1985, the city’s police department dropped an improvised bomb on a residential home that housed th...

www.pbs.org

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 13h

This is truly horrifying.

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach…with Antifa."

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Captain Millennial @captmillennial.bsky.social · 15h

This is the beginning of them changing the definition of the word “war” so they can attack citizens without repercussions.

Protests are not war.
Accountability is not war.
Disagreeing is not war.

Expression will soon be war.

And that will be the beginning of the erasure of the first amendment.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 17h

Life would have been better never knowing what I'd lost because of these racists. Because this might kill me.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 17h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 17h

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Gnomey BumbleCrunch @gnomeybumblecrunch.bsky.social · 1d

They should give me the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the gnome-frog war (I made it up)

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

www.404media.co

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Marjorie Taylor Greene just realized her adult children’s insurance premiums would double if the Republican cuts to ACA go through.

She’s broken party lines and is siding with the Dems.

How many more MAGA people are out there like her? Who don’t realize these cuts will financially devastate them?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with the GOP on Obamacare, calling to avoid premium hikes

Greene said she's "not a fan" of Obamacare but complained that her "own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE" if Congress ignores the issue.

www.nbcnews.com

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 2d

Rebecca Sugar (Steven Universe) to direct a "Moomins" animated feature film.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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Dan Przygoda @dprzygoda.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents are reportedly creeping around high schools in Chicago. And because they are wearing masks, often not wearing uniforms and using unmarked vehicles this means that ANYONE could show up dressed like this and disappear kids off the streets. This is especially dangerous

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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 3d

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Pixels Puddlefen @pixelthegnome.bsky.social · 2d

can't tonite, i'll be busy emerging from a cocoon

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Erica @ericasinthegarden.bsky.social · 2d

(Wo)man made horrors beyond your comprehension

A fake orange pumpkin with an air sculpted clay face that’s not yet finished. So far it has a strong cleft chin, lips, a large nose, and eyeballs but no eyelids or eyebrows yet. Those will be added later.

To the left bottom corner is the tub of air dry clay I’m using and there’s a small red paintbrush on the table I’ve been using to wet the clay and keep it soft enough to sculpt.

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Erica @ericasinthegarden.bsky.social · 2d

Put out your Halloween stuff when the husband isn’t looking to get your first good scare of the year.

Thing: 1 scare, very spooky 👻

A plastic fake hand with a lot of black stitches (like Thing from the Addams Family) on piano keys

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 4d

a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."

gilbert poses after his pizzas fall on the floor

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Hogula 🧛🏻‍♂️🐷🎃 @jessemackinnon.com · 4d

Any encounter with scholarship about racial violence in the Jim Crow South leads any thinking person to conclude that America has a long and extensive history of fascism. It’s just that people tend to refuse to acknowledge it as such when it’s targeting black people.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 4d

Their efficacy was confirmed against LIVE viruses including Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), AND Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

The study has been published in Science Advances. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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ABSTRACT
Viral pandemics continue to threaten global health and economic stability. Despite medical advances, the absence of broad-spectrum antivirals (BSAs) prevents rapid responses to emerging viral threats. This is largely due to the lack of universal drug targets across diverse viral families and high variability among viral proteins.
In this study, we evaluated 57 synthetic carbohydrate receptors (SCRs) for antiviral activity in cellulo using pseudotyped virus particles (PVPs) from six high-risk viruses across three families: Paramyxoviridae, Filoviridae, and Coronaviridae.
Four SCRs inhibited all tested PVPs, and their efficacy was confirmed against live viruses including SARS-CoV-2, MERS-COV, EBOV, MARV, NiV, and HeV.
Notably, SCR005 and SCR007, which exhibited minimal toxicity, significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 infection in a severe animal model with a single dose.
Mechanistic studies suggested that SCRs bind viral envelope N-glycans, blocking viral attachment and/or fusion.
These results identify conserved viral N-glycans as promising BSA targets and establish SCRs as candidate prophylactic agents against enveloped viruses with pandemic potential.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 5d

At the newsletter right now:

One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty

jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

Turning Point USA Hosts Campus Event Pushing Death Penalty for Abortion Patients

10.3.25

jessica.substack.com

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Dangeroo @cwom.bsky.social · 5d

Media just cannot seem to muster the strength to call BULLSHIT to their faces. The contempt the Republicans have for their voters - to sit there and lie non-stop - is astounding. But Media has to point it out...and not pussy foot about.

Mr. Speaker: YOU. CONTROL. THE. GOVERNMENT. GTFOH

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