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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social.

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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 1d

Truth about where we're at.

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 2d

The significant ongoing tidal flooding event in the #Miami area is caused by a few coincident components:
1) the full moon on October 6, which happens to be near perigee (October 8)
2) sea level rise adds ~8 inches to the baseline sea level used in NOAA tide predictions

#KingTide
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Paul Reimer @etherealhothouse.bsky.social · 2d

He's spot on, but I'd say that "staying the course" is in some respects how we got here.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 3d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

WIC runs out this week

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American Partisan™ @partisan.social · 3d

So much additional, unnecessary hardship and suffering. All done in the name of "efficiency", "cost savings" and "fiscal responsibility", but in plain truth being carried out just to make billionaires richer.

LillianDCA @lillianorlando.bsky.social · 4d

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Susanbeth5781 @susanpatrick1.bsky.social · 4d

walks like a goon, smells like one beware. You could be zip tied next

Andys Theory @andystheory.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is the first American Gestapo in our lifetime. It’s a lot easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. 😎

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[email protected] @blueangie.bsky.social · 4d

A Freeze on Medicaid Payments Is Forcing Cuts to Rural Health Care www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

A Freeze on Medicaid Payments Is Forcing Cuts to Rural Health Care

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 6d

Ex-prosecutor horrified by Trump's newest abuses: 'Eradication of the rule of law'

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann refused to mince words on MSNBC in warning about the dangers of President Donald Trump's aggressive use of the military for law enforcement, from ordering summary strikes on boats in international waters believed to be running drugs, to sending in forces to...

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 6d

Democrats are here in the Capitol ready to reopen government AND stop health care premiums from more than doubling.

This is a REPUBLICAN SHUTDOWN.

Trump, Johnson, and Thune need to get serious about negotiating with Democrats if they want our votes.

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Paul Reimer @etherealhothouse.bsky.social · 6d

Funny not funny.

Sabine Felidae @felidaes.bsky.social · 8d

Recently spotted in London Bridge

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Paul Reimer @etherealhothouse.bsky.social · 6d

Heh heh. Coming soon to a pol8ce state near you.

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CALI GIRL @calidemocrat.bsky.social · 7d

So, Catherine Cortez Masto, John Fetterman and Angus King are the three that voted to keep the Gov open so they could destroy healthcare and our benefits. To thank them you need to find very smart, loyal people and primary them when their term is up. They are traitors to Democracy and need to go.

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Paul Reimer @etherealhothouse.bsky.social · 7d

We've never seen a government so hell-bent on suicidal self-destruction.

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Paul Reimer @etherealhothouse.bsky.social · 7d

The signs were always there.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2009...

They are building a movement for a new Kristallnacht. (2nd update)

Last night when I watched Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the number 5 segment left me with a sick and empty feeling about self-fulfilling prophecies. The right wing has claimed liberal bias for ...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d

One way to put it

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 9d

Dr. Sakuhei #Fujiwhara would be elated to see this 6-day forecast. When he wrote his paper on the process we now call the "Fujiwhara Effect" in 1921, numerical modeling and satellite imagery were still decades away. #Imelda #Humberto
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