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BIG D GRANDROYAL @bigdgrandroyal.bsky.social · 8h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 8h

"A rival petition began circulating Sunday, calling on the Rutgers chapter of TPUSA to be disbanded, accusing it of inciting violence. As of today, that petition had several hundred more signatures than the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s firing..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 18h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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アンディ @andymarkle.com · 1d

As someone who was subjected to conversion therapy, it doesn’t work. It won’t work. It’s torture. I was hooked up to an IV and made to vomit watching gay porn for two hours per week. I was prayed over. Bibles and the Book of Mormon were shoved in my face.

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Alejandro Alegria ⭐️ @alegriagonzaa.bsky.social · 17h

❤️ #Coñaripe

#Chile

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((Wee G )) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 22h

I was born in England, but I was reborn in Scotland. And that rebirth has given me clarity - not to divide, but to stand for a Scotland that believes in itself and its right to chart its own path.👇

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 10h

They threw us a bone!

Craig Renney @clrenney.bsky.social · 10h

#nzpol

GOOD NEWS ALERT 🚨

Today the government relented to pressure from the @livingwageaotearoa.bsky.social and retained the requirement for contracted workers to be paid at least the Living Wage rate in Government Contracts. Around 5,000 workers will likely benefit from this decision

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

It’s so funny that we finally got confirmation it was an accident and even funnier that we didn’t know for sure because he tweets such crazy, criminal shit all the time

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 10h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10h

I'm never going to make a deadline again, I turn off my phone for 5 hours to try to get work done and turns out all the worst people in the world had an Antifa Press Conference where they are openly broadcasting their intent to murder and imprison dissidents

Do I have that about right?

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 11h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Academic Anarchy🏴 - Antifa Founder @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 9h

Mark is one of the US’s leading scholars on the history of antifascism and a professor at Rutgers University. He was harassed by the fascist group TPUSA, and began receiving death threats.

As he and his family attempted to flee the country, this happened:

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 11h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Danielle, Petty Hate Machine @dimsie.bsky.social · 1d

I got lost in the cemetery today. Here is an armless angel in front of the setting sun

A giant angel statue commemorating the life and death of a woman from 1904

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Marketman52 @marketman52.bsky.social · 19h

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john60612.bsky.social @john60612.bsky.social · 8h

Great commentary by Robert Reich

These brutal firings and closures mean Trump is flying blind — and heading for a crash

Flying blind is dangerous, but it’s what Trump and his lackeys are forcing America to do.For starters, the current government shutdown means that critical economic statistics — such as job numbers fro...

www.rawstory.com

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 13h

Any form of media that involves an angry man telling an audience what to be angry about for several hours a day is probably not good for the human brain

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22h

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

Waiting on those $1000 tariff rebate checks. 🤡

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14h

it’s all just a grift

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 8h

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Colorado's law prohibiting conversion therapy for minors.

Justice Samuel Alito Poses ‘Ideology’ Question in Supreme Court LGBTQ+ Case

www.newsweek.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21h

Last night, my team filed a motion to defend voters in California.

DOJ sued 8 states. My firm has filed to protect voters in all 8 states.

We will never back down from the fight to protect free and fair elections.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 7d

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files.

My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.

I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.

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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 1d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Paul @ednasmeds.bsky.social · 1d

..been a while

Kind Of Blue (1959)
- Miles Davis

#nowspinning #musicsky #vinyl #nowplaying #jazz

Vinyl record on turntable, cover displayed.
Artist: Miles Davis
Album: Kind of Blue

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 10h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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