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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 9d

Republicans would rather shut down the government than help millions of Americans afford health care. This article tells some of their stories, and is a good reminder of what’s at stake.

These people have found their health care at the center of a shutdown showdown

Small business owners, self-employed people and early retirees are among the 24 million Americans who could lose the tax credit

www.usatoday.com

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

79. American citizen.

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Laurie Loves Data @laurelann.bsky.social · 9d

Mississippi, on the other hand, with a GOP governor, state house and state senate, ranks
* 45th in business starts
* 46th in academic performance
* 51st in health care
* 49th in venture capital

But tell me again how the GOP is good for the economy

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Ewamore, Quoth the Raven @ewacat.bsky.social · 10d

The Libby app is one of the miracles of modern tech tbh

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Katie Daniels @katiedaniels.bsky.social · 9d

Just got back from vacay. Perfect weather for an escape from the world. Have some pretty scenery to spice up your feed.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9d

Thou shalt worry less about Tylenol causing autism and more about Donold causing fascism.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 14d

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.”

Bowing down to a bully never works.

And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18d

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 17d

meanwhile costco was all “DEI is good and we’re keeping it, fuck you” and they’re now basically printing money

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 17d

currently at record-high search interest for canceling disney plus. pulling kimmel is a bigger deal to the company's bottom line than any of the "woke" scandals of the past 5 years. i think news & entertainment corp execs need put more work into understanding their audience, & get off twitter

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17d

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIAN DOCS IN GAZA: “70-80% of our patients are kids and pregnant women… It’s a nightmare… bombing after bombing… We’re making this video because we could die at any moment… Can someone please stop this terror and horror?”

Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRReCVY/

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17d

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

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Katie Daniels @katiedaniels.bsky.social · 17d

What movie do you consider perfect?

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M.D. Neu @authormdneu.bsky.social · 18d

GAY OWN VOICES ROMANCE ANTHOLOGY

A queer Anthology that explores the romantic life and happy ever afters of gay men.

Release Day! This is a follow-up to this spring's Romance is a Drag.

📚books
👬mmromance
🌈gay fiction

Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FRRPXNP5/
Universal Link: books2read.com/u/m2Ao2G

Romance in Autumn (A Queer Anthology Book 2)

Romance in Autumn (A Queer Anthology Book 2) - Kindle edition by Morton, Shane K. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Romance in Autumn (A Queer Anthology Book 2).

www.amazon.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 19d

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading.

Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own.

Just. Keep. Reading.

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Katie Daniels @katiedaniels.bsky.social · 19d

Done when they bowed to the anti-DEI directives earlier this year.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19d

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

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Katie Daniels @katiedaniels.bsky.social · 20d

I actually feel physically ill.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20d

Sinclair is demanding that Kimmel apologize to the family (?) and also "make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA"

Are you fucking kidding me? It's not enough they got him fired, they want him to grovel and send money to these anti-free speech grifters?

TheDesk.net @thedesk.net · 20d

#BREAKING: Sinclair says it will air a one-hour tribute to Charlie Kirk on its ABC-affiliated stations in the time slot that is usually occupied for "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The special will air on Friday, per a Sinclair spokesperson.

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 20d

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20d

Fuck yes to this

Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 20d

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 20d

From performative Mr. Free Speech to tiresome unctuous toady

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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 20d

Very weird, indeed.

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 20d

the Colorado school shooter from the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed posted himself holding his gun on Twitter / X where he followed multiple far right accounts

weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing

Rep. James Comer
@RepJamesComer
X.com
BREAKING
I'm calling on the CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch,
& Reddit to testify at an Oversight Committee
hearing on October 8.
The hearing will examine the radicalization of
online forum users, including instances of open
incitement to commit politically motivated acts.
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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 20d

My writer friends, if you updated your Mac to Tahoe and found it completely borked compiling in Scrivener, there's a fix.

Scrivener 3.45 - Interim Build with Tahoe Support

The next update of Scrivener for macOS, Scrivener 3.5, with full macOS 26 Tahoe support, isn’t quite ready. We’re hoping to have it ready in the next week or so. However, since macOS 26 is being released today, and since Scrivener 3.4’s Compile window is completely broken on Tahoe, we want to make sure that users who wish to update to Tahoe today can do so without having to wait for Scrivener. To that end, we’re making an interim build available. Click the link below to download it: Download Sc...

forum.literatureandlatte.com

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 21d

Fun fact: Nancy Mace is trying to censure me over comments I never said.

Her res does not contain a single quote from me because she couldn’t find any.

Unlike her, I have routinely condemned political violence, no matter the political ideology.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21d

Join me in condemning this kind of statement and this kind of hate.

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