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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2h

I donated some copies of Let This Radicalize You for distribution at an ICE watch training for folks who want to join school patrols in a nearby neighborhood. Not everyone got a copy, because 120 people showed up for that training tonight. I am endlessly proud of Chicago.

A display of copies of Let This Radicalize You on a table in front of a sign that reads: "Let This Radicalize You offers stories, strategy and heart for the kind of collective care and resistance we're building together today. It helps us move from reacting to organizing. Showing how ordinary people protect each other, build power, and keep hope alive. Take a copy. Read it. Stay connected."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

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Habu @flyinghabu.bsky.social · 11h

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

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𝓥𝓲𝓿𝓲𝓪𝓷 𝓡𝔂𝓮 @vivianrye.me · 20h

Nostalgia is easier to manipulate than anyone would care to admit.

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jeffreyford8 @jeffreyford8.bsky.social · 1d

Was reading about the invasions of Portland and Chicago today and it caused me to remember this panel from a Walt Kelly Pogo strip.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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kevin464.bsky.social @kevin464.bsky.social · 1d

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone's a media critic now www.rappler.com/world/global...

Pope Leo urges news outlets not to 'sell out' for click-bait

On the use of artificial intelligence tools, Pope Leo asks reporters to fight against 'junk' information and to help people recognize fact from fiction

www.rappler.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 12h

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.

For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.

Please share your joys with us.

Heater, an orange cat with BIG eyes, nestles herself in a sea of grey blankies.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

bit.ly

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 1d

Love you #Portlandia! #resist #iceicebaby

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

The acting CDC Director has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health. Trump has no knowledge, training or experience in science/public health.

Both are calling to make the MMR vaccine into 3 separate shots, which makes absolutely no scientific or public health sense.

Acting CDC boss wants to break up MMR vaccine into three shots

Jim O’Neill joins President Donald Trump’s call for three distinct measles, mumps and rubella shots, claiming a separation would ‘reduce the risk of side effects’ and ‘maximize parental choice’

www.independent.co.uk

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · 1d

Penguin losing its mind over bubbles...

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

#bluesky #animals #wildlife #nature

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Jules @jules1st.bsky.social · 1d

This is Casper. He’s recently adopted by a friend, so he has much to smile about.

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kevin464.bsky.social @kevin464.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣

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Chip @chipgr.bsky.social · 1d

Have a happy #waterWednesday
Nature break day 268
#nature #photograpy #stream #photooftheday #peace #outside #eastcoastkin #landscape #creek #photographersofbluesky #forest #landscape #hiking

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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readerofthetime.bsky.social @readerofthetime.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, well done, Chicago!

ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 1d

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 1d

What a dumb ass! And an insurrectionist 🙄

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"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

www.nytimes.com

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1d

US #scientist Dr Fred #Ramsdell was "living his best life" offline when the Nobel committee tried to contact him.

He told the BBC his first response when his wife said, "You've won the Nobel prize [for medicine]” was: "I did not."

Read more about his reaction: bbc.in/3KFAtMM

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Oscar, Sunny&Barney @wackelkasper.bsky.social · 1d

I found a new box! It's comfy and even has a roof. I think I like it! ~Barney 🐈

#hedgewatch

Barney, the ginger and white cat, is lying in a cardboard box that is on its side. His paws are neatly arranged, so you can admire his white socks.

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers @blklibrarygirl.bsky.social · 1d

If you worked on something today, congratulate yourself: Childcare, answering emails, physical therapy, writing, watering plants.

Anything you did, go ‘head & remind yourself you survived another day & that’s a gracious plenty, given what’s happening.

Let’s not take our survival for granted.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is not great

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