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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 1h

We do not need any more members of the LifeAlert Caucus thank you!

Axios @axios.com · 15h

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

trib.al

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

We need to have solutions for the Collaborator Problem: the way the fascist takeover of all our institutions has led to the promotion of soulless, facile, subservient mediocrities filling vitally important roles across the breadth of our society

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 1h

(Often synagogues will have them and host events through all of Sukkot, see if they're welcoming guests.)

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 1h

Try to get yourself invited to a sukkah, they're lovely to have a meal in. It's like a dining shed.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2h

Gotta jump to the Greens

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11h

It’s been a long time since my Latin American Politics class but I remember that people generally don’t like it when you target priests

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 11h

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 12h

Here’s video of the incident

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 12h

ah well. nevertheless.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

Donald Trump has heard the wails and lamentations of all the Rust Belt communities left behind by neoliberalism, and he has a message for them: fuck you and die

Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · 14h

Some additional info on the new list of axed DOE projects circulating.
- All 7 H2 Hubs
- All 13 IRA grants to convert at-risk auto plants to EV mfg
- 11 of 15 grants to speed domestic clean energy mfg in former coal communities
- 10 of 38 grants for battery materials
heatmap.news/politics/doe...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

hence this Turtledove short. reactormag.com/the-eighth-g...

The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging - Reactor

Some people will tell you that world-class fame is better than living to a contented old age. Other people disagree. One of those other people might possibly be the protagonist of this tale by Harry T...

reactormag.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the chris caldwell of 1948 would have been arguing against desegregation of the armed forces www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 14h

I genuinely don't think we can set things right in this country until these people are publicly humiliated and ruined and maybe marched to the gallows.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 21h

Honestly I just can't stand how these people want to burn everything down and then pull the "How dare you?" card when called on it. Crybullies, all of them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 20h

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 14h

LD-Green electoral pact based on electoral reform when

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21h

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the horrific October 7 attack.

As we mourn the 1,218 lives lost that day, let us also keep alive the dream of a lasting peace and a better future for all.

Ceasefire now. Every hostage must come home. And a safer world for everyone.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 14h

I hate this motherfucker.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 18h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 17h

I also think this is prosecutable. Like this cannot be within the performance of their duties.

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 18h

Spamming fake 911 calls is a great way to make the local cops hate you.

But this is what happens when you're stuck hiring psychopaths, drunks, and hooligans b/c no one else wants to work for you.

ICE is gonna ICE. But it'll be bad for the regime, too.

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 1d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 17h

Hundreds of D.C. area gas station awnings are feeling strained and don't know why.

The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think Stephen Miller is going to enjoy the world where the majority of Americans know who he is and what he’s about.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 17h

I want off this ride

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23h

All children deserve lives unburdened by hate, war, guns, bombs, kidnapping, or murder. All people deserve equal rights to peace, dignity, and self-determination.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 18h

Such an operation would have been unabashedly legal and defensible. It's an armed conflict, a raid to probe your enemies' defenses and kill and capture their combatants is just Tuesday.

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 20h

Man I’m in like the top 0.1% of Americans for, like, quantitative financial modeling and the idea of having to do some kind of actuarial underwriting of my expected healthcare expenses to buy a plan strikes me as such an insane way to run a system (no shade on OP for the great thread, to be clear)

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · Oct 28

It's open enrollment time so here's a convenient peg to hang a little tutorial about how to choose your health insurance.

Most of the advice you get is bad. Most of your instincts are bad. I however used to work for a health insurance company and I do arithmetic for a living so I can help.

Bionic Woman @batmansrobyn.bsky.social · Oct 28

Personally I think it's great that my company's HR sends out an official looking tool where they even ask you to pre-populate your healthcare providers and instead of being the actual insurance enrollment process it's just some bullshit checklist to try and convince me I actually don't want a PPO

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h

She’s a seditious, treasonous usurper of America’s tradition of impartial justice and rule of law, and one day she should pay a terrible price for her betrayal of the Constitution and the oath she swore

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

PADILLA: Do you believe govt officials are obligated to follow court orders whether they agree with them or not, yes or no?

BONDI: I wish you loved your state of California as much as you hate President Trump

PADILLA: I asked a simple yes or no question

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 20h

I was once trying to get my laptop camera to work for a group call and it would, so I said "oh you stupid motherfucking piece of shit," to which there was a moment of silence and then "Rev, you are not on mute."

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 20h

Our future is just Bari Weiss looking at a mirror and saying "exaaaaaactly," forever

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