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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 9h

DESPICABLE! I'm so sorry, I share this with every member I've met in Congress. IT IS INHUMANE. We are the wealthiest country in the world & THIS is UNACCEPTABLE! 🤬💔

KnightHawk♿💙 @knighthawk899.bsky.social · 10h

I just got my letter from Medicare about my changes in benefits for next year and they slashed everything in half. I won't be able to survive I can't even survive right now I'm having to choose between food and medicine every month.

I have to carry cushion around to sit down I need Healthcare.

a poster that says one nation under insured with an eagle

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Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 10h

Some random Republican tried to come for me in the Halls of Congress.

Things didn’t work out well for him.

#SaveHealthcare

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

🚨BREAKING: The Republican Party’s top mapmaker testified in federal court Wednesday that while he’s been instructed in the past to preserve minority congressional districts protected by the Voting Rights Act, he received no such direction when drawing Texas’ new gerrymander this summer.

Top GOP Mapmaker Describes a Texas Gerrymander Ordered Up By Washington

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Rich Son @rich-son.bsky.social · 12h

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Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 13h

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Yon @yondiss-1.bsky.social · 13h

www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a... Trump Administration Abruptly Cut Off Highly Effective Support for Disabled People Experiencing Homelessness

Trump Administration Abruptly Cut Off Highly Effective Support for Disabled People Experiencing Homelessness | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

The Trump Administration abruptly ended federal support for a highly effective intervention that helps disabled people experiencing or at risk of homelessness access benefits to help them stabilize...

www.cbpp.org

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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 13h

Where the horny horn folk at?

(That’s what the old funk group Parliament Funkadelic used to call their horn section)

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Rich Son @rich-son.bsky.social · 13h

Knuckle busters.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

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

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Bandcamp @bandcamp.com · 17h

New & Notable: The great Kelly Moran returns with a new LP that balances classical piano composition with electronic textures to dazzling results.

Don't Trust Mirrors, by kelly moran

10 track album

kellymoran.bandcamp.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · 17h

Congress is considering a provision in the Intelligence Authorization Act that would end Senate confirmation of the chief lawyers responsible for secretly shaping policies on surveillance, detention, and interrogation at U.S. intelligence agencies.

Keep Senate confirmation for top intelligence lawyers, civil liberties groups urge

A provision in the 2026 annual intelligence community bill would lift Senate confirmation rules for the chief counsels of the CIA and ODNI. Advocates warn the change would weaken transparency and publ...

www.nextgov.com

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 1d

I refuse to act like this is business as usual.

A million Georgians will see health care payments double if DC Republicans get their way.

Georgians sent me here to fight for them and that’s exactly what I intend to do.

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Rich Son @rich-son.bsky.social · 17h

I haven’t mentioned lately how damn glad I am that you are back here.

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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 17h

"a deeply felt, contemplative late work"—The Times ★★★★★ www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

"Figure In Blue," the 12th Blue Note album by the 87-year-old jazz legend Charles Lloyd, is out Friday! charleslloyd.lnk.to/FigureInBlue

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 21h

The United States does not and has never cared about Black people.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Alison @alliex.bsky.social · 18h

“This country would not exist if Black women had not birthed it from their wombs on the blood-soaked earth of Native people. Enslavement, lynching, Jim Crow, genocide, the prison industrial complex aren’t footnotes in American history. They’re the main text.” — Imani Gandy

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Rich Son @rich-son.bsky.social · 20h

Then what the fuck is Mike doing? Watching porn all day?

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Black Information Network @blackinfonet.bsky.social · 21h

"These mothaf**kas are crazy." -- #KamalaHarris

Kamala Harris Delivers Unfiltered Message On Trump's 'Crazy' Administration | BIN: Black Information Network

Former Vice President Kamala Harris didn't hold back in her criticism of the Trump administration while delivering an unfiltered assessment of the state of the White House.

www.binnews.com

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GunnyJKJ @gunnyjkj.bsky.social · 1d

Stop making excuses and presenting theories for racism and hate.
It’s racism and hate. Period.
Making excuses is a major part of the problem, and you are you explaining this to who? The recipients? Really?

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

rewirenewsgroup.com

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hurricane Katrina exacerbated the racial wealth gap in New Orleans. Expect similar consequences, as the climate crisis continues to ravage communities around the nation.

I hate this.

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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 1d

How many ways does he have to show he doesn’t give a damn about working folks?!

Troops invading states. Sleeping kids woken up & zip-tied. Prices soaring. Insurance through the roof. Media muzzled. Personal enemies punished.

This isn’t America. This is what authoritarian rot looks like.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 22h

"Missouri’s Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of Planned Parenthood patients who’ve had abortions, officials who oversee clinics in Kansas City and St. Louis said in legal filings."

apnews.com/article/abor...

Abortion providers say Missouri's attorney general is trying to get patient records

Planned Parenthood officials say in court filings that Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of patients who’ve had abortions.

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I M Bedini @imbedini.bsky.social · 22h

Steak n Slop took small business Covid money during the first Trump administration.

Wobbledance aka “Tony” @wobbledance.bsky.social · 5d

Steak n Shake…you’re cooked.

My fast food dollars will be spent elsewhere.

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