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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 3h

Please make the London Review of Books have more followers than me @lrb.co.uk thank you

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

They’re lying because they want you to support them cutting your healthcare, and they want you to blame immigrants.

- undocumented immigrants aren’t eligible for Medicaid or the ACA

- 700 rural hospitals will close

- Health insurance premiums will double, or more

- 15 million will lose coverage

Fact Check: Mike Johnson's Biggest Lies About Health Care and Undocumented Immigrants

GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson pushes the false narrative that Democrats shut down the government to fund health care for undocumented people.

www.rollingstone.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 3h

Check this *magnificent* song Iyer wrote for Baraka: youtu.be/0SWCvmHzm7I?...

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

In terms of a big disaster that could help lock in/advance some of the noble goals in the above piece, I think an AI bubble bursting leading to a bad recession/depression is a real candidate. Since AI has bubble/bullshit/myth aspects all over it. What do you think?

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

So fucking cool. Insane INSANE to me that the US govt isn’t tripping over itself to get in on this & be rich (and um, exist?) forever.

Electrek @electrek.co · 1d

In a first, renewables generate more power than coal globally

Solar and wind power aren’t just keeping up with global electricity demand anymore – they’re pulling ahead. According to a new analysis from energy think tank Ember, solar and wind combined outpaced global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025. That shift led to a drop in both coal and gas generation compared to the same period last year. For the first time ever, renewables generated more power than coal globally. more…

electrek.co

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

He’s out! 131 flotilla members driven to Jordan border & released. I hear all UK members now out. A few still remain in Israeli custody but please don’t use me as any sort of definitive news source on this. ❤️🇵🇸

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so inspired by the flotillas. I haven’t joined one because I feel my primary purpose at this time is to raise the kids I brought into the world to the best of my abilities (you can call that cowardice or rationalization; it may be) but if my kids were out of the house I’d be like my hero Malcolm

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

My friend’s dad Malcolm Ducker, former RAF pilot, dad & grandad, is among those still being held in a maximum security Israeli prison for the crime of trying to bring food & medicine to Gaza with the Global Sumud Flotilla. Read: www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-and-...

US and UK 'immensely let down' families of detained Gaza flotilla activists

Israel still holding hundreds of activists in Ketziot prison, with British and American citizens receiving little help

www.middleeasteye.net

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 1d

Our Growth and Development Committee is launching a fall drive to ensure we keep the momentum going. Together, we're building a mass, multiracial, working class organization capable of building a new world. Join us at: dsausa.org/join 3/3

Join DSA. Become a member today.

Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...

dsausa.org

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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 1d

For the first time in history, DSA has 80,000 members in good standing! Tens of thousands of new members have joined the last year alone. In the face of rising fascism, a US-backed genocide, and an escalating climate crisis, socialism is the only path forward. 1/3

DSA Members in Good Standing -- 80K and Counting! Join today! dsausa.org/join Line graph showing number of members in good standing rising from 50,000 in October 2024 to 80,000 in September 2025.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

Roger. Thanks! That makes them better

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

YouTube is bad too! Who isn’t? Tidal maybe? What to do!! (real question)

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

So you’re really probably exactly correct with above ratio for my tastes but still want ppl to know this song: open.spotify.com/track/28s5iR...

Better Days

open.spotify.com

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 1d

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 2d

May I ask you to watch this video about Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice? They made my family’s life so much warmer when our son Henry was dying. If so moved, you can support their work here: noahsarkhospice.org.uk/donate-from-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHlh...

From That Moment 2025

YouTube video by Noah's Ark Children's Hospice

www.youtube.com

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 4d

this is a GOOD speech

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.

But consider this...

Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.

Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Leavitt: "When an illegal alien goes to the emergency room, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 5d

Kavanaugh recently suggested immigration stops are no big deal if you're a legal resident bc ICE just promptly releases you

That is not, in fact, what ICE does

He invents a fiction bc the reality of the policies he supports is too disturbing for him to imagine

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Brett Kavanaugh’s Racial Profiling Opinion Is Looking Sillier By the Day

Kavanaugh said that immigration agents “promptly” release people after determining that they are legal U.S. residents. They don’t.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 5d

Rudy Giuliani asked to leave Cuomo fundraiser because he keeps looking up “Tilly Norwood nude” on the iPad hooked up to the projector

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 6d

Kaleb Horton’s mom has written some comments and asked to spread her thanks for everyone online who’s been sharing their appreciations: “you all made my suffering feel more bearable. Thank you so much and God Bless you all.”

@lukeoneil47.bsky.social @nedraggett.bsky.social @alexnpress.bsky.social

Deborah Horton
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Matt, I do not have much of a social media presence and have no idea how to deliver a message to all of the amazing people who have sent me messages and been so kind and supportive so if that is something you are able to do I would so appreciate it. I am so overwhelmed with my world just ending but you are all so kind and so supportive of Kaleb and I feel so inadequate to honor him with his peers. Just pass along any way that you can that you all made my suffering feel more bearable. Thank you so much and God Bless you all.

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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 6d

EMERGENCY: ISRAEL ATTACKS GSF
Israel has attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters. People of conscience have been abducted.
The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and the Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.

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Background image - evening, boat in ocean flying Palestinian flag with FFC and TM logos.
Text: EMERGENCY
Israel has attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla. Unarmed people of conscience, abducted in international waters. This is piracy. This is kidnapping.

The flotilla did not break any laws. What is unlawufl is genocide, the deadly blockade of Gaza, the use of starvation as a weapon of war, and the piracy of civilians vessels and abduction of all those on board.

Background image - evening, boat in ocean flying Palestinian flag with FFC amd TM logos.
Text: We will never stop challenging Israel's illegal blockade - a siege weaponized to starve, silence, and imprison Palestinians.
Stand with us to break the siege and hold governments and institutions accountable for enabling Israel's crimes.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 6d

Here’s who’s been taken by IDF so far: globalsumudflotilla.org/sos/?key=X8J...

SOS - Global Movement to Gaza

globalsumudflotilla.org

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 6d

Global Sumud Flotilla website has gone down but tracker still up as vessels intercepted by IDF: flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 6d

Livestream of Global Sumud Flotilla as they approach Gaza. Watch & share: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

Tracker of Global Sumud Flotilla as it approaches Gaza

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