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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2h

Every time.

(No reports of airstrikes or missiles yet though, so that’s something.)

Gaza Notifications @gazanotice
BREAKING: The Israeli army intensifies its attacks across various areas of Gaza City, blowing up residential homes and remotely detonating booby-trapped armored vehicles.
BREAKING
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 3d

"I am not pro-vampire and I am not anti-vampire. I am just trying to have an objective discussion here without using loaded words like 'kill.'"

I Am Just Trying to Have a Civil Online Conversation About Vampires

Whoa there! That’s a pretty extreme claim. Surely you don’t mean to call ALL vampires “blood-sucking ghouls?” Have you ever donated to a blood bank...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

WSJ reports that DOJ is going to charge John Bolton.

In case you needed anyone less sympathetic to rally behind than Jim Comey.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Prosecutors in Maryland are expected in coming days to charge one of Trump’s first-term national security advisers, John Bolton, now a top Trump critic, with mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 5h

"Siblings, cousins and playmates are often killed together, by an airstrike or artillery shell. Even children shot by snipers or quadcopters are sometimes brought into hospitals in groups, doctors say." www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 15h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts 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.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 14h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 13h

"Every time Chuck Schumer....says that Democrats are looking to open the government through a negotiation around and deal on ACA subsidies, he is acquiescing to the idea that a government in which Border Patrol agents can shoot bullets at protesters in Chicago after screaming “Do something, bitch!”

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 15h

My thanks to the LA Times for letting me write about the life of John Candy and two new projects (a documentary and a biography) that explore his legacy. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

'You never stop thinking about John Candy': How a pair of projects keep his legacy alive

The beloved actor, who would have turned 75 this month, is the focus of an eponymous book biography and "John Candy: I Like Me," a Prime Video documentary.

www.latimes.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown reut.rs/4mQvdTF

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue.

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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 15h

Researchers from UMD, the University of Notre Dame and the Georgia Institute of Technology are working to create a printed circuit board with the simplest imaginable recycling process: Drop it in water and let it dissolve.

UMD-led Team Develops Novel Method to Recycle… | Maryland Today

Material Can Be Safely Dissolved in Water to Avoid Adding to Global E-Waste Pile

today.umd.edu

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 1d

The global far right are slowly working through:

1. We want to deport all minorities
2. But without them demographics will implode the economy
3. What if we brought them all back but this time without rights

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 1d

I was on a panel at Conservative conference today where the UAE model was seriously proposed as a direction to take Britain’s immigration system.

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Or the maid, with the employer with grabby hands and nothing to eat but bread and noodles, no bedroom, and no way to leave.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1d

With alt text

The text from a tweet from @Lauren_N_Rod shows a photo with a description that reads A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 2d

NEW! from @nicolefroio.bsky.social: The reason governments, universities, and other public institutions across the world want to quash pro-Palestine speech—including art and music—is because they understand the danger it poses to life as we know it. Which is all the more reason to say it louder.

Censorship of Pro-Palestine Speech in the Music Industry Shows the Power of Demands for Decolonization

The liberation of Palestine is a threat to how we live today—that’s precisely why we should keep calling for it.

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1d

Somehow, in the midst of all of this, there are several hires in Black Diaspora Studies being made across CUNY. This is one of them:

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: The D.C. Council just rejected an emergency bill that would have extended the summer's expanded youth curfew for another three months. The votes against came from Trayon White, @robertwhitedc.bsky.social, @brianneknadeau.bsky.social, @cmlewisgeorgew4.bsky.social, and @chenderson.bsky.social.

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

Our Revolution Endorses Cori Bush to Reclaim MO-1 ourrevolution.com/cori-bush-mo...

Our Revolution Endorses Cori Bush to Reclaim MO-1 - Our Revolution

Our Revolution is endorsing Drew Duncan for Kalamazoo City Commission. His progressive vision aims to drive affordable housing, community-centered public safety, and equitable economic growth.

ourrevolution.com

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 7d

Ooookay here we go. Bad Bunny 101 condensed into six weeks of music, reading material, and perreo

Bad Bunny 101

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 3d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 2d

This is jawdropping. The idea that a state about to be invaded by out-of-state soldiers that Trump is moving around the nation like chess pieces has no standing to object to the invasion!

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

DOJ: Well, CA NG already federalized, and ...

Judge: Anything else you want to argue?

DOJ: Yes, your honor. OR and Portland lack standing to challenge relocation of out-of-state National Guard. Only CA could possibly sue under 12406, but CA can't establish standing or irreparable harm.

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

From Gaza to Ukraine to South Sudan, children play to deal with the stress — and find a moment of joy.

With makeshift jump ropes and hide and seek, kids play to cope with crisis

From Gaza to Ukraine to South Sudan, children play to deal with the stress — and find a moment of joy.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3d

unbelievably ominous, sorry for taking it seriously!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 5d

In light of the Diddy sentencing, this is a great time to revisit @freeblackgirl.bsky.social's killer post on the trial and who holds value for @theflytrapmedia.com

If We Valued Sex Workers, the Outcome of the Diddy Trial Would Have Been Different

What if Diddy’s victims were protected by labor laws instead of relying on the lack of justice of a sexist trial?

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4d

It'll never be lost on me that a particular subset of the liberal commentariat in both North America and Western Europe were deeply infatuated with this woman up until the very moment she decided to talk about that one issue you're still basically not allowed to talk about lol.

Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 4d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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