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Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social · 10h

I have a babka hound

a dog with the same colors and rough shape of a loaf of babka

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11h

a high armhole allows for freer and more comfortable movement

Joey Mannarino in a dark brown tailored jacket. The low armhole is causing his jacket to lift.

Someone in an inflatable frog costume. The high armhole allows them to raise their arm without disturbing the rest of the garment

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Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social · 14h

I was there for the battle of the Portland IKEA parking spaces in 2017. I’m sure it’s worse now!

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 16h

Fear is the foundation of Trumpism. He knows that getting people to fear for their own safety activates their most primal—and manipulable—instincts.

Most Americans have never seen pure fascism before. Pritzker and Newsom are 100% right to describe what Trump is doing and why.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social · 14h

Portland Window Glazier

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social · 17h

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Pumpkin Spice Samosas at TJs

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Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue @combatcavscout.bsky.social · 23h

This is the logical extension of the attitude we’ve had in this country for a long time, which is: “Cops are just allowed to do things that would get anyone else arrested for assault, and to do them without reason.”

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social · 22h

@burritojustice.bsky.social

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

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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Kaitlyn @kiixlyn.bsky.social · 15d

i took tylenol while i was autistic and now my son is pregnant

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

It's a well-established global phenomenon: secret police organizations always recruit losers, mediocrities, people who can't succeed in a competitive environment, whether bureaucratic, academic or commercial. These are people who will follow orders and engage in depraved, violent conduct when asked.

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Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social · 1d

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NENA | 99 Luftballons [1983] [Offizielles HD Musikvideo]

YouTube video by NENA

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Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social · 1d

This pod cast is relevant because it explores the issues of who could leave, who couldn’t, how they survived or didn’t when fascism came to Italy in WW2. The anti-immigrant attitudes are not new in the U.S. It is a compelling presentation.

www.packonebagshow.com?utm_source=s...

Pack One Bag Podcast | Award-Winning Series Featuring Stanley Tucci

PACK ONE BAG is a Tribeca-winning 10-episode podcast that tells the epic true story of an Italian family, split apart by love, fascism and war. The series was created by documentarian David Modigliani...

www.packonebagshow.com

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 1d

A Charlie Baron Sukkot

This comic is based on a friend's COVID sukkah building experience. He had very little to work with, and when he posted a photo, people said it looked like "Charlie Brown's sukkah." A kind rabbi reassured him, and I used his comment in the speech near the end.

A Charlie Baron Sukkot by Emily K.

A very simple entry to a sukkah is shown - two sticks on either side, and branches make a flat roof at the top. Fruits hang off of it. A lulav and etrog are below.

The whole comic is done in the style of Schulz/Melendez's "A Charlie Brown Christmas." Kids are playing in the fallen leaves. Two little boys, one with reddish hair and kippah, and another with a shock of blond hair, sit at a brick wall. The redhead holds a tallis as a security blanket as he sucks his thumb.

"Yom Kippur is over now, and Sukkot is arriving. I should feel happy, but I feel run-down. I know I should be celebrating, but I just don't feel excited."

The redheaded boy replies, "Only you could take a wonderful thing like sukkot and turn it into a problem. Maybe Libby's right. Of all the Charlie Baron's in the world, you're the Charlie Baron-est." He walks away. Charlie walks towards a red make-shift booth that says "Therapeutic Help 25 cents, The therapist is Very In." A girl with curly black hair sits at it. Charlie says, "My trouble is Sukkot. Instead of feeling happy, I feel anxious. What if I mess something up? What if, in feeling anxious, I don't fulfill the mitzvah of celebrating?" She responds, "How 'bout getting a sukkah kit for us to build? That would be a mitzvah." "Me? Are you sure?" "Sure, Charlie Baron. We need a Sukkah. You need a Mitzvah." He then walks away, but sees something that stuns him.

Charlie walks towards his dog's doghouse, and sees his dog decorating a very lush sukkah against it. The dog is a tri-colored beagle with brown fur, white paws, a white snout and belly, and black spots. "Good Grief." Then a friend shouts. "Over here, Charlie Baron!" It's Libby. She says, "I think we should have a Sukkahspiel tomorrow night." Charlie is taken aback. "A 'Sukkahspeil?!'" "Yes, a glamorous play in our glamorous sukkah!" "But that's for Purim!" Libby says, "and I can play the Shabbat Queen." Charlie: "It won't even be Shabbat." "Charlie Baron, you just need to get in a festive mood. Why don't you go get our sukkah?" He walks with the redheaded kid in the kippah, who says "Let's try over there." They find themselves in a big lot with allsorts of fancy lushly decorated sukkahs. "I dunno, Levi. None of these Sukkahs feel right."

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Art by Emily K @museum.of.emilyk.art · 1d

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Chag Sukkot Sameach!

Charlie says, "I know! I'll go home and make one with my own hands!" Levi says, "I dunno, Charlie Baron. I don't think that's what Libby had in mind." "It'll be great!" he says. He gathers scraps of wood, branches, and fabric. then calls out, "Hey everybody! Come see the sukkah I built!" But the sukkah is a very sad, ramshackle structure, with barely enough walls and boxes and duct tape holding it up. A crowd of kids - and his dog - gather. "What kinda sukkah is that?" "It looks like leftover junk!" "Can't you tell the difference between a Kosher Sukkah and a BAD Sukkah?" "There's no WAY that counts!" Charlie says, "Oy." Levi comes over, sucking his thumb. Charlie says, dejectedly, "You were right, Levi. I guess I couldn't make a good sukkah. Isn't there anyone who can tell me what makes a good sukkah?!" Levi then puts his seccurity-blanket-tallis around his shoulders and says, "Sure, Charlie Baron, I can tell you what makes a good Sukkah."

Levi stands in front of the sukkah and says, "And Mosheh Rabbeinu spoke unto the people of Israel - 'After the ingathering from your threshing floor and your wine vat, you shall hold the feast of sukkot for seven days.' What is this 'ingathering?' The sages tell us it is not the pick of our harvest, but what is left over. This is the essence of the sukkah: It is the place where the presence of the Holy One dwells; not because it is made from our finest material, but because we take what is cast aside and say, 'This is also of value. This, too, is Holy.'" Levi then walks over to Charlie. "That's what makes a good sukkah, Charlie Baron." Charlie smiles. He then tries to hang a gourd on his sukkah, but the pole falls down instead. Depressed, he walks away with his head held low. "Everything I touch gets ruined!"

The other kids gather around and say, "You know, it's not such a bad little sukkah... maybe it just needs a little love." They then work to fix it up in the next panel, and in the panel after, it miraculously looks like a classic sukkah with lattice walls and a roof of leafy branches. Fruits hang on the walls and construction paper chains are on the ceiling. Charlie Baron walks back in frame. "Chag Sameach, Charlie Baron!" they all say. The final panel shows them in the sukkah saying the Shehechiyanu blessing, written in Hebrew. With Gratitude to: Charles Schulz, Bill Melendez, Lee Mendelson, Josh Rosenberg, and Yosef Goldman.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1d

Ohhhhh, I know what I'm giving to my fire marshals tomorrow to make them sad and delve into The Code. futurism.com/future-socie...

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

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Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social · 1d

Santa Fe!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

"In effect, these voters responded to the most comprehensive attempt to provide concrete benefits to them since the New Deal by loading an economic shotgun and pointing it directly at themselves." prospect.org/politics/202...

House Republicans Take Aim at Red-State Economies

President Biden bent over backwards to help left-behind communities get factories and jobs. Their congressional representatives don’t appreciate it.

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Gilly @gillyarcht.bsky.social · 1d

@jwomack.bsky.social welcome back, hope you are safely ensconced, before reentering the daily fray?

How To Gird Up Your Loins: Step by step instructions

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

California mind: does anyone have experience or work at Kaiser to know how comprehensive their sleep programs are?

Asking for a coworker, not myself.

My sleep problems are entire bird-and-milky-way-linked.

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Bob Davidson @wa7iut.bsky.social · 1d

It is understandable why the Texas National Guard would go to Chicago.

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Jen B @jenbaty.bsky.social · 1d

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