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Alicia

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California cat lover just trying to keep it together as the country falls to pieces around me.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/10/2026
For the first time in more than two decades, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe will not conduct oversight of the upcoming midterm elections after the Trump administration effectively blocked them from doing so.
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Trump Blocks International Board From Conducting Oversight of Midterm Elections
This is the first time in over two decades that the US has rejected OSCE participation in a federal election.
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Imagine if, during the Revolutionary War, George Washington would have said, "Let the British take Philadelphia". How would Colonial Americans have responded? Imagine if, during WWII Franklin Roosevelt would have said, "Let the Germans take out New York." What would American citizens have done?
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Women know this in our bones—they’re everywhere. But for the more data-driven, this should drive the point home…
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Fierce Reads @fiercereads.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
PEN reports that SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson was the second most banned book in the 2025-2026 school year. 📣 SPEAK UP for banned books during #BannedBooksWeek by sharing what books changed your life and pledge your support for the Freedom to Read here ➡️ vist.ly/5m532
A flier showing a copy of SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson, along with an image of the author. The text reads: "Speak up for banned books!" with a quote from Laurie, "Censorship is the child and fear and the father of ignorance."
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
TODAY is the last day to register to vote in several states. I urge you to double check your state's deadline, verify that you are registered, and make changes to your registration if needed. Then contact three friends or family members and have them do the same. whenweallvote.org
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Alicia @aliciagk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Teef.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oct 4 is the feast of St Francis of Assisi and it’s traditionally a day to bless your pet at the church.
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Jake Rudh @jakerudh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Siouxsie Sioux and Ice-T at the 1991 Lollapalooza.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
shirley jackson you tell em www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
ar and away the greatest menace to the writer—any writer, beginning or otherwise
—is the reader. The reader is, after all, a kind of silent partner in this whole business of writing, and a work of fiction is surely incomplete if it is never read. The reader is, in fact, the writer's only unrelenting, genuine enemy. He has everything on his side; all he has to do, after all, is shut his eyes, and any work of fiction becomes meaningless. Moreover, a reader has an advantage over a beginning writer in not being a beginning reader; before he takes up a story to read it, he can be presumed to have read everything from Shakespeare to Jack Kerouac. No matter whether he reads a story in manuscript as a great personal favor, or opens a magazine, or—kindest of all—goes into a bookstore and pays good money for a book, he is still an enemy to be defeated with any kind of dirty fighting that comes to the writer's mind.
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Goodnight Blue Sky
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 01/10/2026
Glaciers in Switzerland lost 5.5% of their ice volume this year, the second-biggest percentage drop on record due to heat waves and low winter snowfall, experts report. to.pbs.org/4hoUYLy
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Swiss glaciers lost more than 5% of ice volume in 2026. Heat waves and low winter snow accelerated the thaw
Global warming is wreaking havoc on Europe, the world’s fastest-warming continent.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When Dean Martin entered the set of his television show he often jumped on the piano to startle the pianist. On this ocassion the crew had substituted the piano for a dummy one - unbeknownst to Dean or the audience
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Morning Kittens
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NotCIAreally @stoplossmaxwin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We must speak for those who are deprived their voice to return their voice.
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Democrat Cats @democratcats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Girl Dad, Real Talk💙
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 23/09/2026
Police in Mississippi have arrested a second man in the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree and have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect. to.pbs.org/46BcO7T
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Mississippi police make 2nd arrest in death of Tasia Fortune, seek 3rd suspect
Police in Mississippi have arrested a second man in the death of a Black woman found hanging from a tree and have issued an arrest warrant for a third suspect.
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RESIST | FIGHT™ @resistfight.com · 23/09/2026
LAPD cops working for ICE contractors off duty — while the department fights to keep its moonlighting records hidden. That is the accusation now being leveled directly at LAPD leadership after a judge ordered the records turned over.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Seattle just became the first city in America to ban grocery stores from engaging in surveillance pricing. This is a huge win for consumers against companies that abuse their personal data to rip them off. Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain.
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The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Should corporations be able to weaponize your personal data to rip you off?Well, they may already be doing that thanks t
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
From the people who told you that straight white male privilege doesn’t exist…
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Alicia @aliciagk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saturday morning view. What a life Salem leads! Loudly enters the room, meowing and demanding that I pet him. Nips me (gently)when he’s had enough, then off to sleep in the doorway and watch the birds in the yard.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remembering the Oscar winning ANNE BANCROFT — born 95yrs ago today. AN AUDIENCE WITH MEL BROOKS (1983)
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/09/2026
ICE agent Christian Castro - who shot Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis and lied about it, and who TX Governor Abbott refused to extradite - has been ARRESTED by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. www.startribune.com/minnesota-of...
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ICE agent wanted in Metro Surge shooting is booked into Hennepin County Jail
Christian Castro will now appear in state court one day ahead of his federal court proceedings.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, and other members of Congress have introduced a bill to ban private equity funds from owning or controlling medical practices. This is a big deal. Here’s what you need to know about the shady private equity industry and how it operates.
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This One Thing Is Making Your Life More Expensive | Robert Reich
Private equity is shutting out millions of people from buying their own homes.In 2021, private equity investors bought n
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Such a great group of friends 🤣 giving each other the ugly pants prank Hilarious 😂 and Fun
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/09/2026
Trump Jr - who recently received a $620M defense contract - had his wedding bankrolled by a Putin associate. Guests of the wedding recently met with Zelensky to pressure him to give parts of Ukraine to Russia. www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Rest in peace costume designer Bob Mackie (1939-2026), who created probably the most famous costume ever to appear in a TV comedy. The costume sent-up Scarlet O'Hara making a dress from curtains in "Gone With The Wind." Carol Burnett: "I saw it in the window and just couldn't resist!"
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Miss Starlett costume, worn by Carol Burnett on "The Carol Burnett Show"
“I saw it in a window and just couldn’t resist it,” Carol Burnett remarked about her outrageous “curtain dress,” worn in a comedy sketch that…
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🇺🇲📎Gigi Alexander 🇺🇦 Democracy Defender! 🌊 ❤️America.🌈 @gigialexander123.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Trump is Scum to the very core:
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Weapon of mass distraction 🤪🤘 IG: @ spaghettieframe www.instagram.com/spaghettiefr...
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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Now they're firing judges who challenge deportations.
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SF judge says she was fired 48 hours after challenging ICE
"If you do something even small that they don't like, they're gonna fire you."
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Cute craft for a child or grandchild: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
JON STEWART: “They began covering their ass 3 weeks after 9/11… There was poison in the air, on the ground, on your pets/clothes… THE CITY KNEW. Rather than limit the damage, they covered it up… After 9/11, business will never be usual again.” (From @mamdanibulletin.bsky.social )
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Kennedy's department cited seven articles, two of which were apparently made up entirely and three of which did not exist in the journals to which they were attributed..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Judge slams HHS for referencing fake studies generated by misuse of AI
The Department of Health and Human Services has suffered more than its share of AI-related humiliations. The list, alas, is still growing.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
God/Jesus: "Flatter me and I will save you." Human: "Save me from what?" God/Jesus: "Me."
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Long Beach, Ca
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The Cure @thecure.com · 07/09/2026
WIN THE UNIQUE SCHECTER SIGNATURE GUITAR SIGNED BY ROBERT AND PLAYED ON STAGE DURING THE FINAL SHOW OF THE CURE SUMMER TOUR AT ROCK EN SEINE. ENTER THE CHARITY RAFFLE IN SUPPORT OF DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS AT www.featuring-org.com/lotteries/th...
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Alicia @aliciagk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tried to make the bed but Salem has decided it’s time for him to nap, so I guess not.
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MissReadsALot @theresjustnopo1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
TO MY CHILDREN, FEARING FOR THEM

WENDELL BERRY

Terrors are to come. The earth is poisoned with narrow lives. I think of you. What you will

live through, or perish by, eats at my heart. What have I done? I need better answers than there are

to the pain of coming to see what was done in blindness, loving what I cannot save. Nor,

your eyes turning toward me, can I wish your lives unmade though the pain of them is on me.

from THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/09/2026
🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone. Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino & Asian voters
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Seems like this should be a bigger deal. 🤷🏼 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ron and Cassie DeSantis: These two crooks stole $10 million from a settlement with a charity, wired it to Cassie’s fake “charity,” laundered it through two puppet organizations, and then used it for political ads in an election year. They should be in jail.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Republicans - Stealing healthcare money from poor children to give it to themselves.
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Norah 🤗 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’ll be seeing him on draft day in about 10 yrs, on stage, thanking mom 🥹
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Leslie Jordan was one of Dolly’s biggest fans. 15 years ago, he appeared in an independent documentary called “Hollywood to Dollywood” where he spoke about his love for Dolly to a group of gays headed to Dollywood.
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Toss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing
Instagram post from the official Muppets account: Few humans have earned the title of honorary Muppet more than the legendary Tim Curry. As a performer he was unparalleled - witty, charming, unnerving, and deeply funny. We will always consider it one of our greatest treasures to have been part of Long John Silver’s crew. Thank you for everything, Tim.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Love you Dolly 🩷
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Evolution by Travis Chapman
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fuco Ueda
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