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WIRED @wired.com · 3h
The attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not conducted mainly by extremists or fringe militia groups. It was, according to the data, the work of normal Americans.
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The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer
Robert A. Pape, a leading authority on political violence, wants Americans to understand that the threat is coming not from the fringes, but from the mainstream.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2h
A win! A D.C. Superior Court judge has permanently barred Jeanine Pirro’s office from prosecuting a former Olympic canoeist over damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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DC judge permanently dismisses case charging ex-Olympian with vandalizing Reflecting Pool
A judge in Washington has agreed to permanently dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1h
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 4h
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Halifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 4h
Clogging the arteries of our communities with more and bigger vehicles is a serious and fatal error Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social
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Clogging the arteries of our communities with more and bigger vehicles is a serious and fatal error - Halifax Examiner
"Something that is not a car has to be an option."
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 1h
Please share. America can fix this. 💙🇺🇸
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Rick Stewart @rst-one.bsky.social · 4h
Hopefully successful. Then, Alex Pretti's family can do the same.
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⚖️ 💋 @moonluna34.bsky.social · 3h
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dmh @hinebd.bsky.social · 3h
Astute attorneys invoking an 1871 KKK law about public concealment.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
MORE: meidasnews.com/news/renee-g...
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Renee Good’s Family Hits Trump Officials With Sweeping Lawsuits Over ICE Killing
The two lawsuits allege wrongful death, excessive force, and a civil rights conspiracy involving masked federal agents.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h
or warning others about federal enforcement activity. Together, the lawsuits seek damages over Good’s death and the injuries Rebecca Good says she suffered after witnessing the shooting. 6/6
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h
The 149-page complaint alleges Good’s killing was not an isolated incident, but the “predictable and intended product” of a coordinated federal operation that plaintiffs say targeted Minnesota’s Somali and Hispanic communities and sought to intimidate people documenting… 5/
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h
It accuses them of participating in an unlawful conspiracy surrounding “Operation Metro Surge” and brings claims under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, Bivens, and Minnesota law. 4/
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h
and argues the shooting violated the Fourth Amendment and DHS use-of-force policies. The second, much broader lawsuit personally names Ross, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, Tom Homan, Todd Lyons, Gregory Bovino, and other federal agents. 3/
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h
The first lawsuit is against the United States itself, alleging wrongful death and other claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The complaint alleges Ross fired three times as Good’s vehicle turned away from him, killing the 37-year-old mother of three,… 2/
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4h
🚨 BREAKING: The family of Renee Good and her partner, Rebecca Good, have filed two federal lawsuits over Good’s January killing by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis. 1/
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 6h
gocomics.com/garymarkstein
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 5h
It still astounds me how fast the cult and their corrupt politicians will ignore and violate the Constitution in order to protect their own.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 6h
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Jehiah @jehiah.cz · 6h
For every “we can”t” from DOT, there is often a factual proof that in fact you can. Today’s proof: we CAN take a lane from the west side highway.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 8h
I don't usually respond to obvious idiots/bots/scammers in the DMs etc, but this one opened with the perfect line for me to follow up with.
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Da Pope @deepdishpapa.bsky.social · 6h
Let us #PrayTogether that the mental health ministry be established throughout the Church, helping to overcome the stigma and discrimination of persons with mental illnesses. Be a part of this prayer:
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The Deuce Deducer @marchanddcitron.bsky.social · 5h
Is Fast Car popular because people think it's hopeful, or because it also feels good to commiserate with hopelessness? I'm firmly in the "it's beautiful, but it's probably one of the bleakest songs of the late 20th century" camp.
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 4h
Given how poorly Netanyahu is doing in the polls, I've little doubt that the hijacked plane and the UK "bomb threat" are the work of people connected to him and who are trying to stoke fear to get Netanyahu's poll numbers up.
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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 7h
One year ago, the world lost one of its strongest advocates. Dr. Jane Goodall spent years advocating for animal welfare, for community-led conservation, and for youth environmental leadership. She knew that each one of us had an important role to play, and she made sure that we knew that, too.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h
As the U.S. military depletes critical munitions and evacuates bases amid Trump’s Iran war, Pete Hegseth is now moving to eliminate 20% of the military’s top brass positions.
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Hegseth Moves To Gut 20% of Top Brass, Calls Press ‘Treasonous’
At Quantico, Pete Hegseth paired a sweeping cut to senior military positions with culture-war rhetoric and an attack on journalists reporting on the Trump regime’s war.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h
The war on empathy, led by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and embraced by Trump and his MAGA movement, is a systematic rejection of Christian systematic theology as established from the second century. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Why Empathy Is Now ‘Toxic,’ ‘Suicidal,’ and a ‘Sin’
According to Gad Saad and his powerful acolytes, compassion is a recipe for “the collective suicide of the West.”
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 6h
gocomics.com/johndeering
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21h
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Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 8h
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h
NEW: Emma Joyce died at 3 years old. The next year, her sister Ava Joan died. Then their brother died from the same complication of untreated diabetes that killed Ava Joan. Later, a fourth sibling died. Their parents believed in prayer, not medicine.
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Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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Greenshaw Research School @greenshawrs.bsky.social · 4h
TextSavvy Enfield continued with Professor Jessie Ricketts’ talking about the importance of reading - not just at school but in everyday life. Strong discussion during Phil Stock’s Planning for Behaviour Change session. And Y2 of our EEF Research Schools Network Partnership is in full swing!
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Essence of RBG 🦋 @rbgprevails.bsky.social · 7h
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h
Trump’s DOJ was hammered by 11 federal appeals court judges as the full D.C. Circuit weighs allowing Judge Boasberg to resume his criminal contempt probe over the deportation flights sent to El Salvador.
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Trump’s DOJ Gets Hammered Over Deportation Flights, Contempt Probe May Resume
Eleven D.C. Circuit judges pressed the administration’s lawyer over who ordered protected detainees flown to El Salvador after Judge James Boasberg told the planes to turn around.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 5h
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 8h
Good Morning Peeps ✌🏽 💙 Things that make you go FUCK YOU REPUKES 🖕🏼
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Lisa Gerrish 💙 @gerrishlisa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nice of Republicans to hold this clown show with Jack Smith a month before the midterms. It gave Smith the opportunity to remind everyone that he indeed found Trump had committed crimes and that 2 grand juries agreed to indict him on those crimes. 👍
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 9h
This rolling rig takes bent or coiled wire and forces it dead straight through opposing rollers before cutting, welding or shaping.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 7h
Robert's Right ✅️.......
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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · 6h
Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education www.psypost.org/lower-cognit...
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Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education
A recent study indicates that Americans with lower cognitive ability scores tend to be more likely to embrace Christian nationalism. The findings suggest the ideology’s appeal is linked to underlying ...
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Elizabetsy @elizabetsy100.bsky.social · 14h
Demonstrators Cannot Be Forced to Take Down ‘86-47’ Flag, Judge Rules www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
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Demonstrators Cannot Be Forced to Take Down ‘86-47’ Flag, Judge Rules (Gift Article)
A federal judge wrote that the phrase, which also led to charges against the former F.B.I. director, James Comey, did not appear to constitute a true threat.
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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 7h
American artist David Popa creates breathtaking masterpieces on floating ice in the Baltic Sea, using nothing but charcoal, soil, and water as his “paint.” His artwork slowly disappears as the ice melts: #AGoodPlace
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 10h
Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
James Talarico hand delivers a campaign yard sign ❤️
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 18h
For non-soccer fans: this scandal is basically a microcosm of what is going on everywhere re: the ultra-wealthy doing whatever they want because they can. Man City cheated like hell. But here is the prime minister implying they’re just too valuable to the UK to hold to account. It sucks
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Andy Burnham admits to ‘concern’ if Manchester City lose their owners after guilty verdicts
The primer minister said: ‘City have been a huge partner in building modern Manchester,’ while the Independent Football Regulator said it is monitoring the case
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Sande @sande0724.bsky.social · 17h
THANK YOU.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 11h
Elephant twins are born just 1% of the time. After a 22 to 24 month pregnancy, carrying two 100 kilo calves takes a huge toll, so the herd steps in to help raise them both.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 16h
We still have to get out and vote but, wow, this is encouraging.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 11h
Eric Schmitt got every detail right about Jack Smith‘s basketball game. Except the team, the league, the gender, the city and the state. Magats constantly prove the infinite depth of their stupidity.
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petestphil.bsky.social @petestphil.bsky.social · 7h
Felon Trump is guilty beyond any reasonable doubt.
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