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Bea Arthur Chicken

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I'm 3 chickens in a trench coat. The turkey got away.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 2h
"She was subjected to a bewildering array of abuse, including multiple rapes by 3 separate men and beatings by numerous relatives. “'If they execute Christa Pike, it will confirm that the death penalty is reserved not for the worst of the worst, but for the most damaged and vulnerable among us.'”
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Tennessee says child rapists deserve to die. Now it prepares to execute one of their victims
At 18, Christa Pike was sentenced to death for murder. What if the jury knew she had suffered years of sexual abuse as a child?
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2h
Cardinal Robert McElroy’s World Day of Migrants homily named Minneapolis, where federal agents killed Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, whom ICE held for 11 days in Texas. “We are losing our soul as a nation,” the archbishop of Washington said.
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every…
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Bea Arthur Chicken @beaarthurchicken.bsky.social · 3h
Why don't democrats make ads to run during football games based on this?!?! "Republicans want to keep it legal to sexually harass your children... your tax dollars are paying to enable AI nudification of your children.... this is what Republicans want". Paid for 'no more pedos' PAC
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3h
The Trump regime’s border wall construction damaged the Las Playas Intaglio, a 6,500-7,300-year-old fish-shaped geoglyph in Arizona.
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Trump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than Stonehenge
Arizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026.
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Steve Held @peoplesfabric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How the police defund cities: Part infinity
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you a parent or guardian feeling confused about which vaccines your child needs this fall? If you're feeling uncertain, your pediatrician can help you make a decision based on your child's specific situation. Watch this video from @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social w/ info to consider ⬇️
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen OBE, arrested under the Terrorism Act outside @labouruk.bsky.social conference. Her crime? Holding a piece of cardboard with the words “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” on it. She was among hundreds doing the same.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Cornell University treating Gaza protestors more harshly than gang rapists is a real statement of values. It’s almost like violent domination by the powerful is the core belief of leadership.
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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 28/09/2026
On this day in 1868, violence erupted in Opelousas, Louisiana, when white residents resentful of African Americans' new voting rights attacked and killed hundreds of people.
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Sep. 28, 1868 | White Mobs Massacre Black Community in Opelousas, Louisiana
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Let's see the essays. Make them public. Let us read these scrawled golden tickets offered up by Cornell administrators to allow rapists to continue on with their lives unscathed. Was there a required word count? Did any of them use AI to write their "sorry for raping you" pieces? Let us read them.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
@jkbjournalist.bsky.social reopened the Epstein case; Heidi Blake seems to have restarted the UK prosecuting Andrew Tate; Ronan Farrow, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor made the system finally go after Weinstein for real. Journalism has again and again made the justice system do its job.
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026
Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
hollywoodreporter.com
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s fair to say that the student journalists at Cornell are braver than the news networks who just gave up on their WH pool ban even though CNN is still being denied access. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New — I had the opportunity to see NAZA, the documentary freaking out the Israeli government because of its horrifying firsthand descriptions of the way the IDF has used AI to target and massacre Palestinian civilians. My thoughts on the film’s damning revelations, and the banality of evil:
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I saw the documentary the Israeli government doesn’t want you to see
'NAZA' dispels once and for all the myth that the IDF didn't target civilians in Gaza.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 23/09/2026
federal immigration agents beat up a US citizen in Evanston on Sunday morning and left him lying in the street or as Kavanaugh would put it, he experienced as "brief investigative stop" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Brett Kavanaugh’s Imaginary Immigration Stops Opinion Gets More Embarrassing Every Day
The fact that ICE officers do not allow wrongfully detained people to “promptly go free” is a surprise to only one man in America.
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026
Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
New in PN: Retire in peace "McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?"
publicnotice.co
Retire in peace
McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Bea Arthur Chicken @beaarthurchicken.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@honkifurhoary.bsky.social I have a bat question for you! I saw this guy flailing a bit but not able to get off his back. This is on Illinois side of Lake Michigan near beach. Anything I can do to help? Some curious Crows have also tried to help
Not sure of the type but this is a very cute bad with wings out stretched. Lying on his back on the ground with early fallen golden leaves.
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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“A police department in Texas that arrested a local resident for complaining on social media about their city’s contaminated water supply has been ordered closed after failing to prove it provided any benefit to the community.”
theguardian.com
Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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Bea Arthur Chicken @beaarthurchicken.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
authentic vomit technology has come a long way #FrightNight #Uninvited
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mitch McConnell disappeared for three months & kept his full salary. Disabled people are forced to prove they’re “still disabled” just to remain in legislated poverty. Folks on SNAP must re-apply and prove they’re “still poor”. Republican Senators don’t even have to prove they’re alive.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/09/2026
if you're a reporter "barred from recording video" by the government, you goddamn better record video
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This right here is some top-shelf allyship, y'all. Some of these candidates are being told that their anti-trans talking points will win Serious Adult Voters. You've got to show them they're wrong. Make the weather vane swing back again.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
andrew what do you think about trans kids playing high school sports? “i actually dont think about childrens genitals, what a bizarre question”
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 14/09/2026
If folks on here want to pretend that the only thing Talarico said was about sports, that's fine—it's also not true. He would ban gender affirming care for 17 year olds. And I'm sure many of you haven't tried to figure out how to keep a trans kid from killing themselves, so you don't get it
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/09/2026
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he would pay $5,000 to every American if Republicans retained control of the U.S. House and Senate in the midterm elections, seemingly in an effort to incentivize votes for his party. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
wired.com
Trump Probably Won't Give $5,000 to Every American if Republicans Win the Midterms
The eyebrow-raising proposal, delivered during the president’s speech at the midterm convention, would cost $1.2 trillion and would need congressional approval.
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P @intothejunction.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Well it took 11 years, but someone finally figured out you can actually include framing and context in a headline instead of just repeating and amplifying the lie. Not everyone figured that out, but at least someone did.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I really wish more Dems would go meta on this and ask whose interests it serves that candidates for the United States Senate are being asked about how they would micromanage the eligibility rules for local youth sports leagues.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Texas is delaying the release of the state’s maternal mortality statistics until after the midterms. www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...
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Texas' first post-Roe look at maternal deaths won't be ready by midterms
Democrats say the timing is suspicious, given the Dec. 1 deadline is after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans who supported the state’s abortion ban are up for reelection.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 09/09/2026
Jeremy Plonski pleaded guilty last fall to federal charges after FBI agents in Texas found videos of him sexually assaulting a baby. In some of the videos, Plonski could be seen wearing his uniform and sidearm.
mprnews.org
Former Minnesota state trooper sentenced to 27 years on child sexual abuse charges
Jeremy Plonski pleaded guilty last fall to federal charges after FBI agents in Texas found videos of him sexually assaulting a baby. In some of the videos, Plonski could be seen wearing his uniform an...
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Bea Arthur Chicken @beaarthurchicken.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My brother is also useless #BlackPhone
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Bea Arthur Chicken @beaarthurchicken.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The pervert van guy also has a cape?!? #FrightClub #BlackPhone
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 29/08/2026
The film follows Mark Perlmutter and Feroze Sidhwa as they treat patients in the half-destroyed Nasser Hospital—and their Palestinian colleagues, many working even as their relatives are killed.
motherjones.com
A new documentary follows doctors into Gaza
Director Poh Si Teng on her harrowing film "American Doctor."
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MyNameIsTrue @alisontrue.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Gary deserves better.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Please repost! Drexel announced that it will close the Academy of Natural Sciences public museum- the oldest nat history museum in the US. There are 2 petitions to support the academy. Please sign both & come to our rally Tues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe... www.change.org/p/the-academ...
A poster featuring the T-Rex at the cognitive natural sciences, which says save the Academy natural sciences, museum rally in front of the academy 1900 Ben Franklin Parkway, Tuesday, September 8 10 AM. The T-Rex is saying tell Drexel keep the museum open. There’s an RSVP QR code and then the logos of Philly Science Action Skype scientist In Philly on the bottom.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This man is a fucking monster who limped away from Chicago's mayor's office because he'd become unelectable after closing 50 schools and half of our city's publicly funded mental health care clinics, and covering up the fact that Chicago cops murdered a teenager. Stop whitewashing his ass!
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
MAHA, NUH-UH! •USDA lost 20,000 workers, including 874 food inspectors. • FDA's workforce down by 20 •CDC’s team for tracking parasites dropped from 11 down to 3 •USDA shelved raw poultry standards barring sale of meat contaminated with salmonella. newrepublic.com/post/214946/...
newrepublic.com
You’re Not Hallucinating: The Amount of Recalled Food Is Skyrocketing
Here’s a list of every food item that faced a recall in August.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When asked in 2019 how he feels about the event, Emanuel said, "This is not the first police shooting in Chicago's history. But it is the shooting that's led to the biggest changes.” Except it didn’t.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
In 2019, the formerly confidential report written in 2016 by Chicago's inspector general, Joseph Ferguson, revealed that 16 fellow officers conspired to cover up the murder, including giving false statements “to exaggerate the threat McDonald posed.”
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When Emanuel was being considered for Biden’s cabinet, I wrote a thread on why he’s a vile choice for anything. I’m reposting it here for anyone who doesn’t know his history. 🧵 Emanuel served as Obama's first Chief of Staff. He was also House Democratic leader in 2006.
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
16 shots and a coverup Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
HG Wells is alleged to have remarked "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race”. You could see this shocking chart as an index of civilisation. A country which gets this issue so badly wrong is likely to fail in many other ways.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
"Robot beats Bolt at 100-meter sprint" okay now get a robot to win the Falmouth worm-charming championship www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/...
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Let the bog snorkelling commence! 10 of the weirdest sporting events in the UK
From ferret racing to shinkicking, we round up some of the country’s most eccentric sporting events. Oddly, cricket isn’t among them …
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Want me to send a personalized happy birthday message to the shark lover in your life? I’ll throw in some fun shark facts. I’m now on Cameo at Cameo.com/whysharksmatter
Cameo ad featuring my page cameo.com/whysharksmatter
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