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suburban mom, following the news, anti-fascist

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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 5h
You used to rely on MapQuest for printing out driving directions before GPS navigation was a thing. Now it's helping to fight mass surveillance.
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MapQuest now lets you locate nearby surveillance cameras, like Flock
The decades-old online map app is watching the watchers.
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James “Vamp” Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social · 4h
Alex, respectfully, I think the actual danger in this scenario is tacit allowance of Nazis in society because “car is cool.”
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Lisa Schiff @crkrjx.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
The messages reportedly included officers competing over who could pull over the most Black drivers, along with racial slurs and derogatory comments about Black residents in discussions involving the use of force and firearms.
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Charlotte police officers face termination after racist texts allegedly discussed pulling over Black drivers
The messages surfaced during a separate state investigation into an officer accused of misusing police surveillance technology. More than half a dozen officers with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police De...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 20h
Across Afghanistan, hunger and malnutrition are rising dramatically. 19 million people — nearly 40% of the population — will face acute hunger in the next few months, according to the Afghanistan country director for the World Food Program.
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Malnutrition stalks the most vulnerable in Afghanistan as aid cuts leave millions helpless
Nearly 40% of the population will likely faced “life-threatening type of hunger” in the next few months, according to the World Food Program’s country director.
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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 21h
Elephant bottoms are rather sweet – and this one doubly so, because it belongs to Kipekee, one of our beloved Nursery babies. Every big girl goes out of her way to keep her safe from the boisterous boys.
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News for 38 Year Olds @newsfor38yearolds.com · 14/10/2026
Cornell president admits he never followed up on gang rape allegation ahead of no-confidence debate PBS News www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/cornell… Support →
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Cornell president admits he never followed up on gang rape allegation ahead of no-confidence debate
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Five hundred people on hunger strike inside a for-profit ICE concentration camp in Georgia.
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Approximately 500 participate in hunger strike at Folkston immigration detention center - The Current
Approximately 500 detainees at a private ICE facility in Folkston, Georgia, launched a hunger strike to protest poor living conditions and alleged asylum protocol violations while awaiting judicial he...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“When the anti-trans panic started, most of the Republican hostility was focused on sports and youth. In states like Alabama, it has escalated to calling an entire people mentally ill and to advocating for policies that would severely harm all transgender people.” open.substack.com/pub/erininth...
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Head Of Alabama Republican Party Calls Two Trans State Legislature Candidates “Men Who Have Mental Disorders”
Republican Party Chair Scott Stadthagen spoke at the Eastern Shore Republican Women event, and hurled slurs at the transgender Democratic candidates in the state.
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Mike refused to explain to Georgia voters why he allows neo-Nazi propaganda to be disseminated from his own home. From his own home. This man wants to take charge over our national affairs when he can't even manage what's happening under his own roof.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 11/10/2026
The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.
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Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Rally with Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms. Cobb County. 10.17.26 RSVP here: electjon.com/CobbCounty
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is the first time my dumb brain put “AI” and “election” together
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becks @becksatl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
please be gentle with yourself - the work you do is important, but you need a break and doctor's appointment asap.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Withholding proven disease prevention....in Africa. Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Maybe the December public execution can be in the middle of a football stadium like the Taliban used to do.
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Rep. Mark Pocan @pocan.house.gov · 08/10/2026
Yusuf Shanaran, his wife and four children are trapped in their home in the occupied West Bank. Settlers who constructed an illegal outpost to isolate them are attacking the family and destroying their home and have not been arrested. The IDF must intervene to protect Yusuf and his family!
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Scripps News @scrippsnews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as the reason for removing them.
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OpenAI fires 3 safety researchers in dispute over AI risks
OpenAI said on Friday that it fired three safety researchers for a "breach of trust," defending the dismissals after the trio accused the company of putting its corporate interests before safety as the reason for removing them.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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becks @becksatl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My theory is that the president has dirt on all of these people.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
NEW: Maybe it's time to take a good look at all these deaths in the Epstein-Trump orbit. jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/dead-men-t...
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Dead men tell no Epstein-Trump tales
When witnesses, whistleblowers and accusers die, it’s time to look at whether they have anything in common. Here is a list of some of the recent deaths.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump: "I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama ... I can do whatever I want, if I want."
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Soaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many Schools www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...
nytimes.com
Soaring Instrument Prices Could Stop the Music at Many Schools
When a single cello can cost $1,000 and a tuba $9,000, tariffs are straining meager band and orchestra budgets.
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NBC10 Philadelphia @nbcphiladelphia.com · 07/10/2026
GOP State Rep. resigns from House committees amid homophobic slur allegations
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GOP State Rep. resigns from House committees amid homophobic slur allegations
State Rep. Aaron Bernstine (R-8th dist.) resigned from four House committees after he, allegedly, used a homophobic slur against a fellow politician.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
"Gov. Greg Abbott is blaming a scheduling conflict and says he's not gonna be attending the rally in San Antonio today where the president is going to be. He's not taking time for the president."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Northwest Georgia, TODAY is the last day to register to vote for the November 3 election. Register, check your status and make sure your information is current. Remind your friends and family, too! mvp.sos.ga.gov Leadership Matters!
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
manatee monday
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becks @becksatl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
they'll only expunge his record if he agrees not to sue??? for their mistake??? infuriating
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Sailor Michael @sailormichael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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‘I’m a Victim of Prejudice’: Black Teen Arrested for Carjacking Despite School Alibi, Wore Ankle Monitor for 7 Months Until Reporter Questioned Case
Baltimore prosecutors kept an innocent 17-year-old Black high school student on house arrest for seven months with an ankle monitor after falsely accusing
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/10/2026
British banker who exposed Howard Lutnick's ties to Epstein has died, allegedly from suicide.
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How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
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becks @becksatl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Is it?
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becks @becksatl.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
www.war.gov/News/News-St...
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
new wolfenstein looks like shit
its pete hegseth splaying his arms christlike at a podium with all sorts of americana bunting thats got a distinct fash aesthetic
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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You've really got to admire how astonished and appalled he is about an institution he runs acting exactly in the way it always had, and on an issue that didn't bother him until it became a public scandal. Nothing the person who runs the place could possibly have done before now.
cbc.ca
Cornell president calls alleged gang rape 'deeply disturbing,' pledges greater transparency | CBC News
Scrutiny has mounted in recent days over Cornell's response to allegations that the woman was sexually assaulted by multiple fraternity members in 2024. The woman, identified in court documents as Jan...
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becks @becksatl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If he wanted a job in the public eye, he needed to clean up his public profile so that we could have all stood to look at him.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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what a ghoul believes ☎️ @sayambular.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Cornell Sun, a student-run newspaper that operates independently of school funding, broke the story and didn’t let go of it. They have a donation page! www.cornellsun.com/page/donate
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Support the Sun! - The Cornell Daily Sun
The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 02/10/2026
SLC Airport officials plan to sell nearly 1,000 acres of wetlands to the Utah Department of Natural Resources. Both agencies call the transfer a win, but advocates worry hundreds of acres of bird habitat could instead become a new waterfowl hunting ground.
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Salt Lake airport plans to sell nearly 1,000 acres of wetlands. Bird advocates worry about what could come next.
Avian enthusiasts worry a huge resting area for flocks visiting the Great Salt Lake could become a major hunting ground instead.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
“If we don’t build large gas burning turbines near Black communities then China will win.”
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Oriana González @oriana.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November @washingtonsun.com www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She’s here! We just welcomed our beautiful baby girl and words can’t describe how blessed my family feels. Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I’m beyond grateful. Thank you, everyone, for your love and support. It means the world 💕💕
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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 01/10/2026
Christa Pike's botched execution is a horrifying reminder of the cruelty & inhumanity of the death penalty. State-sanctioned killing is barbaric and it's time we end this unjust punishment once & for all.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 01/10/2026
He is being hailed around the world as a hero for helping stop a passenger plane bound for Israel from plunging into the ground, despite his own severe injuries.
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What we know about the pilot hailed as a hero for averting crash of Israel-bound plane
Captain Smit Machchhar was severely injured by his fellow pilot but managed to open the cockpit door, an action credited with saving the lives of everyone on board.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/10/2026
a thing anyone can do is look up jury nullification
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026
This is the first @NYCHA property to receive investment through the Public Housing Preservation Trust — but it won't be the last. Public excellence must extend to public housing. Under our administration, it will.
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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