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Cassandra in the 305

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Trapeze Artist #Poetry is an act— an act of peace "Why Not?" Night has allowed the freed soul to escape from rage to composedness 🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=s5OdwzmL2KI&is=… #Florida #Miami #MeToo

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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 6h
The best recent #poetry – review roundup | share.google/G3mxRdbST5TN...
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The best recent poetry – review roundup
Have It by John Cooper Clarke; The Dodo Stories by Mary Mulholland; Red River Valley by Ian McMillan; Some Sacred Harbour by Roger Robinson; Otherwhere by Carolyn Forché
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 7h
#IMPEACH this MFer His so-called “pocket rescission” is #ILLEGAL share.google/cedqwTOyV7CD...
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Trump cancels $1B in federal spending in latest challenge to Congress
Many lawmakers, including some top Republicans, say the "pocket rescission" tactic is illegal.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Over 4,000 Texans showed up for James Talarico in Ken Paxton's home county 👀
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 23h
👁️ www.levernews.com/bulwark-neoc...
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It’s Not A Bulwark. It’s A Plot.
The former GOP operatives behind The Bulwark helped sell Democrats a losing strategy. Now they’re positioning themselves to shape the party’s 2028 nominee.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 26/09/2026
It is impossible to overstate how totally sociopathic it is for @rahmemanuel.bsky.social to have turned Chicago into his personal political corruption machine and now depict himself as the 2028 presidential candidate leading an anti-corruption movement.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So @willsommer.bsky.social got hold of the script for The Daily Wire's upcoming pro-ICE movie, which is centered in Minneapolis. It has a scene with a Renee Good stand-in, who is described as a "fat blue-hair," but this time she kills an ICE agent with her car. www.thebulwark.com/p/daily-wire...
Then the film’s Renée Good stand-in enters, slamming her Subaru into the ICE van. Described with the subtlety of a brick as “MELANIE (40), a fat blue-hair,” the woman, blasting NPR, revs up again and fatally hits ICE agent “Juan” with her car. Then his ICE partner, “Mike,” shoots her in a justifiable killing.

Melanie reacts to the drawn gun with panic...

She MASHES on the gas as she throws the car into reverse, accidentally SLAMMING Juan out of the way. He goes flying into the gutter, bleeding...

And as the car reverses, Mike FIRES TWICE through the

windshield...

The first shot takes the [sic] Melanie in the neck, below her covid

mask. The second in the head, above her covid mask.

Blood SPLATTERS on her PASSENGER’s (40s, female, overweight)

forehead and matching covid mask.

From there, the ICE agent drags his suspect into the pawn shop, with an Antifa mob hot on their heels. The stage is now set for a siege, during which numerous Molotov cocktails will be thrown and shotgun shells will fly. Rest assured that no liberal piety will survive.

Inside the pawn shop, we meet its grizzled Hispanic owner and his son, newly back from college and majoring in Chicano studies. Much to his father’s chagrin, the son is dressed in a Che Guevara shirt and “listening to a POP SONG unfitting for a man.” A pawn-shop security guard quips they’re lucky the boy didn’t get a sex change.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When they go low, WE GET LOUD!  And we push back against their lies and their disinformation. Because when the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, change can’t wait. #angieforflorida
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Raul A. Reyes: Hispanic Heritage Month was a worthy but doomed idea share.google/PmuyZBtGSKkq...
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Contributor: Hispanic Heritage Month was a worthy but doomed idea
People rarely say, 'I’m Hispanic.' That’s just a box we check on forms. Most of us identify by our family’s country of origin.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#WhatsOn 🎶 youtu.be/AMIqW8GlDP8?...
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Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet
YouTube video by Madhu Van Paare
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A story as old as Time. It's about the world's oldest discrimination & oldest disinterest in more than lip service. Yes there's also a thing about corruption and illegally diverting funds to other program areas. Of course, getting away with it goes back to the oldest discrimination & disinterest...
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Hope Florida led people with disabilities to dead ends as state misused $10M
Hope Florida says it empowers disabled people by linking them with essential resources, but families said the DeSantis program let them down.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting 🧵
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Steve has a moment of self reflection
A naturalistic photograph of Steve the otter at an aquarium exhibit, pressing his paw against the glass and gazing at his own reflection.  
No text appears baked into the image.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This line in this NYT article is utter BS, it says he's using "a legally untested power to unilaterally rescind spending without the approval of lawmakers." It's impoundment, and it's an #ILLEGAL and #Unconstitutional usurpation of the appropriations powers of Congress.
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mdg10.bsky.social @mdg10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
💔Organized abuse of children by the United States Government💔 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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The Babies Left Behind in America
The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These people are seriously SICK
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Desert Flower @crystal159.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
More than 50 new cases of #measles have been reported in PA since Wednesday, state health officials said, as efforts continue to combat an outbreak that has spread across the state. The 55 new cases, reported by the #Pennsylvania Department of Health in a statement on Friday... By Johnny Diaz
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Pennsylvania Measles Outbreak Grows to Nearly 900 Cases (Gift Article)
State health officials said 55 new cases had been reported since Wednesday. In all, 890 measles cases have been reported across 39 counties so far this year.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Thread🧵
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I appreciate this, which articulates some of what was frustrating me during the peak of DOGE activity. DOGE was never compatible with producing public good because their motivations and methods were structurally opposed to the public's
A table contrasting civic tech and DOGE across roots, points of entry, motivation, role of government, structure & leverage, view of law/change, approach to public employees, and assumptions about building change. In general civic tech is more incremental, people focused, and bottom-up, while DOGE is technology-focused, anti-government, and top-down
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Linguist explains perfectly logical reason Boomers use ellipses in texts—plus other texting habits of the different generations share.google/AozqfSRVs2BX...
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Harvard linguist explains perfectly logical reason Boomers insist on using ellipses in texts
If you've ever gotten a text from your mom or grandma full of "..." and had no idea what it meant, you're not alone.
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today is #Stunday and I think the milky way is stunning. To stand and look deep into the edge of our galaxy is humbling. Especially when viewed in a dark sky location. It's visible along the coast of North Florida. #photography #landscape #ECK #MilkyWay #stars #astronomy #space #astrophotography
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Alice @bewinjamin.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Angie Nixon needs your help to turn Florida back to blue roots. Affordability for the People 👇 angienixon.com/priorities/
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Priorities - Angie Nixon for U.S. Senate
Hardworking people should get to determine and shape what their communities look like and what their economies look like. - Alphonso Mayfield (Labor Leader
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 26/09/2026
They kidnapped men with no due process, dumped them in a Salvadoran torture prison, then told a judge tough luck, they're gone. They called it a one-off and did it again. Call it sloppiness if you want. I call it lawlessness, and everyone who signed off belongs in a cell.
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'Tough luck': DOJ accused of brushing off judge's court orders
One of the investigations likely to follow if Democrats take over the House concerns the extent to which President Donald Trump's administration ignored court orders at the direction of those at the h...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
"Why should Canadians trust Americans who have twice elected someone they consider a venal, dangerous buffoon? They could excuse them for being 'tricked' the first time. But electing him again, by a bigger margin the second time, tells them all they need to know." — @brynntannehill.bsky.social
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The view from Canada: Make America Think Again
Rebuilding trust will take generations.
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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I really am glad to see more Democrats aggressively talking about climate change. It's incredibly disheartening how little attention if not outright hostility it would regularly get from Dems in the 2010s, I think the climate movement pushing Biden for the IRA really made a sea change thankfully.
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
By large margins — even in some very red states — voters are MORE likely to vote for candidates who will make transitioning away from fossil fuels a TOP PRIORITY when elected. The data: 🔗 www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2026...
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Environmental Voter Project @environmentalvoter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Solar and Wind energy are MUCH MORE POPULAR than Oil & Gas in this year's US Senate battleground states...even in Texas and Alaska. The data: 🔗 www.environmentalvoter.org/updates/2026...
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Hyde T. Voltyge @hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Low gas prices are obviously huge, yeah But I wouldn't call addressing climate change bad as an electoral policy either... bsky.app/profile/doct...
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yeah Newsweek, we're a LOT more interested in WHAT ELSE she told Newsweek. Like something serious—which I know she is. Not this JOKE headline. Do better.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hey Newsweek, why isn't THIS the focus of the headline? 👇 Speaking to Newsweek in a WIDE-RANGING INTERVIEW, Nixon repeatedly returns to affordability concerns, identifying 3 policies that would most directly lower household expenses: Universal healthcare, repealing tariffs and universal childcare.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AS IF Democrats actually need this to "call into question his credibility and the integrity of his decisions" ?? WTF?
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why is this Dem pushing this bs narrative about shooting at people? FFS, we don't need to encourage spreading this, which the Orange Pustule LOVES to see people getting worked up about. Just get to the point: it's another laughable "national security" ploy to justify the #illegal 250-foot eyesore
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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I'm not a bot. DON'T PUT ON THE INTERNET THAT I'M A BOT! @youknowit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My sympathies to that dude's wife. Honey, you can do better.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Why are you publishing quotes about sex from someone who clearly knows nothing about sex ?? It's #Weird
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This Thread🧵
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Please. 😑🙄
@ozarkstown.bsky.social:

Stop trying to make Rahm happen. 
It’s embarrassing.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Woods v. U.S. Department of Education filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Project on Predatory Student Lending serving as counsel for the plaintiffs: DOE continues to report canceled federal student loans to credit reporting companies as active. 🔗 share.google/K5B2pImj8dJf...
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Student loan borrowers sue Trump administration over forgiven debts on credit reports
Student loan holders sued the Education Department on Thursday, claiming they suffered financial damages despite getting their debts forgiven years ago.
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WORKER19 @blogwood.com · 26/09/2026
Inside the armed Incursion from Florida meant to topple Cuba’s government www.miaminewtimes.com/news/inside-...
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Inside the armed incursion from Florida meant to topple Cuba’s government
They trained at a Florida farm, sailed from the Keys armed with rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition, and planned to spark an uprising.
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EdgewoodStudios @edgewoodstudios.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just a frog chillin on the wall at 7am in Boca. 😂 #bluesky #blueskygrowth #frog #chillin #morning #florida #cool #vibes
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Sandras @sandrasrn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Another reason to vote for David Jolly…
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
FFS, I thought I had already blocked all the bullshit Florida bashing on here. SMH. <sigh. my work is never done....>
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Dave Cadaqu @spek-music.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"both parties suck" is only thought & said by self-absorbed, lazy, whiny imbeciles. The 2 parties are NOTHING alike, never gave have been. But those stupid fucking shits that think there's no difference have in fact facilitated the destruction of America; they are republicans very best allies.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wildlife protection orgs and activists, please consider: When you use this phrase "While we appreciate the need for border security..." before your criticism in EVERY statement, article and motion, you are legitimizing their BS and undermining your own work to stop their environmental destruction.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
OMG "to heel" Just NO 🛑
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Popo Medic: No... Ugh... Just No Reaction
ALT: Popo Medic: No... Ugh... Just No Reaction
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Me and every Democrat voter I know every time we hear you use the introductory phrase "While we appreciate the need for border security...." 👇
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Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson: Can You Stop?
ALT: Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson: Can You Stop?
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This Point of Order goes for Democrat candidates and elected Reps in Congress, too.
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Point of Order: Wildlife protection Orgs do NOT need to couch their criticism with "While we appreciate the need for border security...." Erecting impediments to wildlife movement, and destroying critical habitat and culturally significant sites is NOT about anything needed for "border security"
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Border Wall Expansion Endangers Species
By Debra Colodner PhD, Director of Conservation Education and Science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Ruth Allard, Senior Vice President of Conservation and Education at the Phoenix Zoo Pla…
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Cassandra in the 305 @cassandrasaidso.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What is Carville going on about? He'll never just walk away. No, we will remove him. Sure, by Easter sounds good.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Both parties suck” doesn’t mean we should swap a democracy for dictatorship. Not voting is actively supporting the current regime.
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Pam Meehan 💙🌊 @mufcfan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To be fair the people who would listen to the past Presidents are not the problem...
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