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bill the cat @billdiamond.com · 02/10/2026
When that forking muddafadda Johnson’s lips are moving, he’s only thinking how to transfer more wealth to his corrupt billionaires. He’ll do that by impoverishing you.
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Congressional reforms in the wake of Nixon War Powers Resolution (1973) Federal Election Campaign Act Amendments (1974) Congressional Intelligence Oversight Reforms (1975-1977) Ethics in Government Act (1978)
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Monkeytime @tmorman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Non-paywalled Times of Israel version of this story: www.timesofisrael.com/days-before-...
timesofisrael.com
Days before Oct. 7, UAE leader warned Netanyahu Hamas was planning war, but PM did nothing with the info – report
In month before massacre, Sinwar said to convey message via UAE he was ready to launch 'earthquake' amid moribund talks with Israel, PM didn't inform Shin Bet of Emirati president's warning; Bennett: ...
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BlueRidge Brian⚓ @blueridgebri.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Beshear can pick Massie. Which to me would be hilarious.
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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
By generating #renewableelectricity and fresh water from the same installation,these projects address #clean-energy and water scarcity Although still emerging, integrated solar-desalination systems could become especially valuable for islands, coastal communities, drought-prone regions #ActOnClimate
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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Two Russian female skyscraper climbers live streamed their climb at the Empire State Building in New York and got arrested. They took over the city cam at the very top of the skyscraper.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
White phosphorus ignites on contact with air, burning through flesh and bone. Its devastating impact in warfare raises urgent ethical questions.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 27/05/2026
we have three dying dictators trying to kill us all
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
She just passed away today.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 24/04/2026
You and your neighbors should not be subsidizing the electricity needs of a data center run by a trillion-dollar corporation.   My Power for the People Act would force Big Tech to pay for their own power needs. We should pass it today to protect consumers from rising costs NOW.
baltimoresun.com
Maryland electric bills to rise this summer as PJM faces data center strain
Mid-Atlantic electricity costs may rise this summer as PJM struggles with data center demand. Maryland relief may help, but supply issues persist, analysts say.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...
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The Next Coup Attempt
And How to Stop It
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🟧Mis Andrist🟧Queen of Hell 🟧🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @crystalmariepa5.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Earthquake warning for Indonesia, possible tsunami associated with a major quake
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 02/04/2026
The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz
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Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide
The Erie County Medical Examiner's Office didn't reach any conclusions about responsibility for Nurul Amin Shah Alam's death.
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I already posted this, but Jesus--it's worse: The GOP's Plan to Shut Down Abortion Pill Websites open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Sens. Bill Cassidy, Steve Daines, James Lankford, Cindy Hyde-Smith, and Lindsey Graham lay out, step by step, how the federal agency can attack telehealth organizations both online and off. The Senators even attach a list of websites for the FDA to target—including AidAccess, I Need An A, and carafem.

They call on Makary to:

Send warning letters to the sites, telling them they’re violating federal law “by offering unapproved and misbranded chemical abortion drugs for sale to U.S. consumers.”

Initiate domain takedowns by filing complaints with domain registrars, pushing them to strip the URL from their clients—and threatening them with legal action if they don’t comply.

Work with Customs and USPS to inspect packages that might contain abortion medication, and to record data on the outside of those packages before they’re delivered “to obtain evidence about the commission of a crime.” That means both providers and patients could be tracked.

Work with the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute the organizations—including individuals, entities, and “co-conspirators,” language so broad it could sweep in not just providers but advocacy organizations, abortion funds, activists, and anyone who connects patients to these websites.

Though the lawmakers try to give all this the veneer of credibility by claiming they’re simply targeting “unapproved drugs,” it’s clear that the real goal is shutting down the information infrastructure that helps people get abortion pills.

You’ll notice that at multiple points in the letter, the Senators accuse these groups of “false advertising”—the same claim Republicans have used against Planned Parenthood, and the same legal strategy South Dakota’s attorney general weaponized in an attempt to take down an ad campaign from Mayday Health.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 11/03/2026
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
"The Price of Safety: Stories of Abortions Denied, Careers Disrupted, and States Left Behind" details the human and economic toll of abortion bans. The anthology uses stories from patients, doctors, business leaders, and others to show the real-world consequences of abortion bans.
commondreams.org
New Research Details 'Human and Economic Toll' of US Abortion Bans | Common Dreams
A Monday report from the Center for Reproductive Rights features various profiles demonstrating "the human and economic toll" of US abortion bans.
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Author Myron J. Clifton @deardean22.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Look at this letter a school in Hawaii sent home with kids … ICE shit..
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 22/01/2026
Worth noting that among those participating in ICE/DHS watch in Minneapolis today — who Emmer appears to frame as “chaos agents” here — are literally hundreds of clergy.
A group of clergy on patrol in Minneapolis.A group of clergy on patrol in Minneapolis.
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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This is what I told Cassidy’s office when RFK jr was nominated, that he’s an HIV denialist and that his dangerously wrong opinion would be catastrophic for people in Louisiana. This is why every HIV expert was screaming about how dangerous his nomination was.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I’m not sure people outside the Twin Cites realize the prevalence and the fear ICE is causing in Twin Cities. They are dining undercover pretending to be couples at restaurants, they are going to businesses and checking the license plates of cars to find employees. Every public place is compromised.
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 19/01/2026
This is what happens when the Pope is from Chicago.
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ME/CFS San Diego @mecfssd.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Medicare at-home telehealth access for ME/CFS is set to change on 1/30 unless legislators act. Let them know this issue affects constituents. Take action: www.meaction.net/take-action
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TAKE ACTION FOR ME/CFS | #MEAction
#MEAction is dedicated to taking action in places that affect people with ME, Long COVID, and other chronic illnesses. Join us!
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Jacq @jacqueline2024.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Happy Solstice, Bluesky lovelies! As the light returns, may people round the world, allow it to enlighten our hearts & minds & actions with kindness & empathy. Each new day,is a new opportunity for each one of us to share light, in our own way. ☀️🕊️♥️
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
1/12 We are so back! Evil forces around the world have started to struggle in 2025, giving hope for a better future. The tide is turning. Let’s hope they struggle even more in 2026
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
On the same day he stripped AAP of millions in grant funding in retaliation, RFK Jr awarded $1.6M to Tracy Høeg's Danish friends for a grossly unethical study that will expose African babies to hep B for no reason than it's politically expedient. Steal from American taxpayers, give to MAHA cronies.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
This would benefit literally everyone except the insurance companies, and large corporations who want to keep employees trapped under otherwise disadvantageous conditions. So much of our healthcare spending goes to corporate profits instead of healthcare.
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Chained Melody @chainedmelody.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
So the senator who has been trying to repeal Obamacare since 2017 & who saddled us with RFKj, is now targeting blue states who are not complying with an EO. www.foxnews.com/politics/gop...
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GOP senator probes 18 blue states, DC over Trump's transgender athlete order
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., investigates blue states for alleged Title IX violations related to President Donald Trump's order keeping biological males out of female sports programs.
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Kerry Kennedy @kerrykennedy.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
(1/4) The Trump administration is ordering the State Department to label countries with abortion access, LGBTQ+ protections, DEI policies, and even hate-speech safeguards as human rights violators.
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Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Fetterman, Shaheen & Slotkin voted to confirm Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. Fetterman, Gallego & Kelly voted to confirm EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Here’s the whole enchilada.
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Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Almost 3/4 of people without health insurance have at least one full time worker in their home. The biggest reason these people don’t have health insurance is the cost. And that cost is going up dramatically for millions of hard working Americans who depend on the ACA.
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Peppa Pax Pippa 🕊️☮️✌🏼 @peppapaxpippa.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
SNAP participants can double their spending at their local farmers market or farm stands through a national initiative known as the Double Up Bucks food program. The policy council gives each customer wooden tokens, and if they spend $40, they will receive an additional $40 to spend.
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Black-Owned Farms Fill Gaps Left by SNAP Funding Delays
From North Carolina to Mississippi, small businesses work to feed their communities while benefits are paused.
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
We polled Indivisible members over the weekend on whether Dems should take a deal or keep fighting for the ACA subsidies. Results: 98.67% said keep fighting. Dems who vote to surrender now are fracturing their own party in a way that will reverberate loudly in the primaries.
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RandyResists2025💙🔵 @resist2025.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
His Health Savings Accounts are only for those on Bronze and catastrophic plans. Which is fewer than 8M people.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 09/11/2025
Just a reminder that after the “Schumer Surrender” in March, 82% of our group leaders in New York (and 91% of our group leaders nationwide) voted to call for Schumer to step aside as Senate Minority Leader. 👇
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Chained Melody @chainedmelody.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Seems to be a pattern.
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Susan Behrens @susanbehrens.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The least the democrats can do is demand that Johnson swear in new AZ Rep. Adelita Grijalva *before* the senate caves on the shutdown. Get something, dammit.
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Chained Melody @chainedmelody.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Schumer must be forced out of leadership. He lost the Senste in 2024. He caved in the spring budget fight, breaking his promise to back House Democrats. Now he’s lost the shutdown. He must step down as minority leader.
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Xaviera ANTIFA Barganski @lavenia.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
(No paywall) www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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Houston-area ICE officer pleads guilty to abusing migrant detainee
A detention officer at a Conroe ICE facility pleaded guilty to using excessive force against a migrant detainee.
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
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50501 New York @50501newyork.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Joy is resistance. HandsOffNYC.com.
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Kris and Dave
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Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
October 27, 1962, was arguably the most dangerous day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a day when human error, rushed preparations, aggressive tactics, and sky-high tensions could have set off World War III intentionally or by accident at least four separate times. Here’s what happened (a long thread):
A black and white triptych showing US President John F. Kennedy, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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Comox Tips @comoxtips.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
If you’re Canadian, there’s a simple way to avoid this: *never, ever visit the USA. Why give your money to a dictatorship that wants to destroy our economy so it can annex us? www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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U.S. to photograph Canadian travellers when they enter and exit at all land borders, airports | CBC News
The United States is expanding its facial identification program for travellers, with the goal of collecting images of non-U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country by all modes of transport.
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”
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