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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is why technofascists, oligarchs, and their servants, such as JD Vance, hate this Pope.

Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Check this out from @globalvoices.org: As part of Global Voices’ September Spotlight, “Protest in Democracy,” members of our community will be sharing examples of protest music past and present from their communities in this collaborative article. globalvoices.org/2026/10/01/t...

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The sound of resistance

As part of Global Voices’ September Spotlight, “Protest in Democracy,” members of our community will be sharing examples of protest music past and present from their communities in this collaborative ...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cowboys past and present are: Black, Indigenous, Latino, immigrant, queer, trans, radical, female (and the ones in rodeos rely on rodeo clowns to keep them safe). And that pro-democracy pro-Constitution patriots despise this dimwitted pile of hatreds. I've met cowboys and you, sir, are no cowboy.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“He says the military viewed Catholic clergy who advocated for social justice and human rights as communists. He was detained, beaten and hospitalized, he says.”

"A moral obligation"

Rivas grew up in El Salvador during another tumultuous era. A military coup in 1979 led to a deadly decade-long civil war between the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government and a left-wing guerrilla group backed by Cuba.

Rivas decided to become a Catholic priest at age 27. He says the military viewed Catholic clergy who advocated for social justice and human rights as communists. He was detained, beaten and hospitalized, he says.

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Lizard @lizardky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As they've made very clear in on the record interviews, they consider anyone who is a non-citizen, regardless of their actual legal status (working papers, student visa, refugee) to be a "criminal" because they are "here illegally" (even if they're following the law). So it's a meaningless claim.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 27/09/2026

"Everyone is on the same page: the ethnic cleansing campaign is still on."

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today at @inquirer.com: A series of editorials exploring how Donald Trump has been lining his pockets — and mixing personal profits with public policy — since he returned to the White House. www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

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The Art of the Steal: How Donald Trump has been lining his pockets | Editorial series

A series of editorials exploring how Donald Trump has been lining his pockets since he returned to the White House.

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Juliette Wade @juliettewade.com · 26/09/2026

"My product is not under my control" is a hell of a bit.

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Posting this a day late, but still worth reading.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The first sentence is the one , it applies to EVERYTHING. The second to last sentence is a problem. Not being a billionaire doesn’t mean you don’t have power And not all collective power is demonized especially when enacted upon those “below”

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Affordability discussions are mostly framed in a way that overlook impacts on the elderly. For example, we hear a lot about Trump's gas and diesel prices but not the projected 30-50% increase in heating oil prices. In PA, that will impact older housing stock, where many elderly folks live. 1/2

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"An administration that violated the Constitution and evaded democratic accountability in launching the war was now evading democratic accountability for its conduct of the war." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/o...

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Opinion | What Pete Hegseth Is Hiding (Gift Article)

Soldiers want to tell their stories, and we need to hear them.

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"Salisbury argued that the world’s greatest newspaper had become more than a record — it was an arbiter and maker of news, the 'fourth coequal branch of government.'” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...

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Opinion | He Was The Times’s Moscow Chief. My Grandmother Was His Censor. (Gift Article)

Somehow the story got through.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

BREAKING: TV pool will not be providing coverage of presidential events until further notice b/c of CNN's ban, pool chair and FOX News Washington Bureau Chief Bryan Boughton said. It's effectively a boycott by the fellow members — ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is excellent. We need this for the remainder of his term regardless of whether or not he welcomes those three outlets back.

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm not a royal watcher & have really limited patience with anything to do with the British monarchy, but it seems completely justifiable to me that Princess Diana's brother felt it necessary to offer his take on who Diana was after The Crown (2016-2023) pretty much savaged her image over 3 seasons

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

"Let me admit that for us in research, our primary source of knowledge, and in botanical research is from the traditional medicine practitioners. It is the knowledge from the practitioners that we try to validate using scientific methods." globalvoices.org/2026/09/03/i...

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Indigenous plants offer Ghanaians an alternative to costly Western medicine

About 60 to 70 percent of the Ghanaian population depends on the traditional medicine market for their medical care, according to a 2023 study in Frontiers in Pharmacology.

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Andrew Thrasher @tituslegaldesign.com · 20/09/2026

La migra, la policía, la misma porquería.

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Dr Robin @robinindfw.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And there are a lot of them: bsky.app/profile/robi...

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

we are over 25 and some of yall have made every choice possible to be the most self centered unaware people And no not everyone can meet that with grace every time!!!

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Dear ( some of )ALL Generations , The world made us . The trauma , the racism the lack ( or surplus ) of resources and access For good and ill . the combination of nature and nurture made us beautifully unique and tragically similar To create endless combinations of human AND

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sometimes I feel sorry for Anglos. No saben lo que es canela.

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Jessie Blue @jessieblueaz.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Dude is obsessed with renaming things that aren’t his to rename.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Other news organizations should leave the White House. They can of course still cover the administration--almost none of their coverage depends on being there physically. But they shouldn't stay there, raising their hands dutifully in the briefing room, as if it's business as usual.

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Demonstrating to all and sundry what a snowflake he is.

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"We devote enormous attention and resources to punishment after harm has occurred while neglecting the people, places, and institutions that can help prevent harm in the first place. And some of those places are disappearing right now." www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...

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We must fight for our children — and our beloved institutions — before they are gone | Opinion

While a museum’s closure hardly equates to the losses our city has suffered from gun violence, we must be serious about preserving institutions where children flourish.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

So @unbreaking.org has a dedicated page for federal data security…. unbreaking.org/issues/data-.... I am inviting everyone to look not just at the damage but at the places we can work….. These will be the concerns we need to fix

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Data Security — Unbreaking

Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Becoming obsessed with putting your name on a dead person’s memorial is EFFING WEIRD SHIT

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Philadelphia’s Latino communities get surprisingly little respect — outside of the high regard for our undeniably wonderful food and dance moves — from our electeds, and have long been slighted by city government in far more significant ways [than this]. www.inquirer.com/opinion/hisp...

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Mayor Parker, where’s the Hispanic Heritage Month events list? | Sabrina Vourvoulias

The city usually blasts out an email with a roll call of Hispanic Heritage Month happenings. This year it hasn’t — and it fits a pattern of Philly’s electeds giving Latino communities little respect.

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's the first day of Hispanic Heritage Month so this is when I remind you that this book exists in English and in Spanish for your kids (and you) to read and enjoy. Bonus: support the Smithsonian!

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just learned that reporter Luis Galeano has been detained in Miami by ICE. This is part of wider trend by the US govt to target immigrant reporters, violating core US press freedom principles. Galeano is from Nicaragua & is believed to have a pending asylum case in the US. I will report more ASAP.

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Crosby, Stills & Nashville Hot Chicken Keep a band edible: Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Lucelly “says it felt like just another job, and a duty to the city that had welcomed her. Like a lot of people who went to clean up at ground zero, she went armed only w/her house-cleaning gear: a paper mask and rubber gloves.” Since then, she “has battled breast cancer and respiratory disease.”

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“A nearly decade-old legislative push to give undocumented ground zero workers a path to citizenship has failed to gain traction … The 9/11 Immigrant Worker Freedom Act was … reintroduced in 2025 by Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. No Republicans have signed on to the bill …”

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Sabrina Vourvoulias @followthelede.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Condoleezza Rice speaking at the Pentagon, reminding the gathered (including the president) that NATO rallied to the US's defense after 9/11, and that Canadians wholeheartedly welcomed Americans whose flights were rerouted after the attack.

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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I really like this FOIA idea and think this could be a powerful method to learn more about how institutions are using generative AI in consequential settings.

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