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Alll of this. I started my career in construction, working office jobs alongside people who worked trades. Know how many 60-year-old guys I saw working as bricklayers? Doing demo? Zero. How many 50-year-old roofers there are? Zero. One reason unions fight for high wages is because careers are SHORT.

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Kath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tbf it also exists to subject men to ritualized abuse in order to irreparably bond them to each other so that they won’t blow the whistle on all the raping

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope that young woman bankrupts Cornell University.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy told Catholics to “fight every dimension” of the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and to replace politicians who tolerate it. “In abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and of the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.”

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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 d...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026

MURRAY: The Trump admin falsely labeled birth control as abortion. Do you agree that an IUD is an abortifacient? OVERTON: If confirmed, I'll be fully briefed M: That's not an answer. The prospect of an FDA commissioner who doesn't know that birth control isn't an abortion is deeply alarming O: 😊

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I guess one way in which I differ from the Republican nominee for US Senator from Minnesota is that I love Minnesota and enjoy living here. Something I like about @peggyflanagan.bsky.social is that she likes the place she is running to represent. Seems like it may help someone in that job.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Straight-up extortion seems like a losing political strategy

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Straight up confessing to war crimes now.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

They can self-regulate, says the guy who shares a porn accountability app with his son.

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

American troops ANONYMOUSLY sent photographs to CBS News to show the damage Iranian missiles and drones have done to the bases they are living on. The Pentagon is LYING about the war per Hegseth’s orders. He and the rest of Trump’s incompetent administration need to be impeached immediately.

Photos of damage done to American bases in the Middle East by Iranian missiles and drones.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I don't think people really understand the psychic impact of knowing that multiple times a day every day your friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, and everyone who could ever have any power over you is being flooded with agitprop designed to make them hate you

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I am driven to distraction by how *not angry* so many of my electeds seem. When they sit around and blab about policy this and policy that and blah blah blah, what I hear is "This is an interesting intellectual exercise for me." You should be barely able to contain yourself in public.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The same people who laughed when we said they'd repeal Roe v. Wade will probably laugh when we say that this shit will lead to people like RFK Jr. trying to ban abortion drugs because they're "poisoning America's water." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026...

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POLITICO Pro: Abortion opponents claim ‘tremendous victory’ as EPA tests water for abortion pills

The new study will test for trace amounts of chemicals, pesticides and drugs — including ones used to induce abortions — in drinking water in multiple cities.

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andykimnj.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stop calling this a DC makeover. This is an illegal desecration of our capital and a huge waste of American families’ money. DC is sacred ground, and we shouldn’t minimize the real damage being done.

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Apparently Your City Government Can Legally Poison Your Water Jackson, Mississippi's water pipes are laced with lead. Officials knew it was poisoning 140,000 residents back in 2014 — and hid it. A federal appeals court just ruled the Constitution doesn't care. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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Fifth Circuit: Unfortunately, Originalism Means the Government Is Allowed to Poison Your Drinking Water

By defining constitutional rights as narrowly as possible, conservative judges make it easy to conclude that those rights do not exist.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Let me get this straight. If you are a fisherman and are even suspected of having drugs, the US has the right to blow up your boat. However, if you run one of the biggest drug rings in the United States, you get a Trump pardon and then a speech at the GOP convention. Make it make sense….

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

$16 million later, the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was supposed to be open by July 4. Instead, it looks like this.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The culture of fear and intimidation instilled at the Department of Defense all stemming from Pete Hegseth’s incompetence and insecurities. A never ending quest to hide the truth from the American people and hunt down anyone who lets the truth leak out.

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Heather E @heathermn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just the worst people running our country.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“To avoid the White House’s rage…” The president as a classic abuser. Any victim of abuse has lived/lives this dynamic. Do whatever you have to do to avoid rage.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A career lawyer at DOJ said “she received a message from DOJ leadership asserting that all of the Dept’s lawyers - including its civil rights attys - needed to be fully on board with the President’s agenda.”

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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive.

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Heather E @heathermn.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I saw a live calf birth and Margo Price on a free stage tonight at the Minnesota State Fair. What a day!

A seconds old black calf. One can see farm babies at the Miracle of Life Center and if you are lucky you might witness a live birth. Today was our lucky day!

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's not just tumbling enrollment. Graduate programs rely on foreign students to sustain *critical mass.* Many (if not most) would collapse after a sudden 30% drop in enrollment. They think they're creating space for white, U.S.-born students, but they're actually destroying their own schools.

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Heather E @heathermn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Our Health Secretary says people in hospice are taking too long to die.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 27/08/2026

If this enrages you, it should. And you’re not alone. The 19-year-old sailor who jumped off the USS Abraham Lincoln is facing disciplinary charges instead of receiving the mental health services he needs. 👀

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 25/08/2026

it's possible to live a life where everyone grieves its end

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

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batkaren @batkaren.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

everyone needs a few bereavement days off for Dolly

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

absolute queen shit right here

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 22/08/2026

I’m still trying to process how the president of the United States somehow talks tougher about Canada than North Korea.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Dorie Miller was only allowed to work in a Navy mess due to segregation, but he leapt to work a gun when the attack happened. In sharp contrast, Donnie Trump got five medical deferments to keep from having to fight in Vietnam. The USS Bone Spurs doesn‘t really sing

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We are unquestionably sending people to their deaths, all because the President and his appointees are making policy based on pure racism and bigotry.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

cool we finally discovered what the military equivalent of bankrupting a casino is

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

OMFG, this quote. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

This is 100% true. They'll gleefully destroy any institutional space that makes room for Black people, and then turn around and say it's for "intellectual diversity" or similar bullshit. And meanwhile, most of these "anti-wokers" are mediocre--at best!--occupants of those same spaces

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The cyclospora outbreak has reached 13,895 cases across 47 states. The FDA has recalled 1.6 million eggs due to salmonella contamination. Screwworm cases continue to rise. And we’ve just surpassed 2,500 measles cases — breaking 2025’s record. “Make America Healthy Again.”

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trucks @fivehole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

BuT mInNeSoTa FrAuD

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David Brauer @dbrauer.net · 11/08/2026

Don’t hesitate to come to the polls; DOJ monitors will be outside the 100-foot zone, you don’t have to talk, you also don’t have to freak out, if you see them talking to anyone before they vote (they can only do so after) or engaging otherwise, tell the precinct head judge. We’re trained to help.

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