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@jdouellette.bsky.social
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pragmatic idealist/idealistic pragmatist democracy/politics/feminism/eating disorders it doesn’t need to happen to me or mine for me to care and fight

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h
• Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the US war with Iran has been an economic disaster, blaming the conflict for higher inflation and borrowing costs worldwide. • Chalmers warned the war is also damping global growth, saying it is weighing on global growth and Australia is not immune from that.
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Australian Treasurer Calls US-Iran War an Economic ‘Disaster’
Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the US war with Iran has been an economic disaster, blaming the conflict for higher inflation and borrowing costs worldwide and warning it’s also damping global ...
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Dyan London @dyanlondon444.bsky.social · 16h
𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐎𝐛𝐚𝐦𝐚, 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 18h
Entitled freeloader
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Just A Grandmom🇺🇸 @grandmompa.bsky.social · 17h
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Sunexpress Airlines Swipe Up Arrows
ALT: Sunexpress Airlines Swipe Up Arrows
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 16h
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16h
THIS is why an independent prosecutor is essential in the Cornell case. How could the Tompkins County DA's Office refuse to consider additional evidence before deciding not to pursue criminal charges?? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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D.A. in Cornell Rape Inquiry Declined to Review Additional Evidence
Records show that campus police officers informed Tompkins County prosecutors that they had conducted additional interviews beyond taking a statement from the woman who said she was raped.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21h
RIGHT.......💪🏻
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 17h
Well Done Germany! =============== The Cornell University case has highlighted the need to better protect women from rapists. This is a great idea for remote/hidden areas. ----------------------
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 17h
Women had experienced harassment for generations. In 1975, a group of women at… CORNELL decided to name it. Lin Farley put a name to it: “sexual harassment.” #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Book cover titled “Sexual Shakedown” by Lin Farley.
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 17h
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Three million highly sensitive records, out in the open for nine months.
Pete Hegseth drunk and drenchedKash Patel drunk
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is huge! Another cancer responds well to immunotherapy. A child had metastatic liver cancer. The patient had chemotherapy & a liver resection. No avail. Then: Two infusions, eight weeks apart. Doctors saw complete regression. No systemic toxicity. 🧪 www.bcm.edu/news/care-st...
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CARE study reports complete regression of liver cancer in a child treated with novel immunotherapy
A new report in the New England Journal of Medicine by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Seattle Children’s...
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YukonCorneliusJack @yukoncorneliusjack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Holy shit, I can’t even imagine the fury if PM Carney wins TIME’s Person of the Year & a Nobel Peace Prize. The Wrath of Con will be felt around the world. #FuckTheFelon
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 02/10/2026
"A dozen orcs stormed the Palantir offices in Seattle this week to apply for jobs at the surveillance tech company. Palantir's militarized AI products attracted the horde of orcs, who hoped that their history of serving the Dark Lords would land them a gig. Unfortunately, Palantir didn't bite." 🤣
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Midwest
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Truth 💥 👏
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
It’s not just the 7. Or the 57. It’s the whole system.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A stunning new video by New York Times reporter reveals hundreds of seats empty at Trump's rally in deep-red Alabama.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
Americans: you are not outraged enough about this. Christians: this is absolute blasphemy www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
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‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A major win! A federal court in Texas today temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state’s Big Bend region. The fight isn’t over, but this is a big step toward protecting Big Bend!
apnews.com
Judge temporarily blocks border wall construction in Texas’ Big Bend region
A federal court in Texas has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from building a border wall in the Big Bend region.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Gotta be about the kinda of jobs, right? Health aides etc. Lower paying…
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The manager was right — some longtime shoppers closed their accounts in protest — but Marcus stuck with his decision. At the time of the flagship's closure, the Main Street store had been open for 112 years.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
These victories were achieved through the efforts of Civil Rights activists, along with support from Neiman Marcus president Stanley Marcus, who was an early advocate for desegregation. The Neiman Marcus Dallas store manager purportedly warned Marcus that he would destroy his business this way.
A Black man protesting in front of a department store in San Diego, California. He's wearing a suit and holding a sign that says "We March Protesting the Indignity and Humility of Jim Crow." There are some people behind him. Stanley Marcus smoking a pipe. He's wearing a striped suit.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The downtown Neiman Marcus flagship was one of the first major Dallas businesses that broke with these practices. In 1961, the company desegregated its Zodiac Room, a swanky lunch spot frequented by Dallas elites. Later, they welcomed Black shoppers to come and buy clothes without restrictions.
The Zodiac Room restaurant on the sixth floor of Neiman Marcus in Dallas. The photo shows a bunch of tables covered in white tablecloth and leather covered seats.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For instance, they had to try on clothes over their clothes, put on protective covers when trying on hats, or weren't allowed to make returns once they brought the clothes home. These policies stemmed from racist fears that white customers would refuse merchandise previously worn by Black shoppers.
Department Store, Mobile, Alabama, 1956

By Gordon Parks

Promised gift of The Gordon Parks FoundationJoanne Wilson, one of the Thorntons’ daughters, is shown standing with her niece in front of a department store in downtown Mobile. The pair is impeccably dressed in light, summery frocks. The jarring neon of the “Colored Entrance” sign looming above them clashes with the two young women’s elegant appearance, transforming a casual afternoon outing into an example of overt discrimination. Notice the fallen strap of Wilson’s slip. Though this detail might appear discordant with the rest of the picture, its inclusion may have been strategic: it allowed Parks to emphasize the humanity of his subjects.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I guess he missed Hegseth’s speech at Quantico this week.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A federal judge has ruled that Roger Rogoff, the judicially appointed U.S. attorney in Seattle, has been illegally fired by the Trump admin and must be provisionally reinstated by the Justice Department.
washingtonpost.com
Trump illegally fired Seattle’s U.S. attorney, judge rules
The ruling is the latest in a string of decisions finding that the administration bent federal law to keep loyalists in key prosecutorial posts.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Holy smokes. This is incredible! Brazil must survive the manipulation and foreign aggression. Stand strong with Lula!
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Ted Cruz called the FBI on me @weareronin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This little suggestion on top of my hamburger helper box is how I know we are about to have a Great
Depression part 2
TRY WITH
HOT DOGS
INSTEAD OF GROUND BEEF
TRY WITH
HOT DOGS
INSTEAD OF GROUND BEEF
HAMBURGER
HELPER
CHEESEBURGER MACARONI
WITH REAL CHEESE
PER US CUP AS PACKAGED
NET WIT 550Z (1559)
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026
If only Maria Bartiromo were here to see this
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
McDonald's is now reportedly pressuring franchisees to use AI to price food. Its CEO raked in $20.6M last year, over 1,000x the median McDonald's worker pay of $19,020. And they remain one of the largest employers of Medicaid and SNAP recipients. I'm not lovin' it.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
I just got a notification that my ballot has been mailed to me. Let's see how long it takes to get here! I live in California, where everyone is mailed a ballot.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To everyone who's stood by my friend Davey Hearn: he's so grateful & so are we Davey says if it can happen to him, it can happen to anybody, & you showed up like you knew it @democracydefendersfund.org, @washlitgroup.bsky.social & Steptoe are proud to stand w/ him & w/ you Davey on GMA👇 -TN
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Good on you Sister's 👏
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are a lot of Trump officials who need to be impeached, but Russell Vought -- the quarterback of all the Project 2025 fuckery and a central player in the administration's overreach -- really needs to be at the top of the list.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's a new wave of Democratic ads across the country that are somehow brutally partisan and incredibly effective and it's going to take some time for me to get used to this?
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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We've paid enough for his illegal involvement in our government. Nobody wants this bastard in there. We have enough of them right now. Call your representatives.☎️
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 01/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Subverting democracy isn't new to John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, or Amy Coney Barrett. All three were on George W. Bush's "Florida Recount Team," which lay the groundwork for stopping vote counting in Florida—and Bush v. Gore, the politically-motivated SCOTUS decision that gave Bush the election.
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