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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was asked about avoiding politics: “You’ll find me and my opinions in a lot of my songs. But most of it is based on love, acceptance and lifting people up. My daddy was a Republican, my mama was a Democrat, and I’m a hypocrite!”

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I remember watching an interview with her and they asked her why her imagination library sent books to all children, even those whose families could afford books. She explained that all children should get the same opportunities and means testing was expensive and inefficient.

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Kate Gross @kategross.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton 😢. We all knew it was coming but this one hurts.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The three players in this photo: 1. Nigerian heritage, grew up in England, and is only a citizen thanks to birthright citizenship. 2. Born + raised in Holland, has a dad who immigrated to the US from Suriname. 3. Said he wanted to “make people who look like me proud” while playing on Juneteenth

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

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The Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day Started

Historians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It’s TACO Tuesday!

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

He really is doing all of it.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/11/2025

ATTN: If you were on the Sandwich Guy jury and you'd like to chat, my Signal is in my bio. I'll keep you anonymous! Please share this post!

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Kate Gross @kategross.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Ok FSU! Don't know if you can hold on but I'll take it!

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 26/08/2025

“This 66-year-old tuba player just became LSU Tiger Band's oldest member” Play (ing my sousaphone gives me chronic) Neck (pain) www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

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This 66-year-old tuba player just became LSU Tiger Band's oldest member

This 66-year-old tuba player just became LSU Tiger Band's oldest member. Read about how he did it.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2025

a thought i have reading @clintsmithiii.bsky.social’s wonderful piece is that one reason the administration wants to erase any mention of the worst of our past is because it is intent on recapitulating those atrocities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

1/Trump’s Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, seems interested in making women 2nd class citizens. A tweet he posted late last week isn’t getting nearly enough attention. In any other administration, there would have been swift calls for his resignation. Here, mostly crickets.

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People For the American Way @peoplefor.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

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John Archibald @johnarchibald.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

He played ball at JB Pennington High, went to the Baptist church on Sundays and Methodist youth group Wednesday nights. He fell in love and drives a pickup and referees high school games and talks with a better Southern accent than I do. www.al.com/news/2025/08...

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Small town Alabama is the only home Fonzie knows, but ICE came for him anyway

“I don't know nothing about Mexico,” he said. “I don't even know how their political things work."

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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Jesus. He's a US citizen. With Global Entry even. Still detained. With no explanation. (They did eventually let him back into the country after holding him for hours, saying had no rights. He was threatened by five interrogators.)

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Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua

Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.

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Kate Gross @kategross.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Monday challenge: post the least flattering photo you have of your pe

Derpy chocolate Labrador in an awkward belly up position

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Let’s talk about weather balloons—a.k.a. radiosondes—and why recent cuts to NWS staffing and balloon launch schedules are putting the public at risk (eg., Deaths in Texas). No satellite or model can replace what these humble balloons do. Here's why. 🧵

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

This. Is. Insane. Read this, please.

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Government agencies who don't want to be compared to the Gestapo should make sure they don't do any of the stuff on the Gestapo page of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. Just saying.

The Nazi regime gave Gestapo

agents a great deal of power to decide the fate of the people they arrested.

Most notably, the Gestapo
had the power to send people directly to a concentration camp. This was called “protective custody” (Schutzhaft). Protective custody

allowed the Gestapo to bypass the court system. Those placed in protective custody could not consult a lawyer, appeal their sentence, or defend themselves in court. The Gestapo even used protective custody to override court decisions in some cases. Typically they did so when they considered the court’s sentence too lenient.

As an institution, the Gestapo
was not subject to legal or administrative oversight. This meant that no other institution (including the courts) could overrule the Gestapo’s decisions. The Gestapo had the final word.

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Empire always leads to this. Good Friday Now open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

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Good Friday Now

The cross of imperial violence

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Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Reminder: “Family Values” isn’t really defined or expressed by ideologues hating gay people or beating a hollow drum about babies. “Family value” means actually recognizing that every man and woman are made Imago Dei and treating them accordingly, as part of Christ’s family, and acting accordingly.

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Grievances 16-19 in Declaration of Independence 16. "For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world" 17. "For imposing taxes on us without our consent" 18. "For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Jury trial" 19. "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences"

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.

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Kate Gross @kategross.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

So this is happening in Orlando. Anyone have thoughts on how to handle it if it happens in your congregation? www.wftv.com/news/local/c...

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Gerry Joyce-Magladene @deaconbluesky.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT SALUTE DURING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM! Only the military salutes. I don't even salute as a retiree. Sorry Trump, you had your chance to serve, but five people went to Vietnam in your place.

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Kate Gross @kategross.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving from Chuck!

Chocolate Labrador stares hopefully at Thanksgiving dinner while producing a drool bubble.

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Nicole Auerbach @nauerbach.com · 20/11/2024

Column: www.nbcsports.com/college-foot...

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