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Liz Butler

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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Ok that’s an amazing and perfect title.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
There are fewer vampires these days because drivers keep reversing over them.
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Liz Butler @lizgeraldstown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for genocidal murderers. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie
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Petition to #stopthegame
I just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for g...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/09/2026
When Pete Hegseth polled top commanders about cutting a program designed to protect civilians during military operations, he bet they’d back his view that the program was “woke” and out of step with “maximum lethality,” officials told ProPublica. Instead, every commander rebuffed the idea.
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Top Commanders Told Hegseth Not to Cut Civilian Protection Program, Poll Showed. He Did It Anyway.
The U.S. military has killed hundreds of noncombatants since gutting its Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response mission last year. After significant blowback, the Defense Department is considering part...
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Liz Butler @lizgeraldstown.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for genocidal murderers. my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie
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Petition to #stopthegame
I just signed the petition to #stopthegame - will you add your name too? No to a change of venue. No to forcing players to play a game they don't want to play. No to sportswashing. No to bending for g...
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Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The NYT magazine has published an extract from The Castle! The book is out Sept 1 in the US and now in the UK. All details - including speaking dates - link in bio! I love this extract. He Was a Top Lawn Care Influencer on YouTube. Then Everything Went Haywire. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/m...
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He Was a Top Lawn Care Influencer on YouTube. Then Everything Went Haywire.
Many people think Greg Chism is a freak — or worse. He says he was just following the incentives of the platform.
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Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
After I finished The Castle, I went to the cage fight at the White House for GQ. I LOVE this story and here it is - just published - and (for now at least) no paywall! www.gq.com/story/ufc-at...
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I Went to the White House Brawl and Watched the Manosphere Go Limp
It was supposed to be an exhibition of freedom without restraint: a bombastic birthday boy (the President), fourteen uncontrollable athletes (courtesy of the UFC), and a South Lawn build-out that was ...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026
Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"
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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
#vaccines #healthcare #vaccinessavelives #science
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Greg Burke @gregoryburke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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As ICE closes in, Ohio churches line up families to care for Haitian kids left behind
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — In Springfield, Ohio, ICE shifts tactics to stealth raids and ankle monitors. Churches are responding by helping Haitian parents line up temporary caregivers, preparing for t...
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Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Healthcare workers in Minneapolis have been forced to grapple with violence and intimidation as ICE descends on their workplaces. I interviewed several about how organizing and rights training have helped them protect their colleagues and their patients. Read their advice here:
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Minneapolis Health Care Workers Are Organizing to Defend Their Patients From ICE
Organizing and rights trainings have helped health care workers protect their colleagues and their patients.
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Fucknazis @justharris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My friends from school came to my house to watch popeye cartoons after school. Tv wasn’t allowed. They hadn’t even seen a mirror before. Class pictures were me, and the teacher. Unless the teacher belonged to the “church”. The principal beat the shit out of me for it. Until my dad found out.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ANGELA LANSBURY told a story about her daughter falling under the spell of a Hollywood deadbeat. He’d pick the girl up from school & get her to steal money & food from her parents for him. Worried, Lansbury moved the entire family to Ireland. The ‘deadbeat’? Charles Manson.
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Stoner Philly Fan @stonerphillyfan.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Healthcare costs keep going up while people are stuck in jobs just to keep their insurance. We spend more and get less. It’s time to take healthcare off the employer’s shoulders and guarantee it to everyone through Medicare for All. www.commondreams.org/news/health-...
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'Utterly Unsustainable': Employer-Sponsored Healthcare Costs Set to Keep Surging | Common Dreams
While Democratic leadership continues to oppose a Medicare for All system overwhelmingly favored by their party's voters, progressives point to studies showing that such a program will save lives and ...
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Six @sixdos.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026
We got a book club going at work and given our field of work this is the first book.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2026
NEW: In 2024, a yes vote on Missouri’s Amendment 3 protected abortion rights. In November, voters will again be asked to choose yes on Amendment 3 — this time to take those rights away.
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Missouri Republicans Are Trying to Repeal Abortion Rights by Leaning Into Anti-Trans Sentiment
Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion...
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Funeral of a music lover in New Orleans. Original post
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Badass Congresswoman Joyce Beatty who successfully sued the MAGA regime and forced the removal of the orange felon’s disgusting name from the Kennedy Center just filed an emergency motion to block his corrupt board from trying to add it back to the facility. 💙👊
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The 6 Supremely Corrupt Court RepubliKKKans, Need Ethics Reform And Term Limits...... (The Guardian)
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Mexican researcher Eva Ramón Gallegos achieved a milestone that puts Latin American science at the center of the world medical debate: she managed to completely eliminate the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in controlled clinical studies.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
JAYNE MANSFIELD had an IQ of 163, spoke 5 languages, and was a more than proficient Violinist, as evidenced here playing Vivaldi's Concerto No. 6 in A minor on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1957.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
BREAKING Peaceful protesters have revealed “terrorism” signs outside Preston Courts in support of the Barclays 5. The signs state “Saving lives is not terrorism - I support Palestine Action” This is in response to reports that the five may be unjustly sentenced as terrorists.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
David McWilliams on his loser podcast whining about not enough civil servants getting fired and his guest using civil service and NGO interchangeably without him correcting her… probably nothing to worry about, right?
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Steve_USA 🧢 @stowsley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Focus on this as a primary concern.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked The Pentagon Papers exposing the lies told to the public about the disastrous Viet Nam war, forever becoming a hero in history. Now... someone PLEASE leak #TheEPSTEINFiles & end the biggest coverup scandal of all-time! 🙏
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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Why did the mine collapse? Because it’s the kind done without proper equipment or safety regulations, a lot of the time done by children. For maximum and absolute profit. More than 100 dead in gold mine collapse in Central African Republic news.cgtn.com/news/2026-08...
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More than 100 dead after gold mine collapse in Central African Republic
On August 18, a deadly collapse hit an unregulated artisanal gold mine in the Central African Republic, burying dozens of workers. The confirmed death toll has surpassed 100, with more people still tr...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Incredible @angieforfl.bsky.social Nixon pic 🔥
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Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Gardaí routinely question Irish journalists in an effort to identify their confidential sources. That's one of the findings of new research by @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social and Glory Anumudu of @maynoothuniversity.ie which we were proud to partner on. www.iccl.ie/news/an-gard...
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An Garda Síochána routinely questions journalists in attempts to identify their confidential sources
The first-ever study of crime and security journalism in Ireland is based on interviews with journalists working in the North and South of Ireland.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
On the left: Oliver North, convicted for his role in illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan administration. On the right: Fox News “military analyst” Oliver North, who thinks Iran shouldn’t have missiles. Same guy. Same Oliver North.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Hey Marco Rubio: Stop spreading propaganda. Cuba is NOT a national security threat to the United States. You have no business being Secretary of State or holding any elected or appointed office.
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BOFFY @boffymufc.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
"Cuba is a threat to U.S. national security," says Rubio. Cuba is no threat to anyone. It has no drones, missiles or atomic bombs. Another lie to manufacture unilateral consent for an invasion. The world must put these terrorists in jail. #cdnpoli
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Jon Ronson @jonronson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Indie bookshop fans in the UK. @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social are putting out a special limited edition of The Castle just for the indies… signed and with a bonus chapter, a conversation with Patrick Radden Keefe. Link in bio or just go to your local indie bookshop on Aug 20 and it should be there!
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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
on this day 1952 blues artist Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton records "Hound Dog" for the first time, Elvis recorded his version of it 4 years later.
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Just George Oh 🤘😎💨 @timmytwoshirts.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Image of the D.C. reflecting pool full of green algae.
"Have they tried using Ivermectin?"
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News to Remember @moments2remember.link · 13/08/2026
ICE entered a small Maine town searching for someone with a removal order. Instead, an officer killed 26-year-old Joan Sebastian Guerrero—who officials admit was not the target. With no body-camera footage, furious protesters are demanding the truth. #Biddeford #ICE #Justice
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ICE Kills 26-Year-Old Who Wasn’t Even Its Target—Then Furious Protesters Flood a Tiny Maine City Demanding Answers
Joan Sebastian Guerrero was reportedly on his way to work when federal immigration officers surrounded the area near his Biddeford home. He was not the person they had come to arrest. Minutes later…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/08/2026
Mamdani: "If a New Yorker looks at what ICE is doing and wants to see more of it, they should vote for Bruce Blakeman, who has created his own militia in Nassau County. If they look at what ICE is doing and they are shocked by the inhumanity and cruelty, they should vote for Gov. Kathy Hochul."
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How to admit election cheating, and not one word about it is in the media.
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StatelessTrish @statelesstrish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Fracking is not 'responsible development' of Ohio's state parks and public lands • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio’s oil and gas industry continues to spread lies that fracking state parks is “responsible development.” Parks don’t belong to one political party to industrialize, monetize and destroy. Our publi...
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Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Activists have shut down arms manufacturer L3Harris in Brighton this morning.
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An interesting paragraph from the Dublin Mercantile Advertiser in January 1847 lamenting attempts to prepare the Irish peasants to deal with the worsening agricultural situation.
"Many substitures for the Potato will, of course, be recommended, for there is no seed in the country to promise a revival of that lamented esculent on a large scale, were it even safe or wise to attempt it. Yet the lower class of the people still cling with the fondest hope to the idea that it will flourish again in all its plentiful luxuriance. There seems to be a desperate and dogged determination widely spread amongst them, to live or die with their favourite food".
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 10/08/2026
If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Todd Blanche: “I am not sure of the uproar of having a Border Patrol or ICE agent at a polling location. What's the risk?” Uhm, maybe because it’s illegal? Federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 592 prohibits deploying “troops or armed men” to locations where elections are held. An AG should know this.
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BluesMusic @bluesmusic.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Big Mama Thornton ft. Buddy Guy🎸 🎶'Hound Dog'🎨 #bluesmusic #blues
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/08/2026
An anti-CRT movement targeted an accomplished educator — driving her out of two Georgia school districts. The mission began inside a golf community clubhouse on a Sunday afternoon, where parents were coached on how to land a Fox News appearance. From the archives:
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White Parents Rallied to Chase a Black Educator Out of Town. Then, They Followed Her to the Next One.
Cecelia Lewis was asked to apply for a Georgia school district’s first-ever administrator job devoted to diversity, equity and inclusion. A group of parents — coached by local and national anti-CRT gr...
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