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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
was at a cute little bar/restaurant in Minneapolis last night and they were playing animal planet cat surgery on the tv
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Lambda Legal @lambdalegal.org · 22/09/2026
Fifty years ago, our movement didn't wait for permission to demand what was right — and neither will we now. Read more about our past and present fight for LGBTQ+ rights from @lambdalegalceo.bsky.social via @advocate.com: tinyurl.com/4ytbbjz8
1970 photo of protestors marching. Text above reads, "In 1968, a conference of gay activists had the audacity to demand “homosexual rights.” Today, we’re fighting to keep their vision alive."Text reads, "In the dark days of same-sex relationships being a felony and the federal government barring the employment of “known perverts,” the North American Conference of Homophile Organizations (NACHO, pronounced nay-ko) adopted what they called the “Homosexual Bill of Rights.”2003 photo of three people hugging. Text above reads, "Over the next 50 years, the LGBTQ+ rights movement would win them all. The rights our NACHO forebears demanded were fought for and secured. But today, they are under direct assaultText reads, "Which is exactly why it’s time for a New LGBTQ+ Bill of Rights. Our vision includes equal treatment and protection under the law regarding access to health care, opportunity to participate in society, belonging for LGBTQ+ families, access to education, and participation in democracy."
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
really good one
License plate that says HOTDOGS
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
so bleak how many dems are willing to throw trans kids under the bus to further their own careers
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
every single person on this list is someone I bet my 56 year old mom has literally never heard of lmao
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Ken Morales @kbmorales.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
1/ I looked at 20 years of Supreme Court decisions and found that for the first time, all nine justices decided more cases by secret ballot — aka the “shadow docket” — than it did for cases argued in open court last term. 🧵:
A line chart shows the number of Supreme Court decisions on the merits docket versus the shadow docket from the 2003-04 term to the 2024-25 term. The merits docket decisions trend downward over time, ending at 56 decisions, while the shadow docket decisions rise sharply in the 2018-19 term and surpass the merits docket in the last term at 63 decisions.
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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Water tower Gays, IL — Hope, ND
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🇵🇸 Dean Tāne 🇵🇸 @dean-tane.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Repost the Leather Dachshund from Seattle Pride 1991 to be blessed this Pride Month!
A wee Dachshund dog, wearing the finest leather daddy outfit, walking with their owner during a Pride parade in Seattle in 1991.
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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
One pound of ground beef now costs more on average than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
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common magpie 🐦 @maggiew.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
www.apha.org/policy-and-a...
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Advancing Public Health Interventions to Address the Harms of the Carceral System
Latebreaker policy statement
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common magpie 🐦 @maggiew.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
American Public Health Association, our singular national body, came out publicly for total carceral system abolition (prisons, policing, immigration detention) 6 years ago.
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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Illinois Democrats and health advocates gathered Monday in Chicago to highlight the impact of the Affordable Care Act — signed by then President Barack Obama 16 years ago — while sounding the alarm on rising health care costs for Americans. to.wttw.com/4bK2rk4
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Advocates Highlight Importance of HIV Treatment, Health Care Access on Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act
Democratic elected leaders and health advocates gathered Monday in Chicago to highlight the impact of the Affordable Care Act —  signed by then President Barack Obama 16 years ago — while sounding the...
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
this is the first wikipedia article about an individual tiktok which felt historic so i brought this guy on stage last week at my chicago show! he rocked so much
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
A New York bill would ban AI from answering questions related to several licensed professions like medicine, law, dentistry, nursing, psychology, social work, engineering, and more. The companies would be liable if the chatbots give “substantive responses” in these areas.
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New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice | StateScoop
A bill under consideration in New York would provide a private right of action, allowing people to file lawsuits against chatbot owners who violate the law.
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katie @palindromese.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
because Eileen O’Neill Burke is a capital B capital Y Big Yikes as many community organizers warned
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
something I hate about hotels nowadays is why are you always making me plug my phone into the lamp
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Darcie 333333333433333 @darc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
i really wish every time i went to a website a little video would start playing in the corner. maybe an advertisement. maybe with the close button really small button almost inscrutable. with music!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/01/2026
The plan to use AI has alarmed some at DOT, which regulates everything from air travel to pipelines. Why, some staffers wondered, would the government outsource the writing of critical standards to a new technology notorious for making mistakes? By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
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Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer....
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
back in my day you could see a concert for $30
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
every time I log in to anything it’s like “I have to text you before I can let you in” and I’m like ok FINE and then it’s like “trust this device in the future?” And I’m like yes and then the next time I log in it’s like “I know you trust this device but I have to text you again”
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
What makes Gavin Newsom such a skilled politician is that he stands up to Trump’s bullying with piping hot memes AND is able to agree with Trump about policy www.sacbee.com
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Gov. Gavin Newsom: ‘I disagree’ with calls to abolish ICE
The 2028 presidential contender came out against calls to dismantle ICE after an agent fatally shot a Minneapolis woman.
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I miss Twitter. Like 2012-2016 twitter. Hell even up through like 2021 or 2022 twitter
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Joe Berkowitz @joeberkowitz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Incredibly, this is an actual photo New York Post used for the guy who attacked Ilhan Omar.
MAGA fuckface in cozy red sweater, holding dog also wearing sweater, against a background of vivid red foliage.Endlessly useful Zack Fox tweet from 2018: this how photos be lookin in headlines when a white man kills his entire family. (it's a guy on a jetski with wife and daughter.)
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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
While Mayor Brandon Johnson said it would have been “deeply irresponsible” not to consider buying the meters, his team concluded it would result in a “bad deal” for taxpayers. @wttw.bsky.social
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Chicago Won’t Buy Back Parking Meters, Johnson Says
“The final purchase price was far too high, much more than they initially received for the sale, and higher than most reasonable assumptions would support,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 20/01/2026
Nice
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
when my job has pushed me past my breaking point
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Perhaps instead of trying to win over Trump voters for the thousandth time the democratic candidate can try winning over democrats and all the disenfranchised and disillusioned people on the left who don’t vote or vote third party
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
i’m being radicalized by peacock charging $10.99 per month and having A MILLION COMMERCIALS
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
now seems as good a time as any to remind people that chuck schumer has two imaginary friends who are moderates in Massapequa who he consults about all of his decisions newyorker.com/magazine/2007/…
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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
My niece was just trying to tell one of the kids at the door trick or treating to get these gummies we have and the kid goes “I don’t think I need all that food dye”
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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
ICE went after rideshare drivers at O’Hare today, according to statement from Illinois Drivers Alliance
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 08/10/2025
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
all i want is to lose everything to Jennifer Tilly at the poker table
Jennifer Tilly looking cool and hot as fuck at the poker table in mirrored shades and a cowboy hat
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
technology should have stopped here
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
this is what happens when you go to hud.gov just fyi
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Put in a fantasy trade and now I’m checking my phone like a teenager waiting for their crush to text back
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
me trying to offload chase brown for a running back who will actually get me some fantasy points after 3 weeks of pure shit from him
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lobby @lobbyspider.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
are there any people out there who want to have an opinion on my fantasy lineup bc honestly I could use some input
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Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.
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