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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 8h

Demonstrators gathered in Alabama yesterday ahead of Trump’s visit to Mobile, Alabama 📍University of South Alabama

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Tremendous turnout and energy at the Democratize Yale protest on Friday! Huge high five to hundreds of students, faculty, workers, and alums who are fighting for academic freedom and freedom of speech while telling President McInnis and the trustees NOT TO CUT A DEAL WITH TRUMP!

Yale students smile and clap at a Democratize Yale demonstration - one holds a sign reading "TRUSTEES: LISTEN. RESIST. DEMOCRATIZE."

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 2h

Lord give me the vigor of Tom Cruise promoting a movie.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 2h

Los Angeles might take the rare step of shutting down an active oil drilling site. Jefferson Park residents say they've developed serious illnesses: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @blancabegert.bsky.social

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L.A. considers the rare closure of an active oil site in Jefferson Park

In a city that was built on oil and remains home to over 2,000 active wells, zoning officials are considering a first: shutting down an active oil production site.

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SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 5h

blue sky (2025)

an illustration by Spindle of the character Ottilie, a human with brown short hair and a yellow hairband, standing looking to the side, wearing a low-cut light turquoise dress with shoulder slits. The background is a blue sky with patches of clouds

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John Browns body @ainteefa44.bsky.social · 2h

Public Enemy to Dave Matthews at the Power to the People festival in Columbia, MD. Feel good, anti fascist day. Helps with my faith in humanity.

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❌👑 Indivisible NOLA 👑❌ @indivisiblenola.org · 4h

Lilli Lewis is lending her voice this Thursday to support Jamie Davis at” Farmer To Table.” We Belong to Each Other. And Louisiana’s future belongs to ALL OF US. Get your tickets: secure.actblue.com/donate/farme...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 7h

I split the G (train) with the Prime Minister of Ireland, Michéal Martin. Sláinte!

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no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 5h

But wisdom shows a narrow path,

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1981 / 1986 News @40yearsago.bsky.social · 5h

[October 3rd, 1986] Elton John in concert at Oakland Coliseum

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 5h

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 4h

The Pleiades (M45). 3 October 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The Pleiades cluster of stars at centre with many faint star dots.

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Vincent van Gogh @vangogh.bsky.social · 4h

Three Cottages in Saintes-Maries - 1888 botfrens.com/collections/46/content…

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3h

Kiki Smith, Singing Siren, 2003 #womensart

Photo of a black sculpture resembling a bird with a human head perched on a rock, all against a white background

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 4h

From my friend who is a park ranger in NYC 🦝

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 6h

"Local community activists and faith leaders from Louisiana and beyond marched and prayed Thursday at the fenced-off barracks and trailers at the airpark site where the Trump Administration is preparing to open a privately-run facility to hold children..." religionnews.com/2026/10/02/a...

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As ICE readies Louisiana facility for children and families, faith leaders hold vigil

ALEXANDRIA, La. (RNS and Verite News) — Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to ramp up deportations, the facility — which will hold unaccompanied minors and families — is situated beside an air...

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 5h

You can sure learn a lot about a person based on the fights they pick. Or don’t pick.

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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 23h

My beautiful sister everyone

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I may be invisible, but you're transparent. @invisiblelad7.bsky.social · 6h

It's fury on top of injury for the cultish conspiracy nuts allegedly concerned about child sex trafficking to elect a man who has made that and everything else exponentially worse.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10h

This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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GraceAndJustice @acsnet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

San Francisco remains beautiful in the places that are beautiful, and the places with homeless people still have them. #SanFrancisco #HappyNewlyweds #Homelessness

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 17h

The Virgin of the Rose, 1518 #raphael #highrenaissance

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Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org · 17h

Magdalena before the conversion, 1938 #expressionism #klee

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Muppet GIF of the Day @gifs-of-puppets.bsky.social · 14h

Today's #TheMuppetShow GIF of the Day is...

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 6h

He’s only one man. Who knows how to pick a helluva team.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Spinoza at a bad dinner party. @spinozazsagabor.bsky.social · 8h

Shit. First an anti-ICE song and now this? I guess I have to listen to modern country music now. Pray for me.

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Black Intellect Media @blackintellect.bsky.social · 23h

Missy Elliott Hosting HBCU Band Battle in Her Home State of Virginia: The event is part of a weekend-long celebration honoring the rapper & her lasting impact on music, culture, & her home state of VA. www.complex.com/music/a/will...

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Missy Elliott Hosting HBCU Band Battle in Her Home State of Virginia

Missy Elliott is bringing together four powerhouse HBCU m...

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 9h

I'm in heaven With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend There's no beginning and there is no end Time isn't present in that dimension

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Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love (Official Music Video) [4K]

YouTube video by RHINO

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 12h

My Diary in a Chinese Farm (1894), feminist and novelist Alicia Little's intimate and unique insight into rural Chinese life at the end of the nineteenth century: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m…

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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 12h

Born on this day in 1949, scholar, poet, and champion of Hawaiian sovereignty, Haunani-Kay Trask. anticolonialhistory.com/event/265/

Haunani-Kay Trask at the ʻOnipaʻa Peace March on Jan. 17, 1993. At this speech she famously said “We are not American! Say it in your heart, say it when you sleep! We are not American, we will die as Hawaiians, we will never be Americans!”

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Claude Monet @monet.bsky.social · 11h

Weeping Willow - 1918/1919 botfrens.com/collections/41/content…

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DocDeezWhat @docdeezwhat.bsky.social · 14h

To Valhalla

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Along Came Poly-4-The-W @alongcamepoly4thew.bsky.social · 21h

I died and went to hoop heavens... Thank you #balhalla.. Thank you #gsv #Valkyries mother has no voice but we still LIIIIIVE AF! #WELCOMETOTHEW #WNBA 🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊🎊💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 12h

Okay Providence let’s try this again. #reset

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Panamerican Dispatch @padispatch.bsky.social · 12h

The close of president Lula's campaign is just getting started in São Paulo. Thousands are in the streets. Brazilians vote in the first round of high-stakes elections tomorrow. Panamerican Dispatch is covering it all. #Brazil #Eleições2026 @therealnews.com @globalexchange.bsky.social

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 17h

Brazil's platform rules have focused on harms from commercial platforms. João Alexandre Peschanski of Wikimedia Brasil, Amalia Toledo of the Wikimedia Foundation and Elise Silva of the University of Pittsburgh argue digital public goods like Wikipedia need their own legal category.

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Wikipedia Isn't Big Tech, and Brazil's Platform Rules Should Say So

Brazil's approach to platform regulation risks undermining Wikipedia and the knowledge commons, write João Alexandre Peschanski, Amalia Toledo and Elise Silva.

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50+ Music @fiftymusic.bsky.social · 14h

What you gonna do when you get out of jail? I'm gonna have some fun! What do you consider fun? Fun, natural fun! I'm in Heaven With my boyfriend, my laughing boyfriend There's no beginning and there is no end Time isn't present in that dimension He'll take my arm #NameThatTune

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 14h

At some point this will be any of us and we are not far from that point.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h

Switzerland’s iconic glaciers lost an enormous amount of ice in 2026, a new report shows, signaling an ongoing rapid meltdown driven by climate change that has astonished scientists. About 20 percent of glacial ice in Switzerland has vanished since 2021. wapo.st/4z8ztEI

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