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Retired Occupational Therapist I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h
Rufo boosted the conspiracy theory that Haitian immigrants were eating pets, offering $5,000 reward for evidence, and posting grainy video (of other people from elsewhere) he cited as proof. Now the Haitians are being deported, because this is how colorblind meritocracy works I guess.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19h
In two years, we went from the Navy exonerating the Port Chicago 50 and the U.S. President commending them for it, to the scrubbing of displays and memorials to Black military heroes on the U.S. President’s orders. It happened so fast. We need to get him on a leash, for starters. Vote.
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 19h
For the last two days, I’ve been inside the Christian nationalist “Holy Wars” conference - with access I never imagined possible. I am still processing everything I’ve experienced. More soon at ConfrontTheHate.com. Subscribe now!
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Sharon 🩺🦋🫶🏻💙🍿🐸🚫👑 @sharonsf.bsky.social · 18h
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yesterday, bikers came to say goodbye to 14-year-old Illia Honcharov, who was killed by a Russian missile strike on his home in Vyshhorod, Kyiv region, on September 30. Illia loved motorcycles. His family asked bikers to join the farewell ceremony. Many answered the call.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 22h
abcnews.com/US/18-year-i...
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18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'
Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
Katie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks."
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Sharon 🩺🦋🫶🏻💙🍿🐸🚫👑 @sharonsf.bsky.social · 23h
WTF.. 🤬 🖕🧊 www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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Chicago alderwoman arrested by ICE agents while checking on detainee at hospital in Humboldt Park
A Chicago alderwoman was arrested by ICE agents on Friday afternoon inside a hospital in the Humboldt Park neighborhood.
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CKO155 @cko155.bsky.social · 21h
"Ukrainian officials warn that Russia has stockpiled hundreds of ballistic missiles ahead of an expected winter onslaught against electricity and water infrastructure." www.reuters.com/business/aer...
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EXCLUSIVE: Ukraine will hit Russian refineries in response to Moscow's 'new doctrine' of airstrikes, Zelenskiy says
Ukrainian intelligence has documents showing ​that Vladimir Putin called for military attacks on a much broader range of civilian targets ahead of this winter, Zelenskiy told Reuters in an interview.
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 21h
A spokesperson for the Maryland Department of the Environment said in a statement Friday that inspectors estimate nearly 11,000 fish died across 25 species, with preliminary findings suggesting the die-off was caused by an overflow at a Kilby Farms manure lagoon. buff.ly/9z3DdQV
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kvconner.bsky.social @kvconner.bsky.social · 22h
🎁Gift Article The Mainstreaming of Anti-Indian Bigotry A Republican schism over a social-media post by a Texas politician revealed that the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy has its limits. By Jonathan Chait October 3, 2026, 8 AM ET www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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The Mainstreaming of Anti-Indian Bigotry
A Republican schism over a social-media post by a Texas politician revealed that the party’s defense of a color-blind meritocracy has its limits.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 22h
A new White House task force will have 120 days to report on the risks of artificial intelligence and come up with decisions on what responsibility the federal government has on.wsj.com/4yAKyyC
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A new White House task force will have 120 days to report on the risks of artificial intelligence and come up with decisions on what responsibility the federal government has
The group—formed after industry and public concerns—will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton, who will serve as AI czar.
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margiecook.bsky.social @margiecook.bsky.social · 22h
Teaching credentials not required
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margiecook.bsky.social @margiecook.bsky.social · 23h
LIVE EXCLUSIVE: "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" with Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, and more! / MS NOW www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLnT...
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LIVE EXCLUSIVE: "POWER TO THE PEOPLE" with Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, and more!
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Any action to restrict abortion pills would immediately break Trump’s 2024 campaign pledge that he would “not block” access to the drugs..." www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Barron Trump is a grown-ass man who's best friends with Andrew Tate and built a $150 million crypto fortune. He's absolutely fair game for a corruption investigation, along with the rest of his crime family.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Appropriated funding for HIV research is currently being held by HHS. Several research programs will stop if these funds are not released including clinical trials. Please take 2 mins to sign this letter and demand congress act to release these funds. savehivfunding.org/organization...
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Albino Badguy @albinobadguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Works for me. 🤣
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Day 675 of #GeorgiaProtests 📷 garshemo_ Instagram page
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Maggie Stiefvater @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you pick up this month's Virginia Living Magazine, you'll find my face smiling back at you. A lovely little profile by Amy Brecount White.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When foreign invaders occupy part of your country and turn your children, in their own schools, into soldiers trained to come back and kill the rest of you once they grow up, it’s… it’s just unspeakable evil. It is unfathomable tragedy for Ukraine.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A woman has just died of plague in Russia, allegedly after breaking a test tube in a lab. This article doesn’t specify, but others have said that it is pneumonic plague, which can spread between humans via droplet transmission. 200 people with whom she had contact are now under medical observation.
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026
Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.
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Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump enriches his bribe, and here's the cost to the US Treasury
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. 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 (Gift Article)
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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Bluesky Feeds and Trends 📌 @bluetrends.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New Bluesky feed: "Trump Seniors Checks" — tracking Trump's one-time ~$90 Medicare Part B relief, Medicare Improvement Fund mentions and reactions. 🧾
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Czech leaders are now openly preparing for the possibility of a Russian attack on NATO’s eastern flank. PM Andrej Babiš and President Petr Pavel discussed the scenario “very specifically” and confirmed Czechia would fulfil its Article 5 obligations if a Baltic state were attacked.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And so it continues... Our economic debates seem utterly disconnected from the reality. That reality: This is an economy mostly creating healthcare jobs, and it does so month after month, and everything else is just noise.
Line chart titled "Effectively all of the net job creation has been in healthcare and social assistance, and jobs are shrinking in the rest of the economy" showing change in non-farm payrolls since January 2025 through September 2026. Healthcare and social assistance added 998,000 jobs with consistent growth throughout the period, while the rest of the economy lost 222,000 jobs, meaning all net job creation came from healthcare. The rest of the economy showed particular weakness from May through August 2025 when losses reached 218,000 jobs. This striking divergence reveals an unusual concentration where one sector's growth of roughly 48,000 jobs per month has offset persistent contraction across all other industries combined.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
This Lukoil pending deal has a tie-in to the billionaire Syrian-born Qatari brothers that I wrote about earlier this year-- who have teamed up with Ivanka and Jared on a real estate project in Albania. Yes, it's an intricate web. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
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Syrian Billionaires Needed a Favor in Washington. They Invoked the Trump Name. (Gift Article)
The attempt by the Khayyats to influence foreign policy while discussions are underway about potential Trump family deals is an increasingly common feature of the president’s second term.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. 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 (Gift Article)
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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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spain warned that Russia is “systematically and dangerously lowering the threshold of risk” across Europe. Defence Minister Margarita Robles said Spain is strengthening military readiness and protecting critical maritime infrastructure and undersea cables as Russian threats intensify.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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CNN @cnn.com · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4AIwBQs
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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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Otto ⚛️ @noacttoosmall.com · 02/10/2026
From setup to the street band’s last notes. A day of showing up for sacred space, not snipers. #ArchWatch #StopTheArch #ThirdActDMV #SacredSpaceNotSnipers
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Greatest conman in American history.👇
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margiecook.bsky.social @margiecook.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Todd Blanche has prepared heavy-handed legal attacks on abortion rights across the country. The White House has just ordered him to stand down with these moves until after the Nov 3 elections, because it anticipates a huge backlash against the DOJ maneuvers. www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/ab...
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White House Officials Told the DOJ to Delay Action on Abortion Ahead of the Midterms
Attorney General Todd Blanche has moved slowly in abortion pill litigation and department officials have told advocates to wait until after the election.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
President Zelenskyy: "From intelligence reports and individuals within Putin's inner circle, we know that in early September Putin declared: 'From now on, there are no rules.' The Russians failed to occupy us, so now they are resorting to massive strikes and mass killings.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/10/2026
To process the chaos, I'm spending a few minutes each night stitching a news diary—embroidering tiny icons representing an important story of the day. September offered a break from the blistering heat, but not from the deluge of (often) distressing news.
Embroidered icons representing news stories for each day in September
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 02/10/2026
President Trump’s immigration crackdown is showering money on local police departments willing to help. One sheriff’s office in Florida is eligible to receive $14.5 million for seven arrests.
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Exclusive | Police Score Big With Little Work in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
The Department of Homeland Security pays local agencies as much as $2 million for each arrest in a nationwide task force.
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Zuckerberg is a massive tax cheat & his Meta AI is very dangerous. Meta AI was responsible for my banned from Facebook & Instagram.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
Shocker. The Trump admin’s story doesn’t match reality. not even close. Trump on Mesabi Metallics’ proposed $15 BILLION steel plant in Lee County, Iowa: “They’ve already started building.” REALITY: No permits, disclosed site, or major land purchase. Financial incentives still unresolved.
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margiecook.bsky.social @margiecook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Justice Connection @justiceconnection.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
DOJ told a court its Community Relations Service was still operating. The White House says it shut it down. Washington Litigation Group is exposing that contradiction and fighting to preserve the public servants’ work preventing violence.
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New Filing Proves White House Illegally Shuttered Civil Rights Agency, Contradicting DOJ’s Assurances in Court | Washington Litigation Group
WASHINGTON, D.C., September 29, 2026 — Today, Washington Litigation Group asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to add a striking admission by Donald Trump’s White House to…
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Markwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball while answering questions from reporters
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha, citing intelligence data, stated that Russia is preparing to stage dozens of videos in occupied Oleshky to show "happy" locals who are "well-fed and grateful to the Russian occupiers."
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EveryLibrary @everylibrary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did you know that many politicians and far-right groups are attempting to deny your freedom to simply check out a book by defunding libraries over books and programs? It's true, and they may be coming for your library next. buff.ly/TMxtf5F #library #libraries #read #reading #book #books
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They're coming for your public library (updated)
They aren't stopping with Llano County, Texas or the state of Missouri. They'll be coming for your public library next.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 29/09/2026
Here's a $20 million order, paid for by CBP's Office of Public Affairs, awarded to LMD Agency for a national media campaign starting on Sept. 20. The first pro-Trump ad aired on Sept. 23. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
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70B06C26F00001137
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(11 months remain)
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Awarding Agency
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Recipient
LMD AGENCY, INC.
5950 SYMPHONY WOODS RD STE 500
COLUMBIA, MD 21044-3592
UNITED STATES
Congressional District: MD-03
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Parent Award Unique Key
CONT_IDV_70Z02323ACGRC0001_7008
Dates
Today
Start Date
Sep 20, 2026
Current End Date
Sep 19, 2027
Potential End Date
Sep 19, 2027
$ Award Amounts
$20.0 Million
Current Award Amount
$20.0 Million
Obligated Amount
$20.0 Million
Potential Award Amount
Outlayed Amount
$0.00
Obligated Amount
$20,000,000.00
Current Award Amount
$20,000,000.00
Potential Award Amount
$20,000,000.00
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5418: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services
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R: SUPPORT SVCS (PROF, ADMIN, MGMT)
R7: MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SERVICES
R701: SUPPORT- MANAGEMENT: ADVERTISING
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