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PeaceandQuiet @peaceabdquiet.bsky.social · 23h

My dog does the same thing . He eats only with all his toys around his bowl or on his bowl . Most of the time he can’t even get to the food 😂

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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The cutest thing you'll see today Repost of @PerceptiveBliss: Original post

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Davey Hearn reflecting pool prosecution dismissed WITH PREJUDICE That means the case cannot be brought again Huge victory for Davey, for us at @democracydefendersfund.org & our legal team colleagues Washington Litigation Group and Steptoe--& for rule of law More to follow!

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 20h

👀https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/michigan-nurse-charged-helping-man-escape-ice

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Big waves that look like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. #nature #Maui #love #Maui #photography #nokings #marinelife

Wind blown spray covering breaking waves that give the impression of running horses (to me, anyway). Photo from wide angle, high on a cliff

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Too young to legally consent to sign a contract. But old enough to consent away where they want to live to be shipped someplace random by a government that hates them. In a just world, Hollad would need to annex half of Belgium to find room for the expanded Hague prison thus all calls for.

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S.J.💙🩵💙🦋🦓 @glimmers2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A study in valor. Imagine testifying against the most powerful criminal on the planet?

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

I believe that Dr. Ellora Derenoncourt is the first Black woman economist EVER to be named a MacArthur Genius. My heart is bursting. I am OVERJOYED.

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.

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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields

Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When the "gotcha' is in no way a "gotcha" and backfires. Schmitt/his team, did not do their research. "Hawks" (NBA-all men) and Iowa "Hawkeyes" (University of Iowa women's basketball team in the NCAA) are different basketball teams. Come on now!

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a bit of a bummer that the story today has been "look at this absolute doofus of a senator" and not "Jack Smith once again credibly accuses the president of many serious crimes"

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NEW: It's hard these days for members of Congress to transcend the news cycle with viral moments in committee hearings. Sen. Schmitt today raised the bar with an allegation against Jack Smith that imploded in real time. w/ Chris Marquette www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Republicans wanted Jack Smith to give them a smoking gun. They got a gaffe instead.

The former special counsel’s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was marked by personal insults rather than new revelations.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026

Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Polls show *Kansas* Democratic Senate nominee Rev. Adam Hamilton neck and neck with incumbent Senator Roger Marshall. Hamilton says “people are coming up to me and they’re saying ‘I’ve never voted for a Democrat before I’m voting for you.” youtu.be/FCaavBtMM4U?...

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GOP Candidates Break with Trump as Kansas Senate Race Becomes a Race to Watch

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/09/2026

Talarico's devoted, deeply thoughtful and studied christianity is very recognizable to Black christians, most of whom are Democrats, who take their faith practices seriously, too. Jimmy know ball. Folks see and respect that.

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also note the timing, right?! It's before midterms to remind the nation about culture war issues.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MTG has really been going after her own.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026

this is legitimately very funny

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I wrote about the genealogy of this, as well as that of Project 2025, in my dissertation. If any academic or other publishers are interested in talking to me about publication, please let me know. This is not a surprise. The administration is siding with parental rights. thehill.com/homenews/edu...

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Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students

The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Despite being a famous Hollywood star if you want to know what sort of person DAVID NIVEN was, the largest wreath at his funeral was from the Porters at Heathrow Airport. It read: “To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a Porter feel like a King.”

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

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dawn of the debb @debbshock.blue · 28/09/2026

Monday is scary here, take this teeny tiny owl

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Why don't presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor? Why do they always send the poor, why do they always send the poor?" - B.Y.O.B System of the Down Bewitched by the video bc we're still in the same place in U.S. youtu.be/zUzd9KyIDrM?... #protestsongs

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System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B. (Official HD Video)

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

No words, except for Go Vote.

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Libby Spencer @libbyspencer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Once down to a single pair. Conservationists rescued them from oblivion. The flock is now 350 strong. New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the country’s 2026 Bird of the Year. cnn.it/4rqzZeL

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

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David W. Swanson @davidwswanson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Once, when traveling in England to advocate for racial equality back home, Ida B. Wells was asked what the world-renowned evangelist D.L. Moody had done to advocate against the white lynch mobs terrorizing Black U.S. citizens.

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 21/09/2026

Not leaving.

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Explaincars Drama: it is, and Newark too, the Philly TRACON that handles both of these airports is still experiencing significant radio issues - nothing moving for quite some time. If you're impacted, it sucks - be nice to the people at the airport and crews on the planes though, not their fault.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The lawyer for the Venezuelan man shot by ICE yesterday says he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to ICE detention while the bullet was still inside of him, and that in Pearsall he's not received any pain meds and was forced to sleep on the floor.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 21/09/2026

"You're right! That runway wasn't actually clear which is why you crashed into another plane. Would you like me to call an ambulance?" www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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Inside airlines’ panic as FAA pushed new AI tool

The aviation agency is now going with a more modest rollout to help manage flight scheduling.

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This better not be why we have been stuck on the tarmac in Boston. I prefer human beings as traffic controllers and they should be paid more!

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We have been on the airplane over an hour at Logan in Boston and the pilot just told us we’d be delayed for two more hours. The issues with Philly and Newark air space causing headaches on East Coast. Rolling back to the gate to deplane. I am supposed to get to Indianapolis tonight. Just an fyi!

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Marlena Graves MDiv, PhD @marlenagraves.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Philly airport shut down because air traffic control radio is down so we are delayed from Boston to Philly. There are no airplanes going in or out of Philly from anywhere. They told us at least 45 minutes.

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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

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Just a Dad 📎 @dadmakingcans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hitler and other top Nazis inspect a scale model of a planned triumphal arch in Berlin, circa 1939.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Defense of the humanities has to include all of the branches and areas of study that other people defended for years until they didn't have jobs and voices anymore.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20/09/2026

Today at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago: Dozens of ICE agents violently confronted protesters, deploying chemical irritants on the crowd. Multiple people were injured. No arrests were observed.

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Menestune @menestune.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A couple of curious coyotes case the camera. Cool. (This trail cam is in the wooded area behind the pond) #mammals #nature #dogs #love #trailcam #Seattle #wildanimals #goodmorning #PNW #nokings #coyote

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Mark Carney: “I would now like to inform you that the teleprompter has ceased to function. Unlike a certain world leader, I do not view this as a conspiracy.”

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