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Owner of Winnie B. Bun Passionate about proper pet rabbit care I harvest persimmons among other things Donate to help families survive in Gaza: linktr.ee/opolivebranch

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Sep ErinReed Ky Gov. Andy Beshear, who vetoed a sports ban in in a state Trump carried by 30% and is likely presidential nominee, tells CNN's Jake Tapper he has one message for Dems: "We don't throw anybody under the bus." www.erininthemorning.com/p/ky-gov-bes...
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KY Gov. Beshear Has Message For Anti-Trans Dems: “We Don’t Throw Anybody Under The Bus.”
The governor provides a counterpoint to those who believe red state Democrats need to capitulate on transgender rights.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wanting lower property insurance and healthcare for everyday families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. /3
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake. /end
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
quite something this paragraph.
After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Democrats *cannot* support the Protection College Sports Act. It’s the most anti-labor coming out of this Congress. We cannot cap the mobility of black athletes, but not white coaches. My newsletter is up. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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We Need to Protect College Sports from Ted Cruz
In this week’s Elie v. U.S., our justice correspondent looks at the many ways Ted Cruz’s college-sports bill threatens athletes’ labor rights. Plus: why our mail-in voting nightmare isn’t over.
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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 20/09/2026
Blanket response to replies from cis people telling me Dem politicians actually support trans people
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I don't want to be rude to you but we simply do not live in the same world.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So confused. How was Pro Publica able to uncover and report this bribery scandal and administration cover-up without being at the White House and having the president assuring them they are stupid piggies? hhttps://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.
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Rae Loren @aspwriter85.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you live in Illinois feel free to call Sen. Duckworth and let her know how you feel. [DC] 1 (202) 224-2854 [Chicago] (312)886-3506
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Nate Tyler @natetylerwriting.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“I’m under no obligation to meet you halfway to fascism, and I won’t.” For people who aren’t from Minnesota, this means get out of here with that bullshit. All the way out.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Among the ICE abductions reported yesterday was a ~7:20 a.m. incident in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood. Per video shared online, ICE agents surrounded a car with a child in it, smashed the window and took the man in the driver's seat, as the woman next to him cried and prayed.
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Mithos @mithos343.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There's a global fascism situation and Democrats have responded to it largely as if it's a minor threat that will pass in a few years.
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Howard Ashman 🔪stab🔪 account @michaelchu7.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Also the reason conservatives are always so fucking weird about sports specifically is that competitive sports is used to project the illusion of meritocracy If you think about it for even a second there is nothing about sports that is remotely fair. Money is an advantage, and so are genetics
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thousands of the workers who helped in 9/11 recovery are undocumented. "They were all exposed to toxic debris, and psychological trauma.” Now they’re also living in fear of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller’s anti-immigrant purge. www.npr.org/2026/09/11/n...
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They cleaned up ground zero. Now many are hiding from ICE
After 9/11, thousands of rescue and cleanup crews went to work at ground zero. They were exposed to toxic debris and experienced psychological trauma. Today, many say they live in fear of deportation.
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Under the Shadow podcast @undertheshadow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
On September 11, 1973 tanks rumbled over the streets of Santiago. US-backed General Pinochet would obliterate #Chile's democracy, unleashing a bloody regime that would grip power until 1990. But there was resistance. My story @therealnews.com therealnews.com/september-11... @nacla-report.bsky.social
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Mamdani is a charismatic guy but I promise you anyone can replicate this. 1) Unapologetically use the government to help ordinary people; and 2) Tell them about it
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 08/09/2026
Descendants of David Drake have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim their ancestor’s work. to.pbs.org/4wTl2mh
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Descendants of enslaved potter David Drake work to reclaim ancestor's art
Descendants of David Drake have traced their lineage back to the once-enslaved potter and launched an effort to reclaim their ancestor’s work. They say the effort has not only reconnected them with th...
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The Times of Northwest Indiana @nwitimes.com · 08/09/2026
Gas prices are rising in Northwest Indiana at a time of year when they would normally fall.
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Northwest Indiana gas prices still climbing at time when they normally fall
Gas prices are rising in Northwest Indiana at a time of year when they would normally fall.
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"So go ahead and fail" is the key here GenAI enthusiasts don't just want to be able to play with their toys- they want us to reorder the world to ensure their success, and they hate that left to their own devices, they can and will fail
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of Americans approve of labor unions and 56 million Americans would join a union tomrorow if they could. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
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Unions are extremely popular: 56 million workers would join a union if they could
New Gallup polling finds that 71% of people in the U.S. approve of unions, continuing the highest period of favorability in over 60 years. This coincides with the greatest number of workers represente...
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 08/09/2026
The United Kingdom on Tuesday banned trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where it says "settler terrorists" are carrying out "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians, in a significant toughening of Britain's stance toward a longtime ally. to.pbs.org/4A9goDN
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UK government bans trade with Israeli settlements and accuses settlers of 'ethnic cleansing'
In response, Israel said it would close the British consulate in Jerusalem.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump’s illegal war on Iran has cost the average U.S. household more than $760 in higher energy costs. That’s on top of the military spending an estimated $1B per DAY to keep waging it, with no end in sight. Trump is losing his own war of choice — and we’re paying for it.
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Iran war drives $100 billion in extra energy costs for U.S. consumers
The average cost burden is more than $760 per household.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Prior to the announcement, the [Toledo Blade] had asked union employees to vote for a contract proposal that would have cut their severance in half, in addition to greenlighting giving away their work to Al, among other outsourcing. Workers voted that down, 46-25.”
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Statement from the Toledo NewsGuild on Block Communications’ decision to cease operations of The Blade | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Victor" is harvesting strawberries in the Monterey watsonville area earning CA minimum wage. "My wife is ill and unable to work. I have to work very hard and worry about covering our expenses." #WeFeedYou
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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
And there it is -- 900 fewer international students at Indiana University Bloomington compared to last year and over 2600 fewer compared to 3 years ago.
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IU international enrollment drops by over 900 students
Total international student enrollment has decreased for three consecutive years.
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argentumsmama.bsky.social @argentumsmama.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Will the families of the crew killed get any form of compensation from Amazon?
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 09/09/2026
The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off the runway at Miami International Airport were all inside a van used to shuttle crews that clean planes, authorities said. to.pbs.org/4hhwOCp
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All 5 killed in Miami airport cargo jet crash were in a van used by plane cleaners
Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz said Tuesday that two people remain in critical condition, and a third is in stable condition.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/09/2026
The New York City mayor said the document release shows victims were 'lied to' about health impacts from the attacks aje.news/qxisg3
The New York City mayor said the document release shows victims were 'lied to' about health impacts from the attacks
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today’s rally to save the academy of natural sciences was incredible. Hundreds of people turned out. This is only the beginning. Follow along with save-the-academy.org
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/09/2026
Photos: Palestinians rebuild Gaza’s ruins with mud bricks, scrap aje.news/qhj0li
Palestinians build a room from mud bricks in Nuseirat in central Gaza, as construction supplies run short [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]Palestinians make clay bricks in the Maghazi refugee camp amid severe shortages of construction materials in the Gaza Strip. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]Palestinians raise mud-brick walls as an alternative to scarce construction supplies in the Gaza Strip. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]Khalil Abu Ramadan, 26, moulds clay bricks in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza. [File: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 09/09/2026
The Supreme Court rebuffed an appeal from Missouri officials who wanted to use new congressional districts backed by President Trump in the November election, a defeat for Republicans who had hoped the new map could help them hold onto their slim House majority. to.pbs.org/46Oo7cI
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Supreme Court rejects Missouri's push to use new Republican-drawn U.S. House map in November
Missouri's new districts were used in the August primaries, but the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in September that the state must revert to districts adopted after the last census.
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Reveal @revealnews.org · 09/09/2026
Ahead of 9/11’s 25th anniversary, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani released thousands of air quality records, providing unprecedented insight into the lingering health consequences of the 9/11 attacks. In the latest Reveal, we did a deep dive into this very topic. Listen now: bit.ly/4xyTK5j
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is what spines look like, Congress critters. (Gender-neutral Congress appellation courtesy of @hcrichardson.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
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Ex-60 Minutes managing editor says fired staffers ‘refused to be accomplices’ in show’s ‘destruction’
Guy Campanile addresses ouster in Facebook post and says ‘we were told to leave because we insisted on doing our jobs’
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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Bucket Mouse @mousebitelabs.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Imagine if EVERY Democrat came out with a full court press about eliminating ICE, ending the genocide in Gaza, and protecting trans people. They are trying to make an issue out of Hasan when they could be actively agitating and educating on these other issues.
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is a chart of the seven-day average of arrests being made, not people arrested. So imagine what the cumulative arrest lines look like, and how much faster the TOTALS for "no criminal charge" are rising than for all other groups.
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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
You laugh but thst soldier is wanted in the Hague for murdering a sword maker
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Among other things, Elon Musk now makes clear his belief that women must be disenfranchised. And he's now the sole source funder of the Texas GOP. Shouldn't Texas GOP candidates who are running with his money be asked about this?
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Justin Stanley @justindstanley.com · 01/09/2026
They Aren’t Going To Stop Without Military Intervention, Exhibit One Million
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LoneStarHoosier @stoatcat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hey Hoosiers: ICE kidnapped this man from the Bloomington Walmart where he works. His asylum case is pending. Please donate to siupport his legal defense. gofund.me/2239c8dd2
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Donate to Support César Cepeda Gomez, organized by Lyndsi Thompson
On Tuesday morning, September 1, 2026, César Cepeda Gomez was taken by ICE from the parkin… Lyndsi Thompson needs your support for Support César Cepeda Gomez
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube
Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent
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Briana @neverstopthefight.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When Labor Day was established in 1894, it was framed as honoring “the American worker.” But in practice, Black workers were rarely acknowledged,even though their labor had been the most exploited and foundational.The holiday’s mainstream narrative often erased the contributions of Black laborers
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persimmoner @persimmoner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"We fought a revolution for the idea that we are citizens, not subjects. Yet schemes like CBP’s Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team treat all Americans as if they are potential suspects."
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LoneStarHoosier @stoatcat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Eat shit PITT
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