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I’m so damned tired of politics 25 pound bags of flour were meant to be used (everyone needs a guiding philosophy)

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q-fromthebackrow.bsky.social @q-fromthebackrow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
All I want is to take my frozen pizza out of the oven before it is incinerated but I have to stand watch over the cat bowls
Picture of 2 cats and 3 cat bowls 1 cat has already left
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q-fromthebackrow.bsky.social @q-fromthebackrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Nextdoor may be a shit show of abject stupidity and lost pets, but sometimes it’s helpful Like today — WTF 6-8” of rain! How is that a thing in NY 6-8 inches of rainfall across the Catskills in less than a day!
NYS flood warning- areas across the Catskills could see 6-8” of rainfall Tuesday into Wednesday
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/03/2026
MSNBC Journalist David Rhode reports: "Iran offered to give away ALL of its enriched uranium during peace talks in Geneva. The British thought it was a credible offer. Hours later, Trump started bombing Iran anyway. The US didn't want peace, they wanted war." So to recap... 1/2
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Pro-democracy forces here in the US should pay close attention to what Orban is doing for his American ally, Trump, is getting to a similarly desperate place.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...
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Understanding Epstein's Crimes
Sex trafficking isn't widely understood. Here is what Epstein did.
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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Activists responding to reports of an ICE abduction in Minneapolis found an abandoned car with flat tires, riddled with bullet holes (1/30/26)
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.

Ruben Gallego
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Yeah I am not voting to give whatever ICE has become more tax payer money.  

It’s no longer an immigration enforcement arm of the US government.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
PM Mark Carney: It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can and the weak must suffer what they must⤵️
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/01/2026
Hey, New York. This is bad. If you're in Pat Ryan's district, click through for a link to the petition he's pushing to oppose this. www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/14/c...
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ICE Opening Huge Lockup 50 Miles North of New York City
The coming “processing facility” is already triggering protests upstate.
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Renée the Wicked Witch of Woke ✨️ 🇺🇦 ♿️ 🖇 @reneeincarnation.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Tense scene earlier this afternoon as protesters follow Border Control Commander Greg Bovino and his caravan around in Minneapolis. At one point, Commander Bovino tussled with a protester, both slipping in the snow.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
There’s another emergency rally in NYC this morning—9am Foley Square. Kristi Noem is going to NYC today to hold a press conference. New Yorkers are showing up in mass to tell her to get the f*ck out. Join @handsoffnyc.bsky.social in the streets. It’s time to get loud and stay loud.
STOP ICE TERROR!
RALLY IN FOLEY SQ
TELL
KRISTI NOEM SHE SNOT
WELCOME HERE!
THURS. JAN 8,9AM
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Another truly impressive accomplishment of the Trump administration's first year, which included defunding the final sages of the eradication program. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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A flesh-eating fly once eradicated is moving back toward the U.S.
California researchers are preparing for the possible return of the New World screwworm, a parasitic fly that feeds on living flesh and once devastated U.S. livestock. By monitoring traps and educatin...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 18/10/2025
If you attend a No Kings Day event, please record the number of people in attendance in our crowdsourced crowd-counting sheet. We prefer official estimates above ad-hoc counts — if you count yourself, pls be conservative (people are bad at estimating crowd sizes). docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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20251018_No Kings Day 2 Protests Unofficial Attendance Crowdsourcing
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/
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Democrats @democrats.org · 14/10/2025
Rep. @jasmineforus.bsky.social: The last government shutdowns were on Republicans. This one is too.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 08/10/2025
Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.
(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 07/10/2025
Let me be clear: backpay for these workers is required under a federal law I wrote with former Senator Cardin — which Trump signed — during the last Trump shutdown. This is just more fear mongering from a president who wants a blank check for lawlessness. It won't work.
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Federal workers not entitled to back pay after shutdown, budget office claims
Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up te...
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Practical Magic ✨ Aunty Em @strike26.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
The New York Times doesn't tell you why the alleged murderer said he sent pizzas to the victim's house just before he ran down the girl and her best friend. He said on video that he was getting revenge for social media comments about death of Charlie Kirk.
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2 Teen Girls Died In a Hit-And-Run. Another Teen Faces Murder Charges.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 06/10/2025
So are we just gonna ignore that a white kid killed 2 teen girls because he was upset they insulted Charlie Kirk? Imagine. JUST IMAGINE if this was an undocumented immigrant? But meanwhile I bet you’ve barely heard about this atrocity. SMH www.instagram.com/reel/DPewI1w...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Immergut: I'm handling this on expedited basis, but defendants haven't provided new info. SHE RULES FROM THE BENCH: I grant the plaintiffs motion for a second TRO based on reasons stated in previous order...
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Illinois law authorizes @govpritzker.illinois.gov to reactivate the Illinois State Guard. Normally they’re just a kind of extra reserve, but state defense forces are outside the National Guard system, they can’t be federalized. He should do so. As he accurately put it, his state is being invaded.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 05/10/2025
this appears to be video of the incident that set everything off in Chicago yesterday. No part of this is consistent with the narrative DHS put out immediately after.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
This is so good from Cory Doctorow on all the tricks Amazon uses to get both consumers to pay more, and how businesses on the platform end up paying it 45-51 cents on every dollar. Plus he rightly calls for regulatory change, not just individual consumer action www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
The sort of people the administration calls 'terrorists' : "[the 84 year olds] were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground."
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-socia...
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ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team
Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.
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Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Reporter: “How important do you think Black & Hispanic voters are to you winning your campaign?” Jack Ciattarelli, Republican candidate for Governor of one of the most diverse states in the nation: “Next question.”
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 03/10/2025
These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k. 2025: $228 2026: $1142 She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care. This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Providing free Wi-Fi to rural schools is leaving those communities behind. Ending free Wi-Fi for rural schools, now that's how you show those communities you care, they matter, and haven't been forgotten.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
via @lincolnsquare.media 🚨 Federal ICE THUGS on top of the Broadview, IL federal building ROOF are SHOOTING non-lethal rounds, including pepper balls and tear gas, at protesters AND the media who pose no threat behind a locked fence. Americans are being shot at for exercising their rights.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 29/09/2025
Yesterday, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed Trump’s gerrymandered congressional maps into law. We're helping Missouri Democrats collect the signatures needed to activate a citizens’ referendum and put the congressional maps back in voters’ hands.
Graphic featuring the Missouri state capitol building with overlaying text that reads: 

UPDATE 

DNC announces new organizational support in Missouri to stop Trump's rigged maps from taking hold
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
"I have spent the last few weeks addressing and preparing for a military invasion by the President of the United States. No, I’m not a soldier or a foreign adversary. I’m the Governor of Illinois"
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Be Loud — For America
By Governor JB Pritzker
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Your City @yourcityseattle.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A lot of people have been calling me the @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social of Seattle. But where Zohran is charismatic, telegenic and stylish, I've spent my whole adult life looking pretty dumpy. To look more mayoral, I enlisted my friend Andrew Ashiofu, who took me to one of Seattle's premier boutiques.
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Democrats @democrats.org · 12/08/2025
fightthetrumptakeover.com
Graphic featuring a crowd holding up signs, gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol building, with overlaying text that states: BREAKING DNC to help lead nationwide protests against Republican redistricting plans
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...
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Democrats @democrats.org · 06/08/2025
Trump said he'd make IVF free. He's broken that promise.
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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “It makes me sick that she is claiming to be a victim. This is the same woman that grabbed my arm and forced me into a room to be raped by Jeffrey. She had this evil smirk on her face. And she enjoyed it.” ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social
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Rep. Steven Horsford @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
What are they hiding? You don’t get to slam the door on a Member of Congress during a routine ICE visit. I’ve toured this facility before—so why am I suddenly a “security risk”? My team requested permission. They had no right to deny us. They’re clearly afraid of accountability.
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q-fromthebackrow.bsky.social @q-fromthebackrow.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Our tariff dollars at work
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Democrats @democrats.org · 31/07/2025
Watch this Texas man SLAM Republicans for their gerrymandering scheme
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Democrats @democrats.org · 24/07/2025
Back-to-School Shopping Under Trump:

39% of parents say they can’t afford it.

44% of parents plan to take on debt.

50%+ of parents plan to sacrifice necessities like groceries to pay for school supplies.
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q-fromthebackrow.bsky.social @q-fromthebackrow.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Extremely funny I could watch this conversation all day!
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Dawn Xiana Moon @dawnxianamoon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Jesus. He's a US citizen. With Global Entry even. Still detained. With no explanation. (They did eventually let him back into the country after holding him for hours, saying had no rights. He was threatened by five interrogators.)
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Vermont school superintendent detained after trip to Nicaragua
Wilmer Chavarria, the superintendent of the Winooski School District, was held by U.S. Customs and Border Protection while returning to the country after visiting family.
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