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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini

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A Garbage Plate™ kid living in a chicken-wing world. Ra Cha Cha is the nickname of my hometown, Rochester. #MassMob co-founder. Writer for Buffalo Rising. Planner. Also: Urbanism, greenways, politics. #BillsMafia

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Classic Movie Hub @classicmoviehub.bsky.social · 11h
Yabba Dabba Doo! :) The Flintstones premiered on ABC 66 years ago today, on Sept 30, 1960! The modern Stone Age family stayed in prime time for six seasons and 166 episodes, through April 1, 1966. Did You Know? The Flintstones made TV history as the first animated series to air in prime time! #otd
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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 6h
That Bannon says that about Newsom should be the kiss of death for his nomination prospects. Definition of an acceptable nominee is someone who is Steve Bannon's worst nightmare.
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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 5h
This is barbaric.
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we have elizabeth at home @spindlypete.bsky.social · 7h
i don't think the state has any business torturing anyone to death
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 7h
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 7h
I read a couple hundred death penalty cases for a case once and I think you’d all be shocked at how often this happens. The death penalty is one of the cruelest things in our system, an obvious violation of the 8th amendment cruel and unusual punishment clause, but we just love to kill.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6h
Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 5h
Welcome to October! October is National Emotional Wellness Month, which means there's a thing for that with pumpkins:
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 14h
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h
do men understand the extent to which women are ready to burn it all down right now
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: The big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee execution. SCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts. Tonight, at Law Dork:
lawdork.com
The big problems with Wednesday’s SCOTUS order allowing a Tennessee execution
SCOTUS cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike over the dissent of the Democratic appointees. The order from the court’s Republican appointees is alarming on several fronts.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21h
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10h
So basically Trump has only been slightly less disastrous for international tourism than COVID.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h
Dems now leading GOP on every issue Quinnipiac polled, including the economy, national security, and immigration:
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 9h
See Dava for COOKIES 😋 bsky.app/profile/dava...
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 9h
👇Report the tweet AND the account. Send a clear message that while Twitter is a cesspit that welcomes accounts like this to piss and defecate in it around the clock, that is NOT what we need Bluesky to be. 👇Report the tweet AND the account. It takes all of 10 seconds. bsky.app/profile/m-tr...
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Rachel Barnhart @rachbarnhart.com · 14h
I understand the concern about due process for the Cornell 7, but there are so, so many layers to this incident that warrant outrage.
washingtonpost.com
Column | The three most chilling words in the Cornell rape case texts
Were these young men discussing a 7-Eleven or a young woman? It's both gobsmacking and banal.
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 18h
Everyone knows this. Yet we don't actually build on it. And in fact we can't without better leadership. That's the tragedy of Buffalo, a tragedy that is staged daily, a tragedy in which we are all unwitting or unwilling actors. buffalonews.com/news/local/b...
buffalonews.com
New York Fed president says Buffalo has a lot to build on
New York Fed president says Buffalo has a lot to build on
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 18h
Ken Paxton just humiliated Donald Trump by blaming him for why he's losing in Texas. When Paxton was losing the primary, Trump saved him. Now Paxton is flailing in the general, Trump is burning hundreds of millions of his own money in Texas, and Paxton turns around and stabs him in the back?
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 21h
New: John Fetterman has been working with GOP fundraising consultants—and paying a hefty commission, @michaelscherer.bsky.social and @mviser.bsky.social report.
theatlantic.com
Right-Wing Groups Are Making Money Off John Fetterman
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Talk to your kids.
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 21h
free king eh bsky.app/profile/npr....
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump gots AI legs.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Lol. 😂
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Bucky 👨‍❤️‍👨😻🏳️‍🌈🧔‍♂️✊ 💙💙💙🚫DM 🚫FASCISTS 🚫 MAGA/DINOS @breynold55.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
MAGA Personified: There Is Nothing Funny About Natalie Harp
Last Saturday, President Trump was at a nationally televised college football game between the Tennessee Volunteers and the Texas Longhorns. More than 100,000 people were there. But at one point he…
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Seething, readthing, ponderthing. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...
yahoo.com
Seething Trump Caught in Awkward Moment With Natalie Harp
A seemingly awkward encounter between President Donald Trump and his ever-present “human printer” has been immortalized in new photos Tuesday. Images taken by Reuters’ Jonathan Ernst just outside the ...
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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Natalie Harp was ‘devoted’ to Christian minister before finding Trump, brother reveals Trump’s close aide reportedly spent her Sundays as a girl going to megachurch Pastor David Jeremiah’s sermons www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Natalie Harp was ‘devoted’ to Christian minister before finding Trump, brother says
Trump’s close aide reportedly spent her Sundays as a girl going to megachurch Pastor David Jeremiah’s sermons
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow! Amazing. bsky.app/profile/meli...
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ironydelight.bsky.social @ironydelight.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Will they get to use AI?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At a time when the most influential leaders of the U.S. need to stand up loudly and clearly for the rule of law, they are leading the charge in the opposite direction. But not Jack Smith. Kudos to him for continuing to be a much needed voice of clarity.
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NPR @npr.org · 29/09/2026
Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On. n.pr/46QIOFc
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Mahmoud Khalil on his detention by ICE: 'It is a stain on the U.S. consciousness'
Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Karl Rove warns that the Texas GOP is being taken over by Nazis. “In the last 48 hours, Ted Cruz has reached out to me and says, ‘We’re losing,’ Ken Paxton has sent me several emails saying, ‘I’m losing, I need your help. Even the Republicans are admitting that they’re behind.”
sacurrent.com
Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'
The Bush-era GOP political operative also said Republicans would be winning the battle for Texas' U.S. Senate seat if John Cornyn was the nominee.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For alums or others who want to support student journalism, you can donate to the Cornell Daily Sun here:
cdsaa-2660.wp.greekly.io
Cornell Daily Sun Alumni Association
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Joe Flynn @chinajoeflynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If AOC goes to a Bills tailgate and jumps through a table, the Dems shouldn't even bother holding a primary in 2028.
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the IPO? bsky.app/profile/cnbc...
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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seattle
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@seankirst.bsky.social BTW, came across this photo yesterday for a project I'm working on. Do you know these fine folks?
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...
cbsnews.com
Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns
Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Ra Cha Cha #SlavaUkraini @rachacha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can't see how. bsky.app/profile/futu...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.
jessica.substack.com
Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: "We have the best murder"
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Gene Rayburn Says 'This Is Ridiculous'
ALT: Gene Rayburn Says 'This Is Ridiculous'
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 28/09/2026
pretty sure "lands" is the wrong word here for at least two reasons
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
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Underestimate @RahmEmanuel at your own risk.
He knows how to win. He knows how to fight.
And he knows how to message.
And no one will out work him. Regardless of whether he wins the Democratic nomination in 2028 he will make an impact on the race. You can be sure of that. Don't take your eyes off of him. At the minimum, learn from him.
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
Rahm Emanuel Makes His 2026 Play
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6:47 AM • 9/26/26 • 274K Views
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: The signs are everywhere that FBI and DOJ are gearing up investigate distributors of abortion pills. While Anti-abortion zealot Andrew Bailey may be leaving, Todd Blanche is Comstock-curious and FBI Director Kash Patel recently told Josh Hawley he's open to criminal probes. @autonomynews.co
autonomynews.co
What Was This Anti-Abortion Zealot Doing at the FBI?
Andrew Bailey has always been hellbent on eradicating abortion access. As the FBI’s No. 2, he may have set the stage for investigations into abortion pill providers.
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The Buffalo News @buffalonews.com · 28/09/2026
The City of Buffalo sent a cease-and-desist order to the Seneca Nation, ordering it to stop work on its planned gas station and convenience store facility along Ohio Street.
buffalonews.com
City orders Senecas to halt construction on proposed new gas station
The City of Buffalo sent a cease-and-desist order to the Seneca Nation, ordering it to stop work on its planned gas station and convenience store facility along Ohio Street.
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌊2026 🌊 @callyson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"A demagogue who hijacked American democracy, just as the nation’s founders feared would happen, is devolving into a mad king before our eyes:"
This is exactly why the time to sound the alarm is now, and not Nov. 10 or Jan. 3 when undoing irrational and unlawful moves by the White House will be much, much harder. Look, TV punditry and newspaper analyses that stop pretending the president is a well man, or newspaper editorials calling for his resignation, or leaders in Congress backing impeachment won’t end the crisis...today.

But calling attention now to Trump’s gross unfitness to hold office will set the stage for the battles to come — moving the Overton window on what can be done to restore democracy and helping any sensible Republicans understand there’s still a way to save both themselves and the country before it’s too late.

The right words matter, a lot. We need to start urgently looking for them.
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