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Where the Cactus Flowers Grow

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Screaming into the void… trying to make sense of the senseless.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1h
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23h
We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21h
Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?
Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1h
Seems bad that the security services are being used to persecute opposition leaders
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 2h
This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...
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Federal Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Gift Article)
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 5h
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
RIP Chris Wickham. Unlike so many historians who emphasise particularities and contingencies, he was the master of constructing grand, coherent, beautifully rendered worlds out of his evidence. This, from his 2021 Past and Present essay, is a masterpiece of historical writing.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I was unaware that as someone born in America I inherited Athens. So does that mean I’m eligible for Greek citizenship?
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The United States has made its choice.
We choose the unapologetic pursuit of national power.
"Nationalism" became a dirty word,
, so we
tore down our monuments, condemned our own history, and taught children to be ashamed of the countries they would inherit.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This was a choice. Remember this.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Heartbreaking 💔 Children scream while masked ICE goons kidnap their families in broad daylight in Harrison, New Jersey.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
On what Trump said last night about letting Iran blow up Los Angeles or San Diego: Sure, don’t be outraged if you don’t believe it warrants outrage, but don’t just say he misspoke or was “sloppy” with his wording. Don’t do that. Trump stopped deserving getting any benefit of the doubt ages ago.
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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Y’all are acting like you’ve never seen an octogenarian drug addict who spent decades attacking little girls w/his BFF Jeffrey Epstein while laundering money for Russian mob ask Iran to nuke LA & San Diego to help MAGA midterms while a bunch of cornhusk crackers cheered before?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Trump suggesting he would let Iran take out San Diego or Los Angeles is absolutely absurd. There’s just never a bottom with this administration.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "FoxNews spends more time covering Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates than they do the good old fashioned Republicans, the people that have saved America. All they talk about is Dumocrat Jihadists like El-Sayed, with his softball interview by Martha MacCallum. She never interviews me like that"
Trump: "FoxNews spends more time covering the Jihadist and Dumocrat candidates than they do the good old fashioned Republicans, the people that have saved America, and are making it great again. All they talk about is Dumocrat Jihadists like El-Sayed, with his softball interview by Martha MacCallum, and the like. She never interviews me like that. They don’t show my record breaking Rallies the morning after, but others do, and that’s what MAGA is watching. Fox is promoting the Dumocrats, not the Republicans and MAGA. They have totally lost their way! President DJT"
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 06/10/2026
one funny thing about Alito is he is constantly fuming over his critics. just a big blubbering baby.
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BINGO!💥
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/2026
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why is 🇺🇸 media not reporting on this 128 day Albanian protest of Kushner and Ivanka’s insane corruption?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Hallie Shoffner, the Democratic candidate running against Tom Cotton, on Morning Joe: "I'll tell you -- over the 450 days that I've been on the campaign trail, not once have I been asked about daylight savings time. Arkansas are talking about gas prices and grocery prices and healthcare."
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We used to have a federal agency devoted to investigating and prosecuting abuses by law enforcement, but Americans voted for the "let cops do crimes" candidate instead bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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jenny-sais-quoi.bsky.social @jenny-sais-quoi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My man looks like a Sunday paper comic transferred to Silly Putty.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“… Sky Roberts says in the ad that ‘Virginia deserved better.’ 'Jeff Crank covered up Epstein’s crimes to protect Donald Trump. He has no business being in Congress,’ Sky Giuffre says.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My man looks like a beluga whale pitching Bitcoin
Elon Musk, douchy and doughy and pale
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Imaginary Thomas and the No Such Things @imaginarythomas.com · 06/10/2026
My man looks like Uncle Fester just joined the Bored Ape Yacht Club
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert De Niro, Yesterday.......👏🏻
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🔥 @warnock.senate.gov: “If Trump thought it was a good economy, he’d be taking credit. But his whole administration keeps saying ‘BIDEN, BIDEN, BIDEN’ because they know things are TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE.”
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 05/10/2026
It's always good to remember, when social needs like libraries and fully-funded public education are said to be 'too expensive' to provide at scale, what the US actually spends its money on. The cost of the Iraq War was $3 trillion www.hks.harvard.edu/publications...
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The True Cost of the Iraq War: $3 Trillion and Beyond
Writing in these pages in early 2008, we put the total cost to the United States of the Iraq war at $3 trillion. This price tag dwarfed previous estimates, including the Bush administration's 2003 pro...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 05/10/2026
The US has spent $43.6 billion on the Iran war: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Much Has the U.S. Spent on the War in Iran?
A detailed look at the $43.6 billion the Pentagon has spent so far.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Federal immigration goons use their vehicles to confront a crowd of demonstrators protesting ICE in Tacoma, in what eyewitnesses say was an attempt by the suspected Feds to intimidate them. You can see the crowd stand their ground, and the goons drive off.
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You've probably seen this news by now. I find it hard to deal with. 20% of all the ice in Switzerland's glaciers lost in 5 years! And it's not just the beauty of the high Alps; this has major implications for Europe's water supply. #ClimateChangeisWaterChange
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“President Trump hasn’t failed to deliver at all. The economy is booming.”🤔 They’re really just gonna try to lie their way through it. Bold move!
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An autopsy found that Tierra Walker of Texas (who repeatedly asked for an abortion to save her life only to be repeatedly told "the baby is fine") died of “hypertensive cardiovascular disease with superimposed preeclampsia.” The real cause of death was the Texas abortion ban.
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Tierra Walker’s Death Was Preventable. The Conservative Legal Movement Made It Predictable
Republican politicians have made Texas doctors increasingly afraid to provide lifesaving abortion care.
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We are so honored to see musician Noah Le Gros rocking our Palestine Jersey on stage at the Gillette Stadium (owned by Robert Kraft, the same guy who called Ed Sheeran to kick Macklemore off the tour) Noah & Zach both stood for Palestine tonight on a stage that tried to ban the mention of it.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
you can’t pay for gas or groceries but here’s a few rolls of quarters, don’t forget to vote republican or something
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’ve seen reports estimating that the Iran War is costing us $1 billion a day. Over ten years that’s $3.6 trillion. So how about we trade free college for a stupid war?
U.S. Department of Education • 1h • O
Everything comes at a cost... that falls on the American taxpayer.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/socialism/
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The Real Cost of
"Free College"
$3.6 TRILLION
over ten years
THE PROMISE
All student debt cancelled and free undergraduate tuition
THE COST
$3.6 trillion with tuition covered at all institutions.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 02/10/2026
It's not REALLY spooky season until you've read your first October Flytrap Fridays post luckily this one from @sesmith.lol is fuckin excellent and omg this @meowwwls.bsky.social illo
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Worst Vacation Ever
Underneath every quaint small town, there's class war. It's just a little more literal in some.
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Where the Cactus Flowers Grow @shenoah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm attending Gabe Vasquez for Congress's event, “Meet and Greet with Congressman Gabe Vasquez: Alamogordo” - sign up now to join m www.mobilize.us/gabevasquezf...
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Meet and Greet with Congressman Gabe Vasquez: Alamogordo · Gabe Vasquez for Congress
Come meet Congressman Gabe Vasquez in Alamogordo! Join us at Pizza 9 inside the White Sands Mall for a casual meet & greet where you can ask questions, share the issues that matter most to you, and co...
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Where the Cactus Flowers Grow @shenoah.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm attending Gabe Vasquez for Congress's event, “Meet and Greet with Congressman Gabe Vasquez: Alamogordo” - sign up now to join m www.mobilize.us/gabevasquezf...
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Meet and Greet with Congressman Gabe Vasquez: Alamogordo · Gabe Vasquez for Congress
Come meet Congressman Gabe Vasquez in Alamogordo! Join us at Pizza 9 inside the White Sands Mall for a casual meet & greet where you can ask questions, share the issues that matter most to you, and co...
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PanamáSusan @kauaihorses.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“It wasn’t a mistake”🤔 “Who knew Jack Smith was a Caitlin Clark fan?” 🤔 @ericschmittmo pathetically attempts to play it off and act like he didn’t publicly humiliate himself in front of the nation today 🤡
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