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Rock and punk music, being outside, lifting heavy things, making and enjoying words, pictures and sounds. Episcopalian O||||||O

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Charlie Kirk gets his wish. He said, in earnest, that executions should be televised and mandatory for children as educational.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of the first things Fidel Castro did upon taking power was televising live executions by firing squad.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/10/2026
NEW: CONTENT WARNING FOR SA: Democratic candidate for Arizona's 8th Congressional district Bernadette Greene-Placentia was raped by two men while repairing campaign signs according to a sheriff's report. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 05/10/2026
Respiratory illness season 🤧 is right around the corner - masking 😷 can help prevent the spread of germs through sneezes and coughs Plus it keeps your nose warm in cold, icy conditions 🧂🧊 www.wired.com/story/ice-ha...
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a database run on Palantir software, newly unsealed court filings say.
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Anyone from the camp scene in VA familiar with a song called “Sing to the Skies” by Richard Millhorn? Trying to help someone on ⚓️ Reddit locate it
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Brazilian intelligence says it confirmed interference from both the US and Russia ahead of Sunday’s presidential election, rated the risk of US influence on the vote “critical.” Brazil is now investigating foreign interference.
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Brazil votes as intelligence agency finds US and Russian interference; US backs the right wing
In the final week before Brazil votes, the US government put money behind opponents of the Supreme Court, closed its consulates over a threat Brazilian police could not find and was reported to have t...
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What the hell does he know?
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why is a 38 yo so invested in what happens to some assumed fratboy strangers that he’s okay with further terrorizing a woman who has already been subjected to horrific trauma? And why is a TV show so starved for viewers that it is willing to give him a platform?
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Derf Backderf @derfbackderf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The current huge story about the gang rape at Cornell University, a crime originally brushed off and covered up by the administration, is SOLELY the product of the student paper, the Cornell Daily Sun, which doggedly pursued the story. Not the NYT or CNN. An independent student paper. #Cornell
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR | Cornell Won’t Listen, We Will
The Sun's Editor-in-Chief Sophia Dasser '28 calls on the Cornell community to share its reactions to the Chi Phi lawsuit and the University's response, on the record, for a permanent public archive.
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🎃Vita💀Breva🪦 @vitabreva.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Saint Michael and the Fascist," inspired by Raphael’s “Saint Michael Vanquishing Satan” by Salem (@krowe.callz on instagram). Blessed Michaelmas!
Saint Michael the Archangel, an androgynous, long-haired angel, hovering above the prone body of a man in a military uniform and swastika armband, a pistol laying besides hand. Saint Michael has one foot on the Nazi's back and is pointing a spear with a trans symbol atop it point-down at the fascist's bodySame image as prior but in black and white line art

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https://www.tumblr.com/wizard-enthusiast/776590349278789632/saint-michael-and-the-fascist-inspired-by

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGiW5FQp_SE/?stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
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Fella Historian🌻 @thisuserisdumb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Maybe Sen Schmitt's staffers should have watched more Sesame Street when they were kids🤷‍♀️
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Chris Clare DJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reflecting on the readings for the feast of St Michael and All Angels, I think we're sleeping on 'mortal' as an ominous and gender neutral for of address, as in 'mortal, this is a Wendy's'
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On #Michaelmas I am always looking forward to “our” parish on #SanibelIsland. Four years ago we were watching in horror as #HurricaneIan pushed the #GulfofMexico through their buildings. ⚓️
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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
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TJ @tjsls.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Stunning to think that a young male in 2026 obsessed with his looks to the nth degree might be deeply broken, insecure and abusive and/or a rapist. Who could have ever seen that coming? 🙄
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Syria’s president told the UN that Israel has carried out about 500 strikes, 1,200 incursions and nearly 300 detentions in Syria since Assad was defeated. Demands Israel withdraw from territory it illegally seized, declares: “The Golan will remain a Syrian land."
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Syria President Al-Sharaa tells UN Israel has attacked Syria 500 times since Assad regime defeated
Al-Sharaa told the UN Israel carried out 500 strikes and 1,200 incursions in Syria since Assad fell, and said the Golan will remain Syrian.
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A note from a #PCUSA friend… ⚓️ in clarification they said that if your bylaws mandate things like #safechurch training and you can’t document that they were completed, that is grounds for claim denial and policy cancellation if something goes awry.
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This #greatblueheron is giving me a complex. The mere sight of me and my kayak makes it take off screeching in horror. Happens at parties too LOL #birdsky
A great blue heron (a tall gray wading bird) seen in profile just beyond a patch of water lilies 
A great blue heron takes off across a patch of water lilies
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Congressman Greg Landsman @repgreglandsman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Haitians living legally in Ohio have built families, careers, and churches here. Ending their protections and treating them like criminals serves neither justice nor humanity.
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Don't send Ohio's Haitian neighbors 'back to hell' | Opinion
Opinion: Haitians found safety in Ohio. America shouldn't send them back.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rep. Massie reads articles of impeachment against the failed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Protester: “He’s just everything that is wrong in this kind of society, and he’s here. It’s just not right. I don’t know why we welcomed him here… We are a peaceful nation and he’s coming over here with blood on his hands from all the wars he’s doing.” 📍Ireland
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "The draft-dodging commander in chief builds a monument to himself while plunging us deeper into a war he doesn't know how to end or win"
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Scary Hokum @yocham-ta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If Mitch McConnell comes out today, does that mean 6 more years of fascism, or how does this work?
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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So, we turned over the future of the human race to a bunch of guys no woman wanted to date in high school and who buried themselves in video games. And now they say the entire species is at risk. Because of their own work. Honestly, is this surprising? In any way?
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Spooky Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
hey welcome to America you can get arrested for giving water to people waiting in line to vote but the president is offering you $5k to vote for his party
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📌All the bigots asking why the mayor of New York City is presiding over the remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, need to shut up and explain to us why they support the traitor who attacked us Jan. 6.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 11/09/2026
Watch it. Spread it. This is the interview Brendan Carr at FCC is trying to censor because he’s a beta cuck. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/09/2026
Today, Sept. 10, is World Suicide Prevention Day. Suicide prevention must include LGBTQ+ communities, especially youth. If you need help, call/text 988 or visit The Trevor Project: thetrevorproject.org/get-help. Help is available. 💚
thetrevorproject.org
Get Help
Get immediate help 24/7/365. The Trevor Project's crisis counselors are just a text, chat, or phone call away. Completely confidential and free LGBTQ hotline.
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
View of the #911memorial from the East River
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Passaic here too although I paddled part of the Hackensack this weekend
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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
who wants to go in on this together?
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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
In a major Texas Senate race endorsement, Hall of Fame former Texas Ranger David Maxwell spoke out against Ken Paxton. After blowing the whistle on Paxton's corruption in 2020 and being fired, Maxwell is endorsing James Talarico for US Senate. "Texans deserve a Senator who serves the people."
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
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Jay Troyer @gr8flbluejay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Try to get the whole bird in the frame on a moving kayak
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yellow-cheeked tit 15cm songbird Himalays, South and Southeast Asia. Active, travel in family group Diet insects, insect larvae, spiders, fruits, berries Monogamous after the mate female builds the nest, then incubate 12-15 days, parents feed the chicks 21 days, and for 3 weeks after they fledge.
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NorthJersey.com and The Record @northjerseynews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Flock Safety is cutting the default retention period for data collected by its license plate readers from 30 days to seven days and requiring new controls on how police officers search its systems. www.northjersey.com/story/news/2...
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conrad 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✝️📿 @conradelliot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Please pray hard for Minneapolis after a shooting near Loring Park. 7 shot. 2 dead (including the shooter.) 🕯
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social is simply 1 of the greatest, most inspirational candidates to emerge in years, running against Ken Paxton, one of the most disgracefully corrupt politicians of all-time. So the Texas GOP responds by doing what comes naturally to them, of course: CHEATING! 🤮
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Protesters in Danbury are demanding ICE get out and to shut down operations. The Danbury community is not backing down. 62 fathers, sons, brothers, mothers, daughters, sisters taken in four days. Goons tasing neighbors, breaking windows, arresting parents in front of their children.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: The House REJECTS a constitutional amendment to keep the Supreme Court locked at 9 justices. Mwuhahahaha www.cbsnews.com/news/house-s...
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House rejects GOP constitutional amendment to limit Supreme Court to 9 justices
A GOP-proposed constitutional amendment to limit the Supreme Court to nine justices failed in the House, coming up well short of the two-thirds majority needed.
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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 02/09/2026
As literally anyone who understands these things could have told everyone and did. Bc immigrants INCREASE employment in excess of the jobs they fill so removing them actually leaves *fewer* jobs for others, not *more* jobs for others.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 03/09/2026
Rep. Ro Khanna: "Elon Musk wanted me arrested for saying DOGE’s cuts to USAID would cause tragic deaths around the world. Last week a flood in Nepal killed over 1,000. Another 4,500 are still missing. We now know, last year, DOGE cut a flood prevention and glacier collapse program in Nepal."
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Ro Khanna (@rokhannausa)
Elon Musk wanted me arrested for saying DOGE’s cuts to USAID would cause tragic deaths around the world. Last week a flood in Nepal killed over 1,000. Another 4,500 are still missing. We now know, l...
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Post something random or you'll have an awful September.
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The call is coming from inside the (White) house.
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shifty 🦉 @shiftynj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I recognized exactly one name and I don’t understand how Josh Johnson isn’t on there.
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