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Joe Wrote @joewrote.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

...private grocery stores in food deserts through its FRESH program. These stores are not required to take welfare, undercutting their supposed purpose to help low-income families.' www.joewrote.com/cp/166763428

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UNLOCKED🔓 — Zohran Mamdani Wants NYC to Own Grocery Stores. Here's Why He's Right.

The market failed. Time for collective action.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

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Vivian Jenna Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Such beauty in life

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11/05/2025

A Personal History by Ocean Vuong, from 2017: “Dear Ma, I am writing to reach you—even if each word I put down is one word further from where you are.”

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A Letter to My Mother That She Will Never Read

Perhaps to lay hands on your child is to prepare him for war.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Two woman walking and embracing each other in front of an ICE detention center. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress and heels. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. Members of the press are in the background.

Two women standing, smiling, and embracing each other with grass, water, and the sky in the background. The woman on the left is wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. The woman on the right is wearing a black dress.

Two woman stand next to each other and hold onto one another. The woman on the left is wearing a black dress. The woman on the right is smiling and wearing a white hijab, glasses, and a pink garment. In the background is the fence of an ICE detention center.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Gabriel harvests oranges in Selma CA: I earn $24 per 900lb bin. The pay hasn't changed in 4-5 years. It doesn’t justify the hard, heavy work we do. We run back and forth and go up and down a 16-foot ladder quickly picking oranges in a bag that weighs 60lb when full. #WeFeedYou

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/04/2025

Bessent: "I wouldn't think that we would have supply chain shocks. I think retailers have managed their inventory in front of this...They know that President Trump is committed to fair trade and have planned accordingly."

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Eduardo & Antonio are pruning grapevines in Madera CA. They just earn 5 cents a vine piece rate. They say it's impossible to make a living wage. To top it they have to pay for their gas which makes it even less money for them as they carpool round trip 100 miles. #WeFeedYou

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 17/04/2025

If judges hold the Trump administration in contempt for defying court orders, how would that be enforced? Vince Warren, the executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, describes how it could play out.

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God @thegodshow.com · 15/04/2025

They don’t care. They don’t care that the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring an innocent man home to his family. They don’t care. They think it’s funny.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 10/04/2025

As Trump argues that tariffs will bring jobs to the United states, Nobel-prize winning economist @josephestiglitz.bsky.social says that “his picture of bringing us back to the 1950s is never going to happen.”

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Laila Lalami @lailalalami.com · 10/04/2025

"When mass protests broke out against his policy, Biden repeatedly condemned the activists as violent and antisemitic, responding to outlier actions that didn’t represent the movement. Biden’s slander helped splinter the Democratic coalition, giving Trump a potent wedge issue." shorturl.at/K4cPI

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The New McCarthyism Was Started by Liberals

As with earlier Red Scares, Democrats laid the groundwork for the current crackdown on dissent.

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Michael Fry @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Here are the US reciprocal tariffs against all the territories mentioned in Enya’s Orinoco Flow

Bissau 10%
Palau 10%
Avalon (UK) 10%
Fiji 32%
Tyree (UK) 10%
Isles of Ebony (UK) 10%
Peru 10%
Cebu (Philippines) 17%
Babylon (Iraq) 39%
Bali (Indonesia) 32%
Cali (Colombia) 10%
Beneath the Coral Sea (Australia) 10%
Ebudæ (UK) 10%
Khartoum (Sudan) 10%
Deep Sea of Clouds 10%
Island of the Moon (Madagascar) 47%
The Ross Dependency (Antarctica) 10%
Tripoli (Libya) 31%

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Morris “Day and The Time” Katz @vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

lmao where’s Cory Booker?! where’s Mr. Filibuster?! Mr. 2028?! [Mike Francesa voice] anothah clown

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Jessica Riedl @jessicabriedl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Some voters got mad about people listing their pronouns, so now we're sending law-abiding, legal immigrants to torture prisons and being hit with the largest middle class tax hike in at least 40 years.

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

#MondayMinute: provide your input on Asheville’s plan for $225-million in disaster recovery funding by Thursday, April 3rd at www.ashevillerecovers.org/cdbg-dr/ youtube.com/shorts/X1RBA... #hurricanehelene #climateresiliency #disasterrecovery #Asheville

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#MondayMinute: your input needed on Asheville’s plan for $225-million in disaster recovery funds!

YouTube video by Monday Minute with Kim Roney

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/03/2025

"We are loud, proud, aggressive and unapologetically Zionist." Betar US, a Zionist group, says it's sharing the names of pro-Palestinian protesters with the Trump administration to expel and deport them. Here's what you need to know aje.io/t3phko

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 26/03/2025

the very next post in this thread is "not even her lawyer knows where she is" and if you think they're gonna stop with non-citizens, I think in a year or two you're gonna be proven very wrong

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Clinical mulch @clinicalmulch.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

In the latest Clinical mulch, I look at some research on plastic accumulation in the human body and speculate on ways in which Chinese medicine might understand the disease mechanism as well as aid the body in its elimination. clinicalmulch.substack.com/p/a-spoons-w...

Image of a plastic spoon, with post title "A Spoon's Worth: Plastic as a Pathogenic Factor" and platform name "clinical mulch dot substack dot com".

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Man Modifies Cybertruck To Make It Look Less Embarrassing

Picture of a guy driving a cybertruck with custom artwork that makes it look like he’s riding a giant rocket powered dildo

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 20/03/2025

John Roberts is getting lots of accolades for issuing a “rare rebuke” to Donald Trump by reminding him that we don’t impeach judges because of legal disagreements. But Roberts wasn’t “rebuking” Trump, writes @elienyc.bsky.social, he was bending the knee.

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How a Case From 1803 Explains John Roberts’s Approach to Donald Trump

Roberts wasn’t “rebuking” Trump when he issued his statement against impeaching judges, he was bending the knee.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Guillermina's harvested CAs grapes, blueberries, citrus & pistachios for 20+ yrs: I invite you to march with us on March 31st on #CesarChavez Day. By showing we're united, we are a force, that will make a difference. As César Chávez said: Sí Se Puede! #WithTheseHands #WeFeedYou

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I’m so tired of hearing Rubio & other rightwingers now claiming that if you’re on a green card you’re a ‘guest’ in this country. BS. You’re a lawful permanent resident. The clue is in the name. If someone is a permanent resident in your home, are they the same as the guests who come and go? Come on.

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Cat's Eye Nebula - From Goddard Space Flight Center - flic.kr/p/7GLbNG

The Cat's Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to this kind of nebula. Eleven rings, or shells, of gas make up the Cat's Eye.

The full beauty of the Cat's Eye Nebula is revealed in this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The image from Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) shows a bull's eye pattern of eleven or even more concentric rings, or shells, around the Cat's Eye. Each 'ring' is actually the edge of a spherical bubble seen projected onto the sky -- that's why it appears bright along its outer edge.

Observations suggest the star ejected its mass in a series of pulses at 1,500-year intervals. These convulsions created dust shells, each of which contain as much mass as all of the planets in our solar system combined (still only one percent of the Sun's mass). These concentric shells make a layered, onion-skin structure around the dying star. The view from Hubble is like seeing an onion cut in half, where each skin layer is discernible.

The bull's-eye patterns seen around planetary nebulae come as a surprise to astronomers because they had no expectation that episodes of mass loss at the end of stellar lives would repeat every 1,500 years. Several explanations have been proposed, including cycles of magnetic activity somewhat similar to our own Sun's sunspot cycle, the action of companion stars orbiting around the dying star, and stellar pulsations. Another school of thought is t...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

CDC plans to study autism, vaccines
Move comes despite strong evidence finding no link between them.
By LENA H. SUN and LAUREN WEBER • The Washington Post

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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

They did it. They finally invented an actual torment nexus

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 08/03/2025

Newsom denigrated the use of gender pronouns in introductions, mocked the term “Latinx,” and decried calls to defund the police as “lunacy.” interc.pt/43rEITd

A photo of Donald and Melania Trump walking with California Gov. Gavin Newsom after arriving on Air Force One in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "Gavin Newsom’s Cynical Embrace of the Anti-Trans Agenda," and the DEK, "By abandoning trans rights and praising Reagan, Democrats embrace a fangless politics with a track record of electoral failure."

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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Will the real JD Vance please stand up?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 08/03/2025

The head of the Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip, Salama Maarouf, says 12,316 women have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/bl20ht

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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 06/03/2025

SpaceX’s Starship explodes during test flight.

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

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Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Every second, the Sun ejects 1.5 million tons of material into space at hundreds of miles per second, but Earth's magnetic field protects it from the solar wind. Credit: NASA Goddard

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 03/03/2025

1. Reports this week revealed that DHS has rescinded guidance banning surveillance based on someone's gender identity or sexual orientation. We have confirmed those reports. The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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DHS Now Allows for Surveillance based on Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity

If you or your loved ones are part of the LGBTQ community, there are steps you should take to protect yourself.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

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