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@theparamecium.bsky.social
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Do not identify as a liberal, a feminist, an atheist, or anything that implies have adopted anyone else's ideals or conclusions. Recommend doing the same. Am a hiker, and when need be an activist..

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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 5h
Tillis Admits It--Job more important than Country: “Republicans who agreed to go along with the early demands of the Trump team no matter how ridiculous they were, believing that failing to do so would mean the end of their political career, and who now see that things have gone way too far.”
apnews.com
Republican Sen. Tillis calls his vote for Hegseth the 'biggest regret of my career' in a new book
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career.”
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 13h
The End is Near: “A Bolsonaro win — aided by Trump and Big Tech billionaires — will be the likely end of the Amazon, the lungs of the earth..If you have young kids, you are watching them get locked into an extremely dangerous future. You’re not mad enough at the fascists and their collaborators.”
rawstory.com
Trump ally ‘likely’ to destroy Amazon rainforest as expert delivers grim prediction
The world’s largest tropical rainforest that serves as a “critical counterweight to climate change” is under threat of complete destruction following the strong electoral performance of a far-right al...
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 13h
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 14h
Knowledge is Power (so ban books): The bans involved a “record number of unique titles” – exceeding 7,000 – involving more than 4,000 authors, illustrators and translators. Analysts found 114 school districts which banned books during the school year, “the highest number ever for a single year”.
theguardian.com
US book bans in public schools reach record annual high of 12,000
Texas tops list with 8,100 bans while Stephen King is again most banned author, PEN America finds
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Have worked a fuel desk. Semis hold 200 gal, every penny is $2 more to fill up. Glad am no longer doing that job. "Now, small trucking operators are increasingly filing for bankruptcy, with the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association warning more will follow if fuel prices remain elevated."
rawstory.com
Trucking bankruptcies mount as Trump's war forces drivers to take dire measures: report
Well over a dozen small trucking operators filed for bankruptcy over the past month amid soaring diesel prices, and an increasing number of truck drivers have been forced to adopt extreme cost-saving ...
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OMG OMG OMG-- ..but [Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defense] did admit that the Defense Department was actively conducting a “classified review of U.S. nuclear employment guidance, with the goal of increasing options available to the president..”
rawstory.com
Panic as Pentagon quietly moves to expand Trump's 'nuclear options'
Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defense for policy, openly admitted recently that the Defense Department was actively working to increase the “[nuclear] options available” to President Donald T...
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(Black) Girl Power: "Four astronauts pulled up at the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday after launching on an eight-hour express that set a US speed record, and that created further history with the first Black woman to lead a crew to orbit."
theguardian.com
‘An amazing ride’: SpaceX flight led by first Black female commander sets US speed record
Four astronauts pulled up at International Space Station after eight-hour express flight led by Jessica Watkins
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pray your parents aren't brain-dead bible-thumpers in Idaho: "The sect had at least 15 avoidable deaths among children from 2015 through 2025, according to healthcare professionals who reviewed their records for ProPublica."
propublica.org
Four Kids in One Faith-Healing Family Died. Authorities Could Do Nothing.
An exemption in Idaho law shields faith-healing parents from criminal prosecution for conduct that otherwise would be charged as neglect. It also keeps police and social workers from stepping in to pr...
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The only difference between the Musk/Bezos of the world, and the other prob around 98% of people, is they have and others have not. If given the chance, almost everyone would trade places with a billionaire in a heart beat. That is equally as bad as hoarding, it's just not apparent or acknowledged.
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Goddamn barbaric bloodthirsty republicans: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the dissent that the decision to vacate the stay interfered with the Sixth Circuit court's handling of the case and "unnecessarily prevents that court from giving due consideration to Pike's claim."
yahoo.com
Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say
Tennessee officials were unable to put Christa Gail Pike to death for a 1995 murder Wednesday, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts considered a last-minute ...
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Israeli impunity green-lit once again: "Nine Americans have been killed in the occupied West Bank since 2022. The most recent include Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old from Tampa, Florida, who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in July 2025 while visiting family in the village of Sinjil."
theguardian.com
US Senate blocks resolution demanding accountability over Israeli violence in West Bank
Nine American citizens have been killed by Israeli settlers or security forces in occupied West Bank since 2022
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The capacity for cruelty in the Tr*mp regime is staggering: 'On Monday, two dozen UN human rights experts warned that the deportation of thousands of migrants from the US to third countries has set off a “cascade of human rights violations” that could have “deadly” consequences.'
theguardian.com
US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries
Conservative majority temporarily lifts lower-court decision as liberal justices dissent from ruling
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If ya can't beat 'em, label them as terrorists: "As the country's leading Muslim civil rights group, CAIR is being targeted not because it poses a threat to public safety, but because doing so serves a political agenda at the expense of Floridians' rights.."
tallahassee.com
Florida OKs terror designations for CAIR, antifa, Muslim Brotherhood
Florida officials approved domestic terrorist group designations for a Muslim advocacy group and antifa.
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A definition of psychopathy: “I think the polls are inaccurate because I won it by so much and it doesn’t make sense that they wouldn’t be right up there with me,” Trump told reporters Monday in the Oval Office, adding that he thinks he’s “more popular” than he was 18 months ago.
huffpost.com
Kaitlan Collins Hits Trump With Eye-Popping Disapproval Rating On Air
An anonymous Trump adviser also told Collins that the midterm elections are “obviously going to be effing rough.”
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What do Israel and Elon Musk have in common? They're both shitting their pants over documentaries detailing who they really are:
theguardian.com
Why is Israel so afraid of the film NAZA? We spoke to its directors – Stateside with Kai and Carter
Composed of interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, the documentary NAZA is a haunting exposé of the tools that the Israeli military uses to carry out the remote killi...
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our murderous dystopian GOP hellscape: "Twenty-four hours. Three states. Three people dead. Countless lives changed in seconds." The men in Maine and Florida were not even ICE’s intended targets for arrest – they became “collaterals”, as agency officials call them.
theguardian.com
Three deaths, three states, 24 hours: one day in ICE’s quiet but ‘gruesome’ surge
These men in Maine, Georgia and Florida shared no ties – until they became casualties in Trump’s anti-immigration campaign
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BLACK LIVES MATTER (but not that much): "From the very moment we learned of Wells’ unusual disappearance, and then his subsequent death, it felt as if the whole case would be swept under the rug as some tragic “accident,” despite the murky details and overwhelming feeling of foul play."
huffpost.com
The Nolan Wells Verdict Is A Disgusting Reminder Of How Quickly And Frequently Our Justice Is Denied
To be clear, real justice would be Wells still being here with us today.
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Quite cool:
bhammershaug.com
Black Power, Resistance and Consciousness in Album Cover Art
The birth of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s marked the beginning of a social, political and cultural revolution that drastically changed American society. What began as a peaceful and pacif…
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Enjoy the GOP safari: ..Wilson also compared the “current mood” among the Republican-led Congress “to a wildlife documentary.” “It needs a David Attenborough voiceover,” Wilson told the Guardian. “It’s like the gazelles wandering the savannah. … The risk factor that they face now is Trump.”
alternet.org
'Collision course': Experts warn Trump’s 'last refuge' is his most dangerous
President Donald Trump is “lashing out” as he increasingly finds his influence waning — and, according to experts and historians who spoke with the Guardian, he’s never been more dangerous.
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a just in case ya missed it-- More than 200 cats came to compete in the Romania International Cat Show, an international feline beauty contest known as the Feline Oscars, in Bucharest.
theguardian.com
Paws for applause: the Feline Oscars – in pictures
More than 200 cats came to compete in the Romania International Cat Show, an international feline beauty contest, in Bucharest
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Way to go Kentucky!!-- -Kentucky recorded the largest movement, a 32-point shift in net approval from positive 29 to negative 3. -Texas followed with a 30-point swing, while Missouri moved 26 points. -Alaska’s rating changed by 22 points, compared with 21 points in Ohio and 19 points in Arizona.
newsweek.com
Donald Trump’s approval rating flips with white voters in red states
The president's approval flips negative among white voters in six states he won, raising concerns for Republicans before the midterms.
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Americans that won't be born for decades will have a deep hatred for Tr*mp voters that will have long since passed for what they did to this country.
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Illegitimate, rouge, corrupt SCOTUS: “This is Calvinball jurisprudence with a twist,” Jackson wrote, referring to a made-up game in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. “Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”
usatoday.com
Justice Jackson says Supreme Court intervenes too quickly on Trump's side
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warns that emergency appeals are becoming a "special avenue" for "certain privileged litigants."
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The GOP has always wanted old people to die: “It’s clear why the administration is doing everything they can to conceal these documents..The more that Americans learn about WISeR, the more outraged they get at the Trump administration for jeopardizing their care and trying to privatize Medicare.”
arstechnica.com
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bibi the Butcher can fuck all the way off: [Netanyahu] branded Turkey’s Erdoğan as a “tyrant” who “hosts Hamas terrorists”, decried Mamdani as the “antisemitic mayor of New York”, and declared that Israel’s war in Gaza is not genocide – “it’s the opposite of genocide”.
theguardian.com
Netanyahu calls Israel’s war in Gaza ‘opposite of genocide’ in UN speech
Israeli PM attacks critics and calls New York mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘antisemitic’ in inflammatory address
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Burn Baby Burn, says GOP to US workers: "In January 2025, the White House indefinitely froze Biden-era heat safety regulations that would have mandated water, shade, breaks, training and prevent plans for workers."
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Official Derptiles @derptiles.art · 17/09/2026
We have until October 6th to stand up for the Roadless Rule!
An illustration of an assortment of animals with the text "keep it Roadless, protect our forests, protect our water" around the edges
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Holy shit--an 'Office of Remigration': One employee wrote in a pointed question during that call that the term appeared to describe "ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation or promoted voluntary return of non-white immigrants," calling the choice "beyond alarming," but leadership did not budge.
rawstory.com
Disturbed staffers add trigger warnings to reports on what their own State Dept is doing
Employees inside the State Department office overseeing President Donald Trump's mass expulsion of migrants to third countries have grown so disturbed by the program that they are privately sharing ne...
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From ass-kissee to ass-kisser: Trump is expected to greet his Chinese counterpart at 6 p.m. on Wednesday despite Xi not showing him the same courtesy in May. "He decided to do it because they have a great relationship," first lady Melania Trump revealed.
themirror.com
Trump humiliated as Republicans issue dire warning mere hours before Xi summit
Mere hours before President Donald Trump is set to greet Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president experienecd an internal revolt from many allies within his own party
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Flocking courage: “I feel like being silent would have been like being complicit,” she said. “I felt like it was kind of stupid that I disturbed the peace. Okay, yeah, I did flip them off. That wasn’t a shining moment, but I did that when I was about to be arrested. When I knew my time was up.”
404media.co
Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Quietly Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council...
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Amen sister: “As an African American woman, American heritage has been oppression and slavery,” she said. “I see a push in certain ways that some people in this country want to go back to those things. The last thing I see is people obeying the Ten Commandments.”
theguardian.com
Not set in stone: teachers are defying mandates to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms
Some educators are pushing back in class and in court against the display of the religious code in public schools
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The day is 22 September 2026, the time is 11:06 EDT, the number of people currently watching Tr*mp TV on Youtube is...904
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Making Venezuela look good: “To me, it’s just another iteration of disappearing people,” she said. “Why would we do that in the United States of America? It’s something we’d hear about in another country and be concerned about individual rights and due process.”
theguardian.com
ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
Immigration agency’s move makes it harder for lawyers and family to find detainees, in line with stringent Trump policy
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Greatest FAFOs ever: "My truck’s gonna sit there and rot until this idiot president is out of office. I voted for him, and I'm so sorry I voted for him. I never thought I’d say this but I miss Joe Biden," another admitted.
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The era of AI-assisted murder is upon us: “In Israel, AI targeting systems have played a crucial role in supporting its military campaign against Gaza..As AI companies make their way onto the battlefield, the scale of atrocities committed by warring parties is rising correspondingly.”
motherjones.com
Killer AI is already here—we’re using it in Iran
Despite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Am a non-religious Kentuckian, but still, God Bless Andy Beshear: "Yeah, we can get beyond this. It's the idea that your neighbor isn't the enemy from within; it's just your neighbor, and he or she is doing their best in a very difficult world."
cbsnews.com
Democrat Andy Beshear on pursuing "The Great American Reset"
The two-term Kentucky Governor advises his fellow Democrats to speak like "normal people" and not shy away from progressive politics or religious faith. He discusses his book, "Go and Do Likewise," wh...
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As does Netanyahu, Miller likes eliminating children before they can grow up and defend themselves: "..hurrying them in vast numbers, without lawyers, in front of asylum officers and immigration judges who are either inclined or are under pressure to take a hard line and get them out of the US."
theguardian.com
Trump ally Stephen Miller leads sweeping push to accelerate removal of migrant children
Exclusive: key White House loyalist orchestrating multi-agency effort condemned by critics as cruel and racist
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Go get those rotten bastards Ilhan: “For over a year, ICE has been tearing through our nation, leading racist terror campaigns that have caused devastating damage to our cities, to our businesses, and to the lives of our constituents,” said Omar..
theguardian.com
Ilhan Omar brings bill to make ICE ‘pay the price’ for terrorizing communities
Make ICE Pay Act would block nearly $140bn in funding and redirect money to places reeling from Trump crackdown
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
GODDAMMIT: "The $2.8bn package includes 40,000 bombs, made up of 20,000 MK-84s and 20,000 BLU-117s..The 2,000-lb bombs have multiple variants, with some designed to penetrate deep, underground targets while others detonate above ground and cause widespread damage."
theguardian.com
Trump administration plans to resume deliveries of 2,000-lb bombs to Israel
Delivery of the weapons had been halted two years ago over mass casualty concerns amid Israel’s bombing of Gaza
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theparamecium.bsky.social @theparamecium.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Well i'll be: "Other highlighted failings were problems with use-of-force policies, active shooter situations, vehicle pursuits and the professional conduct of officers. Haws told the outlet that the state’s order to revoke the city agency’s license to operate law enforcement was “not a shock”.
theguardian.com
Texas police department ordered closed for failing to provide any benefit to community
Disbanding of department in Trinidad comes after arrest of a resident for posting about issues with local water supply
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