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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 15m
🤭 That's cute.
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 1h
I found this deeply ✨ inspiring ✨
 🚨URGENT APPEAL 

Sorry to bother you, Chris, but we're just ten donors short of our goal of having you make [redacted]'s lunch tonight. I have been reviewing our records which show that you didn't consider adding a little treat for her, maybe some chocolate chips. I'm reaching out to you personally, Chris, to ask whether you added a few chocolate chips to her lunch.

- Team [redacted]'s Lunch

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 17h
Sometimes my wife and I like to send each other text messages as though they’re democratic fundraising messages, and I believe she has produced the jewel of the form.
, it's
and I
have some personal news to share with you.
Being a mom is one of the greatest joys of my life, and I feel deeply that we should have salad tonight
This year has been challenging in many ways, and I have immense gratitude for the kindness and support of family, community, and people like you who have continued to stand by me through everything. It means the world, and I wanted you to be among the first to know that squash is in the oven and kale is in the fridge.As many of you are aware, ve been navigating one of the most challenging periods of my day while waiting for dinner.
Facing baseless federal hunger brought on by not eating since lunch, fighting for the working kids of this country, and now caring for a mean toddler and helping him grow up in a world that isn't always easy. But it has also reminded me exactly why I do this work and who I do it for.
I will never stop working to eat dinner. I will never stop fighting for what is right, even when there is also some feta in the fridge. And I will never stop being so very thankful that you are by my side in this important work and that there is tahini in the pantry for dressing
With love and gratitude,
stop to end
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1h
New York! Ahead of election season, my office is sharing some key voting dates. Your voice matters! Make a plan and get out and vote.
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The Marshall Project @themarshallproject.org · 1h
Several immigrants are refusing to eat to protest their prolonged detention at a South Texas immigrant camp, according to two of them and an attorney for one of the men. The action is the latest in a rash of hunger strikes by ICE detainees this year. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/07/t...
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In a Texas ICE Camp, a Hunger Strike to Protest Indefinite Detention
They are demanding to be moved out of the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has allowed the government to hold immigrants indefinitely.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 42m
Jenny Holzer, Survival Series, 1983
DONT WATCH THE UNDERCLASS. IT'S MORE LIKELY THAT THE WARLORDS WILL KILL YOU.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 42m
www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/06/m...
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Protesters barricade road to Vermont ICE facility with ‘community gardens’ - The Boston Globe
About 40 protesters built flower boxes in the middle of a road to block access to ICE facilities in Williston on Tuesday.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 40m
Republicans are complaining that the CBS town hall with vice-president JD Vance could depress Republican turnout in the midterm elections.
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 31m
She's been practicing. You can tell when she checks herself. Lol
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 43m
completely distracted by and very much need to know more about what's going on with the person in red here
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 34m
🤭
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 38m
The former game show host is truly high on his own supply.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7h
The assertion that "powerful cultural institutions" and the Democratic Party "treated more tradition-minded Americans as evil or backward" has become such a cliche in the punditry that people who say this feel no need to offer examples (or a single example) and journalists rarely ask them to do so.
Slade: I’ll be honest with you: Broad swaths of the American electorate, including members of some demographics that were once solid Democratic constituencies, came to feel extraordinarily resentful that both the Democratic Party and a lot of powerful cultural institutions (higher education, the mainstream media) were going all in on a sort of militant identity politics that treated more tradition-minded Americans as evil or backward.

This created a real siege mentality, where people were inclined to throw their lot in with someone whom they perceived as on their side and who said he would fight the forces that were hostile to them.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 1h
October is Gate Safety Month Large gates can fall off their tracks if they are not installed properly or do not have safety features. If there is a large gate somewhere in your community, be aware of these risks.
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 53m
So much projection.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1h
Ell — and I cannot stress this enough —Oh Ell.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 1h
The one on the right is a viable candidate but the actual first photo of a cat has never been conclusively identified. The one on the left has gone viral many, many, many times as being "the first cat photo" but the claim is patently false. www.snopes.com/fact-check/w...
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 1h
Aww man, I'm pretty sure Trejo is sympathetic to migrants. At this point he's an old man who's seemingly taken every acting job he's ever been offered. Keitel is even older, but I don't know his feelings about migrants. I hope the project ends up cancelled.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2h
The state: sorry our murdering techniques are mid
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 1h
What a relief.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 2h
What we saw was a man who — even after all these years — lacks the courage of his remarkably weak convictions. charliesykes.substack.com/p/thom-tilli...
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Thom Tillis Lacks the Courage of His Remarkably Weak Convictions
Today is the 10th anniversary of the October 7, 2016 release of the Access Hollywood tapes (about which more below).
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h
Note: Texas is planning on killing Jamaal Howard later today. Requests for stays of execution are pending at the Supreme Court.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h
Here was Law Dork's earlier coverage about the Christa Pike case: www.lawdork.com/p/the-big-pr...
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After SCOTUS allowed Tennessee execution to go ahead, Tennessee botched the execution
SCOTUS, over the liberals’ dissent, cleared the way for Tennessee to kill Christa Pike. The alarming order from DC was followed by even more disturbing developments in Tennessee.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h
LIVE: Christa Pike’s Lawyers Appear Before Tennessee Judge After Failed Execution www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
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Christa Pike Live Updates: Judge to Hear From Her Lawyers After Failed Execution (Gift Article)
Lawyers for Ms. Pike, a condemned murderer who survived two doses of an execution drug last week, want access to their client and the preservation of evidence.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 2h
He didn't say "Muslim" either. The conflict is about two nationalities, not two religions, despite the best efforts of both sides' propaganda.
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 2h
No. Alito doesn't consider women fully formed humans, much less citizens.
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2h
Call me crazy, but I do not think that people who are getting sick and dying because they can no longer access lifesaving abortion care would agree that the reliance interests created by Roe v. Wade are "abstract" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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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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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 2h
Pretty wild to see Alito describe reliance on Obergefell as "much more concrete" than reliance on Roe v. Wade, because Roe was merely about "women's ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in." If it's a Ladies Issue, he just doesn't give a shit. www.cbsnews.com/news/samuel-...
"One of the important factors we take into account in deciding whether we should reexamine a past decision is the degree to which there has been reliance on the decision," he said. "Obviously a great deal had changed in the country as a result of Obergefell. There was a lot of reliance in various ways on the decision in Obergefell." 

I pointed out that people thought Roe v. Wade was settled law of the land, had organized their lives around it. Overturning Roe also would have consequences.

Obergefell, he said, was different. 

"After Obergefell, people of the same sex got married and entered into contracts … it was much more concrete," he said. "Whereas with Roe, the argument was made that it had an effect on people's ideas, women's ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in, that this would have an effect on the society. It was much more abstract than what would've been involved had we been asked to overrule Obergefell."
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 2h
🤦🏽‍♀️
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The Nevada Independent @thenvindy.com · 2h
A judge has denied the ACLU’s challenge of the Clark County ordinance that made it illegal to “stop, stand, or do something to cause someone to stop or stand.” However, the organization said it’s not done. Read more: buff.ly/VjjACyB
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ACLU loses challenge against Clark County's 'selfie ban' on pedestrian bridges - The Nevada Independent
A judge upheld the ordinance against blocking the pedestrian bridges on the Strip, saying it doesn't curb people's constitutional rights.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h
I saw a video that’s getting a decent amount of circulation on Instagram that insinuates that a new Nobel laureate might have had some dealings with Epstein on the basis of the fact that his name appears in the files because he attended the World Science Festival. THIS IS AN UNHINGED CONCLUSION.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 3h
this is anything but an unalloyed good but this shit is gonna tank so, so hard
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 2h
Safe bet it will never be built, but some people will make money.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 3h
The project has sparked doubts over whether the plant will be built and delivered as promised, given Trump’s record
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Skepticism mires Trump’s Iowa steel plant project: ‘Promises are not the same as jobs’
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h
even pseudo-growth obsessed Wall Street is like: this sucks
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Wall Street Skittish on Skydance as Stock Drops Further Post-Merger
Shares in the post-merger Skydance were down nearly 8% as of 10:40 ET on Wednesday, hovering at a share price of $8.84.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 5h
a bit late but I just had the displeasure of reading this thing and it is utter nonsense. Far beyond anything that SFFA can plausibly be read to say. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...
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Justice Department Finds UCLA Law School Discriminates Based on Race in Admissions
The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced today investigative findings that the University of California-Los Angeles School of Law (UCLA Law) discriminated against white and Asian stude...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h
Pretty clear that the Trump admin's "Civil Rights" department is actively seeking to force schools to segregate further and deny more Black students.
The Department’s investigation found that post-SFFA, UCLA Law’s application includes personal statements and essay prompts, which are designed to elicit information about race. And UCLA Law’s admissions staff instructed prospective applicants how to reveal their race in these sections of the application—during race-based recruitment efforts, such as its annual “Diversity Admissions Open House”.

The Department’s analysis revealed that UCLA Law rejected white and Asian applicants who had the same LSAT scores as admitted black and Hispanic applicants. Plainly, lower-scoring white and Asian applicants would have been admitted by UCLA Law if they were black or Hispanic. Further, in 2024 and 2025 (combined), half of the admitted black applicants had LSAT scores that were at or below 90% of the admitted white applicants.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h
"’A non-invasive device where you could literally turn up — crank up — your level of motivation’ is where the technology is headed…”
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2h
Not a lot of investment in using euphemisms for the eugenic fantasies anymore.
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Stanford neuroscientist Andrew Huberman says the real AI arms race is about controlling your brain
Andrew Huberman says OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic will become biotech firms racing to read and alter the human brain.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h
The Trump Civil Rights Division exists mostly to encourage racial discrimination rather than prevent it bsky.app/profile/carl...
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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · 2h
Just a reminder that the wealthiest people in the history of this nation chose this for you. They spent $61bil to reinstall him after he went to each of them and promised them quid pro quos, everything that is happening started when The Epstain class saved his floundering campaign in 2023
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 2h
Oh no no no no! This cannot stand.
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 2h
The chief lawyer for Office of the State Engineer told legislators this week that the state is pushing back against the Trump administration’s announcement of a “waiver” of all the state’s laws and regulations regarding the use of groundwater to aid construction of a border wall. buff.ly/qX10Nv4
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State engineer denounces ‘outrageous’ federal waiver of New Mexico water laws to build border wall • Source New Mexico
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced Friday that he had decided to waive all NM laws bearing on water wells used for border wall.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h
BREAKING WaPo: Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David. 
The plan calls for a parcel of the private club to be designated a permanent, official sanctuary for foreign leaders and future U.S. presidents.
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Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf club into the new Camp David
The plan calls for the federal government to be granted part of the property, with the rest maintained as a private course.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 3h
New boss David Ellison has a press conference. @status.news gets to ask some questions. www.status.news/p/david-elli... Listen closely. It's like: "We want to be in the truth business, and thereby the trust business, so... yeah. In our conversations president Trump has been enthusiastic."
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 3h
Brendan Carr is illegally destroying U.S. media consolidation limits so that Trump-friendly local broadcast TV companies (Sinclair, Nexstar, Tegna) can all merge and pummel local TV news consumers with propaganda. This is even pissing off major cable companies, who say it's unfair to them:
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Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 3h
it's just impolite. if you must have your phone on speaker, place it all the way inside your mouth. you'll be able to hear via bone conduction and the sound of your voice will have a rich resonance from the phone being entirely enclosed.
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AV🕯️ Ctrl+Alt+Del @yappydagger.bsky.social · 3h
My God!
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 3h
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states, and at one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried. www.npr.org/2026/10/07/n...
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Over 1,000 children are buried at juvenile detention centers nationwide
Researchers uncovered the graves of more than 1,000 children next to juvenile detention facilities in 29 states. At one Maryland gravesite, 230 Black boys are buried.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h
Wait, is it a crime for the President's sons to use the expectation of preferential treatment from the government contracts to make money?
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