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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6h

These indictments are disgusting. I was there when these alleged crimes *did not* occur. The only violence that occurred was committed by ICE, as usual.

Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh, five others indicted over protest outside Broadview ICE facility

Illinois congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh and five other protesters have been indicted on federal charges, accused of damaging an ICE agent's vehicle in Broadview last month.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 5h

You honestly cannot make this up. The level of impunity, the total disregard for international norms, is just staggering.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 5h

Waiting for a train and there are ads up everywhere saying “What if government worked like your favorite app?” And I can’t express how revolting that is to anyone who’s actually Online

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5h

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 8h

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 11h

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🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 7h

CBS was dead to me as soon as they hired Ellison, but they went full scorched earth with faildaughter Weiss. What an end to a network. Pathetic.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 8h

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 8h

*ahem*

YOU’RE WELCOME 😤

image of a fetal ultrasound as a background

28% Of Gen Z Have Been Aborted
If you calculate all babies conceived during the Gen Z era of 1997-2012

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 13h

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI.

With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech.

My latest:

How artists behind Marvel, Alien, and the Matrix movies are fighting AI

With solidarity, legislation, class action lawsuits, and a little help from Guillermo del Toro. Plus, the Luddite Renaissance continues, and I open the mailbag.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Horse of Course @horsecourser.bsky.social · 12h

My brother died almost six years ago now from glioblastoma. This is incredible. Unprecedented. AMAZING. Please, please, never stop funding science and medical research.

Screenshot of a tweet describing a new cancer treatment that shrinks a glioblastoma brain tumor over 60% in just five days.

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🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 12h

LOOK AT HIM. OMG. 🥹💖

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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social · 12h

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Rose/House is a breathtaking and taut sci-fi gothic thriller from Arkady Martine, Hugo Award-winning author of A Memory Called Empire.“I’m a piece of arc...

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🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 12h

Frightened of his own shadow as well, probably. Small and mean in hearts and minds, the lot of them. Truly piss-poor excuse for a VP.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 15h

Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do

🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 12h

Absolute piss babies who don't know the meaning of the words "lawful protest." Dismantle ICE. Yesterday. We've seen the videos of these thugs picking Kat fully up and tossing her into the ground and pepper-balling a priest. Conspiracy? WUT? GTFOHWTS.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Federal conspiracy charges because an ICE goon had to drive a little slower.

What an absolute joke.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19h

The states in gray are the states where the governors are more afraid of Trump than they are of killing the people they were elected to represent.

Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 20h

In the 60-year history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, it’s never run out of money. Here are the states suing the federal government over it.

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🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 20h

Sweet little Eggs. Sending all the good vibes, Maya. I hope he's feeling better soon! 💖

🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 20h

THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!
THANK YOU!

🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 1d

Honkin' butter, please.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

Coverage of mamdani (every word endlessly scrutinized, wildly bad faith interpretations of everything he says) vs coverage of trump (sanitizing every quote, ignoring his nonsense or paraphrasing it into what reporters wish he had said) is so instructive as to how in the tank the press is for the GOP

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🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 1d

She said "spoon," and my brain just needle scratched for a second.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

Toss a few bucks if you got em

Yee_HAUNTIE @yeehawtie.bsky.social · 1d

my friend Grace is the woman who stood up to the guy in the Nazi SS uniform in those viral videos youve probably seen- he broke her nose with a beer stein - please share & donate and give her a hand with medical expenses, recovery and potential expenses gofund.me/72cb1a415

Donate to Support UGA Student Assaulted by Nazi in Downtown Athens, organized by Alexandra Lang

Hello, My name is Grace Lang, and I am a 23 year old U… Alexandra Lang needs your support for Support UGA Student Assaulted by Nazi in Downtown Athens

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🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 1d

I've seen it so many times, and it still makes me yell at the screen.

🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a magical lumberjack able to detect which Maples will have that wonderful variation inside.

🎃 Patricia L. Maples 🎃 @birdseyemaples.bsky.social · 1d

I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I watch it every year on my birthday, 12/21. It's a lovely coincidence that's the date at the bottom of the screen when the action starts. I have not yet seen Prince of Darkness. Trying to get to it this month for my horror movie Discord group.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Big tech firms are shutting down programs aimed at supporting women in STEM careers. Signaling once again that the spine of corporate America is as hollow as its pockets are deep.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/t...

‘Their history is just erased’: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech | CNN Business

Google is offloading a key career resource program for supporting women in tech, another sign the search giant is unwinding its diversity programs following political pressure over diversity, equity a...

www.cnn.com

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d

"It's Clinical"
No it isn't. There are no published data for this.
Full page ad in NY Times today

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