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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 10h

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago.

He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

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Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government "continues to allow the killing of Christians."

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 15h

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Cool optics bro

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP

You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670

Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem

If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?

You’re doing their dirty work.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Canada says “elbows up.” I say for America, “cameras out.” Film every last one of these brutal criminals. We will need the evidence for their trials.

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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 1d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 22h

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

interior design where you're just randomly pressing buttons for yellow gold, white marble, and crystal chandelier to remind everyone you're very rich

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

Essentially it is this, yes.

Jason Kander posts:
“Dems: We’ll vote for a budget if you let sick people go to the doctor.
Republicans: Let us take doctors away from sick people or we’re gonna take food away from poor families.”
He ends with the hashtag #shutdown2025.

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Cheri's Busy Reading (she/her) @busyreading.bsky.social · 1d

Amazing. Ravishing the Heiress is a #mustread for historical romance fans. Why was I sitting on this author for so long?

#romancereader #bookreview #historicalromance

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Book cover for Ravishing the Heiress by Sherry Thomas. Everything is done in purple tones. A white woman seen from her lips to her toes is lounging sideways on her hip on a purple velvet chaise. Her silky lilac purple dress is off the shoulder and bunched up toward her knees so you can see her lets from the calf down. There is purple lace about the bottom of the skirts.

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Gay Pride Apparel @gayprideapparel.com · 2d

Hi, so we've posted this twice now, and every time it keeps getting super low reach. Which sucks. We know this isn't a fun topic nor a meme, but if you are someone who wants to contribute and help our community who needs assistance, comment "me" and we will DM the instructions.

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 2d

Also, #3DPrinting crowd! Thanks to @moryan.bsky.social I have a link where you can sign up to send whistles to Chicago. They're trying to get up to 5,000 a week, so plenty are needed. There are two links to STLs on here (including the micro whistles I've been doing!) and a spreadsheet sign-up!

Chicago Whistle Links | Linktree

We host weekly whistle events at places like Nighthawk in Albany Park, Beermiscuous in Lakeview, and more coming soon. Please help us print whistles & zines!

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

The degree of callousness and cruelty to be able to leave a toddler in a car is frightening.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple accounts on ICE Watch Facebook pages are reporting that agents pulled a couple out of their vehicle in Aurora, Illinois, arrested them, and then abandoned the couple’s toddler in the backseat.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2d

It's been 37 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress.

Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

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Cheri's Busy Reading (she/her) @busyreading.bsky.social · 2d

OMG. She’s deranged!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller’s wife Katie loses her shit and comes complete unglued because she claims that when Cenk said “the Millers lie” that was an anti-Semitic comment. Totally unhinged wacko.

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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 3d

How interesting. www.greenviewgps.co.uk/29-10-2025/1...

It’s Now Twice Florida’s Size And Growing Every Hour NASA Tracks Rapidly Expanding Deadly Anomaly In Earth’s Magnetic Field Threatening Orbiting Satellites

There’s a growing soft spot in Earth’s magnetic shield, a dent over the South Atlantic that keeps widening and shifting like a slow bruise. NASA tracks it

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Cheri's Busy Reading (she/her) @busyreading.bsky.social · 3d

So the orange guy had a cognitive test and an MRI, and now they're shoving this in our faces again. Deflection, deflection, deflection. It's all they know how to do because they know the whole administration is a 💩show.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Comer: "All those pardons from Fauci to the Biden family to Adam Schiff, the J6 committee, every one of those pardons signed with an autopen with no evidence of Joe Biden was involved, I think every one can be declared null & void by the DOJ & our evidence will make that decision hold up in court."

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Cheri's Busy Reading (she/her) @busyreading.bsky.social · 3d

#WWWWednesday

W - What are you currently reading?
W - What did you recently finish reading?
W - What do you think you'll read next?

#amreading #romancereader

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Graphic with book covers, three on top & two across the bottom. In the middle between the top row and bottom row of pictures it says WWW Wednesday. On the left, it says 'with my eyes' with an arrow pointing at the top row of books that are labeled, Current - Too Beautiful to Break, Previous - Too Close to Call, Next - Tangled Lies. On the right, it says 'with my ears' with an arrow pointing at the bottom row of books that are labeled, Previous - Kink Camp: Hunted, Next - What Happens in Amsterdam.

Cheri's Busy Reading (she/her) @busyreading.bsky.social · 4d

Looking for some spooky, quick reads but still want a guaranteed HEA? I loved the whole Scared Sexy collection. Each standalone was a lot of fun, with a bit of spice in each story.

#bookreview #romancereader #paranormalromance

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Scared Sexy Collection – 6 audiobook short story reviews

Just in time for the spooky season, the six short stories in the Scared Sexy collection were released in late September. Having enjoyed a couple of previous collections such as these (The Improbabl…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

🤷🏼

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 7d

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

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Inner City Press @innercitypress.bsky.social · 8d

Censorship Alert: I published a book about Ghislaine Maxwell trial, and another on Kevin Spacey's trial- this evening I got an email from Amazon's KDP saying they are inappropriate and there all of my books are being taken down, including on Sudan, SBF, Eric Adams

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Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8d

Yes. 😭💕

If you reduce anyone’s suffering, if you make anyone feel defended, or aware that they’re not alone, if you make space for hope, if you engage in acts of solidarity instead of stewing in the rancor and alienation that’s killing us—that matters, and it will always matter, under any set of discouraging or terrifying circumstances. I don’t have all the answers. I don’t see a clear path out of this mess, but I refuse to be imprisoned by these conditions in my own mind. I will not be locked into a sense of inevitability that perpetuates everything I hate.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 8d

“According to a 2019 USDA report, every dollar in new SNAP benefits increases GDP by $1.50 in a weak economy.”

“SNAP benefits are one of the fastest, most effective forms of economic stimulus because they get money into the economy quickly during a recession.”

~Center for Budget and Policy

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