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Dave Morningstar

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Political junky. Musician, The state of our Planet, Science, Electronics, I escaped from the magat infested dead bird nest ! #RESIST💙=❣🌈🌻Slava Ukraine ❗ I live in northern Minnesota. 👉NO crypto, bitcoin Crap 🚫❗ 👉 NO Post's, NO Follow ! 👉 I Vet !

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 1h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 1h

Columbus bragged in letters about raping 9-year-old girls & selling them into slavery.

So of course, Trump is using him to replace Indigenous Peoples' Day,
calling Columbus the "first American hero."

Maybe he can rename it, Trump-Epstein-Columbus Day. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 3h

Good morning and Happy Indigenous Peoples Day ♥️✨

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 3h

Sesame Street honors Indigenous Peoples Day as Zach McClarnon discusses his family culture and traditions.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 3h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day.

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Darcie Little Badger @littlebadger.bsky.social · 3h

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 5h

From Darcie @littlebadger.bsky.social in 2024: We were often one disaster or unpaid bill away from displacement. We just had to struggle. We still do. In the eyes of the government, we are breathing ghosts.

Return to Kíłááhíí: An Elder Is Restored to the Lipan Apache People—750 Years Later

"I imagine this Elder’s life alongside the arroyo, where water flows in the desert and prickly pears grow in fountains of green paddles and red fruit."

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 3h

On Indigenous Peoples Day I recognize the extraordinary history of Native communities, and the work left to do to reconcile the injustices they’ve faced and still do from our government.

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Dave Morningstar @davemorningstar.bsky.social · 3h

www.adn.com/nation-world...
Workers vital to national security and protecting government property remain on the job unpaid, but others - some 750,000, according to congressional bookkeepers - have been furloughed. The Trump administration laid off some 4,000 workers Friday. ...

The pain from the government shutdown is about to hit the public

Federal officials are bracing for the worst effects of the ongoing government shutdown to collide with the U.S. economy this week as missed paychecks and the absence of billions of dollars of governme...

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Dave Morningstar @davemorningstar.bsky.social · 3h

www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
The National Weather Service reported hurricane-force winds gusting as high as 100 mph. ...

Dozens of people rescued, at least 3 still missing after storm devastates Western Alaska

Winds up to 100 mph and record tidal surges were reported in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta as the remnants of Typhoon Halong hammered the Bering Sea coast over the weekend.

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Dave Morningstar @davemorningstar.bsky.social · 4h

This is strange ! I was never asked anything like this, when I joined.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 23h

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..."

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Faith leaders blocked from sharing Communion with detainees at Broadview ICE center

A large group of Chicago area Catholics marched to the ICE detention center in Broadview Saturday, hoping to share Communion with detainees.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 22h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 22h

"Trump is criminalizing Americans’ ability to challenge their leaders..."

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Opinion | Trump Disgraces American Justice

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 6h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

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