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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 7h

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David Dadekian / Eat Drink RI @dadekian.bsky.social · 13h

JFC

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 13h

Missing my two Italian grandmas tonight. Feeling lucky.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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LJ Pemberton @ljabouttown.bsky.social · 14h

Those blue districts in south Alabama and Georgia are majority Black btw. Georgia already disenfranchised the remainder of the black belt or else the blue would run farther east.

Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 16h

Aside from losing many Democratic seats, Black representation in Congress will probably drop from around 14% of seats (nationally representative) to maybe 7 or 8% (not representative)?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 14h

JFC

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14h

Really hard not to see last year quite clearly as a Black woman being nominated for the first time and the response being the return of Jim Crow.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 14h

O no

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 14h

Made soup.

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Swing Left @swingleft.bsky.social · 17h

When Trump says he’s “entitled” to seats in Congress, he’s saying voters don’t matter.

You know better. California—and all of us—will defend every American’s right to choose our leaders, not the other way around.

Join us to call voters or knock doors 👇

Fight GOP gerrymandering and flip the House—starting in California

What the redistricting battle means for our strategy to flip the House, and how you can help.

swingleft.org

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 16h

No.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 16h

Here’s how/why Republicans jack up your electric rates: stall/kill clean energy projects, so expensive fossil fuel plants have to come online to pick up slack.

Polluting plants, otherwise idle, now get paid; your money goes to corrupt payday for big Trump donors.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/trump-officials-drop-major-solar-power-project-in-another-renewable-energy-attack"

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 16h

It's day 15 of the shutdown and our first missed paycheck.

For feds 👇

🍽️Too good to go app (surplus food from local eateries/stores at a ⬇️ prices)

🗺️https://myfedbenefitshelp.com/shutdown-assistance-map/

💵https://www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-for-federal-workers/

🧑‍🏫https://wearewellfed.com/

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 14h

I feel seen

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 14h

This right here ☝️☝️☝️

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 15h

More good news, step by step. Best would be regular distributions to Ukraine of Russian frozen assets, on a fixed schedule, so pressure on Putin ramps up relentlessly.

UK ready to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine war effort

The UK, France and Germany are "united" in wanting to use the full value of frozen Russian assets to end the war, Sir Keir Starmer said.

www.bbc.com

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 14h

Sad!

Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 14h

I feel this way sometimes when I’m really longing for community.

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 14h

This right here ☝️☝️☝️

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 14h

Sad!

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 14h

And you can never, ever find words for it.

- Marguerite Duras, "Bonnard" (t. by Barbara Bray)

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 14h

I’m not an intelligence guy, but how is a front page NYT story “covert?” Aren’t we supposed to, like, NOT alert them? Or does “secret authorization” mean something else?

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · 21h

#PVDlocal / #RIlocal, come to this forum next week on abolishing immigration detention in our state, including legislation to shut down the Wyatt Detention Center docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Forum on Detention Abolition Legislation // Foro legislativo sobre la abolición de la detención

We invite you to join us on Monday, October 20th for an informational forum on legislative efforts towards the abolition of detention in the US. // Le invitamos a participar el lunes 20 de octubre en...

docs.google.com

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 9d

Through Oct. 31st, @princetonupress.bsky.social has a 70% off sale on a wide range of titles -- Susan Dackerman on Albrecht Dürer, Judith Herrin on Ravenna, Jed Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz on the Rosetta stone, James Costa on Alfred Russel Wallace, and more: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

Book cover for Susan Dackerman, Dürer's Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East.

Book cover for Judith Herrin, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe.

Book cover for Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

Book cover for James Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace.

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Diane Josefowicz @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see this lovely profile of the great folks behind Hag.fish, one of the most exciting new publishing ventures around at the moment: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

Hagfish

cargo.site

Hag.fish

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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