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Nicole Carr @nicolefcarr.bsky.social · 1d

Racism in this country has always been overt. Never been a casual thing. Codified and as American as apple pie, they say.
It’s the technology spreading the message and platforming it at the speed of light that’s got us (some) spiraling into madness and disbelief.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 17h

Not to get too into the discourse today but I think it’s a big mistake to assume that the thing you happen to see a person or a group of people doing to protest fascism is the *only* thing they’re doing in the fight against fascism.

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fay 😖 @stasiscommand.bsky.social · 1d

boyfriendsweat.....

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🐺Lycan Moon🌕 @lyc4n-m00n1.bsky.social · 20h

Day 15: Breathe
Ship: #Ronsy
||Eighth Year||
#HPRarePair #HPSpicetober #HPSpicetober2025

Astoria raced down the stairs before making her way through the doors to the great hall. The hall was full of students around the four tables as lunch was going on.

Kara | EscapeInMyBookshelf @dearmrskara.bsky.social · 1d

HP Spicetober 2025
Day 15: Breathe
#hpspicetober2025 #hpspicetober

Add to your Drabble to the collection: archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Black background with an outline of lungs on it and a cluster of star anise in the bottom corners

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

I hope when this is all over and we go after ICE for crimes against humanity, we also go after their partners for willingly spending that money. We should also etch their names in stone so that future generations will see and their families will have to hang their heads in shame for generations.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 23h

god this is so funny because back when I had my life blown up due to white people tweets I lost exactly zero (0) friends defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans lose cities by massive margins and their response is to defund the cities

Democrats lose rural areas by massive margins and their response is to increase rural funding

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

by my count there are four vague proposals offered: national service, investing in rural communities, reform the supreme court, repeal citizens' united via constitutional amendment

one of these is profoundly important. the other three are memes.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

more people in power should allow themselves to be authentic sports haters

do not try to pander to every team, there's nothing people hate more than inauthentic sports "fandom"

Karen Leick @kleick.bsky.social · 1d

I'm a Cubs fan and this doesn't bother me at all! (much more disturbed by Obama's "I like both teams!" thing. like, we know you're a sox fan. it's fine)

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❛ 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂⁠. ✿ @dailyrunway.bsky.social · 22h

Gigi Hadid on the runway at the 2025 VSFS

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 1d

For some reason for the first time in my life I’m reading Steinbeck and, with full acknowledgement of the jerk that he was, oh my god.

Quote from Cannery Row: Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American na-tion. Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the solar system of stars. With the Model T, part of the concept of private property disappeared. Pliers ceased to be privately owned and a tire pump belonged to the last man who had picked it up. Most of the babies of the period were conceived in Model T Fords and not a few were born in them. The theory of the Anglo Saxon home became so warped that it never quite recovered.

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DrPansyP @drpansyparkinson.bsky.social · 23h

There's plenty of ships I don't care for but I've always considered it a me thing

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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PrincessRottenPeach @rotten-peach.bsky.social · 1d

WIP Wednesday

#bookbinding #fanbinding

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John Bowdren @jobo33.bsky.social · 1d

Figure drawing, woman seated, pencil on toned paper.
#figuredrawing #drawing #art #sketch #pose #pencil

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 2d

We Rate Dogs has joined the frogs.

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

It’s very simple. All I want is a nine and three football team and to overthrow the government.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

I have been to two No Kings protests and they are filled with normies and people with funny signs and families and they are just the most wholesome protests imaginable

that's all people are going to see, man - their friends and neighbors out there saying we don't want this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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DrPansyP @drpansyparkinson.bsky.social · 1d

welcome to the war on cars?

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Trump take cars

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

New car buyers can expect to shell out an average of more than $50,000 for the first time, according to a report from Kelley Blue Book. https://cnn.it/4odLnaO

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Erika D. Smith @erika-d-smith.bsky.social · 1d

The Los Angeles model…

“In the last several weeks, Chicagoans have formed volunteer groups to monitor their neighborhoods for federal immigration agents, posting alerts on Facebook and in Signal group chats when agents are seen.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

www.nytimes.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 1d

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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