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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h

- There is zero credible evidence of FBI involvement. Multiple bipartisan investigations, including findings from the Justice Department’s own inspector general, concluded that the assault was carried out by Trump’s supporters, not federal agents.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h

Let’s be clear:
- Biden wasn’t president. The attack took place on January 6, 2021, two weeks before Biden took office, while Trump himself was still commander in chief.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h

The moment he convinces people that they can’t trust anyone but him, is the moment his power goes completely unchallenged.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h

Trump has rolled out yet another baseless conspiracy theory in his relentless campaign to lie and spread misinformation to the public. His latest claim, that the FBI orchestrated the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol and that Biden ordered it, collapses under even the most basic scrutiny.

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 15h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15h

In a huge coincidence, a Bitcoin billionaire just-so-happened to put up massive leveraged bets against Bitcoin and Ethereum right before Trump posted about new tariffs on China, prompting a market crash.

$200m in profits instantly. $200m we know about, because they likely used many accounts.

Early Bitcoin Whale Shorted $1.1B Right Before Tariffs, Now Up $27M - How Did He Know?

Satoshi-era whale shorted $1.1B in BTC and ETH 30 minutes before Trump tariffs, banking $190M-$200M as liquidations hit $19.33B.

cryptonews.com

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · 16h

I am dead serious when I say Mamdani should be assembling a private security force in the event he wins

remember when NYPD kidnapped DiBlasio's kid because he suggested maybe they should murder fewer innocent citizens?

yeah

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14h

Smithsonian museums, research centers, and the National Zoo temporarily closed Sunday due to the federal government shutdown.

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Bom Tellino @bomtellino.bsky.social · 15h

Chicagoans: Attend this virtual Rapid Response training on Wed 10/14 at 4pm to learn how to help protect our neighbors during this occupation. zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...

zoom.us

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12h

Find a rally. Show up.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Next Saturday's anti-Trump 'No Kings' protest is expected to be the largest single demonstration in U.S. history.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 12h

He paved the way for the toxic discourse and the billionaires' thumbs on the scale, then he side-eyes the justices who dare to point out how baldly the scales are thumb-fucked. Shoving someone on the playground and tsk-tsking the teachers who ask you why you're being a bully.

Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 15d

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive."

Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 12h

Hotter temperatures mean more workplace injuries, study finds | via @nhassanein.bsky.social #ksleg kansasreflector.com/2025/10/12/r...

Hotter temperatures mean more workplace injuries, study finds • Kansas Reflector

With hotter temperatures come more heat-related workplace injuries — about 28,000 injuries each year, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Environmental Health.

kansasreflector.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 11h

Today in an interview with NBC News, Vance said that Trump was considering all of his options for deploying the National Guard to major cities, including invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807, which grants the president emergency powers to deploy troops on U.S. soil.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 1d

No fingerprint or DNA tests were conducted in Jeffrey Epstein's cell after his death. Sus AF.

Release the Epstein files. Now.

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Gardener, Landscaper, Tester, Builder @jzfromkcbaby.bsky.social · 10h

Not stupid.

Demented. He has dementia. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 10h

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Gardener, Landscaper, Tester, Builder @jzfromkcbaby.bsky.social · 10h

Whew! Very productive 3 day weekend. Got solar 95% installed, shed more insulated and organized, put up shelving in the garage for better organization. Now there's tons more room in the shed and garage.
Cut down another 25% of a pine tree growing too close to the house. Started a 7th garden bed.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 10h

Abolish ICE.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH — @drjessicaknurick.bsky.social : “Here’s a partial list of things Trump is choosing to no longer study — food insecurity, gun violence, toxic exposures etc… Just because you don't measure it doesn't mean the problem went away. Censoring science & data collection is scary in a democracy.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

#MedicareForAll

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 1d

I assume this will have an effect on solar modules.

Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 4d

Silver nearing $50/oz. from <$20 less than two years ago.

A year old, but a standard commercial module uses 8,400 mg/<0.3 oz of silver, so ~$14.80/module.

Makes recycling viable, and older module used more silver per module.

It does increase silver per watt to 2.5-3¢/W if buying on open market.

https://www.reuters.com/world/india/gold-vaults-over-4000-rush-safety-fed-easing-bets-2025-10-08/

https://www.pv-tech.org/silver-bullet-for-precious-metal-n-type-solar-cells/

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Commercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 1d

Australia: ‘While energy market rule maker is open to the idea of a market to buy inertia, rejected for now…. saying it’s too expensive and not needed…estimated $5 – $10 million in upfront costs, plus millions more in ongoing operation, would far outweigh the modest expected benefits’

reneweconomy.com.au

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1d

It’s becoming better understood that food systems are a major driver of the climate crisis.

The hidden cost of ultra-processed foods on the environment: ‘The whole industry should pay’

www.theguardian.com

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