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Dan Alley 🌹🦋 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🍉🇬🇪🇺🇸🇺🇳🌍🕊️ @lamprod.bsky.social · Nov 23

Sometimes I think: They're driving the bus. Let it crash and burn. We'll build a fair, just, and sustainable world on the ashes. Then I think of the devastating toll on life - all life on earth, present and future - if we do nothing. There is really no choice but to fight every step of the way.

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 13h

Postscript: I challenge you to read Patterson’s editorial, “A Flower for the Graves,” and consider what it says about where we are, today, in America.

www.poynter.org/ethics-trust...

Gene Patterson's most famous column: 'A Flower for the Graves' - Poynter

On Sept. 15, 1963, white supremacists bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham as part of a campaign to terrorize the Black community.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 20h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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#NY-21

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19h

Elise Stefanik is scrubbing photos of herself accepting awards from the vile Young Republicans caught in the Politico group chat. She supported every single one of them in New York State.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 1d

Are you marching on Saturday?
Here are good tips on being smart and staying safe.
Everyone on the streets!
#NoKings
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app) @anineffablegrump.bsky.social · 14h

Wildly, this happened on Oct 15th, today, then

calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

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No need to request donations from this not-so-proud alumnus.

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Neighbor protecting neighbor
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Chasing the Feds out of Chicago_ Albany Park Community Response 10_12_25 (1)

This is "Chasing the Feds out of Chicago_ Albany Park Community Response 10_12_25 (1)" by ChicagoFightsBack on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos…

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 1d

Go Bruins! UCLA and a Pell Grant changed my life. After coming from Lebanon and working at an Armenian newspaper and Domino’s Pizza, I found my passion for biomedical research. Public universities and science funding truly make a difference.
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/3-no...

3 alumni Nobel laureates recount how UCLA set them on a path to the prize

UCLA’s three most recent alumni Nobel winners — Fred Ramsdell, Ardem Patapoutian and Randy Schekman — said their experience as Bruins loomed particularly large in their scientific development.

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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 2d

🚨BEST TROLL EVER!!

Our guts still hurt!! 🤣

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Kathy ᨒ↟ 𖠰 @consigningwoman.bsky.social · 2d

The world’s coral reefs are home to about a quarter of all marine species but are considered one of the most vulnerable systems to global heating.

Without rapid and unlikely cuts to greenhouse gas emissions the future of reefs look bleak. Danger zone for earth.

#ResistanceEarth #ClimateBreakdown

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 2d

Important. Please share. And support our work as you can.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 2d

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If you're lucky enough to have an IRA or 401(k), buy after he announces a 100% tariff and the market drops. Sell a few days later when he chickens out.

Dan Alley 🌹🦋 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🍉🇬🇪🇺🇸🇺🇳🌍🕊️ @lamprod.bsky.social · 2d

The only King who has ever won a Nobel Peace Prize is MLK.

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The only King who has ever won a Nobel Peace Prize is MLK.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 2d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 2d

Paying for healthcare might be a problem for people here, but folks will be happy to know that Argentina's right-wing nutjob president says he has an unlimited supply of dollars from Donald Trump www.bloomberg.com/news/article... (The government pays for healthcare in Argentina.)

Argentina’s Economy Chief Says US Willing to Keep Buying Pesos

President Javier Milei’s finance chief said the US Treasury’s backstop of Argentina’s peso is unflinching as the libertarian leader prepares to travel to Washington ahead of a crucial midterm vote.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dan Alley 🌹🦋 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🍉🇬🇪🇺🇸🇺🇳🌍🕊️ @lamprod.bsky.social · 4d

The last few verses of America the Beautiful
#NoKings

America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.

America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.

O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!
God shed his grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 5d

The entire American economy is being held hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the economy works

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 6d

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The recipient dedicated her prize to you-know-who. 🫤

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6d

Insurance companies can often be aggressive with their denials because “they don’t expect people to come back,” one health care advocate said.

The lesson is simple, another expert told us: “Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal. That’s all you have.”

By @deldeib.bsky.social

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 6d

The U.S. Senate on Thursday confirmed Jennifer Mascott, President Donald Trump's latest nominee to the federal appeals court in Philadelphia, further shifting the court's ideological balance to the right.

US Senate confirms Trump nominee Mascott to federal appeals court

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Brian Mann @brianmannadk.bsky.social · 6d

It needs to be said: Factually there is zero evidence of rebellion or insurrection in any American city. It's not possible for journalists to portray this as a credible assertion. I say this as someone who has spent time recently in Chicago, Washington DC and Portland.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6d

Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law.

Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois.

And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.

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Separate but equal vans?