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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 1h

The thing about praising folks for holding "heterodox" positions and "running against the party," is that if everyone is meant to do that what then are the positions of the party against which you're meant to run?

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4h

ICE / Border Patrol threatening to arrest a cyclist for following and recording in Chicago

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 5h

Leadership isn’t a baton to be passed to a chosen successor.

It’s something you earn.

Like Robert White is doing.

Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 23h

Eleanor Holmes Norton has served Washington, DC honorably for a long time. It is time for her to pass the baton to new leaders.
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Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s Reelection Campaign Is Nearly Broke as Challenges Mount

The Democratic congresswoman, who has represented D.C. since 1991, is facing internal pressure to retire.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Tech industrial complex replacing the military industrial complex

Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I mean..

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Indivisible One New Jersey ❌👑 @njindivisible.bsky.social · 9h

On October 18, we will gather all across New Jersey for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history. Join your local No Kings Day event to make it clear that We The People won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org ❌👑

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 9h

Ewww.

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 16h

Lived.

Who can sleep during this mess?

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 16h

Tracks with the MO filing claiming stopping teen pregnancy steals tax revenue from the state

Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 16h

No. It tracks bc they want to oust anyone who rejects their hatred of women world view.

They will hire anti science anti women assholes.

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 20h

For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.

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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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 21h

Rhey want a world without autism- so kick em out of schools.

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 1d

I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 1d

The real Christians of America.

HJH82 @greatlakes88.bsky.social · 1d

Catholic Mass at ICE facility in Broadview.

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 1d

Folks.

Everyone in DC is needed in Tuesday.

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 2d

And the lawsuits will follow promptly. Government shutdowns give presidents no additional authority to dismiss federal workers. We’ll fight these outrageous assaults on civil servants and public services.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Agree. Then do the same with immigration.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d

Democrats need to go as hard branding protest as patriotism as Republicans are labeling it all insurrection.

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 2d

The white guys of apartheid era are pretty horrific.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2d

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2d

New AI School should totally be fun and safe for academics. Totally.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 2d

"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Melissa “Cancel Student Debt” Byrne @mcb.bsky.social · 2d

Worst written skeet

NPR @npr.org · 2d

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 2d

Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility.

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