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Wonkette @wonkettemedia.bsky.social · 1d

Who Is Trump Taking Us To War With Today?
Chicago, Nigeria, Venezuela ... and he’s dusting off the nukes now? Uh oh!

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Who Is Trump Taking Us To War With Today?

Chicago, Nigeria, Venezuela ... and he’s dusting off the nukes now? Uh oh!

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 8h

Texas is leading the way! in cruelty, of course

Data shows how immigration crackdown plays out in Texas

ICE agents are arresting more immigrants on the streets and at routine check-ins than under President Biden. But most of them don’t have criminal convictions despite pledges to pursue “the worst of th...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

Sudan’s latest massacre has been exposed from satellite images – how much longer can the world look away?

In today’s newsletter: From the skies above El Fasher, analysts are uncovering evidence of mass killings – with questions raised about UAE involvement

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

It’s clear why Zohran Mamdani has a double-digit lead in the New York mayoral race | Margaret Sullivan

There’s a clarity about Mamdani’s message that stands in sharp contrast to most Democratic politicians

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

Abortion is on the ballot in three US states, from supreme court to governor

Reproductive justice has changed the face of judicial and gubernatorial races as abortion sanctuaries fight back

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

Top 10 US billionaires’ collective wealth grew by $698bn in past year – report

Oxfam warns Trump policies risk driving inequality to new heights – but Democrats have also exacerbated wealth gap

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11h

November 3, 2025

At the end of her interview with President Donald J.

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 1d

When politics becomes personal, policy becomes powerful, and there’s nothing more personal than survival…

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Healthcare for All: The Democratic Promise That Could Heal a Broken Nation

When politics becomes personal, policy becomes powerful, and there’s nothing more personal than survival…

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

CBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network ‘paid me a lotta money’

Trump said Paramount’s sale to David and Larry Ellison was ‘greatest thing that’s happened in a long time’ for free press

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

Americans ‘dumbfounded by cruelty’ of Trump officials slashing Snap benefits

Those among the 42 million enrolled in the program worry that cutoff of the benefit will send their lives into a tailspin

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

A bit convoluted, but check the rationale

Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse

Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

threw sammich at "point blank range." Rilly? Have they got the pitiable ICEist to testify under oath & without his mask??

Trial starts for DC man charged with throwing sandwich at federal agent

A video that went viral captured Sean Charles Dunn hurling his sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent outside a nightclub

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

Forced to sign a "confession" although she can't read... & that's just one injustice among many

Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’

Goli Kouhkan, 25, on death row for seven years for killing her abusive husband, has until December to settle with the victim’s family

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

Two courts urge ICE to halt deportation of man wrongfully imprisoned for more than 40 years

Legal resident ‘Subu’ Vedam being held in short-term center after getting murder conviction overturned earlier this year

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

Poor monkey. Mistreated as a lab subject by ignorant people, then shot by another ignorant human who didn't listen to the fact the escaped monkeys had no disease. At least it had a few moments of freedom, but died, probably hungry & scared.

Mississippi mother kills escaped monkey fearing for her children's safety

A mother in Mississippi has shot and killed one of the monkeys that escaped after a truck accident last week.

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

In the 90s, I worked w/ people who firmly believed crime & incidents increase at full moon. I read about a study the debunked it, but they were sure! I didn't know to tell them it was "illusory correlation."

A neurologist explains the science behind sleep, mood and lunar myths

Have you ever tossed and turned under a full moon and wondered if its glow was keeping you awake?

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

Scientists discover oldest air on record trapped in 6-million-year-old Antarctic ice

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

Meet Point Nemo, where the International Space Station will die in 2030

The historic orbiting laboratory's days are numbered.

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 9h

**Thorstein Veblen Meets MAGA:

Leisure-Class Theory for the Age of Gold-Leaf Authoritarians** Thorstein Veblen, the delightfully acerbic economist-sociologist who wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class in 1899, was not a man impress...

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I Miss Molly Ivins @meepmeepboxer.bsky.social · 12h

90 minutes of interview, 70-something min "long version" on website, 28 min version on air. But Kamala's interview was "edited," eh?

'I don't want to embarrass you': CBS buries damning Trump clip

In his interview with “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday, President Donald Trump gloated over CBS’ decision to bribe him and praised the news division’s new right-wing leader—but the network did not ai...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 3d

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.

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Patrick Osgood @patrickosgood.bsky.social · 3d

High time for Dems to start telling the military that there will be investigations and prosecutions for any and all illegal conduct, people will go to jail, lose rank, pensions etc

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This is really appalling: Rep Adam Smith tells me that in a briefing, Pentagon officials said they reserve the right to kill people who are "affiliated" with their list of "narco-terror groups."

But under questioning, they wouldn't define what "affiliated" means!

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 6d

I’m really starting to suspect that most of the tech bros haven’t actually read Tolkien, as they certainly don’t understand it.

The gentle hobbits save the “hard men” of Gondor, largely through compassion and selflessness. Not the other way around. The Christian parable is barely hidden!

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 6d

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Preview of 2026, and one of the ways Trump will try to expand control over elections

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 1d

Predictable.

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