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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 7d

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 7d

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

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Satyros Phil Brucato @satyrosphilbrucato.bsky.social · 1d

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better

Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 9h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

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Will @willgarcia820.bsky.social · 8h

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 8h

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J.D. Vance Just Told Us How Trump Will Jail His Enemies

On Sunday’s edition of This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Vice President J.D.

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 8h

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M.K.McDaniels @mkmcdaniels.bsky.social · 21h

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 8h

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Jenna Thomas (@jennadt9609) on Threads

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 8h

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John Roberts meets his Dred Scott moment.

October 16, 2025

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 21h

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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

“People like Maxim — who refuse to become silent accomplices to the Kremlin’s crimes — are saving our country’s honor amid this current darkness. And it will be they who will lead Russia back to normality once the drawn-out nightmare of Putin’s rule is over.”

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Opinion | What Putin is crushing in Russia

The arrest of opposition leader Maxim Kruglov is a blow against the last vestiges of Russian democracy.

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 1d

They want Black people to react.

safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 1d

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October 14, 2025

The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 1d

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If you agree, smash the 👍 and subscribe to our channel!

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bmcarthur17 @bmcarthur17.bsky.social · 2d

A day late, but still an important message. Columbus Day shouldn't be recognized at all.

WATCH:

#Resist

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 1d

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Lawrence: Trump admin. staffer reportedly in an 'I love Hitler' chat hasn't been fired by Trump yet

YouTube video by MSNBC

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 1d

Why restrict aid?
Starving people should not suffer for this!

Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 1d

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Every wannabe king forgets the same lesson: Americans don’t kneel. The weak call it chaos. The strong call it a wake-up call. The Constitution doesn’t need worshippers. It needs warriors.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 1d

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Reecie Colbert (@reeciecolbert) on Threads

Let's normalize actually researching what people like Rep. Jasmine Crockett have done before blowing hot air like Stephen A. Smith suggesting they've done nothing. Even one conversation with Rep. Croc...

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Halbeerz @halz.bsky.social · 2d

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Lynne Danley @danleylynne.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is staying strong, staying safe, and peacefully protesting ICE and federal overreach and abuses in our own playfully serious way.

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safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 1d

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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

She marched to Mike Johnson’s office and will be the 218th vote to finally release the Epstein files

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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drmommr.bsky.social @drmommr.bsky.social · 2d

THIS is the same person begging for the Peace Prize

safarilady2025.bsky.social @safarilady2025.bsky.social · 11d

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Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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