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Satanley (the first 'a' is silent)

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Canadian born Floriduh boy living in the PNW. Interested in science, politics, music, nature, books...plus some gaming and bad movies too. Reader of Balloon Juice, TPM, dKos, Eschaton etc Original posts under #MusicalOffering and #BackyardBirding He/him

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Satanley (the first 'a' is silent) @satanley.bsky.social · Jan 20

Been a minute since I've done a #MusicalOffering
and this seems pretty damn appropriate. Had just discovered these guys when the Tipper Gore led PMRC Senate hearings were going on. Talk about a political awakening!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZFf...
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Stars and Stripes of Corruption

YouTube video by Dead Kennedys - Topic

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14m

Important subtext: Hard to oversell how rare this precise Christian coalition is, and how unusually defiant this letter they're signing is.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 36m

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13m

Trump take Christmas. $MAT

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 14m

*MATTEL SALES DIP AS TARIFF UNCERTAINTY DELAYS CHRISTMAS ORDERS

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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 6h

THIS IS CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!

DEMOLISHING THE WHITE HOUSE IS A PROUD PART OF CANADIAN HISTORY!

The White House being torn apart by demolition machinery.

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NPR @npr.org · 13m

A decade ago, research said giving young children peanut products can prevent allergies. A new study says that, 10 years later, tens of thousands of U.S. children have avoided allergies as a result. n.pr/4o3hKJO

Reversing peanut advice prevented tens of thousands of allergy cases, researchers say

A decade ago, research said giving young children peanut products can prevent allergies. A new study says that, 10 years later, tens of thousands of U.S. children have avoided allergies as a result.

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 12m

This turns my stomach.

All Trump does is destroy things.

Please, god, let it happen today.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 42m

Donald Trump did the same thing to the Constitution's Wall of Separation Between Church and State.

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Mike Melton @mikemelton.bsky.social · 12m

I found this spectacular Moss Katydid (Championica montana) in my garden here at @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica

#bugsky #insects #invertebrates #nature

Close-up of a spiny green katydid clinging to glossy leaves, its camouflaged body and long antennae in sharp focus against a soft green background.

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Natethek @natethek.bsky.social · 14m

This Friday on @wfmu.bsky.social the most wonderful time of the year. All this and more. pledge.wfmu.org/donate/nk

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12m

The war on Christmas has begun

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 14m

*MATTEL SALES DIP AS TARIFF UNCERTAINTY DELAYS CHRISTMAS ORDERS

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Casey Ayers @casey.app · 58m

I will remind everyone that if you are seeing this message, you are easily in the 90th percentile of Informed Citizen, and we are somehow, please forgive me, only 9 months and 27 hours into this.

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3h

Here's my updated breakout of the Economist/YouGov weekly data. Trump is experiencing dramatic, across the board erosion. More here - www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/stuart-ste...

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 50m

Such a cool documentary on neon signs and love to see that @404media.co captioned it!

How Artists Are Keeping 'The Lost Art' of Neon Signs Alive

Watch 404 Media’s first short documentary, about an artist keeping real neon signs alive.

www.404media.co

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Rachel Ramirez @rachelreports.bsky.social · 1d

Recognizing whales as legal persons “shifts this perspective of whales and the environment as a resource and property to exploit with a value primarily derived from human benefit” Michelle Bender, one of the lawyers working on the draft legislation, told me. atmos.earth/ecological-w...

Tonga Could Soon Become the First Country to Recognize Whale Rights | Atmos

Ahead of Tonga’s election, whale and ocean advocates are preparing a bill to grant legal personhood to the island kingdom’s first ancestors.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 56m

Heck, if you really need to link this back to kitchen-table-kitchen-table-kitchen-table, it's easy to do: While Trump is driving costs through the roof with his unhinged tariff spree and other reckless, failed policies, he's looting $230 million from the US Treasury and sticking it in his pocket.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.

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Lorraine Ali @lorraineali.bsky.social · 50m

It's here! My book, "No Lessons Learned," covering 24 years of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" via first hand accounts from Larry David, the core "Curb" cast, dozens of guests and the folks who brought the show to life.
Will I ever have this much fun again writing a book? Probably not.

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 52m

#Florida teacher of exceptional children tells cops she choked her autistic son to death after he hit her and bit her, then attempted to slash her own wrists. She and the father divorced three months ago. www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

Pasco teacher told deputies she ‘snapped’ and killed autistic son, records show

Justine Mroz of Land O’ Lakes was arrested Sunday on a second-degree murder charge in the death of 6-year-old Elliot Perez.

www.tampabay.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 6h

🇵🇱 Poland arrests at least 7 agents working for Russia and preparing acts of sabotage.

🇷🇴 Romania capture two agents tha placing bombs inside parcel deliveries intended for later detonation.

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 50m

Trump straight up stealing a quarter of a billion dollars from the US government is about as blatantly corrupt as you can get and its just so bleak no one really cares.

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1h

there is a new scandal as bad or worse than what got trump impeached the first time about every 48 hours

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Olivia Portlander 🐙🧡🍋🐊🦋☂️ @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social · 50m

Some views at the Filoli Historic House. With @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social who will post wayyyyy more photos than I will.

Close up of flowering plant with long blue swimming pool in background.

Papers arranged to look like they are being disturbed by a big gust of wind, in a librsry with old books on shelf.

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1h

President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.

Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h

this is going to be a partisan take but i dont think the president should be allowed to give himself $230M in taxpayer money

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1h

Window shopping for 2026 health care exchange plans in WA state starts TODAY.

Visit www.wahealthplanfinder.org to see what your monthly premiums will increase to and share those numbers with me in the replies.

YOUR voices are what will make a difference in this fight.

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

Enough is enough. Adelita Grijalva was elected on September 23. The people of Arizona have a right to be represented in Congress.

During today’s pro forma session, when the House is called to order I will seek unanimous consent to insist upon the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

Looting the treasury

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 51m

Not surprising given the amateur hour performance at Quantico.

And the declaration of war against the United States by the President.

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former ...

www.washingtontimes.com

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Keira Havens @highcountryrose.bsky.social · 49m

It's crucial that we keep calling the plain language statements of the President and his administration what they are: War.

This administration is levying war against these United States.

It's treason.

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 2d

The president is waging war against America's cities, but Boston will not be silent. We stand together against tyranny and injustice just like we have for 250 years. #NoKings

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