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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

Spine detected!

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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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

Oh YAY!!!!!!!!

Adrian McIntyre, PhD @adrianmcintyre.bsky.social · 2d

And if you don't trust weird links from strangers, you can go here and paste the WaPo URL yourself: archive.is

Works for most (but not all) paywalls.

archive.is

Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

And DO NOT TRUST any current federal source of info*.

*every dept and every person is suspect at best

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

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

Keep asking, no matter what.
EVERY. DAY.

Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 1d

I still have not gotten an answer as to why Donald would even consider pardoning Ghislane Maxwell. And Biden is not an answer.

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

Who's the worst of the worst?

Hint:
NOT THE LAW-ABIDING 13-YEAR-OLD 🤬💩

Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

I scream this....every single DAY!!

Archivist1000 @archivist1001.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

If anchors didn't just sit there, listen to lies, then 'Let's move on" the liars & gaslighting wouldn't feel so comfortable to spin their stories.

I don't care if the anchor only gets ONE QUESTION asked, they need to stick with THAT until they get an answer w/o obvious lies

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

YES!
THEY answer to US!!

jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous @jazzrat2000.bsky.social · 1d

The media needs to come to the conclusion that the politicians are in our employ not the reverse

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

Keep resisting...in every little way possible!! Don't let up!

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

If you’ve ever wondered whether quiet resistance still matters...this story will remind you why it does. The video got grounded...but something much bigger...took off.🔥👇

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, and their healthcare's not going anywhere either.

Plus, #ReleaseTheTrumpEpsteinFiles

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do.

…getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired.

…betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator.

The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

Me too, yo.

Bob Stevenson @bobstevenson.bsky.social · 2d

I’m old enough to remember when being an American meant you were fundamentally opposed to tyranny, oligarchy, and suppression of free speech

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

I'm all ears !

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

youtu.be

Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

This look looks good on NO ONE.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like Justice Amy Coney Barrett visited the La Prairie counter at Neiman Marcus and asked for a "Mar-a-Lago" makeover.

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

👣 2️⃣ 🔥

PLEASE!

KarenMoonGoddess @karenmoongoddess.bsky.social · 2d

Journalists especially need to hold Trump surrogates feet to the fire about the things Trump is saying or doing. Add his mental decline to the list. Oh, yeah, one more thing. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles, dammit! Stop trying to distract us with stupid shit. Your name is all over it.

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

"This is a criminal gang of enforcers."

Nailed it.

Faith 🌊🥷 @faith54.bsky.social · 2d

they don’t talk about Homan, they don’t talk about Epstein & they’re happy protecting the criminal pedophile Trump. This is not a political party, this is a criminal gang of enforcers. There is no Republican Party, just people who have no interest in serving those who trusted them.

a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her

ALT: a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her

media.tenor.com

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

Or not, but still blame dem Dems..

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

"Support the troops, y'all!"

Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 1d

Those Epstein Files are a real bigly doozy.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 2d

Like jeez...Santos is a really gifted writer. 🤯
Now, is it fiction or non-fiction?

But he asked for solitary, didn't he?
Also, will he truly push for something actually beneficial for the sake of humanity, or will he only push till he benefits?

I hope, but I'm probably not hopeful quite yet 🤷🏻‍♀️.

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 2d

Funny how that works, huh?

Lord Admiral von Tired @lordtired.bsky.social · 2d

When Republican politicians encounter reality they seem to stop being Republicans.

Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 2d

Crucial info for all of us!

ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

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...

www.propublica.org

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 2d

Mayor Brandon is such an excellent speaker and protector of his city!

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago answers this question brilliantly. 1/2

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 2d

Facts are irrelevant here...

Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 3d

God Bless America is just a song by Irving Berlin. It’s not the national anthem. America is so far down the moron hole it will never get out

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 2d

Womp wompppppppp 🥳🤩😂

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry.

The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

Federal immigration operations target San Diego neighborhoods, sparking community resistance

Federal immigration agents conducted operations in Logan Heights and Southeast San Diego on Friday, with community members capturing footage of the enforcement actions.

www.10news.com

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 2d

Abusers in every possible way!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

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Charlotte B., IT PMP @skiwithchar.bsky.social · 2d

Accurate.

SkyGuy @guycole.bsky.social · 2d

Emperor Tang has never won an election.

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