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lexie
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im so tired (she/her, queer, fandom old)
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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 15h
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5h
45% of the time
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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 17h
this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread
atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15h
All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.
aaronsojourner.org Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 15h
Total federal spending is up +7% in 2025 over 2024 year-to-date to Oct 20.

The story that the fed govt is tightening its belt is contradicted by its own real-time expenditure data. Admin spectacularly hammering some things but raising spending elsewhere.

Was -7% just after Inauguration Day.
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ana street rat @uldahstreetrat.bsky.social · 13h
"Oxford commas are a sign you write with ai" I will find such a unique way to rip out your spine that they'll make a movie about it
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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 1d
The East Wing, which got razed for President Trump’s new ballroom today, has some really interesting history.
First ladies made history in the East Wing. It was razed for Trump’s ballroom.
The East Wing is home to the Office of the First Lady and has played a key role in women’s visibility in the White House.
19thnews.org
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FaïzaaAaAAaa👻🎃🕷 @fayzaa.bsky.social · 16h
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There’s a big difference between “Graham Platner deserves space to be a better person” and “Graham Platner deserves to be the next Democratic candidate for Maine Senate.”
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yep
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h
he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 1d
food banks have already been under pressure over the past several years, and with SNAP benefits expiring they're going to be the only safety net for a lot of people

please donate what you can. $100 can feed several families for a month because of the discounts and purchasing power they have
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 2d
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 2d
"US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement in LA"

* article explains he was shot by an ICE officer whose weapon discharged when he used it to smash a car window
US Marshal shot during immigration enforcement operation in LA, reports say
A U.S. Marshal was shot while assisting an immigration enforcement operation, according to several reports.
www.kktv.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House. Monday's photo from the Washington Post
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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d
🚨 ALERT 🚨 It is now officially babies in tiny jackets with ears on the hoods season. Please be on the lookout for babies in tiny jackets with ears on the hoods at all times.
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 2d
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
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lexie @wakeupnew.bsky.social · 3d
finished the book and hit the author’s note at the end, my nose for fic stays winning lmao
Screencap of text reading: I mean, I got to write a book that’s basically self-indulgent Caleb/Essek fanfiction. Just saying that has me giggling, and I can’t help but think how damn lucky I am.
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lexie @wakeupnew.bsky.social · 3d
not a pejorative; i love fanfic!! people who wanna be superior about it can eat shit! but it makes me crack up laughing every time
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lexie @wakeupnew.bsky.social · 3d
(it’s an author who came from fandom, this is a fanfic author)
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lexie @wakeupnew.bsky.social · 3d
words in a published romance novel intimate scene that immediately make me ring the ‘i know what you are’ bell: mewl, croon, keen, lave, syrupy, intrusion
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3d
Today's AWS outage, which affected a range of websites and applications—from Signal to Fortnite to key UK government services—reveals the dangers of relying on a handful of Big Tech firms, write Article 19's Corinne Cath and Don Le. These are not glitches; they are democratic failures, they say.
Amazon Cloud Outage Reveals Democratic Deficit in Relying on Big Tech | TechPolicy.Press
The AWS outage demonstrates the need for a fundamental shift in how we think about digital infrastructure, write Corinne Cath and Don Le.
www.techpolicy.press
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AIF-Massachusetts @aif-massachusetts.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Tomorrow, 10/21, 8:30am!
Downtown Boston, JFK Federal Building

Emergency Mobilization! Justice for Rumeysa

Tuesday morning there will be a hearing to determine whether Rumeysa Ozturk will have her right to work in the U.S. restored.

Rumeysa was brutally […]

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A power with a white background and bold purple text. In the lower left-hand corner is a picture of Rumeysa Ozturk smiling and looking directly at the camera, leaning her chin on her hand. The text reads: Emergency Mobilization! Justice for Rumeysa Tuesday 10/21, 8:30 AM JFK Federal Building, Boston Rumeysa's Hearing Restore Rumeysa's Right to Work!
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d
the symbolism of “Trump destroying the White House for a overpriced luxury vanity project, during a government shut down, days after a historically-large mass demonstration against his regime called “No Kings”’ would be rightly viewed as laying it on a little thick if it was in a work of fiction
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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 3d
#MondayMotivation
Block letter print on notebook paper, pinned to wall YOU LOOK GREAT. YOUR TEETH ARE SHARP. YOUR EYES ARE LUMINOUS. THE TOWN FOLK WHISPER YOUR NAME IN HUSHED TONES
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 4d
Stay woke friends
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lexie @wakeupnew.bsky.social · 4d
jury’s out on how useful the music is for human anxiety but i’m glad someone is enjoying it lmao
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