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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 23h

An attack on journalists is an attack on our democracy.

A close-up photograph of Pope Leo XIV, smiling slightly while wearing white papal vestments. A large quote is overlaid on the image, attributed to him. The text reads: "The exercise of the journalistic profession can never be considered a crime, but rather it is a right that must be protected. Free access to information is the pillar that sustains the building of our societies, and for this reason we are called to defend it and guarantee it.” The source is cited in small text at the bottom.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Yes your taxes should support disabled people.

They should support homeless people.

They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly.

This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.

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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 23h

TONIGHT @ 8PM ET! 🌱 💗

Join our War Is Not Green Working Group call as we educate each other and grow our capacity for an anti-militarist, internationalist, and feminist environmental movement!

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · Sep 21

“Four years ago, Civiletti told Ian Shapira of the Washington Post that his decision was about a specific and limited issue, and that he never imagined that politicians would use shutdowns for long periods of time as a political weapon”…

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Mike - Towards a Metric America! @navigatorbr.bsky.social · Dec 19

I feel the need to, once again, point out that the 'government shutdown' is a fucking farce made up by an idiot Attorney General, Benjamin Civiletti, with some stupid opinion he shat out in 1980.

Which was so bad, he had to correct it with a second opinion in 1981.

Fuck him and his stupid opinion.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Zev @zev47.bsky.social · 1d

#TodayILearned that Benjamin Civiletti invented the Government Shutdown in a legal paper in 1981 and we all just kinda went along with it.

Shutdowns did not exist before this guy made it up. And we all just went along with the idea.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Zev @zev47.bsky.social · 1d

I still dial my family with the keypad because it's faster than trying to navigate twelve screens in the digital address book.

Zaki Hasan @zakiscorner.bsky.social · 2d

I aged 50 years from the time I started reading this post to the end.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 2d

Not very unhinged, but: Stop reading a book if you're bouncing off of it. Stop "powering through." You're just wasting your time. You don't get a gold star for finishing books you're not enjoying reading.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 2d

Now unpaywalled: @apagliar.bsky.social on Lula's long fight for democracy in Brazil.

The Brazilian president once argued that democracy will founder where inequality reigns. Today, he sees fighting inequality as democracy’s animating mission.

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/lula...

Lula’s Unfinished Democracy - Dissent Magazine

The Brazilian president once argued that democracy will founder where inequality reigns. Today, he sees fighting inequality as democracy’s animating mission.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Zev @zev47.bsky.social · 1d

And also the fact that so many cattle have died in hurricanes, floods, fires, etc in the past few years. I've been trying to buy calves and nobody is selling at any price right now.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2d

Put a banner on every closed rural hospital

WE SAVED ARGENTINA INSTEAD

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2tacopequeño @2tacopequeno.bsky.social · 2d

I think it's very cool and normal for the guy who has the power to launch nuclear destruction to believe he's already condemned for eternity.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

Trump says a lot of weird and concerning stuff that people just kind of shrug at but right now I’m stuck on how he keeps insisting he’s going to hell

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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Zev @zev47.bsky.social · 1d

"We can easily produce it ourselves" is a clear sign that the person speaking has never, in fact, produced anything themselves. "

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Man escapes ICE while handcuffed, bystanders use pliers to free him.
Salt Lake City, UT

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Zev @zev47.bsky.social · 1d

All us old folks called side cutters "dikes." 😂

Reminds me of the line about Puff's Dragon, where Paul Stukey says "The meaning is the obvious one." And which meaning is obvious depends on the listener.

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Zev @zev47.bsky.social · 1d

In case you didn't know, virtually all handcuffs can be opened with the same universal key, which you can buy for about $5.
A bent piece of heavy fence wire usually works, too.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA is breaking all records in the number of protective orders issued against its members of Congress over acts of violence against women

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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