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Bridge from Buffalo 🏳️‍⚧️ 🖖 @abridgeinbflo.bsky.social · 11h

My lifelong republican uncle attended a No Kings rally today.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 15h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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Bridge from Buffalo 🏳️‍⚧️ 🖖 @abridgeinbflo.bsky.social · 1d

Poloncarz is proposing to raise property taxes by 11% to spend half a billion, but non-profit orgs "have to find ways to raise money or cut expenses."
This is not resistance to fascism, it's how you feed it. Our own Gavin Newsom.
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Poloncarz predicts future county budgets of 'dead flowers and arsenic'

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said he anticipates huge deficits in the 2027 and 2028 budgets in light of proposed federal spending cuts and plans to build an expanded county jail in Alden.

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Bridge from Buffalo 🏳️‍⚧️ 🖖 @abridgeinbflo.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao no

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol finally released a statement about its antisemitic Instagram video.

I wrote about the agency’s whiny response and the fact that DHS has frequently been caught lying in recent months.

Border Patrol Responds Like a Petulant Child to Controversy Over Its Antisemitic Video

The Trump regime exercises real power. Why are they so whiny about it?

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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 2d

Johnson doesn't think domestic violence is serious.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 1d

Feeling dehydrated? This quenched my thirst. www.wsj.com/us-news/zohr...

New York's Richest Ask 'how Dare He?' as Mamdani Closes In on City Hall
The city's 1% realize their influence is waning: It's hard to be chill and relaxed'

It was just after finishing a set of pelvic floor exercises that a Pilates instructor on the Upper East Side recently brought up one of the least popular men in the neighborhood: New York City
mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani,.

All of a sudden the class, which costs $50 a pop, became something of a political confab. In between sets, some women strategized about helping former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,
who they see as more palatable, pull off an upset. Others gushed about a recent New York Post cover depicting Gov. Kathy Hochul, who had recently endorsed Mamdani, as a devotee of Mao Zedong.

New York's richest residents can't stop talking about Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. To many of the city's uber-wealthy, his sustained
popularity has been a shock. The 33-year-old, self. described Democratic Socialist is the overwhelming favorite to win City Hall next month, on a platform that includes free buses and free child care--programs that, the moneyed
are well aware, somebody needs to shell out for.

"I hope Mamdani is going to give out free Xanax," said Caroline Leventhal, a lifelong Upper East sider who co-founded 'Mic'd and Medicated," a podcast that dissects the lifestyle of cosmetic surgeries and private ski instructors. "It's hard to
be chill and relaxed."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

oh fuck, it's people isn't it

Axios @axios.com · 2d

JUST IN: Trump promises deal to lower surging beef prices

Trump promises deal to lower surging beef prices

Rising beef prices are putting more pressure on the growing share of consumers who say it's gotten harder to afford groceries.

trib.al

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 3d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3d

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

I've recently been reminded that at least some of the immigrants that Abbot sent the Texas national guard to kidnap, are the same immigrants Abbott flew to Chicago in the dead of winter in flip flops and a t shirt to overwhelm the city. Instead Chicago residents clothed, fed and resettled them

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Spooky action at a distance @mkranz.bsky.social · 2d

Really important (& short) thread about media literacy, going to primary source material, and how we have to be wary of letting fascists manipulate us by our cynicism. This is even more critical as these very propagandists are stepping into a much bigger (& more “trusted”) platform at CBS

Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 3d

🧵 1. I saw some high-profile pro-Palestine accounts condemning Mamdani for saying "I'm going to have ppl in my admin who are Zionists" & for allegedly putting a "softer spin on his anti-Israel past"

So [coughs, puts on ye ol' media analysis professor hat] I looked into the source and HOOO BOY...

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 2d

Large daily newspaper in Sweden detailing abuse the Israeli military inflicted on Thunberg and other aid flotilla advocates as well as the Swedish government’s weak response.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 3d

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 3d

“This shows that if Israel, with whole world watching, can treat a well-known, white person with Swedish passport this way, just imagine what they do to Palestinians behind closed doors.

News has just come in that Palestinian boy from West Bank, the same age as Greta, has died in Israeli custody.”

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josh bunting @joshbunting.bsky.social · 2d

He knows we can’t afford it, but he wants his new jail anyway.

The Buffalo News @buffalonews.com · 3d

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said he anticipates huge deficits in the 2027 and 2028 budgets in light of proposed federal spending cuts and plans to build an expanded county jail in Alden.
buffalonews.com/news/local/g...

Poloncarz predicts future county budgets of 'dead flowers and arsenic'

Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said he anticipates huge deficits in the 2027 and 2028 budgets in light of proposed federal spending cuts and plans to build an expanded county jail in Alden.

buffalonews.com

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 3d

We all need to hear it sometimes 🥹

4 panel comic in which a cute bunny works all day until after sundown and when it’s late his friend brings a cup of tea and says ‘hey.. you’re doing great!’ and joins him for a bit while the moon comes out

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 3d

Battle.net workers unionize as Microsoft neutrality agreement expires
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: A federal judge just temporarily blocked the Trump admin's plans to lay off thousands of federal workers during the government shutdown — siding with unions, which have argued that the dismissals were illegal.

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 4d

Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.

Peter Giunta participates in a CNN-POLITICO Grill discussion at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 5d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Bridge from Buffalo 🏳️‍⚧️ 🖖 @abridgeinbflo.bsky.social · 4d

SVU is my garbage copaganda guilt watch.
I think it's also a good barometer for how centrists see current politics - and this season's opener includes Olivia Benson arrested by ICE for intervening to prevent a witness from being deported.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.

a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

ALT: a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 5d

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another

Sensei Sergio from One Battle After Another

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