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AtheisticSnail.bsky.social @atheisticsnail.bsky.social · Nov 2

Posted these before but I'm still proud of them. Two blankets that I've been working on and off for years that I finished this fall!

Crochet Blanket in grey and maroon yarn with stripes of maroon diamonds.

large crochet green blanket with little raised rows for diamond yarn bubbles

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InaneDragon @inanedragon.bsky.social · 46m

If Rand Paul is on the right side of history, the world's been turned upside down.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

San Diego!

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1h

My friend @merkley.senate.gov is holding the Senate floor all night to sound the alarm on Trump’s lawless regime.

Proud to stand with him in this fight and in the U.S. Senate. There can be no business as usual.

Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 2h

This is really what it comes down to.

I'm holding the Senate floor to say HELL NO to Trump destroying our We the People government.

🔗 www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 2h

He’s taking healthcare away from 15 million Americans and making it unaffordable for 22 million more

And using the shutdown as an excuse to deprive up to 42 million citizens-including children-of SNAP benefits

Yet is on the verge of directing the DOJ to pay him $230 million

It’s just so lawless

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 1h

Same firm that crashed 1/3 of the internet 2 days ago? Mkay? 🙄 #aws #cloud

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

“.. internal strategy documents viewed by The New York Times reveal that Amazon executives believe the company is on the cusp of its next big workplace shift: replacing more than half a million jobs with robots.”

@nytimes.com $AMZN
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/t...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 6h

Seeing the destruction of the White House makes me emotional because Trump is so visibly flaunting the absence of constraints to his abuse of authority.

He’s tearing down parts of the People’s House to construct a massive fascist temple where people will come to pay tribute to him.

It’s grotesque.

Color photo of the East Wing of the White House in ruins behind a construction site barrier. Two American flags are visible waving in the wind.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1h

ICE arrests dad of 16-year-old with Stage 4 cancer. DHS says the 40-year-old painter and home renovator had "habitual driving offenses" chicagotribune.com/2025/10/21/i...

ICE arrests Chicago man whose teenage daughter is fighting cancer: ‘He belongs with her’

Ofelia Torres has spent almost every day of the past month at Lurie Children’s Hospital, where the 16-year-old Lake View High School student is fighting cancer.

chicagotribune.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1h

Now 5 days closer to November’s Election Day and this is somehow even more valid.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6d

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts

Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

boltsmag.org

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 1h

All the people defending the Nazi tattoo are telling on themselves and when someone tells you who they are, believe them

When he becomes another Fetterman, they’ll whine and complain like we didn’t tell them what’s what

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · Sep 21

Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 5h

I agree with this. There are a lot of people out there who think both parties are the same and if Democrats put a show of pushing out people with Nazi tattoos and shitty text messages and abused employees then all of a sudden you're making inroads.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 6h

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.

All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."

It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 1h

It takes courage to stand up for what’s right — something Republicans clearly don’t have.

Kudos to my friend Jeff for doing the damn thing!

Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 2h

This is really what it comes down to.

I'm holding the Senate floor to say HELL NO to Trump destroying our We the People government.

🔗 www.youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

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Resist List @resistlist.bsky.social · 3h

ICE stepped up activities in NYC today and New Yorkers were not having it.

(Seen on @keithboykin.bsky.social threads)

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 2h

Nothing says Make America Great Again quite like giving Argentina’s dictator $40B to help save his country from sheer ruin whilst also preparing to flood the American markets with imports from that same country like Argentinian Beef which will be catastrophic for US farmers.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3h

Also and again, GOP members of Congress are, by their actions, fine with this.

Axios @axios.com · 4h

Pentagon staffers will now need to get prior approval before sharing any information with Congress, according to a new memo from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and his deputy that Axios reviewed.

After leaks, Hegseth limits Pentagon staff's interaction with Congress

The new directive could limit congressional oversight of department activities.

www.axios.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10h

Discworld QOTD, from Sourcery

A magical accident in the Library, which as has already been indicated is not a place for your average rubber-stamp-and-Dewey-decimal employment, had some time ago turned the Librarian into an orang-utan. He had since resisted all efforts to turn him back. He liked the handy long arms, the prehensile toes and the right to scratch himself in public, but most of all he liked the way all the big questions of existence had suddenly resolved themselves into a vague interest in where his next banana was coming from. It wasn’t that he was unaware of the despair and nobility of the human condition. It was just that as far as he was concerned you could stuff it.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

People refusing to let a Nazi tattoo make them reassess their priors is really something.

Being able to process new information and update your beliefs, or at least your arguments, accordingly isn't just a sign of maturity, it's a sign of intelligence.

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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 14h

22 million Americans are about to see their health insurance premiums double.

Congress must prevent this.

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Representative Val Hoyle @repvalhoyle.bsky.social · 2h

Senator @merkley.senate.gov has been speaking for over 4 hours about President Trump’s threats to our democracy.

Watch here ⬇️

Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 6h

TUNE IN: I’m holding the Senate floor to protest Trump’s grave threats to democracy. We cannot pretend this is normal.
youtube.com/live/bE37g0m...

Merkley Holds Senate Floor to Protest Trump’s Threats to Democracy

YouTube video by Senator Jeff Merkley

youtube.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

Same vibes as the callous destruction of Bonwit Teller building and the Taliban blowing up the Bamiyan Buddhas back in the day.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

christ almighty what is this guy doing

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3h

It’s outrageous they’re killing innocent people, but we also need to stress, every time, that it would not really matter even it were absolutely certain that they were drug traffickers. Murdering criminals is still, you know, murder.

Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 6h

The government has killed 32 people in 7 strikes with no evidence they were traffickers. The admiral leading the mission quit. If we had proof, they’d face a court, not a drone.

The law still applies, even to suspected drug traffickers, and right now, the Administration’s story isn’t adding up.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 2h

I respect that there are no perfect candidates and purity tests lead to political stasis but also I’d really love it if more politicians could overcome the very minor barrier of “never did Nazi shit”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 2h

just looking around at politics everywhere and a HUGE advantage Mamdani has is that he isn't obviously a fucking freak

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4h

He's going to take money from my importation business (in the form of tariffs) and give it to other Americans who don't import goods.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, this is just wealth redistribution Republicans claim to despise. *At the expense of small businesses.*

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "We'll probably make a distribution out of some of the tariff money over the next fairly short period of time to people."

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