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Allison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 33m

The last No Kings in Chicago was like 90 percent older female protest veterans who've been derided as normie lib wine moms for the past decade so maybe we could start nagging, like, "woodworking dads" or find a way to condescend to 30-year-old men for a goddamn change.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1h

i do think it's important to note that liberal boomer pilates grandmas have *already* been showing up in pretty huge numbers to protests for a long time (and do a lot of other non-glamorous organizing)-they're way down there on the list of demographics who need extra encouragement to get out there

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 11h

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3h

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@gooseymaine on Twitter writing: can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if AI does?

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28m

Their faces stare down from posters on every street corner in Israel. Their stories, told by anguished family members, are almost as well-known as celebrities. Here is a look at the 20 hostages released Monday as part of the latest ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas.

A look at the living hostages released by Hamas under ceasefire deal

The faces of the hostages being held in Gaza stare down from every street corner in Israel on posters now sun-faded and ripped.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 28m

New Zealand watered down its 2050 target for methane emissions from livestock and farming activities. Read more in today's Green Daily

Why New Zealand’s Lower Methane Target Could Warm the Planet More

New Zealand, one of the world’s largest dairy exporters and a signatory of the Global Methane Pledge, this weekend watered down its 2050 target for cutting methane emissions from livestock and farming activities.

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 27m

Handy reminder that the most heinous people and "customs" in history were considered heinous by their contemporaries, but oftentimes their contemporaries were powerless to do anything about it.

Judging by the "standards of their time" is never a defense.

Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 3h

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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🎃 Spooky Scary Jam (they/them) 🎃 @jaimekay.bsky.social · 1h

Happy Indigenous People Day!

Did you know that Indigenous women go missing and are murdered ten times more than average? They don’t even get a quarter of the attention that a white woman going missing would get. Please keep these women in your mind. Don’t forget them

www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren...

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) | NIWRC

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 27m

The idea that political dissent can only be the product of “paid protesters” or “outside agitators” has a long history. Here is the Mississippi columnist Tom Ethridge in June 1963 concerned that attendees at the upcoming March on Washington might be “whipped into a frenzy by skilled agitators.”

“Aug 28 has been set as the date for this mass invasion of the captial by upward of 100,000 negroes…”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 25m

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Shower Cat Love @shower-cat.bsky.social · 29m

They can’t conceive of large numbers of people motivated by an intangible something they actually *believe* in, particularly when there is no single charismatic leader driving it and telling them what to do.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

i'm sure duffy is just lying here but also i'll say again that they hard time conceptualizing relations between people that aren't strictly hierarchical.

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Texas Tribune @texastribune.org · 25m

A Texas Tribune analysis has found that this explosion of vaccine non-compliance has played out across many school districts in the state in recent years, helping to push Texas’ measles vaccine coverage to the lowest it’s been since at least 2011. www.texastribune.org/2025/10/13/t...

This chart shows the percentage of Texas kindergarteners who were not vaccinated or fully vaccinated with the M M R vaccine each school year between the 2014-2015 school year and the 2024-2025 school year. The portion of kindergarteners in the state who received conscientious exemptions for the M M R vaccine rose from just above one percent in the 2014-2015 school year to almost four percent in the 2024-2025 school year. The portion of kindergarteners who were delinquent in their M M R vaccines were just under one percent in the 2014-2015 school year, spiked up to about three percent in the 2021-2022 school year, and are now at about 2.7 percent in the last school year. Data in this chart comes from the Texas Department of State Health Services.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27m

Renewed fighting between rival leaders forces mass exodus across South Sudan's borders as fears of wider war rise.

Conflict sends 300,000 people fleeing from South Sudan in 2025: UN

Renewed fighting between rival leaders forces mass exodus across South Sudan's borders as fears of wider war rise.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 25m

"Maria" is rolling up raisins under the hot Madera sun. To earn $70, she has to roll 1,000 sheets! Each row has around 250 sheet. It's hard grueling work walking on the burning sand for hours rolling one sheet after another. #WeFeedYou

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 23m

“We are not afraid,” said China’s Ministry of Commerce about the growing trade war with the U.S.

China Trashes Donald Trump’s Tariff Threat

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 23m

This is such a thorough take down of Bari Weiss and the vapid shill she is for oligarch billionaires. He especially shreds the Free Press over it's coverage of trans issues and the so called whistleblower Jamie Reed.

youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22m

If you want to learn more about the anti-Italian lynchmbob in New Orleans, @adamserwer.bsky.social's essay from almost a decade ago is excellent.
www.buzzfeed.com/adamserwer/h...

How A 125-Year-Old Mass Lynching Tried To Make America Great Again

In the hysteria following the murder of a New Orleans police chief, 11 Italian-Americans were lynched by a vigilante mob angry about the city's influx of immigrants. Here's how the past and future of ...

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Former Brundlefly @thatguywasfly.bsky.social · 15h

One thing I want you to take from videos like this is the absolute cacophony of whistles and screams of "GET THE FUCK OUT OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD" from people in the streets and in buildings. And more and more people are at that point every day.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 16h

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 14h

Accra. Accra?!

ICE Flight Monitor @iceflightmonitor.bsky.social · 14h

An ICE deportation flight (OAE3710) just departed Baltimore, MD for Accra, Ghana. It originated from Phoenix, AZ, and stopped in El Paso, TX before landing in Baltimore. ICE Flight Monitor is actively monitoring and will update here.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 13h

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 12h

Death toll rises to 44 after torrential rains in Mexico

President Claudia Sheinbaum convenes governors from hard-hit states to direct an emergency response plan.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 21h

Since when Supreme Court justices go on Fox?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 15h

This is hilarious

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 19h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

People are spontaneously posting up near any laborers or street vendors they spot. Just saw a rapid responder guarding a man working on a building exterior. Many things are terrible today but lord, this stuff matters.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

There are a tremendous number of ICE watchers out in Rogers Park this afternoon after some early morning abductions.

People are guarding churches and patrolling alleyways. Ran into Alderperson Hadden. First timers tell us they're primed and ready to use their whistles.

Know your rights flyer in Spanish on street pole

Alderperson Maria Hadden on street corner

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 23h

Bumpin' that www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSFF...

XTC - I Don't Want To Be Here

YouTube video by PeterCameOut

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