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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

AOC: I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care. I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.

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fluids_guru @fluidsguru.bsky.social · 5d

JOURNALISM 10t:
"If someone says it's raining & another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

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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Senator Heidi Campbell @campbell4tn.bsky.social · 12h

Please repost!

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 22h

You must read this account because it will make you understand how evil Ghislene Maxwell & how heinous it is for Trump to even consider pardoning this monster. Kudos to the late Virginia Giuffre for her bravery and battle to redeem her young and vulnerable self www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23h

Finally, some common sense from Oklahoma education.

Ryan Walters turned classrooms into culture war battlegrounds. Reversing his Bible mandate isn’t “anti-religion,” it’s accepting the fact that the Bible is not a history book!

Schools should teach, not preach.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism

A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican...

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Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com · 6h

The flu season could be coming early this year, public health experts in England have said, adding that those who are eligible for a free vaccination should take up their offer.

Brace for early flu season in England and get vaccinated, say experts

Rise in flu levels being driven by cases among children and young people, say public health leaders

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump-Vance Administration getting rid of biodefense personnel is, to state the blindingly obvious, a very bad choice.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 2d

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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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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 1d

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

AOC: When one party wants the votes of another party. You negotiate, you come to a compromise and you pass a bill. That is schoolhouse rock. And that is how things should be

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🌸Norma Jeen🌸 @normajeen.bsky.social · 1d

This!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sunny Hostin to Cheryl Hines: "The problem is that your husband is the least qualified HHS head that we've had in history. I think that's very dangerous. He has spread a lot of misinformation, chaos, and confusion."

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 6d

"I just decided, when someone says you can't do something. DO MORE OF IT."

-Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)

#WomensArt #FridayFeeling

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 5d

Artwork by Martha Rich, contemporary US painter and illustrator based in Philadelphia #womensart #Caturday

Illustration of a sitting cat facing right with colourful star and flower shapes over its body, a speech bubble above its head reads " Love ya, mean it", the background is orange

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.

- Virginia Woolf
#Womensart

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman sitting sideways on a patterned armchair dressed in a dark jacket and skirt and with her hand raised to her face

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18h

Kiva-step vase, 1993, by Jean Bad Moccasin, artist of the Lakota Sioux Nation #WomensArt

Photonof a circular ceramic pot or vase, the pot is highly decorated with many sections of pattern, including symbolic geometric motifs and stylised images of animals such as a hare and a deer, all in colours of orange, black, white, pink and yellow

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with a Child in her Arms, (Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm), 1916 #WomensArt

Sketch of a a white woman, upper half. holding her child lovingly smiling, while the child touches the mother's face

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 21h

AOC is what every Republican say they admire - up from serving tables to serving the people. ♥️

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 21h

I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.

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alr.lykke🦋 @anettelykke.bsky.social · 13h

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 19h

An emotional minute as the word Democracy melts away in front of the US Capitol Building.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 73 out of the last 85 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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