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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 23h

The Atlantic is the latest news organization that refuses to sign the Pentagon's new press pass policy.

Editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg says the new restrictions violate the First Amendment and the rights of Americans to know how the taxpayer-funded military is being deployed.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

The hush money payoff to Stormy Daniels cost more than house Leticia James bought for her grand niece.

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DWilliam2813 @dwilliam2813.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Every single Democrat in Congress should’ve already had a post up by now about the Trump admin approving a Qatari air base inside the US.

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DWilliam2813 @dwilliam2813.bsky.social · 2d

'Shot in the Head with Pepper Spray.'
Ann Telnaes.

DWilliam2813 @dwilliam2813.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Ann Telnaes.
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DWilliam2813 @dwilliam2813.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Ann Telnaes.
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DWilliam2813 @dwilliam2813.bsky.social · 2d

Be careful & warn others.

TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 3d

Heads-up. Share this everywhere. ICE has created a fake "Stop Ice" app. They're trying to ensnare people to enter their information, so they can go after them.
Do NOT use stopice./org.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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DWilliam2813 @dwilliam2813.bsky.social · 2d

Perversely dangerous.

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 2d

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 3d

I refuse to let hopelessness prevail. This may just be one essay, by a lawyer few have heard of, in a newsletter read by a fraction of the public. But I will not stay silent.

Will you?
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/i-re...

I Refuse to Stay Silent. Will You?

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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DWilliam2813 @dwilliam2813.bsky.social · 3d

Is there no legal option to have her sworn in now, such as by a judge?

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Adelita Grijalva won her election to Congress over two weeks ago, but Mike Johnson still hasn't sworn her in.

Why the delay?

Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 4d

This was magnificent.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

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DWilliam2813 @dwilliam2813.bsky.social · 5d

@moderation.bsky.app

DWilliam2813 @dwilliam2813.bsky.social · 5d

Who is this person/group?
@headwearstheclown.bsky.social
And why are they falsely accusing people of antisemitism?

DWilliam2813 @dwilliam2813.bsky.social · 5d

Who is this person/group?
@headwearstheclown.bsky.social
And why are they falsely accusing people of antisemitism?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6d

Remember, it was the Washington Post who gave Bondi a thumbs up to be confirmed. Democracy Docket made clear from day one that she was an election denying sycophant.

No surprise at their coverage of today. Support independent, pro-democracy media today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 6d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6d

Last night, my team filed a motion to defend voters in California.

DOJ sued 8 states. My firm has filed to protect voters in all 8 states.

We will never back down from the fight to protect free and fair elections.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12d

DOJ has sued 8 states for refusing to turn over their full, unreacted voter files.

My team has now filed motions to defend voters in 7 of those cases in ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, OR and PA.

I suggest that DOJ monitor the docket in the remaining one in CA.

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 6d

Heads-up. User
@headwearstheclown.bsky.social
is adding people to an abusive block list called "Users who posted, reblogged, or liked antisemitic sentiments" moderation list.
I have done no such thing, and do not know this account, but was added to this list.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

a red sign that says alert on it in white letters

ALT: a red sign that says alert on it in white letters

media.tenor.com

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JanFromTheBruce 🍁 @janfromthebruce.bsky.social · 6d

Every day I am going to post this (permission from Del Schilling).

Will you join me?

Over 5700+ Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls

#MMIWG #cdnpoli

A group of Indigenous women holding signs to raise awareness for MMIWG. There are large poster boards of pictures of the missing women. They are on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, the location of Canada's federal government.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6d

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all these data centers are going into communities that have been historically targeted for exploitation and have the least amount of civic power wielded by the people living there.

wordinblack.com/2025/09/alab...

Why Are Plans for This Alabama Data Center So Hush-Hush?

Officials in Bessemer, Alabama, are mum on Project Marvel, a proposed data center the size of 18 Walmart Supercenters.

wordinblack.com

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[email protected] @marikula.bsky.social · 8d

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