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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 6h

folks, don't sleep on those unclaimed property sites that states run. Somehow connecticut had a $325 check from a paper I haven't run in since the 1990s, and I'm getting the money!

(google 'unclaimed property' for whatever states you used to live in, you can figure it out from there)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Bailing out Bessent’s billionaire friends on Wall Street from their bad investments is much more important.

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Jill 💙🌊🌊💙 @pumpkin061.bsky.social · 5h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

An extraordinary new policy from the Defense Department that equates basic reporting methods to criminal activity has prompted a revolt among Pentagon journalists that could leave the nation's largest agency and the world's largest military without a press corps.

'Without precedent': Virtually all news outlets reject restrictive Pentagon press policy

The policy would force news organizations to refrain from publishing material not approved by the military. Media lawyers say it violates the 1st Amendment.

www.aol.com

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 7h

Critics point out that most boycotts don't impact companies’ bottom lines significantly enough to lead to policy changes, and they're right.

But if I found out my bank was renting out a room for someone to keep people in cages, I'd still tell everyone I know and would never do business there again.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 3h

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 2h

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Forbes @forbes.com · 16h

China, the largest exporter of rare earths, has expanded export controls.

Rare Earth Stocks Decline As US-China Trade Tensions Persist

China, the largest exporter of rare earths, has expanded export controls.

www.forbes.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

The answer to "is Benjamin Netanyahu a war criminal?" is "yes, but he's also a genocider," and this should not be controversial.

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 14h

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 3h

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 15h

No one knows how many people ICE has kidnapped, how many have been shipped overseas or how many are still detained. Many have no contact with family or any lawyers, and no one who knows them knows where they are. Many are being held indefinitely in facilities that refuse oversight

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 3h

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 2h

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 3h

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Pop-Pop @dcdiversity1.bsky.social · 1d

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 16h

"The first-of-its-kind study shows that the world’s biggest oil and gas companies contribute less than 1.5% to global renewable energy — contradicting industry claims to be pioneers in the energy transition."

Study: Oil companies are not ‘part of the solution’

New research in the journal Nature reveals oil and gas companies own a “marginal” share of global renewable capacity, years after claiming they would lead the energy transition.

www.exxonknews.org

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

"I do think he needs help, and I don't think anybody around him on a day-to-day basis wants to get him any help, because they have more power based upon his diminished capacity."

@jbpritzker.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 3h

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The US dollar is having its worst year in decades, per Financial Times. I wonder what happened this past January that could have caused this?

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 18h

Australian researchers have linked a single fossil fuel project to climate impacts, modelling that Woodside's Scarborough project will cause 484 heat-related deaths in Europe.
#climatecrisis #gas #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

For the first time, scientists can show the impact of gas project emissions

Fossil fuel companies and governments argue it's not possible to link climate impacts to specific projects, but Australian researchers have done the numbers.

www.abc.net.au

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 8h

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