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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2h

i know we’re talking about the ACA but this was true for me and my bestfriend for ARPA. dv shelters were flush with cash for prob the first time ever. This meant i could flee with my dog and cat without a 10 month waitlist and traveling 300 miles. they covered a ~year of her and her kids rent.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 4h

My best friend was able to leave her abusive husband because the ACA made it possible for her to still get health insurance

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 6h

This administration is one big national security risk.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 12h

So the US had a huge case using high-level informants. Bukele wanted back 9 informants who could expose his govt's deals with that same gang to lower the level of violence, fueling his image as a crime-fighter. That Rubio made a deal was known. That he reneged on informants was not.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 1d

with alt-text.

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

To call it 'the most corrupt administration in US history' does not do it justice; that so understates the degree of corruption as to be almost false.

They have in fact instituted a new regime in which officeholders treat the public's thing—the republic—as their personal property...like kings do.

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Coast Guard Buys Two Private Jets for Noem, Costing $172 Million

www.nytimes.com

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Jon Atkins @jonatkins.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you!

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

A gift link to my story for anyone without a subscription! www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Inside the Credit Card Battle to Win America’s Richest Shoppers

The fierce fight between Amex and Chase is playing out over higher fees, extravagant events and every perk imaginable.

www.bloomberg.com

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 1d

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

President Trump reduces trade surplus in profitable export industry that provides middle-class jobs all across America.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

New federal data has revealed a 19% year-on-year decline in international students entering the US in August 2025, including a 45% drop from India, America’s largest sending country. thepienews.com/internationa...

International student arrivals to the US fall by 19%

The US recorded a 20% drop in student visa arrivals this August, though the full picture remains unclear amid contradictory datasets.

thepienews.com

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Jon Atkins @jonatkins.bsky.social · 1d

We can always find any important viewpoints elsewhere. We’re all perfectly capable of finding them on our own off of Bluesky. The idea that we need to be exposed to them here or by these people has always been ludicrous.

darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

people who earnestly try to argue that blocking certain accounts deprives u of important opposing viewpoints are assuming these certain accounts are posting in good faith
which is a dangerous assumption tbh

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 1d

I have made the deliberate decision to exclude Substack links from my newsletter. Maybe some authors think that the network effects of the Nazi bar are worth it, but keeping that door open closes others, however small they might be.

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 2d

If you are an author, Please Leave Substack. They subsidise and outright provide fiscal funding services to the worst parts of society - literal neoNazis and bigots.

If you're not an author, let the authors you read know: You won't read Substack.

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Michael W. Twitty @koshersoul.bsky.social · 3d

www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...

#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
On NPR!!! please share!

A celebration of the South's rich — and messy — heritage, delivered on a plate

In a new cookbook, culinary historian Michael W. Twitty pays homage to the rich tapestry of cultures that have shaped Southern cuisine — and keeps a gimlet eye on the region's complicated history.

www.npr.org

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 2d

Tell em Abe msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa...

If this important decision had been made by the unanimous concurrence of the judges, and without any apparent partisan bias, and in accordance with legal public expectation, and with the steady practice of the departments throughout our history, and had been in no part, based on assumed historical facts which are not really true; or, if wanting in some of these, it had been before the court more than once, and had there been affirmed and re-affirmed through a course of years, it then might be, perhaps would be, factious, nay, even revolutionary,
to not acquiesce in it as a precedent. But when, as it is true we find it wanting in all these claims to the public confidence, it is not resistance, it is not factious, it is not even disrespectful, to treat it as not having yet quite
established a settled doctrine for the country

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Jon Atkins @jonatkins.bsky.social · 2d

He might be Russian (and I think he
‘s wrong here) but “colour” is the standard spelling in Canada where he claims to be from.

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tristanwalsh.bsky.social @tristanwalsh.bsky.social · 2d

What an insult to all Alaska. This is outrageous.

A screenshot of the ADN story with highlighted text quoting an anonymous EPA spokesperson: "A spokesperson for the federal Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday defended the decision, saying "due to the proactive cancellation of this grant, $20 million of hardworking US tax dollars are currently sitting in the U.S. treasury instead of swept into the Kuskokwim River."

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Jon Atkins @jonatkins.bsky.social · 3d

Sales isn’t the same as quality…. Maybe they just have a better location.

Jon Atkins @jonatkins.bsky.social · 3d

I think 21 business days per month is a good estimate for the average number of business days per month … so 252 days/year. Non-leap years have 260 or 261 week days, but some of those are holidays, so 252 is close.

Jon Atkins @jonatkins.bsky.social · 3d

They’re calculating based on 21 work days/month.

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Jon Atkins @jonatkins.bsky.social · 3d

$237/day to get $5,000/month means they’re working 21 days/month not 30z

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 3d

ICYMI: We got leaked audio from a crisis pregnancy center conference in which the fake clinics—and their far-right lawyers—make stunning admissions about the "care" they offer and acknowledge they're manufacturing cases against the states regulating them in order to get a SCOTUS win @autonomynews.co

Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy.

Speakers at a crisis pregnancy center conference made rare admissions about the challenges of providing so-called abortion “reversal,” and indicated its importance as a litigation tool.

www.autonomynews.co

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Jon Atkins @jonatkins.bsky.social · 3d

I’m confused. The right y-axis (light blue) looks inverted (numbers go down as it goes up). Is that saying as the graph goes up hiring slows?

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Jon Atkins @jonatkins.bsky.social · 3d

I’d guess it depends on the recipe and execution. I bake the recipe from Regan Daley’s In The Sweet Kitchen and they consistently get rave reviews.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

RFK Jr. keeps repeating this ridiculous, ignorant bullshit.

Trust in expertise is literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I wrote a whole-ass thread about it last time around; maybe worth revisiting.

bsky.app/profile/carl...

Barbara Sobel @barbarasobel.bsky.social · 4d

RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.

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Jon Atkins @jonatkins.bsky.social · 4d

We might get stagflation too!

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