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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 13h

Unconstitutional, damaging to our democracy and--last time I checked--murder is a crime. Let's not gussy it up and call it acts of war. This is murder.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 13h

This is the FIFTH time Trump has carried out an illegal bombing in the Caribbean.

Using the military to execute alleged criminals with no due process or input from Congress is brazenly unconstitutional and damaging to our democracy.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 13h

My God, what has the party of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush become?

The party of Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, and George W Bush.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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South/South Movement 🍉 @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social · Nov 16

Activists and academics working and writing from/for/with the global souths in social and political studies.

Please help us build this list.

Suggestions very welcome.

go.bsky.app/xCeFhi

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 16h

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 17h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 17h

Well I guess if you think God is against DEI that says a whole lot about your god.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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JT Spartz @jtspartz.bsky.social · 17h

Thanks to authors Maria Luiza Almeida Cunha de Castro and Rosa De Marco for citing my work in their recent publication: "Flow of Creativity and Sustainability: The Role of Art in Shaping a New Perspective and Fostering Ecological Awareness" periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/re...

PÓS: Revista do Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes da UFMG

A Revista PÓS é um periódico eletrônico editado pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Criada em 2011, aceita artigos, ensaios, traduções, ensaios visuais e e...

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JT Spartz @jtspartz.bsky.social · 18h

2/2 "Through the act of creation, the artists find their place and, in turn, draw the audience into a space of critical reflection.... The use of environmental sounds in musical composition reflects a broader movement to reconnect contemporary life with its ecological realities." #ecomusicology

PÓS: Revista do Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes da UFMG

A Revista PÓS é um periódico eletrônico editado pelo Programa de Pós-graduação em Artes da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Criada em 2011, aceita artigos, ensaios, traduções, ensaios visuais e e...

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JT Spartz @jtspartz.bsky.social · 18h

1/2 "Composing and performing music inspired by nature is a process rooted in the physical characteristics of the landscape, but also in its cultural dimensions, thereby integrating these aspects into ecological systems..." #ecomusicology

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

Subscribe to The Onion and help us become a bigger newspaper than The Washington Post by next year. It can happen!

membership.theonion.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

As the government shutdown stretches into its second week, experts warn that women and children reliant on federal food assistance funding are vulnerable to losing their grocery benefits.

In the midst of it all, the USDA has stripped away the infrastructure needed to remedy rising hunger in the US.

The shutdown will worsen hunger—which the Trump administration just stopped tracking

Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits.

www.motherjones.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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daanis @daanis.ca · 21h

oh miigwech!

Becoming Kin was def written with a largely white audience in mind. For BIBC I followed Toni Morrison and wrote for Indigenous people. But I know that everybody will get something out of it. We survive together or not at all. 🔥✊

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 1d

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

This #IndigenousPeoplesDay, the call from 2020 still stands. As Nick Tilsen and Krystal Two Bulls wrote, celebration means nothing without repair—and repair begins with #LANDBACK.

Unmet responsibility. Ongoing struggle. Future in our hands.

inthesetimes.com/article/indi...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments. It has very clear institutional reasons to do so. But obeying to Trump rules all, and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening while opining on Bad Bunny.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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JT Spartz @jtspartz.bsky.social · 1d

Just received my copy of BIBC, the new @daanis.ca -- first few pages and I already know it is going to be excellent. Becoming Kin was also great; highly recommend, even for (or especially for?) non-Native folks. #RequiredReading #nonfiction #books #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Goose Lane Editions @gooselane.bsky.social · 5d

Patty Krawec will be there on Monday, November 17 for a talk on her incredible new book, Bad Indians Book Club!

attend.bpl.on.ca/event/14676798

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JT Spartz @jtspartz.bsky.social · 2d

The wind-power of misinformation blows hard.

NPR @npr.org · 2d

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 5d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Edge Effects @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social · 5d

Today on the Edge Effects podcast, former managing editor Bri Meyer talks with writer and designer @brebec.bsky.social about her short stories and their themes of gender and environmental destruction. Our first ever bilingual episode is everything we hoped it would be and more! 🔪📚

Dark Fiction, Sinister Reality: A Conversation with Brenda Becette

Brenda Becette talks about the role of fiction in a our dystopic reality. Becette's short stories avenges women, children, and environment.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 6d

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 8d

Donald Trump’s second term has been marked by attacks on the Constitution so extreme that even judges Trump appointed in his first term are aghast.

Trump’s Minions Are Trying to Terrorize Judges Into Submission

Facing rebukes from the courts, Stephen Miller and Elon Musk are threatening the independence of the judiciary.

www.thenation.com

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Data for Progress @dataforprogress.org · 8d

NEW: A majority of voters (55%) support the Block the Bombs Act, which would prohibit the U.S. from selling large bombs and heavy artillery shells to Israel.

Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress.
Title: Voters Support the Block the Bombs Act.
Description: Some members of Congress have proposed the Block the Bombs Act, which would prohibit the United States from selling large bombs and heavy artillery shells to Israel. Do you support or oppose this legislation?
All likely voters — Support: 55%, Oppose: 35%
Democrat — Support: 67%, Oppose: 23%
Independent / Third party — Support: 57%, Oppose: 33%
Republican — Support: 41%, Oppose: 49%

September 26–28, 2025 survey of 1,231 U.S. likely voters.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

He’s the only Republican there. He sent all the rest of them home again to avoid a vote on the Epstein files. Since Johnson has become Speaker they have probably been in recess at least 3 out of every 4 days. And they’ve done NOTHING on health care for years. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Kim D @kimilatad.bsky.social · 8d

Earlier this year, @theradr.bsky.social wrote this helpful piece listing ways to engage in "good trouble." Definitely worth a read for anyone who's still unsure where to start.

www.lifeisasacredtext.com/goodtrouble/

THE GOOD TROUBLE CHECKLIST

keep all your shenanigans in one place

www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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