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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 12m

His job, as he sees it, is to destroy government & cull the population.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Vought: "We're gonna keep those RIFs rolling throughout this shutdown ... think the Minority Business Development Agency that divvies up business grants on basis of race. Think Environment Justice at EPA ... "

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 8h

🚨RFK Jr. Misses Mark in Touting Rural Health Transformation Fund as "Historic Infusion of Cash". Senator Bernie Sanders CALLS out the LIES.

RFK Jr. re: BBB "“It’s going to be the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health care in American history.” 🤥🤥🤥🤥🤥
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RFK Jr. Misses Mark in Touting Rural Health Transformation Fund as Historic Infusion of Cash - KFF Health News

The health secretary’s statement doesn’t consider the impact that the Medicaid cuts advanced in the same law will have on health care in rural America.

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 19m

Spanberger on Youngkin-Sears Coverup: “Making a blatant, concerted effort to conceal what should be public information is insulting to Virginia taxpayers, particularly those affected by these devastating cuts.” bluevirginia.us/2025/10/span...

Spanberger on Youngkin-Sears Coverup: “Making a blatant, concerted effort to conceal what should be public information is insulting to Virginia taxpayers, particularly those affected by these devastat...

From the Spanberger for Governor campaign: NEW: Spanberger Statement on Youngkin-Sears Administration Concealing Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Canceled Federal Grants for Virginia Spanberger: “Ma...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1h

I swear, the bar is in hell.

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 1h

The party of infantilized men.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1h

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 8h

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 6h

Marilyn Monroe studied “The Thinking Body: A Study of the Balancing Forces of Dynamic Man” to perfect her walk and movement. She famously edited her contact sheets to only preserve the images she saw as most perfect. Marilyn was an artist who studied craft and devoted herself to it. I’m sad for her.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2h

They're SO weird.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @pingree.house.gov · 18h

Update from the empty halls of Congress:

The Speaker has still not sworn in Rep. Grijalva.
The House doors remain locked.
The Epstein files are still sealed.
The Republican health care crisis is still weighing on millions of Americans.

Speaker Johnson needs to do his job so WE can do ours!

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Sean for Congress (VA-01) @subletteweather.com · 5h

As a meteorologist running for Congress, I am often asked who influences me.

In a time where legacy media is failing, here are the top 10 voices I value right now.

I might not agree with all of them.
But I value what they bring.

If that sounds good to you, join us at:
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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 29m

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 30m

The New York Times, disclosing that the CIA is authorized to overthrow Venezuelan dictator Maduro, says “the CIA’s history of covert action in Latin America and the Caribbean is mixed at best.”
That’s like saying John Dillinger’s history of visiting banks was “mixed at best.”

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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 32m

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Damn

‘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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icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 1h

The only status quo and institutions that need to be acknowledged that continue to harm and fail us is whiteness. Until that happens, this country will remain in darkness.

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 1h

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... This is cool.

4,270-year-old human skull found along Indiana river

The human remains date back to about 2300 B.C., according to the Fayette County Coroner's Office.

www.nbcnews.com

Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 1h

music.apple.com/us/album/wil... Willin’

Willin' (2023 Remaster) by Little Feat on Apple Music

Song · 1970 · Duration 2:56

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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 1h

music.apple.com/us/album/bla... Sad & soothing

Black Muddy River by Grateful Dead on Apple Music

Song · 1987 · Duration 5:57

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 2h

The dominant business plan these days seems to be let’s turn everyone into slaves, who famously never revolt

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 4h

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 1h

Propaganda

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

Vance: "Because we have such a big problem with left-wing political violence... we really have to re-train the entire government to focus on the left-wing violence problem."

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 3h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 6h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 3h

No one says anything about Argentine president’s bizarre hairstyle.

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 5h

If you go into a city conducting urban warfare it’s only a matter of time before bullets start coming in your direction from buildings that surround you. It’s wild they seem to be deluded about this inevitability which is the desired outcome of their masters so they can go full Miller. Sacrifices.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Julie @juliewb.bsky.social · 11h

veteransbreakfastclub.org/last-civil-w... I think this was in 2020. Remarkable, though.

Last Civil War Widow Dies at Age 101 - Helen Viola Jackson

She never took her $73.13-a-month Veteran’s Pension. Helen Jackson sits with portrait of her husband, a Civil War Veteran. Image from cherryblossomfest.com Until three years ago, no one knew th...

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Crystal Voted 4 Harris @crystal4mvpharris.bsky.social · 15h

I agree with Kamala Harris position on Israel and Gaza. I am grateful the 88% of Jewish Americans voted for a 2 state solution.

I refuse to give Bibi a pass. He interfered with our politics for years & pulled a Nixon/Reagan w/ hostages. He was racist & undermined Pres Obama & VP Harris.

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