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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d

Pope to Chicago Labor Leaders: “Please know of my appreciation for your welcome of immigrants and refugees, especially your support of food pantries and shelters….I encourage you to continue to advocate for society to respect the human dignity of the most vulnerable.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

BREAM: Open enrollments starts in November. People are already getting notices about what they may pay. I mean, that's gotta be resolved.

MIKE JOHNSON: Yes, and they're eating up the clock in the month of October

(Johnson canceled the House in August to avoid taking votes on Epstein)

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 6h

Black Music Sunday: Flowers for drumming legend Art Blakey
by Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social

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Black Music Sunday: Flowers for drumming legend Art Blakey

� Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 280 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 11h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 6h

274 agents are about to be fired and charged for doing their jobs .... all a scam

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 6h

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 6h

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by Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social

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Daily Toons: ICE

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 14h

Why hijack jetliners and crash them into buildings when you can just fly F-16's out of the Idaho Qatari Air Base and shoot up whole US cities on a whim?

a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a group of men in white robes .

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing next to a group of men in white robes .

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 14h

I have fond memories of Maley being astonished that the IFLS founder was a woman, because she could not conceive of a woman being a scientist.

Ian Whitney @iancwhitney.bsky.social · 23h

Senior journalist.

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 14h

Hoeing the glow.

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 14h

What is aura farming

Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 14h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, & one song you can’t stand:

Pop Tarts
Blair Witch Project
Afternoon Delight

Avocado’s Number 🥑 @aftonnelson.bsky.social · 14h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, & one song you can’t stand:

Octopus
Dune 2
“In The Air Tonight,” Phil Collins

M. Belanger @sethanikeem.bsky.social · 14h

Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, & one song you can’t stand:

- Cucumber anything. However you think it tastes, that is not how it tastes to me
- Farewell, My Concubine (Beautiful. Brutal. Once was enough)
- Collective Soul, “December”

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 14h

This is why I never waste time defending CNN token Abby Phillip, who regularly platforms white supremacist Scott Jennings.

She's throwing shade at Obama because he didn't praise Trump for agreeing to the same peace deal Trump told Bibi to reject when Biden proposed it in 2024.

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 14h

In America, your home is your castle, that's why roving bands of MAGA-sanctioned warlord armies can just pillage it and beat the crap out of you for looking sideways.

Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 14h

I've been calling for the tribunals to be held in Nuremberg, Pennsylvania since he was letting kids die of exposure in his ice box gulags back in 2017.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 20h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 14h

Generalissimo Francisco Franco on Saturday Night Live is still dead

Rocky Mountain Mike @rockymntnmike.bsky.social · 15h

Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is both the definition of insanity and Saturday Night Live.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14h

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 23h

Portland councilwoman: You know I never thought that renown puppy killer Kristi Noem would be so afraid of protesters wearing frog costumes and chicken costumes but here we are…

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 16h

I'm agnostic about atheism in the same way I'm ambivalent about apathy.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

The cruelty is the point

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 1d

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 16h

If one is not antifascist, they are fascist, by definition.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 21h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 18h

They "unfired" the CDC employees when they figured out what a gigantic mistake that idiot Russell Vought had made. The Trump Administration is one idiot show after another. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 16h

Just the Red Sparrow first lady in secret meetings with Vlad about trafficking kidnapped Ukrainian kids.

FilsDeRosette8657 🇫🇷 🇺🇸, 🏳️‍🌈♂️ , 🏳️‍⚧️ ally @beeswingcottage.bsky.social · 17h

Did I miss something that happened today??

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 23h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 23h

Communion is a well known Antifa strategy to turn America commie.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 1d

Such sad news, one of my favorite actors. Ran into her a few times at some Hollywood soirees tagging along with my fellow editor at Elektrum Magazine, Bart Yoder, who had dated her early in her career.

RIP

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ Star, Dies at 79

Diane Keaton, who starred in "Annie Hall," has died. She was 79.

variety.com

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