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Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · 14h

The Voting Rights Act is yet again in danger! The current SCOTUS case is trying to use the VRA's prohibition against racial gerrymanders to claim a fixed map is discriminatory against white people. Read my latest (w/ a link to @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social article)
open.substack.com/pub/miabrett...

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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 6h

General strike. ASAP.

🆘🇺🇸

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Lisa Needham @snipy.bsky.social · 7h

can't wait for Mike Johnson to come out tomorrow and say he hasn't seen the pictures of the white house and doesn't know a thing about it

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12h

This is an actual quote from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to HuffPost reporter S.V. Dáte.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not a West Wing obsessed lib or anything but the more I see pictures of this the more fucked up I think it is. It's like he cut off one of the hands of the Lincoln memorial with an angle grinder so he could add a big gun to it.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7h

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni says Emil Bove told him, 'those planes need to take off no matter what, and if some court should issue an order preventing that, we may have to consider telling that court 'fuck you.'

Reuveni: It is the highest, most egregious violation of the lawyer's code of ethics.

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 6d

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Greed Apocalypse @juanmunoz.bsky.social · 9h

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Anger as Kristi Noem gets 2 luxury private jets as shutdown threatens food aid for millions | Flipboard

alternet.org - The US Coast Guard has purchased two luxury private jets for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a total cost of more than $170 million in …

flip.it

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DPC @dpc.bsky.social · 8h

Some tings available for you to collect right here:

dpc-shop.fourthwall.com/collections/...

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Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 13h

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 12h

I don't think we should let it go that the president posted a video of himself shitting diarrhea on us. It should be on his wikipedia page

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Nick Principe @nickdachrome.bsky.social · 10h

I do t want to say yet. Give it a bit and let folks try. It’s pretty easy, they only did one film together

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 12h

He hates American values and principles. He hates democracy. He despises the Constitution and its constraints. He hates most Americans. All he desires is money, power and staying out of jail. Am I missing something?

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Phinneas Coathanger @livnicely.bsky.social · 11h

I can see the poster but the movie name evades!

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Nick Principe @nickdachrome.bsky.social · 11h

I haven’t seen this shirt in YEARS !! That’s the best when a oldie reveals itself from hiding!!
What movie is it??
#Nas
#DMX

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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 13h

Looking forward to tonight's game where we discover which great team, the Mariners or the Blue Jays, will win the opportunity to be humiliated by the Dodgers.

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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 12h

The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.

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John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 22h

Pertussis (whooping cough) cases have exploded in the US in the past 2 years. Get your Tdap if you’re due (every 10 years for adults)

BTW, as of this morning, it looks like all the case counts for 2024-25 have been scrubbed from the CDC website 🫠

As of early September, CDC officials have documented more than 20,000 whooping cough cases across the U.S. this year, compared with 19,302 during the same period of time last year.

Altogether in 2024, there were 35,435 documented cases of whooping cough across the U.S., including 655 in Colorado. That was a huge jump over the 7063 cases in all of 2023. Large states, including New York and California, logged high numbers of pertussis infections in 2024. So did some less-populated states like Idaho, Washington and Oregon, each of which reported more than 1,000 cases of whooping cough.

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Sarah Parkinson @separkinson.bsky.social · 12h

So, which media outlet is digging into the White House general contractor's background and supply chains?

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 13h

Oh, shit!

James Comey just filed a motion to dismiss the government's case against him.

He claims that the U.S. attorney who brought the case was illegally appointed to her post, so the indictment is not legitimate.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Phinneas Coathanger @livnicely.bsky.social · 11h

UVALDE police department strikes again.

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dameelly.bsky.social @dameelly.bsky.social · 12h

Uvalde Police. Hmmm haven't they been inept and obstructionist before?

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Redmond Geek @redmondgeek.bsky.social · 12h

Uvalde Police: Proudly protecting scumbags while bravely running away while little children are being murdered.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h

🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail.

Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 12h

Good reminder. Troops are American citizens and human beings, not automatons.

4 Out of 5 US Troops Surveyed Understand the Duty to Disobey Illegal Orders | Military.com

www.military.com

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