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Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 17h

It's illegal to take bribes because of woke 😔

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

Vance is having an incredible morning on the Sunday shows doing "oh so now it's illegal to [mundane thing]?"

A real quote when Vance is asked about whether Tom Homan kept the $50,000 he got in a fast food bag: "Is it illegal to take a payment for doing services?"

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Tamela Ehlinger 🇩🇰🇨🇦🇵🇦🇲🇽🇳🇴🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦🇺🇸 @tamela.bsky.social · 8h

Jesus. Politicians & billionaires don’t care as long as they can continue to pad their already overly stuffed pockets. What good will all their $$ do when our planet is dead? Will their children be able to run outside? They will suffer & die with the rest of us. Greed Kills Everything

Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 8h

“Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 8h

This is so evil.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 8h

Just voted YES on PROP 50!! Make sure to vote early! THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

#WarRavagedChicago

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

Congratulations to all the runners today at the Chicago Marathon!

I hope you’re taking a moment after crossing the finish line and enjoying all that the best big city in the nation has to offer.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

It's worth remembering that the disgraced and disgraceful Rudy Giuliani rode into the national spotlight in the late 80s and early 90s thanks, in part, to a racist backlash against David Dinkins that Rudy actively stoked. www.thenation.com/premium/poli...

Rudy Giuliani Has Been Peddling Racist Political Tropes for More Than 3 Decades

David Dinkins campaigned for mayor of New York in 1989 as a longtime member of Democratic Socialists of America who had worked for decades on progressive causes and served as New York cochair of the R...

www.thenation.com

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile in glorious Portland, OR.

This feels like when your younger, blue haired, emo cousin absolutely owns your weird MAGA uncle at Thanksgiving dinner for being weird and MAGA.

I’m living for it.

MOCKERY WORKS.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 11h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 8h

Great name! Honored to be included!

@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 15h

Please take a look. Vet, follow, repost!
Thank you💙

go.bsky.app/Q4NQFiX

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 8h

Hoping to give a "Lectures on Tap" talk (lecturesontap.com) in SF in December about #censorship to get more people helping to end it! We have so many resources for folks to use to #DefendResearch, research which is so critical to our shared welfare. defendresearch.org #SciSky #EduSky #ScholComm

Lectures On Tap

lecturesontap.com

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom: “What more evidence of authoritarianism do you need? These guys aren’t screwing around. We can no longer screw around. It’s all at stake. People need to wake up. We can’t continue to play by the old set of rules.“

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21h

No institutional design can overcome a lawbreaking president, a Congress defending lawbreaking and forfeiting its own power, a Supreme Court that pretends legal text doesn’t count to facilitate lawbreaking, and a citizenry that votes for all that.
Need at least one that wants rule of law. Maybe two.

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 14h

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MickieMorganfield @mickiedances.bsky.social · 1d

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d

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

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

Mapping Community Defense and Care in Our Neighborhoods

This worksheet can help us prepare for Trump's military interventions at the neighborhood level.

organizingmythoughts.org

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” would let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our colleges and universities. We must demand that our schools reject the regime’s blackmail attempts by committing to uphold freedom of speech and provide an affordable, safe education for all. 👇

University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

actionnetwork.org

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 1d

So great that you have stepped into #library governance and are such a strong #LibraryDefender!!!

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Chris Tebbens @christebbens.bsky.social · 1d

I was honored to be part of the FTP cohort in 2024, and even more honored and blown away to be asked to speak to help recruit the next cohort. I am so grateful to be in spaces with people that I can’t even hold a candle to. (And they made me a cartoon!)

Banned Books Week 2025: I Did It, You Can Too! + ✨ 2 New Resources ✨

🗯 I did it, You can Too!

librariesforthepeople.substack.com

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 1d

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EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social · 1d

And why isn't the house in session? Bc Mike Johnson doesn't want to seat Rep Grijalva because she'd be the final vote to release the Epstein files.

Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 1d

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

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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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 1d

"Conversion therapy has been widely discredited by scientific studies and is viewed by many health professionals as being tantamount to torture. One such study ... found that LGBTQ people exposed to conversion therapy were twice as likely to have future episodes of suicide ideation."

Truthout @truthout.org · 4d

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that aims to undo several states’ bans on “conversion therapy” for youth, a dangerous pseudoscientific practice that purports to “convert” gay people to heterosexuality or make transgender people become cisgender.

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Strike Down State Bans on Conversion Therapy

Conversion therapy is a discredited anti-LBGTQ practice that many health experts say is akin to torture.

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 1d

100% agree. I unfortunately live in full view of that enormous "member."

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 1d

🧵Billionaire Marc Benioff built a tower that dominates the San Francisco skyline like a giant dick. Apparently he aspires to be a giant dick himself. Crime is way down in San Francisco. No need for Trump to send troops and spread authoritarianism.

Salesforce Tower, visible all over San Francisco and known affectionately as the giant penis.

NYT headline

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services. Now he’s fully behind Donald Trump

Table of crime rate change from 2024 to 2025 in a number of American cities. San Francisco dropped 14% in violent crime and 29% in property crime.

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 1d

Class allegiance strikes again. No matter how much money these rich folks give to hospitals and other worthwhile causes, they will eventually show their true colors: www.sfgate.com/news/article...

Benioff says Trump should deploy National Guard to San Francisco

Salesforce chief executive's comments came as he headed to the city to host his annual Dreamforce conference.

www.sfgate.com

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 1d

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

every time we’re out here we see new types of cops.

looks like the illinois department of correction’s tactical team is also here on site.

background: www.chicagoreporter.com/new-uniforms...

two cops in dark blue uniforms stand next to another cop wearing a blue polo

a close-up of one officer’s patch. it reads “tactical dept corrections. illinois sort.”

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

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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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 1d

@joshuasweitz.bsky.social with a related take.

Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 1d

New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences.

Unserious people cause real-world harm.

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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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