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Stella Jorette @stellajorette.bsky.social · 15h

Those flooded folk in Alaska.

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Harry Foster @harryfoster.bsky.social · 19h

Half way though my walk with #Maggie today, I found a decent size stick and broke it off into a good size for her. One would think I gave her a leg of lamb. She carried it all the way home and then played with it until I had to put her back inside. She was so proud of it. #dogs

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 19h

They told my generation of Black girls to stop having babies in our teens. They eliminated older forms of welfare. They decimated our communities by creating the PIC. It ruined neighborhoods & families.

Constant propaganda turned us into worker drones. Now they're mad that Black women... work?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a recent study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

(Published July)

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

www.propublica.org

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 22h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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marnimoon.bsky.social @marnimoon.bsky.social · 15h

So now there’s nobody left to tell the truth? Great.

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Rebba.bsky.social @rebba.bsky.social · 19h

No King's Day!
Here we go!! 🗽⚖️🇺🇸

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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marnimoon.bsky.social @marnimoon.bsky.social · 20h

Cory Booker is awful. Talk about a poser and charlatan… 🙄

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21h

The adultification of Black kids is the criminalization of Black kids, they see Black babies as full grown threats to justify coming down on them hard.

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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 1d

Yes we MUST insist our elected #representatives represent our values OR tell us the #truth about losing our #sovereignty to the #US. #auspol

Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · Jul 4

Pathetic, Labor

When democracies refuse to call out GENOCIDE, FORCED STARVATION and SLAUGHTER AT FOOD AID STATIONS then you become the problem

You make our democracy fragile, without values and on the side of fascists

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞

www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/04/i...

Australia's silence on genocide gives Netanyahu a free pass to exterminate Palestinians

The refusal of Australia and other Western countries to talk about Netanyahu's genocide in Gaza is encouraging a more blatant Israeli program of exterminating Palestinians.

www.crikey.com.au

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Teens who won a lawsuit requiring Hawaiʻi to eliminate carbon emissions from the state’s transportation system in the next 20 years rightly call out sustainable aviation fuel as bullshit.

Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly

Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state.

www.civilbeat.org

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 20h

Midway Blitz Operations in Chicago

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💢Marx was right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 20h

Senator Cory Booker's Latest Word Salad to Avoid Answering Direct Questions: www.instagram.com/reel/DP1icEY...

iamblakeley
_iamblakeley • Original audio
SPINELESS
It YeaTobe IATYTLIVE
Senator Cory Booker's Latest
Word Salad to Avoid
Answering Direct Questions

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

A 20 year old black woman was just sitting in DC and EVERY agency possible shows up to arrest her!

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The secret power of a people’s movement is that it’s random.

It’s neighbors protecting immigrants from ICE. It’s millions canceling Disney+. It’s a man throwing a sandwich. It’s inflatable frogs dancing.

Dictators struggle to fight a movement, because they can’t do what they want most—control us.

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marnimoon.bsky.social @marnimoon.bsky.social · 23h

The Democratic establishment doesn’t endorse average Joes that have our best interests in mind. Think Mamdani and now they’ve trotted out a candidate to run against Platner in Maine.

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marnimoon.bsky.social @marnimoon.bsky.social · 23h

Including the department of transportation, Pete. That you did what to improve??

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

big endorsement for Kettlebell Guy

UAW @uaw.org · 1d

🧵 The United Auto Workers have endorsed Graham Platner for the United States Senate in Maine.

As a U.S. military veteran, oyster farmer, and proud lifelong Mainer, @grahamformaine.bsky.social is a true fighter for the working class.

Photo of Graham Platner, candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. Photo courtesy of grahamformaine.com.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Jazzwamp @wampwamp.bsky.social · 1d

This very true.

iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 1d

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marnimoon.bsky.social @marnimoon.bsky.social · 1d

😂😂

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1d

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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Norah 🦋 Mami’s Small But She is Mighty 🔥 @thenoraheffect.bsky.social · 2d

Appreciation post. RIP, D’Angelo

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