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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · Jan 20

Better Angels LA is a nonprofit that provides shelter & resources to the homeless across LA and has launched an emergency fund to provide immediate access to lower income wildfire victims. You can make your donation through their website betterangels.la

Better Angels LA

Solving Homelessness. Together.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 16h

I phone banked tonight for 1.5 hours - very positive experience - you can sign up to phone bank here #YesOnProp50

"Want to join me for this Grassroots Democrats HQ event?" mobilize.us/s/Ksqxww

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 10h

Some hostages Hamas was starving were "force fed" during the last month as cease fire talks progressed, so they wouldn't look as emaciated as other previously released hostages

Released Israeli hostages give accounts of torture, torment and extraordinary danger
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Released Israeli hostages give accounts of torture, torment and extraordinary danger

Descriptions of captivity suggest Hamas had a change of approach in recent weeks as ceasefire talks progressed

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 19h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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LANana-Nuestra Señora de la Muerte del Pan 😪 @lanana421.bsky.social · 17h

CA peeps, have you voted yet? 🗳

Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 17h

#YesOn50
#YesOnProp50

Let’s get this done California Democrats 💪🏾😤

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

Find a frog gathering near you this Saturday, October 18

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Nokings.org

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 20h

“Lead lingers in the body, so even small amounts can add up over time and contribute to health risks”

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UnseenUnibondsdog 🇺🇦🇮🇱🐝🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈💙 @magratgarlick.bsky.social · 23h

#StayReadyCrew This cinnamon recall situation is expanding. Stay informed, tell your friends, and check your pantry! www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/10/more...

More cinnamon products added to public alert because of elevated levels of lead

The FDA has updated its alert about lead in cinnamon to include more products. There are already almost 20 cinnamon products on the list. As of Oct. 10,

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 22h

Preposterous cat

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 1d

Kernels of truth in your posts don't amount to a tiny pile of kitten poop in the face of "allies never fucking won us anything" which is a steaming mound of ahistorical & self-defeating whale shit

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 1d

#KavanaughStop

Maria Greeley, 44, ‘was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted ….
“I am Latina and I am a service worker," Greeley said. "I fit the description of what they're looking for now."
During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she "doesn't look like" a Greeley.’

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio
Street earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.
"I am Latina and I am a service worker," Greeley said. "I fit the description of what they're looking for now."
During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she "doesn't look like" a Greeley.
"They said this isn't real, they kept telling me l'm lying, I'm a liar," Greeley recalled. "I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, l have my credit cards, my insurance."

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nwdem.bsky.social @nwdem.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Kavanaugh. Pretty high level white privileged shit when the Supreme Court justices think you should be detained based on the color of your skin or your language. As a biracial woman who is a US Citizen, I am afraid for my freedom.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 1d

The way ICE treats “aliens” is how the government would treat its citizens if it knew that they could get away with it.

They should never taste that power. Once they do, they can never be satisfied.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

They’re not. This is what you get when you have an agency with effectively no accountability.

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Rep. James Walkinshaw @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social · 4d

RIFs during a shutdown are 100% illegal.

@oversightdemocrats.house.gov Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia and I called on @USGAO to investigate Russ Vought’s illegal directive ordering agencies to fire federal workers in violation of the Antideficiency Act.

This scheme needs to be investigated.

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 1d

Some of us could FORESEE the issues raised here by Mr. Christie

What makes him so impervious to anything but HINDSIGHT?

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Christie endorses Trump after contentious debate

Gov. Chris Christie endorsed frontrunner Donald Trump.

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99 @ninetynine.bsky.social · 1d

A little frustrating that bsky moderation prevents us from seeing violence like this

Interaction between Derek Guy and Matt Stoller on X, the Everything App. Stoller: "Your weird insecurities aside, you consistently lie that native born Americans can't and never have made clothes, and push offshoring in sleazy ways. Then when confronted you have to talk about your left wing views. You're slime." Guy replies: "not true. i've been writing about and promoting US-made clothes for about fifteen years. an early article that comes to mind is my love for 3sixteen jeans, which are made in los angeles. that was published in 2011, the year the second iraq war ended, a war you promoted."

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haunted beeswax 🪷 🇺🇸 🪦 @missbeeswax.bsky.social · 1d

Californians, return your YES ON 50 ballots!

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Clip from the attached story that says: He points to the current outbreak in South Carolina where more than 150 unvaccinated school children at two schools are now being subject to a 21-day quarantine after being exposed

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Vajra Kilgour @vajrak.bsky.social · 1d

The weird upside-down value system of the right: being awake and aware is bad. Antifa - opposing fascism - is bad. Empathy - simple human decency - is bad. & then they carry on about the Antichrist as if they couldn't so easily find it in their mirror.

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PoliticalSis @politicalsis.bsky.social · 2d

Calling Out Code Pink: Why Attack VP Harris Instead of Real Oppressors? youtube.com/shorts/DoRcN...

“Calling Out Code Pink! #politics

YouTube video by PoliticalSis

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 2d

New study finds Democrats represent public opinion better than Republicans: "the quality of statehouse democracy, here meaning the dynamic relationship between opinion and policy, is substantially weakened by Republican Party control of state government."

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 3d

When you try to break your own world record.

Sally Jenkins' previous ratio world record post where she claimed Kirk "argued with civility."

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3d

Also, for an established US journalist to write the words "the approval of the thought police" as the US currently is working with technofascists/oligarchs to take over entire media platforms, silence/punish dissent, make universities buckle under and professors literally FLEE THE COUNTRY..is WILD.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

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