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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · May 19

If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?

But if I am only for myself,
what am I?

And if not now, when?

HILLEL THE ELDER

THIS MORTAL COIL /
SONG TO THE SIREN
[4AD] 1983
youtu.be/HFWKJ2FUiAQ?...

Standing on a patio chair in the back lot of the San Francisco Ferry Building, trying to get a good shot of the bronze Gandhi statue and Bay Bridge together

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 6h

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 8h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 15h

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 2h

The Trump administration is a criminal organization. It is the most corrupt presidency in U.S. history.

These people have no intention of letting go of power ever again.

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"So we are closing up Democrat programs that we think that we disagree with, and they’re never going to open again.”"

Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 4h

October 14, 2025

The government shutdown, which started on October 1, is entering its third week.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 2h

Two years of genocide in Gaza showed the hollowness of the West vowing 'never again', as governments suppressed solidarity while enabling Israel's crimes, writes Daniel Lindley

The Gaza genocide has shattered the myth of Western morality

Two years of genocide in Gaza showed the hollowness of the West vowing ’never again’, as governments suppressed solidarity while enabling Israel’s crimes.

www.newarab.com

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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 2h

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.

#blueskyartchallenge
#art #painting

18/20

Barbara Milman (1985)
is a writer and visual artist who lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior publications include Light in the Shadows (Jonathan David Publishers), a book combining prints and text about Holocaust survivors, and Zoe's Journal: How to Become a Real Artist (Red Parrot Press) the fictional illustrated journal of a young woman artist. Barbara Milman has exhibited her artwork in many solo and group shows in the United States and internationally. Her work has received many awards, and can be found in numerous museums and public and university collections. Barbara Milman was a an attorney for 25 years, specializing in civil rights, criminal and public interest law, before becoming a full time artist and writer. She is a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia University School of Law.
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Memory_Palace.html?id=SGg6tAEACAAJ&source=kp_author_description

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 21h

Australian researchers have linked a single fossil fuel project to climate impacts, modelling that Woodside's Scarborough project will cause 484 heat-related deaths in Europe.
#climatecrisis #gas #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

For the first time, scientists can show the impact of gas project emissions

Fossil fuel companies and governments argue it's not possible to link climate impacts to specific projects, but Australian researchers have done the numbers.

www.abc.net.au

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 17h

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h

Your free version of America has expired.

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16h

“Once rare, 7-year car loans are fast becoming the norm. They’re often the only way buyers can afford new rides, with average sale prices surging 28% in 5 years to approach $50k.”

Designed-in car dependency, surging car prices, longer loan periods with more interest.

Sound like “freedom” to you?

Cars are so expensive that buyers need 7-year loans

Once rare, seven-year car loans are fast becoming the norm. They’re often the only way buyers can afford new rides, with average auto prices nearing $50,000.

www.seattletimes.com

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 1d

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 17h

No one knows how many people ICE has kidnapped, how many have been shipped overseas or how many are still detained. Many have no contact with family or any lawyers, and no one who knows them knows where they are. Many are being held indefinitely in facilities that refuse oversight

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

watching the UKs green party elect an actual unafraid leftist into leadership and see party membership double in under a month is once again endless proof that if you stand up for leftist causes and treat the electorate like adults, you’ll win people over easily

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 19h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

The vice president of the United States is a clownish dipshit, Exhibit 64,532

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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 17h

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

~1300 fired on a Friday, about half unfired the next day, due to an apparent “coding error”. But sure, your data will be secure.

They’re all in a competition for who can be the most maliciously incompetent. So much winning. Participation trophies for eveyone. Nobel Prizes in Nonsense.

CDC purge hits 600 workers in key offices despite reversals

The casualties include employees working on health statistics, injury and violence prevention, congressional outreach and human resources.

www.axios.com

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BiRdMaNsf67 🌈 @morrowjamesadam.bsky.social · 17h

"cognitively there" (2020)
🎨 @sarahcpr.bsky.social

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h

Trump tweets advertising the book, and they added a label with his “review”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

“Why aren’t you celebrating?”

( @krystalball.bsky.social with a counterpoint to Speaker Johnson’s push for Trump to get a prize after enabling the carnage in Gaza)

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 18h

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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