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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 7h

Appalachian coal workers suffer from black lung, an incurable respiratory disease killing its victims slowly & painfully.

@kimkelly.bsky.social reports on how the Trump administration is delaying a life-saving safety rule, while claiming to stand with miners.

Trump to Coal Miners: Drop Dead

The administration keeps delaying a life-saving safety rule—while claiming to love coal miners.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6h

JD Vance will say literally anything that he thinks will get him more power. He is the platonic ideal of the soulless politician. No morals, no values, nothing but a yawning void that will never be fulfilled.

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 7h

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 7h

They say “I love Hitler” is just a normal “boys will be boys” thing to say and then freak out when they’re called Nazis lol

Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 7h

“Banter”

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 9h

If a Gannett paper like the Columbus Dispatch is running articles like this a ton of papers will be running stories like this. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

News headline: "How Trump's tariffs are hurting a Grove City manufacturing company"

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Terrance @mrmulligan.bsky.social · 1d

Cesspool

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0.

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Terrance @mrmulligan.bsky.social · 1d

American Gestapo

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Adam L. Cox @adamlcox.bsky.social · 2d

Great piece that may make you a UAB fan.

Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 3d

Here’s what I wrote about the DILFSASTER last year

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Matthew L. Miller @matthewlmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Good to see Gray’s Sporting Journal covering “roughfish” & native fish conservation, including the work of @solomonrdavid.bsky.social.

Article in Gray’s Sporting Journsl titled “Trash Fish” about native fish conservation, written by long-time environmental journalist Ted Williams.

Cover of Gray’s Sporting Journal, an outdoor magazine.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Support a candidate Fox News hates!! secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-bluesky

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

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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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

Not a single Democrat voted in July for the $4.5 trillion in tax cuts within President Trump’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill. trib.al/aiMllmQ

The only legislators who voted themselves tax cuts were Republicans—not a single Republican voted *against* the bill.

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mpete91 @mpete91.bsky.social · 2d

Going to try and cross-shitpost.

After a bye week break, welcome back

KNOW THE DIFFERENCE! I spent minutes of research this morning looking up helpful information about our next football foe, the University of Chapel Hill in Carolina! Please help spread the word so that we are all well educated!

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Terrance @mrmulligan.bsky.social · 2d

British govt sucks.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 3d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 2d

Honestly, it needs to go further than this.

We need to confront the fact that democracy and wealth hoarding cannot coexist. Allowing people to amass the resources of a small state/country allows them to act as such, which is inimical to a shared society of “one person, one vote.”

John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 2d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 2d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Margaret Cho @margaretcho.bsky.social · 3d

If Jan 6 was all Antifa then why did you pardon them?

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Brittney Bush Bollay @brittneybush.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been meaning to do a Mariners fit thread forever, and Josh Naylor finally forced my hand. Strolling into Rogers Center in a bubble gum pink, Chanel-inspired textured blazer? And ROCKING it? Swagger levels off the charts.

Josh Naylor walking in to Rogers Center in distressed jeans, multicolored sneakers, sunglasses, and a pink blazer. Luis Castillo is walking in behind him.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 2d

Goddamn, this @rodger.bsky.social article kicks so much ass

A breakdown of UAB's Trent Dilfer Debacle (Dilfsaster?)

This is the story of a program which had a lot to be proud of, but decided its own remarkable revival was less interesting than ESPN's 248th-most likable personality.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 3d

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

FORM A CROWD
STAY LOUD
PROTECT EACH OTHER
CODE I:
ICE NEARBY
BLOW QUICKLY IN A BROKEN RHYTHM:
PRE-PRE-PRE!
→ ALERTS THE COMMUNITY THAT ICE AGENTS ARE IN THE AREA.
ROGERS PARK WHISTLE PROTOCOLS
WHY A WHISTLE? ON THE STREETS
• A SIMPLE TOOL FOR FAST ALERTS.
• LOUD.
RECOGNIZABLE.
IMPOSSIBLE TO IGNORE.
• OUR VOICES ARE
STRONGER TOGETHER.
WHISTLES GUIDE
PEOPLE TO:
• FOLLOW ICE CARAVANS
• CATCH UP WITH THE CROWD
• ALERT NEIGHBORS
TO JOIN IN
NOISE = VISIBILITY.
CODE 2:
CODE RED
BLOW THREE LONG BLASTS:
PREEEE-PREEEE-PREEEE!
→ ICE IS DETAINING SOMEONE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
DON'T STAY SILENT. STAY NONVIOLENT.
WHY IT WORKS
• INSTANT ALERT
SYSTEM
• FASTER THAN SOCIAL MEDIA
• TURNS SILENCE INTO COMMUNITY
ACTION
ORIGINAL FLYER CREATED BY:
WHAT YOU CAN DO
• WEAR YOUR WHISTLE AROUND YOUR NECK
TEACH FAMILY
EIGHBORS TH
CODES
• USE IT WHEN ICE IS
SPOTTED
• PROTECT EACH OTHER, ALWAYS
TOGETHER, WE KEEP OUR COMMUNITY SAFE.
FORM A CROWD, STAY LOUD.
THIS FLYER DISTRIBUTED BY:
PROTECT RP
• @PROTECTRP_

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Finally realized what the freakout over Mamdani becoming mayor reminded me of, and it's the freakout over the first black mayors in southern cities.

New post at CAMPAIGN TRAILS:

"Too Young to Die"

As the seemingly endless NYC mayoral campaign enters its final weeks, the howls of the Democratic establishment in the city are only getting louder. They've really convinced themselves that the elect...

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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