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Analyst. Equality. Justice. Ally. Communities matter. 🚫DM 🚫Crypto/BitC/Doge 🌍🗻🌊🏀✌️❤️🕯️

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NanaBanana @nanab2010.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning Blue sky. I am seeking recs for accurate #American #history. Including #NativeAmericans #Black #AfricanAmerican #Latino #Asian #CivilWar #BattleOf1812 #CivilRights #WomensRights #Disability All movements & happenings. Building my own library B4 they change it #TYI ☮️♥️🕯️

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Sumida Hokusai Museum, Tokyo, Japan by architect Kazuyo Sejima, known for her designs with clean modernist elements #womensart

Photo of a modern building with mirrored front and angular shapes set at unusual angles

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The Hindu @thehindu.com · 1d

U.S. President Donald Trump’s fresh tariffs on imported wood, furniture and kitchen cabinets took effect, a development likely to fuel building costs and pile pressure on homebuyers in an already challenging market.
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U.S. President Donald Trump tariffs on timber, furniture take effect

Fresh tariffs on wood, furniture, and kitchen cabinets by Donald Trump to boost U.S. industries, raising building costs and homebuyer pressure.

www.thehindu.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

More than 2,500 people have been charged as an initial crackdown on the expression has spawned broader protests.

Why is India prosecuting Muslims who said ‘I love Muhammad’?

More than 2,500 people have been charged as an initial crackdown on the expression has spawned broader protests.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Kimika Hara, contemporary embroiderer from Japan #WomensArt

Pictorial embroidery of a stylised hedgehog fzcing left looking outwards with vivid green spikes, pink ears and yellow face

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 1d

Authorities on Monday identified the 16 people killed in a devastating blast at a rural Tennessee explosives plant last week, as investigators promised a painstaking process to figure out what happened by tracking down pieces of evidence that may now be miles apart.

Authorities name the 16 killed in Tennessee plant blast, with a painstaking investigation promised

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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 1d

TEACH-IN
Oct. 17, 6:30 PM | Location provided after Registration

Memphis Resistance Fest begins with a powerful teach-in. Join us and learn how to make real change - with strategies, tactics and tools to make our movement stronger and effectve.

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Freedom Trainers Teach In Registration

Fill out the information below to register for the Freedom Trainers teach in which will kick off day 1 of Memphis Resistance Fest on Friday, October 17, 2025. This training will be held from 6-8 PM. T...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 1d

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Ferry Godmother @ferrygodmother.com · 1d

Event Management Inclusivity & Accessibility
A local bookstore hosted VR readings for visually impaired clients with audio descriptions. 👉Question: How can you make your products and events accessible to everyone?

#Event #Entertainment #EventPlanning #smallbusiness #EventManagement #vr

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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.

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.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

Why are your electric bills suddenly 30-50% higher, you ask?

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 1d

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Sora 2 and ChatGPT are consuming so much power that OpenAI just did another 10 gigawatt deal | CNN Business

OpenAI is partnering with Broadcom to design and develop 10 gigawatts of custom AI chips and systems, a massive amount of power that will use as much electricity as a large city. The move further high...

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

Find your local No Kings event here: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=h...

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 ...

www.nokings.org

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

DAILY MEMO: ICE Raids San Fernando Valley Kidnapping At Least 20 People and More 🧵 2 parts

If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a member of L.A. TACO, buying some merch, or dropping a dime in our fundraiser so we can continue to bring you this vital information.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This is Antifa. Which, I guess, makes Republicans Profa.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with a Child in her Arms, (Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm), 1916 #WomensArt

Sketch of a a white woman, upper half. holding her child lovingly smiling, while the child touches the mother's face

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

[Professor Farnsworth voice]: "Good news, everyone !"

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Dovewoman 💙 🇺🇦 💙 @dovewoman.bsky.social · 1d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

'Heart of the Dragon, Socotra, Yemen' by photographer Beth Moon on her fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees of the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a close-up of a large ancient living tree in a flat landscape with other trees in the distance, the tree has many branches forming a rounded flat canopy viewed from underneath

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Uncle Lonny @unclelonny.bsky.social · 2d

In 62 years, the only time I didn’t feel safe was when I stood up to a gang of Neo Nazi Skinheads. Why isn’t trump sending in the Guard to states that have a strong White Supremacy presence?

#USDemocracy

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

Need a laptop? This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

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the reticent object in question @dbw.neocities.org · 2d

who wanna start a book club with me? tentative list:

The Power Broker
Infinite Jest
Ulysses
War and Peace
In Search of Lost Time
Homestuck

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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Bad Choices Make Good Stories @badchoices.us · 2d

School prayer will create a lot of new atheists.

Every day, every student will pray for no more school shootings.

And every day there will be more school shootings.

Because prayer doesn’t work. They’ll learn that in school now.

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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 2d

“Australian household energy bills will halve by 2050 as solar panels, batteries and electric cars and appliances become the norm”

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s household energy bills will halve by 2050, modelling suggests

Grattan Institute report argues fall in costs will provide federal government room for more action on climate

www.theguardian.com

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