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David Avallone

@davallone.bsky.social

Great thread.

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 1d

The Epstein bill is headed to Trump’s desk as we speak.

So, what now? Well, a lot of panic, it seems. I have seen every single possible worst case scenario all over social media in the last hour, so let’s go through this step by step. My only request, read the whole thing before commenting.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:29 PM

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد

@hebagowayed.bsky.social

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM

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Nolan Hicks

@ndhapple.bsky.social

Nail this to a whole lot of doors, Martin Luther style

Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social · 1d

Housing affordability and the declining political fortunes of Democrats are profoundly connected.

An inability to build housing is THE big reason blue states are projected to lose 12 electoral college seats by 2032.

www.planetizen.com/features/136...

Americans are Fleeing Blue States, Even When Politics Misalign. The Culprit? Housing Affordability.

Will the blue state starter home ever return?

www.planetizen.com

November 18, 2025 at 7:23 PM

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Anya Chalina

@anyachalina.bsky.social

It's time for a new pinned post with some of my recent work.
Hi! I'm Anya! I draw fantasy illustrations like these. I am open for work and also accept private commissions.

📩: [email protected]
prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/anya...
portfolio: anyachalina.myportfolio.com

"Nuptial Rites". The illustration shows a wedding ceremony. There's a woman in the left side of the image. She wear a headpiece decorated with flowers and holds a large egg in her arms. There are stairs leading to an elevated stage with musicians playing lute on both sides of the stage. There's a skeleton in a festive clothes riding a white horse in the center of the image. There are festive robes behind them. The room is decorated with tiles and there are two roosters in front of the stage. There are some poppy flowers in the foreground. The artwork is colorful with much red, blue and beige.

"Angel's Whisper". The image shows a room decorated with tiles and murals with a pool in the foreground. There's a queen sitting in on the throne in the center of the image. There's an angel standing next to her closely. There are two white peacocks in the room and two swans swimming in the pool. The artwork is mostly grey-blue.

"The Dressing Room". The illustration shows a woman with long black hair sitting in front of the mirror. There are people behind her holding and brushing her hair. There are flowers around the woman and behind the wall in the middle ground. There's a statue of a man on the right and some flowers and herons near it. There are broken plates and vases in the foreground. There are eggs in some plates. In the background there are buildings that connect to each other. The artwork is mostly pastel with pinks, blues, turquoise and purples.

"Sojourn". This artwork is inspired by "Picnic at Hanging Rock". The artwork shows a ruin with young women sitting and standing around it. There are two teachers among them. They are skeletons. One is holding a chihuahua and another one is reading a book. The young women participate in different activities such as reading books, drawing, sharing secrets with each other, playing flute and admiring the surroundings. There are two dogs in the foreground and a bird that one of the characters is drawing. There are trees in the background and some rock formations. Two young women are walking towards the rocks. The artwork is mostly green and brown with some white and light blue accents.

May 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM

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Keung Hui

@keunghui.bsky.social

Charlotte-Mecklebburg Schools, according to reports, saw 15% of its students absent today amid Border Patrol operations in Charlotte. If that percentage of 15% happens Tuesday in Wake County due to the Border Patrol coming to Raleigh, 24.000 students could be absent from school. #nced #ncpol #wcpss

November 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

not to sound like a goldwaterite, but voters want a choice and not an echo.

November 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM

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NYC Plover Project

@nycploverproject.bsky.social

Hey @bsky.app - we’ve been posting consistently since y’all came online — photos, video & uplifting content. We are grateful for our followers but still have relatively few. What are we doing wrong? Thinking of leaving the app. So @bsky.app @support.bsky.team — & BlueSky users - what do you say?

October 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM

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Andy Craig

@andycraig.bsky.social

"The attorney in the New York office spoke in depth about the plan being recently updated to include mosques and liberal synagogues in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s recent win in the New York City mayor’s race."

Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 2d

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays

The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.

thisweekinworcester.com

November 18, 2025 at 4:16 AM

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Chris Plante

@plante.bsky.social

We lost an icon. (And a far overdue candidate for GDC's Lifetime Achievement Award.)

Heidi McDeathknelled @hmcd.bsky.social · 2d

My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...

Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM

Nathaniel Styer

@nathanielstyer.com

NYCs class size mandate is blowing a hole in the equitable funding of schools. infohub.nyced.org/docs/default...

A chart showing hundreds of millions dollars are flowing to the lowest need schools

November 17, 2025 at 9:20 PM

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Garrett M. Graff

@vermontgmg.bsky.social

Greg Bovino is leading a rebel cavalry terrorizing America—and it's important to recognize that it's in retreat. While the trauma and terror Bovino’s raiders instill is real and damaging, it’s remarkable to note how ineffective the force has turned out to be. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-bord...

Trump, Border Patrol Retreat in Failure from Chicago

Five important lessons of the first six months of Trump’s immigration raids — and why CBP’s Greg Bovino is the Nathan Bedford Forrest of the Trump era.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM

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Rachel Maddow

@maddow.bsky.social

religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest

(RNS) — 'I've got bruises all over my body,' the Rev. Michael Woolf, who was thrown to the ground and arrested by police, told RNS.

religionnews.com

November 17, 2025 at 1:18 AM

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Adam Weinstein

@adamweinstein.bsky.social

'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'

November 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM

Nathaniel Styer

@nathanielstyer.com

Someone keeps coming over the intercom at the airport to say a woman needs to come back to CINNABON to pick up an item she left behind. But the woman on the intercom doesn’t think the sound is coming through so she keeps “testing” and repeating that this woman needs to come back to CINNABON

November 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM

Nathaniel Styer

@nathanielstyer.com

God the art in Batwoman: Elegy is just stunning.

November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM

Nathaniel Styer

@nathanielstyer.com

But the NY Post told me millions….

CNBC: No one leaving nyc because of Mamdani, says two top real estate ceos

November 15, 2025 at 1:23 PM

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Syreeta McFadden

@reetamac.bsky.social

“They want Grants, not McClellans.”

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 5d

Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform.

If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

November 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM

Nathaniel Styer

@nathanielstyer.com

Love to negotiate with Aetna.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

TRUMP: We’re going to give Americans the money to buy health insurance

REPORTER: But won’t they buy it from
Insurance companies?

TRUMP: Ahhh. Some may. I mean they’ll be negotiating prices

November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM

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Tina Smith

@smith.senate.gov

People should be allowed to have a THC seltzer if they want to

Photo of a common meme of a man standing up alone to speak out at a public forum.

November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈

@josephpolitano.bsky.social

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM

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Max Kennerly

@maxkennerly.bsky.social

The Republican "affordability" plan is to undo some of their own bad policies that made costs go up. So much winning.

Trump Readies Tariff Cuts, Trade Deals in Affordability Push

US President Donald Trump is readying substantial tariff cuts designed to address high food prices and a series of new trade deals — including framework agreements with Argentina, Guatemala, El Salvad...

www.bloomberg.com

November 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM

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Mike Elsen-Rooney

@michaelelsenroo.bsky.social

Mamdani’s visit to a BK child care center yesterday illustrated one of the problems in the system he’ll have to confront: 2 of the center’s classrooms, meant for 3K/PreK, have sat empty for 5 yrs. Citywide, ~27,000 free child care seats, 1 in 5, were empty last yr: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...

First puzzle Mamdani’s universal child care plan must solve: NYC’s empty seat problem

Last year, more than 27,000 of the city’s roughly 136,000 free child care seats for kids ages 4 and under went unfilled, about 1 in every 5 seats.

www.chalkbeat.org

November 14, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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Zack Quaintance -> Thought Bubble

@zackquaintance.bsky.social

great profile in the LA Times of the “vato skateboarders” from One Battle After Another, who were actual skaters from El Paso, where the battle of baktan cross (my favorite sequence in the movie) was filmed

El Paso is lowkey one of the coolest cities in the country

www.latimes.com/delos/story/...