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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 4h

spotted in my friend’s witchy oddities store in Chicago 👻

extremely cute little white ceramic ghost figure holding a white ceramic picket sign that reads “Fuck ICE”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 9h

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 16h

Lia Smith was 21 years old and transgender and she should still be alive

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Lia Smith, Missing
21-Year-Old Trans Student, Found Dead in Vermont
by Mikelle Street

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 11h

They kicked Lia Smith off the Middlebury College Swimming and Diving team for being trans and now, as the 2026 season kicks off, she's dead. Rest in power, Lia. The world is so cruel sometimes.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 19h

Mamdani did this without tacking to the center by accepting republican framing and throwing marginalized people under the bus or even apologizing for being socialist; something that party operatives who actually want to win might learn from.

THE CITY @thecity.nyc · 21h

Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.

First Weekend of Early Voting Shatters Record, as Mamdani Rallies Thousands in Queens

Turnout was massive across all five boroughs, with voters telling THE CITY that they were motivated to vote for — and against — the Democratic nominee.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 8h

a trans girl in vermont was kicked off her swimming team and committed suicide and at the very same time, the discourse in d.c. today is about whether the democratic party should’ve abandoned her sooner in order to win votes

a day in an american life

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 10h

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17h

ICE Goons in Carpentersville were immediately told to leave the private property, which they did because they lacked the required judicial warrant.

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Greg Halling @ghalling.bsky.social · 5h

USDA confirmed over the weekend it will not follow its own contingency plan — which the department has removed from its website — to tap into its multi-year contingency fund to cover food assistance for more than 42 million people for November. (Ariana Figueroa & Jennifer Shutt / States Newsroom)

Upcoming federal food assistance pause intensifies shutdown fight • Washington State Standard

WASHINGTON — The stakes of the ongoing government shutdown rose Monday as the U.S. Department of Agriculture doubled down on its position that food benefits for November could not be paid and a union…

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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 6h

First the administration cut food assistance for Americans in need.

Now they’re refusing to use emergency funds for food assistance—even though their now-deleted shutdown plan said they could.

They have the funding to keep families from going hungry. There’s no excuse.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

11pm tonight 👀

A screen outside a dressing room that says “ZOHRAN MAMDANI. The Daily Show.”

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Mel Barrett @inbetweenpod.bsky.social · 5h

Children being ripped from their mother. FUCK THIS

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8h

ICE followed the mother into a school and aggressively detained her along with her children.
This is so heartbreaking 💔

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18h

New from me:

Elite law firms, multiple media outlets, the D.C. attorney general, and a group of parents accused a teacher of molesting 15 kids. They were wrong.

This piece is two-and-a-half years in the making. And as you'll see, it took some incredible turns, even as I was reporting it.

Accusing Jordan Silverman

A D.C. teaching assistant was accused of molesting up to 15 kids. Multiple law enforcement agencies cleared him. But his nightmare was just beginning.

radleybalko.substack.com

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Jen Johans @filmintuition.bsky.social · 7h

New noir in the house featuring a knockout list of authors, including one of my besties, the gifted @nikkidolson.bsky.social. Pick up EIGHT VERY BAD NIGHTS through @poisonedpenbooks.bsky.social!

store.poisonedpen.com/item/z5gDKBm...

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Shel Winkley @shelwinkleywx.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, hurricanes have rapidly intensified in October before.
Yes, the Caribbean has been untouched this hurricane season.

But we understand the human influence on the excessive warmth in the basin, boosting #Melissa's intensity.

Real-time data & the human-caused impacts 🧵👇

Climate Central @climatecentral.org · 2d

#Melissa is starting to rapidly intensify (RI) in the Caribbean as it amps into an expected Cat 5 hurricane by (latest) Monday.

While there have been others to do it, a hurricane undergoing RI in October is relatively uncommon.

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Jen @loopdilou.bsky.social · 3d

My husband has sort of shut down so I've just gone through and applied for every welding job in like a 45 mile radius. We needed help before, now we're desperate as he was laid-off 3 weeks ago. Updated gofundme.

gofund.me/05f38426b

Donate to Desperate! Help a Family Overcome Financial Hardship, organized by Jen Zink

UPDATE: My husband was essentially laid-off 3 weeks ago but his former b… Jen Zink needs your support for Desperate! Help a Family Overcome Financial Hardship

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 2d

I mean, seriously, if they never publish another word I write: GFY.

"In defense of the White House ballroom," assert the lickspittles.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight.

www.nbcnews.com/weather/stor...

Hurricane Melissa could be Jamaica's most powerful storm in history

“There is nowhere that will escape the wrath of this storm,” said Evan Thompson of Jamaica’s Meteorological Service. Melissa is already blamed for four deaths.

www.nbcnews.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 3d

If you can, please support a local food bank today. The need is urgent.

Find one near you here: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

Find Your Local Food Bank | Feeding America

Find the Feeding America member food bank nearest you. Over 200 member food banks can connect you with free food, food pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries in your community.

www.feedingamerica.org

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 2d

I want to point out to everyone, in case you didn’t realize, that ICE is still getting paid on time, while 1.4million+ fed workers aren’t

When the Nazi’s consolidated power in the 1930s, one of its core strategies was prioritizing the funding of coercive institutions - the SS, Gestapo, & military

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 2d

At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 2d