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Flowers Georg @pantalonesfuego.bsky.social · 2h

It's been a while, but it has finally rained enough for the fungus to appear again! 🍄📷 #fungifriends #iseemoss

Large bulbous rounded yellow fungus growing from the knot in a tree that also has a lot of moss.

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 1h

And take part in the consultation, please.

The Hampstead ponds have always been inclusive. They MUST remain so.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 2h

This is truly pathetic. Dems have the winning hand, and Shaheen maneuvering to get them to fold. Keep up the pressure folks - show up on Saturday! No Kings, No Cronies, No Capitulators.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 3h

Jeanne Shaheen - the DINO Senator from New Hampshire keeps looking for ways to surrender to Trump and MAGA in Congress. @punchbowlnews.bsky.social

Just one year extension of ACA subsidies would be a pathetic cave at this point. #noblankchecks

“This is news. There’s a bipartisan group of senators discussing several different potential off-ramps involving the enhanced Obamacare subsidies. The group, led in part by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), is discussing the possibility of holding two side-by-side votes intended to end the shutdown, per multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The first vote would be to reopen the government, while the second would be on a one-year extension of the Obamacare enhanced premium tax credits, plus a commitment to pass a longer-term solution by a date certain.
Locking this in would require unanimous consent, of course, and Republicans have already ruled out the idea of tying an Obamacare extension to government funding. Plus, progressives — including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — have rejected a one-year Obamacare credits extension, which would punt the problem to right before the midterms.”

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 2h

"Even if you stick a chatbot on wheels and put a webcam on top, it’s not going to be able to write a compelling magazine story [...] But there is an outside force that I do worry about losing my job to: other writers who don’t believe my job should exist." — @jscros.bsky.social

It's All PR From Here On Out

A new tech "magazine" promises a conflict-free approach to prestige press.

www.discourseblog.com

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Chris the Frankenstein @christhefriend.bsky.social · 1h

If you want to help save classical music public radio in Kansas (and who wouldn't?) consider throwing a couple of dollars to radiokansas.com.

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The bird says, "Abolish ICE" @imadifferentbird.myatproto.social · 3h

I never thought we'd live in a world where the fucking Drudge Report is to the left of the New York Times.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 3h

in fairness they are going to need a lot of fig leaves to cover this up

Bi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 14h

The federal government is shut down with no end in sight as the GOP have basically dissolved Congress until further notice, and the president is acting like he can do whatever he wants with the money.

Meanwhile, @gluesenkampperez.house.gov has a critical press release for: her local leaf contest.

A photo of a guy holding a very large leaf taped to cardstock, along with a link to am article:
Oct 9, 2025
Press
Gluesenkamp Perez Announces 2025 Bigleaf Maple Big Leaf Showcase
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) announced her third annual Bigleaf Maple Big Leaf Showcase, to...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 15h

Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if it’s a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.

Reuters @reuters.com · 22h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 16h

I'm not commenting on scotus today because I have to focus on one dumpster fire at a time so as not to have a heart attack in my 30s. I will just say, today is a great day to learn more about Reconstruction. I'll keep recommending Black Reconstruction as one of my favorite books on the period.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15h

Things are going well over on X, the town square, the place a whole lot of influential people in media and politics believe fairly reflects the views of most Americans.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 16h

musk personally allowed a nazi pedo doxxing cult to publish a bunch of leftists banking information, I think?

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 16h

If you are not reading the Rachel Peng books, you are missing out!

K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 22h

Announcing INSIDE THREAT, the sixth Rachel Peng book, in which our heroine reinvents disaster tourism from the ground up.

www.patreon.com/posts/inside...

#book #books #scifi #sff #BookSky

The cover for INSIDE THREAT, the next Rachel Peng book, as a small figure climbs a lush green staircase into the light.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

Every single person who actually shows up to a protest is contributing more than all the online protest critiquers combined

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 1d

"who he right attacks, we defend"

How hard is this??? Its a very simply rule!

If the right is attacking, we are defending.

Anyway, i will be there are Saturday in my portland frog costume

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 16h

This has been bothering me all day because the obvious point of No Kings is to show we have the power to do a color revolution if they don‘t honor the results of future elections.

The other point is to radicalize fence-sitters by having people who are *clearly doing nothing wrong* be tear gassed

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 17h

Are YOU ready for Saturday? 🐸
nokings.org

2 a.m.-"Someone is at your door" notification.
2:08:07 AM

FROG SMILING INTO THE CAMERA

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21h

if this isn’t the prime example of it, but it proves i think definitively that the purchase of twitter was an ideological move by musk, and not a financial one. he wants the nazi dox squads on there because it helps the cause elon musk believes in

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 23h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 23h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 21h

again, it’s an open secret in DC that basically all of the GOP staff class are unabashed (literal swastika flags in their cubicles!) Nazis

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 21h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 21h

tl;dr this is, as I've been screaming into the wind about for a week now, not just illegal as shit but fundamentally means the Constitution as written is no longer in effect

That said if you want an even deeper dive on the subject than I've done, this is a very good thread

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Novium @novium.bsky.social · 1d

I am always moved by how steadfast ordinary people are in standing up to this bullshit and extremely depressed about how very passive actual leaders are

Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 1d

They tear gassed 13 Chicago police officers. Please watch this footage of federal officers throwing tear gas canisters into crowds of people who are simply observing and recording on their phones. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

www.nytimes.com

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Novium @novium.bsky.social · 1d

Evergreen

Garrett Gilchrist @garrettgilchrist.bsky.social · Jun 24

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital.

CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one

PELOSI: Take the shot

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

The moment when he starts giving his canned response and she goes “that’s such bullshit” lmao I have no idea who these ladies are but they rock

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

"We have a rising new Dem star who really engages with people, and is sure to win their next election."

DEM LEADERSHIP: That's fantastic.

"What are the next steps?"

DEM LEADERSHIP: Simple. Force them to step aside and throw their support behind this 80-year-old lifetime politician.

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