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Dennis Mersereau 🛰️ @wxdam.com · 4h

Hurricane Melissa is now the:
-3rd Category 5 this year
-7th Category 5 in the past 3 years
-13th Category 5 in the past 10 years
-45th Category 5 in the Atlantic since 1850

Only one other Atlantic season (2005) has recorded more than two Category 5 hurricanes.

A visible satellite image of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa just south of Jamaica on Monday morning.

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Kim Wood @drkimwood.bsky.social · 4h

Side-by-side geostationary images (visible to left, infrared to right) since sunrise highlight category 5 Hurricane Melissa's painstakingly slow motion over extremely warm water. Despite its current proximity to Jamaica, landfall isn't expected until **tomorrow morning**.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3h

Hurricane Melissa flight exclusion zone

Screenshot of flightradar24.com showing hundreds of little yellow planes spread out over south Florida and the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, Central America, the eastern Caribbean and the northern edge of Colombia and Venezuela, but with a huge blank spot over the Caribbean including jamaica and eastern Cuba where no planes are flying

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wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 3h

Watching ABC News coverage of Hurricane Melissa. They showed Jamaicans doing completely reasonable thing to prepare for a Category 5 hurricane; stocking up on groceries, getting fuel for generators, evacuating inland, and then described American tourists as being "caught in the panic". Come on guys!

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jeff @jazyjef.bsky.social · 3h

Jack DeJohnette

📸 Jimmy Katz, as seen in Galleria Nazionale Dell’Umbria, Perugia, Italy

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Monica @softtail65.bsky.social · 3h

Jazz Drummer & composer Jack DeJohnette died on Sunday, at the age of 83. DeJohnette, who worked with every major jazz figure from the 1960s on, including Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Ornette Coleman, was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2007.
www.jazzwise.com/news/article...

Jack DeJohnette, jazz drumming legend, dies aged 83

The great jazz drummer, who worked with Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Sonny Rollins and Charles Lloyd among others and who also enjoyed a successful solo career, has died aged 83 of congest...

www.jazzwise.com

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Blue Note Records @bluenoterecords.bsky.social · 3h

RIP to one of the all-time greats... Jack DeJohnette has passed away at age 83. The legendary drummer is pictured here at the September 24, 1965 recording session for Jackie McLean's "Jacknife," which marked his first appearance on a Blue Note record.

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reheissergaspard.bsky.social @reheissergaspard.bsky.social · 3h

Known for her outspoken support of Palestinians, Connolly has condemned Israel’s genocide in Gaza and criticized the EU’s militarization and NATO expansion.

She succeeds Michael D. Higgins, another critic of Israel’s actions, and has pledged to be “a voice for peace.”

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 6h

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 9h

Amazon is a prime example of corporate welfare. They avoid paying corporate taxes, AND don't pay a living wage for their workers. Amazon delivery drivers get $19/hour, compared to $35/hour for unionized UPS drivers. We subsidize their operation at both levels.
shift.hks.harvard.edu/amazon-drive...

Amazon Drives Low Wages: The Unraveling of Workplace Protections for Delivery Drivers - The Shift Project

Read the Full Article Amazon has revolutionized shopping and challenged traditional brick-and-mortar retail. But at the heart of this logistics […]

shift.hks.harvard.edu

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 7h

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

White House press corps or Trump superfans?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: One theory on how you might try to serve a 3rd term is that you could run at the vice president

TRUMP: Yeah, I'd be allowed to do that. But I would rule that out because it's too cute.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what?

I’m running for California State Assembly!

Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 14h

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · 16h

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

“It’s always in the darkest chapters when the brightest lights emerge.”

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 17h

If you have a voter registration receipt, make a copy of it and save it.

Republicans are doing everything they can to deny us our vote.

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Eng Alaa @mamatwins.bsky.social · 28d

My family,my children have always been my top priority in life. They are the most precious part of me. I dedicated all my time and energy to them, until I nearly forgot myself forgot that I am an engineer who studied and worked hard for more than ten years.
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.bsky.social · 18h

Governor Kathy Hochul is speaking on stage, but the crowd keeps interrupting to chant #TaxTheRich

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

This is what should happen every single time any politician speaks in the U.S. All of them. The public needs to be militant about taxing the rich.

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Jeremy Hsu @jeremyhsu.bsky.social · 18h

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.

The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

A map image from the Flight Radar 24 service shows the flight track of a NOAA P-3 Orion aircraft flying over the Caribbean Sea, where Hurricane Melissa threatens to bring catastrophic rain and flooding to Jamaica and Haiti. Most other aircraft appear to be steering clear of the area.

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 18h

Someone want to tell Mikey here that 86% of all SNAP benefits go to households that include a child, an elderly person, or a person with disabilities?

Or that almost 40% of SNAP recipients are children?

And that Whites account for 37% of SNAP recipients?

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Nuclear Anemone @nuclearanemone.bsky.social · 18h

THIS is a great idea! 🙌

C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 18h

A Democratic Senator should hold a filibuster by reading Virginia Giuffre's entire memoir on the floor.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22h

I would like to mention again that menstrual products are covered by FSA funds. fsastore.com - so if you find yourself with money left on the table by the end of the year, consider using those funds and donate the products [pantries, homeless shelters etc...]

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"Federal agents fired a pepper round that struck the pastor of the College Heights United Church of Christ. The impact caked his face in orange powder...

“I’m in a lot of pain,” the pastor texted from the emergency room, “He clearly was aiming for the face.”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

POLLS ARE NOW OPEN.

Find out where you early vote ⬇️ 🗳️
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