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Proverbial Crow 🌲 🎃 @proverbialcrow.bsky.social · Sep 26

While cats sit quietly in their magnificence and mystery. Beauty bows before them, and the air holds its breath.

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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 8h

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THE FIREWALL AGAINST NICK FUENTES IS CRUMBLING
The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling

The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

www.theatlantic.com

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 9h

It actually is mind blowing to check out X and see what is essentially 4chan which is also populated with politicians, media figures, "thought leaders" etc.

A dystopian horror, really. Where neo-Nazis now have equal standing with mainstream leaders. There is a reason Fuentes is now so mainstreamed.

Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11h

The authoritarian takeover of X was a harbinger of the regime’s strategy for America at large.

Bluesky is a perfectly adequate refuge for X exiles. The biggest problem with Bluesky is that so many political and media elites are still on X. That’s not Bluesky’s fault—it reflects poorly on the elite.

Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 12h

I'm doing a big Bluesky column today! Hit me with your where-Bluesky-is-at-this-moment-in-2025 takes

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

It can often feel like these fascists will never be held to account.

Remember, they wear masks for a reason. They use Signal for a reason. They block the press for a reason.

They do not even believe in themselves. They are scared their coup will be foiled—and they’re right to be, because it will.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.

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Proverbial Crow 🌲 🎃 @proverbialcrow.bsky.social · 11h

Is Mikey experiencing early onset memory loss? The most Know Nothing bunch in the last 175 years.

Proverbial Crow 🌲 🎃 @proverbialcrow.bsky.social · 11h

Trump: "The deadliest ceasefire in history. No one has ever done a ceasefire like we have. Unprecedented!"

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

Forrest Smith, the only National Park Service engineer cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells, lost his contract, leaving 93 orphaned wells on park lands unmanaged. These leaking wells release methane and toxins, threatening human health and the environment.

He Alone Tracked Leaky Oil Wells in National Parks. He Was Let Go.

www.nytimes.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 19h

Just a reminder: millions of people who live in “red” states didn’t vote for any of this shit.

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VCU Ram @vcu-rams.bsky.social · 22h

green light ✅

you’ve got the green light to go to the opener this season. 🎟️ in our bio ⤴️

Credits to: @VCU_Hoops

#VCURam #RamPride #VCUCommunity #GoRams #VCUSports #RamNation

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 22h

Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney seeks third term as shootings decline. Critics contend he’s soft on criminals

www.theguardian.com

Philadelphia’s progressive district attorney seeks third term as shootings decline. Critics contend he’s soft on criminals

twp.ai

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 22h

the positive *economic* effects of assistance programs are pretty well studied

those studies are ignored in politics

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 22h

For struggling Americans, SNAP (food stamp program) reduces debt and delinquencies and increases credit scores.
www.nber.org/papers/w34434
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Financial Consequences of Being Denied Benefit Access
Tatiana Homonoff, Min S. Lee & Katherine Meckel
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Working Paper 34434
DOI 10.3386/w34434
Issue Date October 2025
We examine the causal impact of being denied benefit access on the financial well-being of marginally-excluded households. Using experimental and quasi-random variation in the flexibility of mandatory intake interviews and a unique linkage between administrative Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and credit report data, we find that households screened out of SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer tangible downstream economic consequences. Specifically, we find that process-related denials increase debt and delinquencies, and decrease credit scores. These results highlight the economic importance of implementation design and its role in strengthening (or undermining) the financial protection provided by social insurance programs.

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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 1d

YES! READ IT ALOUD! Let them squirm...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

I mean. Look, Dems, you post about healthcare every day while Trumps secret police kidnaps Americans, and Scott Adams has lobbed you a softball right into your posting sweet spot. If you can't make hay on THIS during the shutdown then I don't know what to tell you

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Healthcare but only for my friends

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Fantastic, as least while public laughter isn’t against the law in the United States yet…

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 1d

Godfrey is at again….now at Union Station in DC doing his Trump impression for the troops 🤣💀

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

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Religious leaders' request to give communion to detainees at Broadview facility is denied again

Organizers said they followed Department of Homeland Security protocol and formally requested access more than one week ahead of the Mass. The request was denied, according to a statement from the vil...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Remember, they're currently arguing that Biden's pardons are illegitimate because he signed the actual forms with an autopen.

Trump, meanwhile, repeatedly insists he knows nothing at all about one of his very controversial pardons. Never heard of the guy!

Sorta seems like a problem.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1d

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people

if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

But here’s the most uncomfortable truth of all: the parasites that have taken over so much of our country—pantsuited girlboss advertising executives, Skittle-haired they/them activists, soy-faced pajama-clad work-from-home HR apparatchiks, Adderall-addicted dog mom diversity consultants, nasally voiced Ivy League regulatory lawyers, obese George Soros–funded police abolitionist district attorneys, hipster trust fund socialists—are some of the least impressive people in the history of the world. The Uniparty would never have achieved what it has in this country without a great degree of rottenness, of decadence, of torpor, of complacency already

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Liberal Television @liberaltelevision.bsky.social · 13d

The “real America” talk dies right here.
Blue states that voted for Harris make $13.6T in GDP. Trump’s? $8.1T.
Turns out the “radical left” is paying for conservatives roads, hospitals, and their bailouts.

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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not a mistake when you have no process.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh poor people can buy popsicles with food stamps” shut the fuck up the government gives perverts a trillion dollars in government money each year for pervert factories for billionaires the fucking popsicles are none of your fuckin business

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

This weekend is Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a holiday celebrated in Mexico and parts of Latin America. It's a mix of grief and joy honoring the dead.

In Tijuana, Mexico, people took the opportunity to remember journalists who were killed while reporting. Matthew Bowler of KPBS reports.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a name for this.

C O R R U P T I O N

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Fighting Liberal Texas Dem🌈🌊💙🦋Congress Switchboard 202-224-3121 @fightingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

US judge skeptical Trump administration can suspend food benefits https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-judge-skeptical-trump-administration-173801862.html

US judge skeptical Trump administration can suspend food benefits

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) -A federal judge in Boston on Thursday said it appeared to her that President Donald Trump's administration cannot legally suspend all food aid for millions of

www.yahoo.com

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SuMo📞Congress 202-224-3121📞CSPAN 202-748-8000 @sumoh7.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans must negotiate in good faith. Democrats are in Washington.
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KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 4d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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MadGreek 🧿 @madgreek2024.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrants helped the Dodgers win. A Japanese player, Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 2025 World Series MVP 🏆 A Venezuelan (Miggy Rojas) hit a home run that tied the game and brought in the extra innings to win the World Series for the Dodgers.

Back in Venezuela they are preparing for war against USA.

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