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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 22h

"Take the long way" Po' Girl www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI2c... #music"Take the long way" Po' Girl www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI2c... #music

Po'Girl - Take The Long Way [Live]

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 22h

"You can't always get what you want" & "I shall be released" Bette Midler www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLtK... #music

You Can't Always Get What You Want / I Shall Be Released (Live)

YouTube video by Bette Midler - Topic

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 22h

"This little light of mine" Montgomery Gospel Trio, Nashville Quartet, Guy Carawan www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdV... #music #freedom

This Little Light of Mine

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

Dingus of the Week: Bari Weiss
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Dingus of the Week: Bari Weiss

You let the Kool-Aid man promise that this time he’s not gonna crash through the wall?

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about the Elizabeth Holmes of the media lyz.substack.com/p/let-the-al...

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

Dingus of the week: Malcolm Gladwell
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Dingus of the week: Malcolm Gladwell

And the ourodingus

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onion person @junlper.beer · Sep 6

we’re going to have to throw a lot of people in jail after all this is over

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 22d

If you love the song “Me and Bobby McGee” you absolutely must read @elongreen.bsky.social on the life of the woman who inspired the song.

The Unlikely Story of the Secretary Who Inspired One of Music’s Greatest Songs

“Me and Bobby McGee” was originally about a woman—Barbara “Bobbie” McKee. I talked to her.

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Lyz @lyz.bsky.social · 9d

The man who looks like a non-denominational youth pastor seconds from being discovered on Grindr wastes all of our time this week lyz.substack.com/p/too-sauced...

Dingus of the Week: Pete Hegseth

This meeting could have been a fever dream

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

MIT Becomes First School to Reject Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” for Higher Education www.commondreams.org/news/mit-did...

'MIT Did the Right Thing': First School Rejects Trump Extortion Compact | Common Dreams

MIT became the first school to reject President Donald Trump's "extortion" agreement for federal funding. Critics of his compact urge other universities to follow suit.

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

We will not be turned around.

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 1d

ICE Is Putting Pregnant Immigrants — and Their Children — at Risk 19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk

Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

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Shamontiel @shamontiel.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reassigning hundreds of employees across several of its agencies to assist in the Trump administration’s broad immigration crackdown and will dismiss staffers who refuse to comply, according to news reports.
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Homeland Security reassigns 'hundreds' of CISA cyber staffers to support Trump's deportation crackdown | TechCrunch

News of the reassignments comes at a time when the U.S. is facing a wave of hacks targeting private industry and the federal government.

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Boocow16 @boocow16.bsky.social · 1d

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Mr O'Donnell, are you telling us that the Republicans during the Shutdown will pay for Donald Trump his own Qatar Air Force One? Yet they will not support a Bill to pay the Troops! I wish you were on MSNBC live tonight 😪

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Republicans reject push to block Trump from using Qatari jet as Air Force One

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Eric Slater @esslater.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, maga confirms it is a death cult.

The criminals in charge want us all to die.

They need to be tried at The Hague and would no doubt be convicted of crimes against humanity.

What sane person actually agrees with the damage they're causing?

It is beyond sick.

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democracycounts.bsky.social @democracycounts.bsky.social · 1d

How can the Democrats be responsible for the shut down when the three branches of Congress are controlled by Republicans🤷🏼‍♀️

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Foodogflowerfloozy @foodogflowerfloozy.bsky.social · 1d

Two weekends worth of waste and abuse of government funds. Why don’t they use that to pay people? And refuse him trips? Oh that’s right the spineless Republicans won’t come back into Congress and do their jobs.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Spends Back-to-Back Weekends at His Golf Club as Shutdown Continues

Two weekends, two shutdown golf trips

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🇨🇦Rose🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.❤️🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 1d

📣🚨Every military family out there, needs to see this. You are either MAGA or stupid AF, to continue fighting for him at home, and frankly, anywhere else he is manufacturing war.

Because if he treats you like this now? If you are injured or die in service, imagine what your family will be provided.🚨

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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cannebrown.bsky.social @cannebrown.bsky.social · 1d

How long before Democrats can't find jobs and can't vote? Corruption throughout MAGA. Trump Says Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Trump Says Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown

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silverboss.bsky.social @silverboss.bsky.social · 1d

GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military and hardline position on the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies. GOP do not care for Americans just the Rich ,and the rich don't care about anyone but them selves, shut down can be weathered by them

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Bridget 🦋 🌸📎🕊️💙 🇺🇦🇨🇦🌞📚🎶🌍🍀 @bawalker.bsky.social · 1d

Well done!

gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · 1d

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 1d

In another “act of courage”, the Republican Party is refusing to act to ensure our military members are paid citing “It’s more important that we deny healthcare to poor people than pay our military personnel.”

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GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

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