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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1h

"When I arrived in Gaza City, I barely recognized it"

This sentence broke me - just Imagine how you felt if it was your childhood city

Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1h

Rubble, gangs, and airstrikes: What was waiting for me back in Gaza City

I couldn’t wait to return north after the ceasefire. But the joy of being home quickly gave way to yet more uncertainty and fear.

By Ahmed Ahmed (pseudonym for a journalist from Gaza City who asked to remain anonymous)

What was waiting for me back in Gaza City

I couldn’t wait to return north after the ceasefire. But the joy of being home quickly gave way to yet more uncertainty and fear.

www.972mag.com

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 5h

They thought they could silence us. We had a surprise for them:

www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/how-americ...

How Americans Are Blocking Trump’s Militia

Ordinary people in forgotten places are standing between families and fear.

www.digitaldrumbeat.com

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eliko thalia 🐸 @museinrevolt.bsky.social · 6h

Kayak ICE protest

Coast Guard Island in Alameda/Oakland

25.10.25 in the AM

via ig/movementphotographer

protest kayakers at coast guard island in alameda/oakland sf bay area

photo by brook anderson movementphotographer

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Herb Walker @receptor67.bsky.social · 6h

Food line for federal workers

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Joe Unseen @joeunseen.bsky.social · 7h

This is a line for a food bank.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 20h

Trump’s America: Thousands of furloughed federal workers in Hyattsville, Maryland waiting in line for food.

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Rob @cimmeria.bsky.social · 19d

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

“ICE, their secret police, is their tool,” said Michelle Brané, a human rights attorney who directed DHS’ ombudsman office under Biden. “Once they have that power, which they have now, there’s nothing stopping them from using it against citizens.”

@davidmcswane.bsky.social @hannahallam.bsky.social

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

Trump's DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents' anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challenges to their arrests and tactics.

www.propublica.org

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 1d

An ominous milestone that scientists consider a planetary #tippingpoint has been reached.

Ocean #acidification, a result of excess carbon dioxide absorbed in seawater, has surpassed safe levels in many #coralreef ecosystems.

📲Learn more from @grist.org:go.whoi.edu/grist-acidification

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Moniker42 @moniker42.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/c...

Heat Has Essentially Wiped Out 2 Key Coral Species on Florida Reefs

www.nytimes.com

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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP from me:

I uncovered that the Interior Department just quietly defunded *two* multimillion dollar research programs studying how whales move and behave near U.S. wind farms actively being built.

Trump blames wind turbines for whale deaths, then cuts vital research on the topic. 🧵

Trump claims ‘wind mills’ kill whales but quietly torpedoes the…

The Interior Department defunds two vital research programs that track North Atlantic right whales near active offshore wind construction sites.

www.canarymedia.com

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Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

“According to a 2019 USDA report, every dollar in new SNAP benefits increases GDP by $1.50 in a weak economy.”

“SNAP benefits are one of the fastest, most effective forms of economic stimulus because they get money into the economy quickly during a recession.”

~Center for Budget and Policy

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Herb Walker @receptor67.bsky.social · 1d

Close to 40% of the population is black.

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Oakland mayor, sheriff say CBP operation canceled for East Bay

oaklandside.org/2025/10/24/i...

Oakland mayor, sheriff say CBP operation canceled for East Bay

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office confirmed that federal officials have paused operations in the East Bay.

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Beingsass @beingsass.bsky.social · 1d

Here we go..

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Department Announces Plans to Monitor Polling Sites in New Jersey and California talkingpointsmemo.com/news/justice...

Justice Department Announces Plans to Monitor Polling Sites in New Jersey and California

In response to requests from state Republican parties, the Department of Justice...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Dr James O'Donoghue 🪐 @interplanetary.bsky.social · Nov 17

Light speed is fast, but space is vast...

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Herb Walker @receptor67.bsky.social · 1d

We need to get over the idea that police will ever help. They won't. They never have and never will.

We're on our own.

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Herb Walker @receptor67.bsky.social · 1d

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 1d

“We can no longer talk about tipping points as a future risk. This is our new reality.”

Coral Die-Off Marks Earth’s First Climate ‘Tipping Point,’ Scientists Say

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread coral reef bleaching and death around the world

www.scientificamerican.com

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𝐿𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝒞𝑜𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝐿𝑒𝓈𝓁𝒾𝑒 ⚾️📚 @bayareafan19.bsky.social · 1d

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US is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military buildup

The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America, in the latest escalation and buildup of military forces in the region.

kcra.com

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The Mercury News @mercurynews.com · 1d

California labor union proposes ballot measure to tax billionaires to offset Medicaid cuts trib.al/fgbncqd

California labor union proposes ballot measure to tax billionaires to offset Medicaid cuts

Service Employees International Union announced a proposal to impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires in California to address federal funding cuts to health care for low-income people.

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Herb Walker @receptor67.bsky.social · 1d

Even their shirts are brown.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

A particularly ugly installment of Butt Cracks and Beer Bellies.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 1d

NEW — Videos obtained by The TRiiBE show federal agents detaining a Laugh Factory worker on Chicago’s North Side this morning.

He and another person were detained around 9:20 a.m., according to rapid response teams.

Story TK shortly on thetriibe.com.

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Herb Walker @receptor67.bsky.social · 1d

Can't. Won't. Either.

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Herb Walker @receptor67.bsky.social · 1d

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Mojo Nixon - Don Henley Must Die

YouTube video by matOmalley

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.

It's supposed to be payday for many federal workers. Instead, they're getting nothing

Roughly 1.4 million federal workers are going without pay due to the government shutdown. About half of them are furloughed, while the other half has been deemed essential and is working without pay.

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