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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 17h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

It bears repeating that this funding continuing to go to red districts comes disproportionately from blue districts that are being deprived of funding. Talk about socialism!

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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 1d

Where does the #sky #start ?
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing #writercommunity
#mpprompt
@malformed-poetry.bsky.social

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration removed the 5th National climate assessment, which was congressionally mandated and taxpayer funded, because they deny science. It’s now back online on a non-government website.

Fifth National Climate Assessment

The Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government’s preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the…

nca5.climate.us

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s revenge and vengeance tour continues. Word is that this week, John Bolton, former national security adviser to Trump turned prominent critic, is expected to be charged with federal crimes.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d

So, js Bessent admitting that Trump is king?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

You gotta give ‘em hop.

A tweet from the Anonymous account says, “Make sure the dude in the frog costume in Portland knows he's an icon.” The image is a stylized poster of a frog wearing a stars-and-stripes scarf with the word “HOP” below, in the style of the Obama “HOPE” poster.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 2d

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Firing someone purely for their political affiliation is illegal and is a violation of free speech.

Tweet from The Bulwark: “Q: ‘How many layoffs have you authorized?’ Trump: ‘A lot. It will be Democrat oriented… They should be Democrat oriented. It will be a lot and we’ll announce the numbers over the next couple of days... Many of them will be fired.’”
Below, a photo shows Donald Trump speaking to reporters in the Oval Office surrounded by staff and press.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 3d

This is Chicago Pastor David Black. Trump’s fascist thugs targeted and then shot him in the head with a pepper bullet because he was praying outside an ICE facility.

Resist this kind of government violence from becoming America’s new normal.

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Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social · 3d

I

I worry
I purse
I #fret
I curse
I smile
I hide
I cry
I chide
I laugh
I shake
I mask
I fake

So no one really understands
I'm a fractured man.

#vssdaily #free-form #poem #MentalHealth

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Steve Westby @stevewestby.bsky.social · 3d

Prediction Error

let the soft earth
of fellow souls
eternally surprise you

be gobsmacked by kindness

fall in love with joy

and dance in amazement—
that music exists
at all

#poetry

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poetrader.bsky.social @poetrader.bsky.social · 3d

#Stunday #Autumn #Landscape

A silvery day

Blowing green rushes in the foreground, silvery water in the mid ground, brown rushes behind which are orange, brown and dark green trees in the distance, all under a grey sky with clouds.

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goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 3d

#gaza #genocide #return #poetry

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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 3d

In the morning, mist.
Let tears speak for themselves.
October, breathing.

#haiku

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone come to mind?

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 3d

@malformed-poetry.bsky.social #MPPrompt #whistpr #sweet #haiku

I never trusted
the sweetness of peach blossoms
the north wind speaks plain

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Raymh @rayhourigan.bsky.social · 3d

"Blue Sky of Grief"

The dry air mocks me,
Cerulean desert stole
All my tears away.

#BSPP43 #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@blueskypoetry.bsky.social

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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 3d

the slow undoing

what you forget
doesn’t disappear
it sinks-

layer by layer
through the silt of being
until it becomes
the ground you walk on

#poetry

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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 3d

'Tis the season.

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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 3d

It's definitely giving pass me the popcorn lol 😜🍿🎥

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3d

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks for the repost @malformed-poetry.bsky.social🙏

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Suzy Dobie @suzydobie.bsky.social · 4d

#poetry
#poetrycommunity
#writing #writercommunity
#mpprompt
#trust
#beware
@malformed-poetry.bsky.social

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