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Melanie @grammar-girl.bsky.social · 15h

The music cuts off awkwardly before the end, but this is an incredible NYC Halloween costume compilation.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 7d

Right now, our amazing service members with the California National Guard are helping power expanded food bank operations across the state.

California refuses to let the Trump government shutdown's halt to federal food assistance abandon Californians in need.

As the ongoing government shutdown disrupts critical food benefits, service members from California Volunteers and the California National Guard began work assisting food banks with preparing meals for families facing food insecurity.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7d

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps

Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7d

This really was one of my main takeaways

Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 7d

I think the Reagan ad is most effective not by the topic but by reminding everyone that presidents don't have to sound like insane morons.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7d

Popok: Letitia James appeared in court today in Virginia, and she's already filed multiple motions against the DOJ, Trump, and Lindsey Halligan.

The first motion is a motion to dismiss because Lindsey Halligan has been improperly, illegally appointed to be the U.S. attorney.

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Sandia @unbalancing.bsky.social · 10d

All I'm saying is Sarkozy should have taken a copy of Khalil Gibran's The Prophet to prison with him instead of the count of Monte Cristo. When I think about the book that I would want in prison, that would be the one.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 11d

"Looking up 'reparations' in textbooks is to find it absent altogether, or only in reference to end of WWI or US payments in '80s to Japanese Americans (incarcerated in WWII concentration camps)."

See lesson ⬇️ by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca #TeachOutsideTextbook
www.zinnedproject.org/materials/st...

Repair: Students Design a Reparations Bill

In this activity, students take on the role of activist-experts to improve upon a Congressional bill for reparations for Black people.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11d

Notably a state prosecution, not a federal one for threatening to kill a member of Congress.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

"A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries."

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

www.cbsnews.com

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 12d

Ending key privacy initiatives at one of the world's largest tech companies, in the midst of an authoritarian takeover of the world's oldest democracy, is tragic, unconscionable, and not at all accidental.

Paul Dokas @pauldokas.bsky.social · 12d

“Google has suddenly confirmed privacy initiatives ‘are being phased out.’ The Privacy Sandbox, now in its sixth year, has essentially ended just months after Google confirmed tracking is here to stay and there are no viable alternatives.”
www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

‘Phased Out’—Google Confirms Bad News For All 3 Billion Chrome Users

Is it time to quit the world’s most popular browser as privacy nightmare comes true?

www.forbes.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

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Sandia @unbalancing.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe intimidation?

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Sandia @unbalancing.bsky.social · 11d

Could it just be a major troll?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11d

Someone firebombed a queer friendly ice cream shop in Minneapolis.

fivesixzero @fivesixzero.bsky.social · 11d

Just witnessed someone trying to fireb*mb Fletcher’s Ice Cream in NE. Saw a dude acting weird next to a parked car in front of the place. I walked by, heard a smash through my earbuds, smelled gasoline/kerosine. Turned around, snapped some photos instinctively. Thankfully they suck at molot*vs.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 11d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Sandia @unbalancing.bsky.social · 11d

We'll know we are winning the dystopian hellscape when the companies start advertising using footage of people humiliating ICE while in their products. Can't you envision a running shoe or bike commercial featuring one of those excellent scenes?

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Sandia @unbalancing.bsky.social · 14d

So is the silver lining that now we won't have people saying masks keep you from breathing properly?

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 15d

Devastation in western Alaska has been essentially ignored by our supposed "news" organizations. And by people like Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.
Where is FEMA?
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Corinne Smith @corinne-smith.bsky.social · 15d

Sage Smiley, news director of KYUK in Bethel @sgsmly.bsky.social briefs NPR on the evacuation and devastation of western Alaska.

People are not just displaced from their homes but also their traditional ways of life.

www.npr.org/2025/10/16/n...

Mass evacuations underway in Western Alaska after storm devastates communities

Hundreds of people are being evacuated from the Alaska villages hardest hit by the remnants of Typhoon Halong over the weekend.

www.npr.org

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14d

This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14d

US Government accounts have arrived on Bluesky.

Block on sight.

Protect your digital space.

Be aware that the DHS account in particular is known to quote dunk on regular people to encourage their followers to harass them.

The detach quote function will come in very handy here…

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Sandia @unbalancing.bsky.social · 16d

The Democrats should have a standing fund that they get billionaire donors to put money into to pay a baseline wage to federal workers during a shutdown. They should do it all the time. They should do it regardless party and it's really stupid that they don't

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Sandia @unbalancing.bsky.social · 18d

I guess, but given how much other big actors are publicly having to make hard decisions about associating with the material, I'm skeptical.

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Sandia @unbalancing.bsky.social · 18d

I actually don't think this can possibly be true that she didn't know

Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 18d

I understand the sentiment of "we need to find some way to not all see each other mortal enemies" but it REALLY REALLY needs to be made expressly clear that one side wants to live and be happy and the other side is "that's a line too far and you must suffer and die" and you can't Kumbaya that.

Laura 🍁🍄🦇🎃 @tricksyliesmith.bsky.social · 19d

oh no. no. absolutely the fuck not. fuck off.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 21d

As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 21d

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21d

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 21d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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