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Gina Wilhelm @worksofginas.bsky.social · 8h

In my defense, I was in junior high when it came out. My brain hadn't completely formed yet.

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Anita zx @omi684.bsky.social · 15h

WOW! Protesters created a HUGE human sign on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach reading “No Kings YES on 50” to support California’s Prop 50 and stand up against Donald Trump’s fascist regime

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Gina Wilhelm @worksofginas.bsky.social · 9h

#OnThisDayInHistory, stray cat Félicette becomes the only cat to go to space as part of the French space program in 1963. She comes back, gets a white stripe accidentally painted on her back, and settles down with a skunk.

A black-and-white photo of Félicette being held by a person in a white lab coat. She is a tuxedo cat strapped into a module for going to space. She is lying down in a "sphinx" position with a solid piece of the module in front of her chest and front paws, and some fabric covering her back and hind legs. There is a large white disk behind her.

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Gina Wilhelm @worksofginas.bsky.social · 1d

#OnThisDayInHistory, Penn and Teller appear on Late Night with David Letterman and release hundreds of cockroaches on Dave's desk in 1985. Maybe don't tell magicians to surprise you unless you're specific about the surprise.

A still from an episode of "Late Night with David Letterman." Dave sits behind his desk in front of a large window looking over a diorama of New York Sitting next to the desk is Penn Gillette, and next to him is his partner, Teller. Dave has a light-colored suit, purple tie, and glasses. Penn has long black hair, glasses, a light-colored suit jacket and red tie, and jeans. His right leg is under him on the chair. teller has a gray suit and red tie, and he is looking over at Penn and Dave. There are plants in front of them.

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Gina Wilhelm @worksofginas.bsky.social · 2d

Said the quiet part out loud

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity.

And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 2d

Federal resources aren’t campaign tools. Secretary Kristi Noem's new TSA video crosses the line, violating the Hatch Act with blatant political messaging.

We’re urging California airports to stand firm against this unlawful federal pressure and refrain from airing the video.

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Gina Wilhelm @worksofginas.bsky.social · 2d

#OnThisDayInHistory, William T.G. Morton demonstrates ether during a public surgery, starting modern anesthesia, in 1846. It worked so much better than hitting patients over the head with a mallet.

A painting of a doctor administering ether. The doctor has a long mustache, a gray suit jacket, and a black band around his neck. He has his left hand on top of the patient's head. The patient is sitting in front of the doctor, and the doctor holds a white cloth over his nose and mouth. The patient has a brown jacket, a vest, and a shirt that's open to the sternum. He has tan pants, and sits in a red chair next to a round whit table with a glass of water on it. A figure leans on the table in the foreground.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

When young Republicans private texts are revealed and you see what the white supremacist master race looks looks like

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
zeteo.com/p/mehdi-conn...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Gina Wilhelm @worksofginas.bsky.social · 3d

#OnThisDayInHistory, researchers discover seven new species of Madagascan tree frog that make Star Trek sounds, so they name them after Star Trek captains, in 2024. They even name one "Archer," and not "Quantum Leap Guy."

Four photos of tree frogs. Each brown frog sits on a bright green leaf. They have different-colored spots on their backs. The frog in the upper left box has brown spots, the one in the upper right has orange spots, the one in the lower left box has peach-colored spots, and the one in the lower right has red spots.

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Gina Wilhelm @worksofginas.bsky.social · 4d

#OnThisDayInHistory, scientists publish findings that (friend of the page) Sue the T-Rex had spinal arthritis, in 2010. She really should have been lifting with her knees.

A photograph of a tyrannosaurus rex taken near the head. It has half of another dinosaur sticking out of its mouth. A person stands next to the dinosaurs wearing jeans, a t-shirt with a button-down shirt over it, and glasses. They are in a large room.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 5d

Solidarity is the only way

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Gina Wilhelm @worksofginas.bsky.social · 5d

#OnThisDayInHistory, French astronomer Charles Messier discovers the first spiral galaxy, which he names the Whirlpool Galaxy, in 1773. It was either that, or Maytag. And that's a salad.

The Whirlpool Galaxy in front of a dark star field. Two red arms spiral out from a center bulge. There is a bright spot at the end of the arm that points to the right.

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Mo Collins @mocollins.bsky.social · 5d

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 #resist

NPR @npr.org · 5d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

How fashy do you have to be for the Washington Post to refuse to sign your pre-clearance policy? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 6d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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DBeach @beachnic.bsky.social · 6d

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6d

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Gina Wilhelm @worksofginas.bsky.social · 6d

What a dipshit

Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6d

Fascinated how the guy who made superstars of Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Jordan Peterson, and Michael Knowles thought that unfettered racism and every phobia in existence wouldn't eventually include anti-semitism

Gina Wilhelm @worksofginas.bsky.social · 6d

#OnThisDayInHistory, the State of South Dakota renames Columbus Day "Native American Day" in 1990, the first state to do so. Berkeley-BERKELEY-won't get around to it for two more years (naming it "Indigenous Peoples' Day")!

A photo of Native Americans in traditional dress. There are several women in the front of the picture. Further back, there are a group of people standing up in the back of a truck. They are surrounded by flags, including a United States flag. There are also ribbons flowing through the air.

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