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Happy 4th! Thinking about selling some NFTs. What do you think?
July 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Wow! France gifted her to us, and now they’ve captured what so many Americans are feeling on Independence Day. The values the Statue of Liberty stood for are no more.

📌 A stunning mural of the Statue of Liberty covering her face was unveiled in Roubaix, France, on July 3, 2025.
July 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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June 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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June 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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therickwilson.bsky.social
If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had proposed this, the GOP would be in the streets with pitchforks and
torches.

I guess the new "conservative" position is, "I want the state to know everything about me at all times."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans
www.nytimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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paul-bierman.bsky.social
This is why we need to STAND UP FOR SCIENCE in the US.🧪
May 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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alexkirshner.com
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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histoftech.bsky.social
if only there had been some kind of historical precedent to help people see this coming
maddow.bsky.social Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · Apr 15
"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action.

"It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us."

www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...
‘Treated like a criminal': US citizen says he was detained returning from Canada
Bachir Atallah, a real estate attorney from New Hampshire, says he and his wife, Jessica Fakhri, were stopped crossing from Canada into Vermont
www.nbcboston.com
April 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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timothysnyder.bsky.social
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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altnoaa.bsky.social
I needed this laugh today. Another great song from these guys!
prairierebels.bsky.social Prairie Rebels 🎶 @prairierebels.bsky.social · Apr 10
🎥👇 NEW MUSIC DROP!

We can't even let our mammas hear this song.
But we recorded it anyway.

“TRUMP’S A F#@KING MORON” — protest song with a little bit of fire.

Watch it while it’s still up. And please share, comment on YouTube and help us break the algorithm! Thank you!
TRUMP’S A F#@KING MORON! | Savage Protest Song
YouTube video by Prairie Rebels
www.youtube.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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headdoc35.bsky.social
How about housing a rapist and felon who grabs pussies?
April 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
NEW: Jenner & Block files suit over Trump’s executive order targeting the firm

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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judgeluttig.bsky.social
Yesterday, more than 1,000 lawyers and legal groups signed a letter calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to defend the Federal Judiciary, the Rule of Law, and the legal profession from the President’s vicious and palpably unconstitutional attacks.
March 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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lukesteuber.com
Some badass early Pulitzer contenders out of Turkey
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March 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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susanesc.bsky.social
Trump CANCELS RALLY Tonight As 7000 PROTESTORS SHUT IT DOWN
YouTube video by Pro-Democracy Network
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March 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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March 13, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
I want to buy the U.S. rights to manufacture and sell this excellent product
Bakery in Denmark starts selling bright orange Donald Trump ‘moron’ cakes
A bakery in Denmark has started selling bright orange Donald Trump 'moron' cakes.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
January 29, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Last time, Donald failed to honor his oath to protect the Constitution.

This time, he didn't even pretend to make that oath.
January 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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This is in public, in the middle of the day, and on camera.

Imagine how high he gets at night in private.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Jan 20
Ketamine is a hell of a drug.
January 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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January 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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If you haven’t read George Orwell's 1945 satirical novella Animal Farm, you really should. It’s a great allegory for what’s happening today in America.
January 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM