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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@aoc.bsky.social

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM

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Dahlia

@dahliablackthorne.bsky.social

remember how Musk said empathy was bad?

Quote from Captain G.M. Gilbert, the army pyschologist assigned to watch the defendents at the Nurembert Trials, which reads: I sometimes fear that people think that fascism arrives in fancy dress worn by grotesques and monsters as played out in endless re-runs of the Nazis.

Fascism arrives as your friend.

It will restore your honor, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up your neighborhood, remind you how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you.

It doesn't walk in saying "Our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."

In my work with the defendants at the Nuremberg Trials I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it.

A lack of empathy. It's the one characteristic that connects all the defedants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think is the absence of empathy.

October 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM

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NPR

@npr.org

Scientists have long wondered about how the potato's genetic lineage came to be. Now they know: The plants are a cross between tomatoes and a plant known as Etuberosum.

The strange-but-true origin story of the humble potato

Scientists have long wondered about how the potato's genetic lineage came to be. Now they know: The plants are a cross between tomatoes and a plant known as Etuberosum.

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August 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM

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Dr. Lucky Tran

@luckytran.com

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

June 9, 2025 at 1:39 AM

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Alt National Park Service

@altnps.bsky.social

In response to Trump’s assertion, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” we say:

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

February 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM