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'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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He doesn't care about your rights.

He's not going to lower grocery prices, healthcare costs, student loans or anything else.

He DOESN'T CARE that you're not safe at school or in church.

He'll fight FOREVER to prevent the release of the #EpsteinFiles

He's not even on Republican voters side
#maga

"They're real, and they're spectacular!” #YWMLP

Note: Incredible collaboration in stopping a massive data center project that would have consumed 2 to 3 million gallons of water a day.

This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

Insurance companies can often be aggressive with their denials because “they don’t expect people to come back,” one health care advocate said.

The lesson is simple, another expert told us: “Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal. That’s all you have.”

By @deldeib.bsky.social

We discussed the importance of education and how it shapes our communities and informs our democracy. It all felt so incredibly relevant to what we are facing right now.

I really do hope you get a chance to see this film at a screening near you. More details here: www.thelastclassfilm.com

I'm watching the #BananaBall city selection show. It is like wrestling, GLOW, a circus, and a rave all in one.

Screenshot of a tweet from Rep. Greg Stanton (@RepGregStanton) on X. The tweet says House Republicans are shutting down the House to avoid swearing in Adelita Grijalva, calling it undemocratic and unacceptable. The image shows a mostly empty House chamber with several representatives, including Stanton, standing near the podium.

What do you call a political system where those in power refuse to seat a duly elected member of the opposition party? Not a democracy that’s for certain.

Please consider adding alt text to posts with images as folx with vision loss & other disabilities deserve equitable access to information, & you can even update your settings on BlueSky so that you cannot post images without alt text, so you are prompted to add it if you might otherwise forget! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Tish James has always had New York’s back, and New Yorkers will always have hers.

Join us tomorrow at 5:30PM at Foley Square to stand with her.

Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...

Just to be clear:

Trans people are the working class. Black people are the working class. Immigrants are the working class. Pregnant people are the working class. Brown people are the working class. Asian people are the working class. Disabled people are the working class.

“As ever with this Supreme Court, the forces of bigotry disguised as Christianity held a 6–3 advantage over law and science.”
From:

BREAKING: A federal judge in Illinois has blocked Trump administration authorities from using force against journalists in the Chicago area — including threats or arrest or riot control weapons. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

KOOLDOO bed rails due to risk of serious injury or death from entrapment hazard.

#WARNING: The CPSC is warning consumers to immediately stop using KOOLDOO Bed Rails. The bed rails violate the mandatory standard for children’s portable bed rails, posing a risk of serious injury or death due to entrapment. Learn more: www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...

#OFMD “It’s BIBLICAL” — Liam Gallagher

A pumpkin carved to look like a VW Bus. So cute!

Forgive me for jumping in with someone else’s
Pumpkin Art!
[Looking for the artist! 👀] #VWBus

YouTube video by Nature on PBS Octopus Dreaming

Happy Birthday 🎈to @david-jenkins.bsky.social and also happy World Octopus Day 🐙. My favorite short video from #NaturePBS is of an Octopus Dreaming…
Is she having a kraken adventure?
youtu.be/0vKCLJZbytU

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📢 D.C.: Help us track what’s happening.

Are you or were you a federal worker? Do you know someone who is?

You can reach us at propublica.org/tips or 917-512-0201 on Signal.

Yes to more Rory Kinnear in #OFMD! 🕯️>please<🕯️

(As an aside, I happen to have a few Outlander pics among my TV-Movie-Music collection on my phone, so I instantly recognized Andrew Gower as Prince Charles Stuart.)

Today is Day 8 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:

1. Republicans control the White House, Senate and House.

2. GOP making deep cuts to Medicaid, Medicare and ACA.

3. Democrats are fighting to lower costs, cancel the cuts and save healthcare for Americans.

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#TaikaTuesday... A Keri Hulme story from Lonely Planet's "Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers" (2012), Don George, Ed. The 1985 story honors her Māori heritage & is set around a Polynesian arts fest in Tahiti, when Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior was bombed in Aotearoa. It's called "A Tohunga with a Promise to Keep" The first New Zealander to win the Booker Prize, Keri Hulme died in 2021.

#TaikaTuesday...
A Keri Hulme story from Lonely Planet's "Better Than Fiction: True Travel Tales From Great Fiction Writers" (2012), Don George, Ed.
The 1985 story honors her Māori heritage & is set around a Polynesian arts fest in Tahiti, when Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior was bombed in Aotearoa.

Country legend Zach Bryan has released a song that puts country over his own bank account.

The backlash from country fans will be massive- they’ll force him off country radio like they did to the Dixie Chicks but he doesn’t need radio access anymore

American hero 🇺🇸

Meet the New ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Season 5 Cast Members (Including Renée Zellweger as an Eccentric Billionaire!) Season 5 of 'Only Murders in the Building' stars Selena Gomez, Steve Martin and Martin Short, along with newcomers Renée Zellweger, Bobby Cannavale, Logan Lerman and Christoph Waltz, among others. Her...

Meet the New Only Murders in the Building Season 5 Cast Members:
people.com/only-murders...

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

Last week I did my first Reddit Ask Me Anything. It was great. Lots of candid questions about Democrats' priorities in this shutdown fight.

(also do not pay attention to the embarrassing range of super unhealthy drinks on my desk and focus on the substance pls)

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California.

I urge anyone in the state to vote yes.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

Wells Fargo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations into Sales Practices Involving the Opening of Millions of Accounts without Customer Authorization This is archived content from the U.S. Department of Justice website. The information here may be outdated and links may no longer function. Please contact webmaster@usdoj.gov if you have any question...

Wells Fargo Agrees to Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Criminal and Civil Investigations into Sales Practices Involving the Opening of Millions of Accounts without Customer Authorization -
from: February 21, 2020:
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...

want to close your Wells Fargo account because you want to punish them for siccing ICE on a building of impoverished immigrants that Wells Fargo execs wanted to foreclose and sell?

here's how