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IU lecturer removed from class during intellectual diversity investigation A lecturer in the Indiana University School of Social Work has been removed from teaching one of her classes Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice while the university investigates a complaint...

Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy."

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@sanders.senate.gov: "We have already had 15 Republicans in the Senate defy Trump and say, 'Release the SNAP funds.' So I think that if we had held firm, it would be the Republicans who would yield. That was not the position of these 8 Democrats."

The first primary of the 2026 election, by the way, is less than four months away, so we'll see very soon how much of this anger on BlueSky translates at the ballot box:

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" I thought I knew what it meant to love Chicago—to feel something settle inside of me when I saw her skyline from the expressway, or her lights from the window of an airplane, after crossing the cloud line. I thought I knew what it meant to love her brick and steel towers, her annoying street preachers, her chorus of accents and the poetry of her activists, the grit of her workers, awaiting buses and trains in icy air, her guerrilla gardens, bookshops, bucket boys, and crashing winter waves becoming shelves of ice—so many corners that feel like home, even though you’ll never live there. I know this place. I love this place, and I thought I knew how much, until you made me love it more." - Kelly Hayes

I poured everything I had into this one. "I see you gathering, hundreds at a time, to learn, to keep watch, and bare your teeth. I see you running toward danger, together, and loving each other more fiercely than you ever knew you could." organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-w...

He made a whip out of cords and drove them all out of the temple area, with the sheep and oxen, and spilled the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables, and to those who sold doves he said, "Take these out of here, and stop making my Father's house a marketplace." John 2:15-16.

Pope Leo calls for 'deep reflection' about treatment of detained migrants in the United States VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Chicago-born pope was responding Tuesday to a range of geopolitical questions from reporters outside the papal retreat at Castel Gandolfo, including what kind of spiritual righ...

#PopeLeo calls for 'deep reflection' about treatment of detained migrants in the United States religionnews.com/2025/11/06/p...

Nurse Recruitment Agency Challenges Trump's $100K Visa Fee Hospitals, patients stand to be hurt by worsening nurse shortage, critics argue

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Beshear sends state National Guard to staff food banks seeing ‘surge’ amid SNAP delays • Kentucky Lantern Gov. Andy Beshear is sending the National Guard to staff food banks while more than 600,000 in the state await federal food assistance.

Beshear sends state National Guard to staff food banks seeing ‘surge’ amid SNAP delays

@sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social

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We're halfway through the week, folks. Whether you're furloughed, excepted, exempted, or just watching this shutdown drama, take care of yourselves and get a good night of sleep.

Because that's what we're off to do now

GN 💚

The DNC didn't win last night; the fired-up Democratic voters did.

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

Last year after the election, I reflected: "When we fight, we win—but sometimes the fight takes awhile."

Last night, we saw Democratic victories across our nation. I am so proud of these enthusiastic, principled, inspirational leaders who will continue to fight for our nation, ideals, and progress.

Amarillo is one of the reddest towns in Texas.

But I showed up because our campaign is not writing off any community.

It was standing room only.

Way more.

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Democrats have flipped 2 seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.

Three hours left.

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If nothing else, the last nine months should have made it clear that elections matter. But what’s remarkable about America is that we have the power, as citizens, to change this country by voting. Go to IWillVote.com.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

from people magazine Donald Trump Confuses Dementia Screening for 'Very Hard' IQ Test as He Brags About Results The president predicted that Democratic Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could not perform as well as he did in a cognitive exam By Greta Bjornson | Updated on October 28, 2025 10:24AM EDT

from people magazine Donald Trump Hosts Great Gatsby-Themed Halloween Party as 42 Million Americans Brace for SNAP Benefits to Expire The president hosted the Roaring '20s bash at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 31 amid the ongoing government shutdown By Bailey Richards Published on November 1, 2025 06:19PM EDT

someone invited people magazine to the kitchen and they brought their own knives

Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!! Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn

On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable

Yoshinobu Yamamoto is the 2025 World Series MVP 🏆

He joins Hideki Matsui (2009) as the only Japanese-born winners of the award.

Once again the Church showed up.

A Mass for All Saints at Broadview where again access was refused to bring Eucharist to detainees though all of DHS's protocols were observed. I would guess >1000 souls there to bear witness.

All you holy men and women, pray for us.

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Día De Los Muertos: Venice bakery honors those who died in ICE custody This year, on a Venice bakery's Día De Los Muertos altar, there are a number of photos from across the Southwest of men and women who died in ICE custody.

“‘I see myself, and my family, and my community in them, and it's just unfair that they had to die in those circumstances,’ said Norma Aceves, the owner of Venice Bakery and creator of the altar.” abc7.com/post/venice-... #DíaDeLosMuertos

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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez channeling JFK

"Ich bin ein New Yorker"

@aoc.bsky.social rallies New York for early voting & Election Day. May we all be defiant New Yorkers to the GOP regime.

#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited via @teamaoc, www.instagram.com/reel/DQaDZv0...

The red shoes are my favorite part.

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

Juarez teacher Liz Winfield shared a powerful #CupOfJoe. She, along w/ @ctulocal1.bsky.social is standing up to defend students and neighborhoods, because federal terror has no place in Black, brown and immigrant communities.

#FedsOutOfChicago

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

Thank you to everyone who’s supported us.

And a special thank you to Illinois elected officials — including many of my opponents — who have condemned this political prosecution by the Trump administration: