“Any San Francisco kid under the age of 5 can get a free book mailed to them every month under a new partnership announced Friday by city officials and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library” 📚 www.kqed.org/news/1205569...

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

DUTCH AUCTION in support of salivaryglandcancer.uk In my shop, this piece is priced at £165. At noon every day (BST) the price drops by £10, until it sells. First DM gets it. UK shipping only. Half of what you pay will go to SGC UK. Please repost for widest coverage. Thank you :)

Gentle reminder 🧡

Reporters, here’s an easy question: “Mr President, this is demonstrably untrue, so are you lying, stupid, or just this easily manipulated? You know we’re all not this stupid, right?”

This website gives live cams of notable Portland locations AND live updates of all fires (complete with duration) reported to the Portland Fire & Rescue department. Spoiler: Portland isn’t burning. isportlandburning.com

Dear MAGA: None of us want Qatari pilot’s carrying JDAMs over our soil. But this has to end with you. YOU have to call your representatives and relentlessly tell them you’ll replace them if they don’t impeach Trump. He’s out of his mind. He’s grifting. YOU have to act!

Sending billions to Argentina while laying off Americans at home. Letting Qatar build a base on US soil coz they bribed Trump with a plane and are investing billions in his personal business ventures. Doesn’t seem like “America First”, does it?

What a day. 10/10. No notes.

'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

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

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

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.

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...

#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...

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

📢 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.

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.

Wordle 1,572 3/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

#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: 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 - 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

Thanks, New Yorker

You can’t continue to support the Republican Party or vote for them and get away from the fascist label.

ICE is firing pepper bullets and deploying smoke grenades in Portland, even though protesters are remaining in their designated area and peacefully dancing.

#BannedBooksWeek is the perfect time to add a challenged book (or two) to your shelf. We’re partnering with @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social to offer you 20% off select challenged titles from now until October 19: bookshop.org/info/banned-...

I hear *someone* is having a sale next week. I guess they have to try and recoup some of that $2.5 billion they’re forking over for *checks notes* being deceptive? Who would’ve thought? Feels like Oct 7 & 8 will be prime days to support independent bookstores. 😌

A little message from our CEO and founder @andyhunter777.bsky.social ahead of Anti-Prime:

A yard inflatable of a school bus with 5 baby “monsters” waving from its windows. The bus is labeled “Ghoul Bus.” #Halloween

Sen. Adam Schiff listed the questions Pam Bondi has refused to answer:   1. Whether she consulted ethics lawyers before Trump accepted that Qatari plane 2. Which DOJ officials ordered Trump's name be flagged when found in the Epstein files

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

Trump is threatening to withhold back pay for federal workers furloughed during the shutdown — which goes against a law he signed in 2019, by the way. This should come as no surprise: Trump and his businesses have been accused of stiffing hundreds of their own workers out of pay over the years.

TODAY: A trump appointed judge hands his whole ass back to him, trump considers pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell, SCOTUS tells Laura Loomer to take a hike, and there's no evidence NYAG Tish James committed mortgage fraud. Free to listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Joe saved the US economy. Meanwhile Trump.. 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Good morning. The government is shutdown and Republicans are hiding. They aren't even in Washington. Why? Because Trump thinks he's king. He's told his sycophants to boycott budget talks so he can act lawlessly and steal people's health care to pay for his billionaire tax cut.

When Democrats controlled the White House, Senate and House there were no shutdowns because we acted like adults and negotiated with Republicans. Now Republicans control everything and they're refusing to even show up for work. Because they think the chaos of a shutdown is fun.

The Hopi Tribe received a multimillion-dollar federal grant to install solar panels and battery storage systems for hundreds of homes. But the Trump administration has canceled the funding.