Boris B

Boris B

@borisbrum.bsky.social

Girl dad. Urban educator. Musician 📯Amateur ornithologist. Ally. Dreamer

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It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. https://to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd

to.pbs.orgCuts to SNAP benefits push many Americans to seek help from food banksMore than five million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year. The bill cut SNAP funding, e...

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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10 days until Election Day! This is when the political mail gets WILD. Make sure to submit your mail to paidforby.info: 1. Instantly find out who is really paying for the mailer — and their donors (federal elections only) 2. Get your mailer reviewed by an independent journalist (all elections)

I have a vague memory of my dad taking me to see Song of the South when I was really little cuz he used to read me bedtime stories from a book about Brer Rabbit. It was probably at the Elsinore Theater in Salem, OR around 1980 But the first I remember for sure would be E.T. - 1982

Mark Thompson@markreckons.bsky.social

First film you saw at the cinema. The real first one, not the pretend one you tell people! Mine: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980, Wigan. We were near the front and I can still remember how massive the AT-ATs looked, looming over us out of the snow :) Film, year, where, and whatever stuck with you.

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This has been the fundamental mechanism through which political media operates my entire life. The right makes a bunch of noise about a fake scandal, the mainstream media "covers the controversy," & normie voters get the vague impression that Dems are constantly involved in scandal.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

This awful saga is a good glimpse into how MAGA gets propaganda laundered into mainstream discourse by making just enough noise to get news outlets to treat their outrage as a "controversy," which then requires even-handed treatement of both sides' stances: newrepublic.com/article/2168...

Interesting thing happened the other day. This showed up in our mailbox. I could tell by looking at it that this lady is a Republican - but notice it says nothing about that on her flyer. Nor could I find that information on her website. Had to confirm that with a web search

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The hearings, trials, and jail time can not come fast enough to calm the burning rage I have for the people who are doing this

Yael Schacher@yaelschacher.bsky.social

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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Six years ago this week, a fly attempted a brazen attack on VP Mike Pence during a live debate. Today, another fly (potentially an associate) attacked Sen. John Hickenlooper, leading Hick to slap his own face on television. These flies are a menace.

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🚨BREAKING: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the past year investigated hundreds of nonprofits across the U.S. that help people register to vote, according to new records analyzed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

democracydocket.comICE  probed hundreds of voter registration groups across the U.S.The agency also contemplated deploying undercover agents to "initiate prosecutions" against the groups and "dismantle" them.

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The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

The degree to which @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has been telling us this would happen for over ten years is truly remarkable

Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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This is the most heartbreaking stories I’ve heard in a long time. ICE detained 2-year-old Orlin Hernandez Reyes’ mother. She begged to be reunited with him before deportation. ICE refused. What happened next is horrific. No matter how you feel about immigration, normal people don’t like cruelty.

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An analysis of voting equipment in Puerto Rico grew into a US federal effort spanning multiple agencies to find proof voting machines were manipulated to flip votes in the 2020 election, Reuters found. The probe ultimately found found no evidence votes were manipulated reut.rs/4hHBkcA

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1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.

Literally no one’s life is made better by this. The death penalty does nothing to make society safer. It should have been abolished a long time ago

NBC News@nbcnews.com

Tennessee fails to execute the lone woman on its death row, Christa Pike, as planned, after injecting her twice with a lethal drug. Attorneys for Pike say that she is being treated at a hospital, but they did not know her condition.

I watch lots of stuff on YouTube: cooking, history, politics, etc. I’m also an atheist from a fundamentalist background and watch content from biblical scholars. I’m really tired of getting ads for religious stuff, MAGA adjacent content like TPUSA, and PragerU. I really wish I could tailor ads

As fas as I’m concerned, the lesson we should take from this is that cops will do whatever they think they can get away with unless we hold them accountable Honestly, nobody should be surprised. Our oversight systems for the police are severely lacking

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com

Our Flock reporting just got five cops arrested. The Indianapolis officers were just criminally charged for spying on women. @aaronschaffer.com, @douglasmac.bsky.social and I found suspicious searches and got their agency to investigate. How many bad cops are still getting away? wapo.st/4xDOH3d

Maybe they’re not supporting Paxton, but all those other nominees will be a rubber stamp for Trump. GWB is no ally of democracy and he never has been

Bayliss Wagner@baylisswagner.bsky.social

Scoop: John Cornyn & George W. Bush are headlining a Dallas fundraiser tonight for all of the Senate GOP nominees in tossup races—except Ken Paxton It benefits a new joint fundraising committee for IA, ME, NH, OH, AK, MI & the NRSC w/ @teddyschleifer.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...

We have these Barred Owls 🦉 in our neighborhood and I absolutely love hearing them call to each other in the woods at night while sitting on my screened porch. It’s so thrilling and brings me immense joy every single time 😊

True story: one night I had to rescue our chickens from one of the Barred Owls 🦉 and it nearly flew right into me! The thing did a 180 mid flight and I felt the wind from its feathers on my face!!! Just the cooling effing thing ever!!! 😎

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Meanwhile EPA says that regulating climate pollution is none of its business, but your uterus is www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.comTrump EPA Ends Climate Regulations for Power PlantsThis is one of the administration’s most significant climate rollbacks.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social

EPA is launching a drinking water study that will test, for the first time, for traces of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol — advancing a major goal of anti-abortion activists who have spent years trying to use environmental regulations to curb access to the drugs

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Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵

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“The Bureau of Land Management has asked its state directors to identify public land ripe for data center development…Interior leadership gave state leaders just three days to produce the lists and told its directors the issue was a top priority, according to a former BLM official”

washingtonsun.comInside Trump’s Aggressive Push to Build Data Centers on Public LandsThe Interior secretary is quietly meeting with AI hyperscalers while seeking to accommodate them on his department’s land.

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This was the video I was looking for yesterday to post. I follow Joshua Wright on instagram because we are both passionate about saving old trees. This was an ancient forest valley that was recently logged on Vancouver Island. They cut down one of the largest Yellow Cedar tree in Canada. 😢

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worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

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2027 = deadly Medicaid cuts. Many clinics did their projections & shuttered their doors across the country. There will be maternity care deserts throughout the midwest. Here in NYC major healthcare systems are already denying Medicaid. For every Medicaid $1 lost, it will negatively impact Medicare.

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The correct Democratic position on every issue is “I will undo everything Donald Trump has done, I will destroy everything he has built, and I will impose consequences on him and everyone who helped him do it.” No negotiation. Rip it all down.