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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19h

HuffPost asked why Pete Hegseth wore a tie that looked like the Russian flag.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell replied, “Your mom bought it for him, and it’s a patriotic American tie, moron.”

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 12h

Wild bear stealthily enters California zoo, is found visiting the bear exhibit

A wild black bear took a jaunt around a Northern California zoo and was spotted visiting its bear neighbors.

www.latimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

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Bree Fram @breefram.bsky.social · 1d

In the executive order banning transgender service members, we were labeled undisciplined, dishonorable, liars.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals fact-checked the government.

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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 13h

Waiting to turn into an ash tree…

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 1d

The first look at the scale of Disney backlash after it suspended Kimmel. Wow>>

“Antenna estimated a total of 3 million cancellations for Disney+ and 4.1 million for Hulu in September. Both of those figures far exceeded the trailing three-month averages for the services”
www.wsj.com/business/med...

Customers Ditched Disney+, Hulu After Kimmel Suspension

Cancellation rates for both Disney’s streaming services doubled in September from a month earlier.

www.wsj.com

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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 14h

Working together to steal your art…

Reuters @reuters.com · 14h

Anthropic, Google in talks on cloud deal worth tens of billions, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/47oj3vK

Anthropic, Google in talks on cloud deal worth tens of billions, Bloomberg News reports

AI startup Anthropic is in talks with Google to secure additional computing power valued in the high tens of billions of dollars, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s Secretary of Lying shared the “your mom” text exchange — where she wouldn’t answer who picked Hungary as the site of the Putin-Trump meeting

@svdate.bsky.social tried to explain the significance, which is almost definitely lost on her (and Trump)

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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 15h

I like when people get mad about teens trick or treating. “It should be for little kids” WHY? Are you so lacking joy you can’t give an old child candy?

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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 17h

There’s something tempting about offering DHS agents a meal but making it like tuna jello casserole.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 18h

This isn't complicated, he's just straight up extorting the Justice Deparment and looting taxpayers to put $230 million in his own pocket. Don't hold your breath waiting for any Republicans in the party to speak up about this either. https://nyti.ms/4oxtpQW

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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NPR @npr.org · 20h

The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when officials removed the books to comply with President Trump's executive orders. n.pr/3Lm231z

Books about race and gender to be returned to school libraries on some military bases

The order is to be implemented at school libraries on military bases in Kentucky, Virginia, Italy and Japan. Students and their families claimed their First Amendment rights had been violated when officials removed the books to comply with President Trump's executive orders.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

The US military is bombing fishing boats to murder innocent people for sport and theater.

Tim O’Brien @timobrien.bsky.social · 1d

The survivor of a U.S. strike on a submersible vessel accused by the Trump administration of transporting drugs in the Caribbean was released by authorities in Ecuador after prosecutors said they had no evidence he committed a crime.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Ecuador says it has no evidence that survivor of US strike in Caribbean committed any crime

He was released by authorities in the South American nation.

www.politico.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

A cargo plane flying from Dubai skidded off the runway into the sea while landing at Hong Kong International Airport, the city's airport operator said, with local media reporting the deaths of two people.

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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 1d

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/s...

Sea Otters Are Stealing Surfboards in California. Again.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits and deaths in custody mount.

Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.

ICE is hiring dozens of health workers as lawsuits, deaths in custody mount

Nearly as many migrants have died in detention so far this year than over the four years of the Biden administration.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

A man who appeared to be planning a large-scale attack at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was arrested on Monday after his family alerted law enforcement officials that he was on his way there to “shoot it up,” the authorities said.

Man Is Arrested After Threatening to Open Fire at Atlanta Airport, Police Say

The man, Billy Cagle, 49, was arrested after family members told the police that he was headed to the airport, “in their words, ‘to shoot it up,’” Atlanta’s police chief said.

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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 1d

Love that they left in the “Jesus Christ” reply 😂

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

BREAKING: The Israeli army says it carried out an air attack on Nabatieh in southern Lebanon. It claimed, without evidence, that it targeted Hezbollah personnel and infrastructure.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x0ak3z

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abarcks.bsky.social @abarcks.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine that call to insurance…

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Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 2d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 7d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 1d

BREAKING: U.S. appeals court allows Trump to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon

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