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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2h

So, huge day in French politics tomorrow: The latest Macronist Prime Minister, Lecornu, is trying to survive—and he made a big move: He promised he'll suspend the 2023 reform that raised the retirement age, in exchange for the main center-left dominant party not voting to topple him. (1/?)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

I wrote in february that the administration had an apartheid refugee policy. As usual though in this business it's better to be wrong in a way that powerful people like rather than right in a way they don't. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Afrikaner ‘Refugees’ Only

Trump wants to “promote the resettlement” of white South Africans.

www.theatlantic.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

Elton releases “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” as a US single 52 yrs ago today

“I was going thru that whole ‘got-to-get-back-to-my-roots’ thing,” said lyricist Bernie Taupin. “I don’t believe I was ever turning my back on success .. I was just hoping that maybe there was a happy medium way to exist ..”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, look. Another billionaire dinner.

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 2h

This guy was a clerk for Justice Gorsuch. Anyone want to argue this is not a racist (and damn stupid) taunt?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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Amy Ayers @amyayers.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly ⬇️

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

What are the chances that Trump would care about overthrowing a dictatorship in Venezuela if it didn't have the largest known oil reserves in the world?

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2h

Sure, grandpa, let’s get you to prison

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "I won Georgia three times. But they say twice. I won it big the second time but we had criminals that didn't allow- I hope they're gonna go into that. I hope they go into the votes which are being stored in Fulton County and take a real look at those votes, because I won it the 2nd time too"

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2h

Constantly amazes me how these people have all gotten everything they wanted and gotten away with everything they wanted to get away with and they’re still always just miserable and whiny

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

If it’s Wednesday, it’s “Meet the Shakedown.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Trump: "Somebody said, 'would we think about taking the World Cup away from Boston if they don't straighten it out?' The answer is yes. We have the right to do that with FIFA. So if we think that LA is gonna be bad, or that applies a little bit to the Olympics too."

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 2h

Remember when Rep. Henry Hyde was trying to take down Bill Clinton and the Dems unearthed an affair he had when he was 41 and he called it a "youthful indiscretion"?

They've been pulling this routine for years.

Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18h

Vance, miserable liar that he is, referred to these bigoted, Nazi-flavored Young Republican posts as a "college group chat."

But most of the quoted in the Politico article are GROWN ADULTS with JOBS.

ADULT REPUBLICANS RUNNING A REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.

Filth.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

“.. POLITICO obtained an image taken during a virtual meeting that shows the flag pinned to what appears to be a cubicle wall behind Angelo Elia, one of Taylor’s staffers.”

@politico.com #OH02
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2h

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1h

Meanwhile at Washpost Opinion...

Kathleen Parker What Hegseth Got Right about the military

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

My friend @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social and I talked on Substack Live about how the Trump regime is terrorizing immigrants and violently assaulting protesters and journalists. Chicagoans rightly see this as an invasion, and they're coming together to mount peaceful resistance.

Mark Jacob & Steven Beschloss discuss Trump's assault on Chicago

Substack Live: How Chicagoans are dealing with federal agents' violence and how local media are chronicling it

www.stopthepresses.news

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 1h

These unified acts of defiance matter

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

MCCALLUM: “Margaret Thatcher said socialism’s great until you run out of other people’s money.”

🔥ZOHRAN: “Cuomo had $900 million and gave it to Elon musk in tax credits— I wish the debate were like NASCAR so people could see logos of billionaires who sponsor him on his jacket.”

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 1h

SCOTUS decision killing what’s left of Voting Rights Act could cost Dems 19 House seats, eliminate every majority-minority district in South, eviscerate 14th/15th Amendments & fulfill John Roberts 40-year crusade against country’s most important civil rights law www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Republican justices appear poised to destroy what’s left of the Voting Rights Act

The results will be "catastrophic."

www.motherjones.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 2h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h

This is a bullshit headline in the New York Times. There’s no “uprising” in Chicago. Rather, Chicagoans are peacefully defending themselves against ICE violence. Use of the term “uprising“ is just what the Trump regime wants to excuse a further fascist crackdown in Chicago.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 3h

“Discovered” during a Zoom call

Politico @politico.com · 4h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Diabolical G @gwill2k.bsky.social · 3h

Beastie Boys
#DavidsMonthOfMusic

🤔 A song with a music video you love

Sabotage
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#Musicchallenge #musicsky

Beastie Boys - Sabotage (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by BeastieBoysVEVO

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