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Alex Han @alexhan.bsky.social · 19h

Grateful to have outlets like @thetriibe.com on the ground and reporting the facts. ICE and federal agents are not deploying tear gas at "protesters" in Chicago. They are wantonly tear gassing entire neighborhoods and communities.

The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 20h

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

thetriibe.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 13h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 15h

I'm undecided on Katie Porter but I too frequently feel like yelling at CBS Sacramento reporters so I'm not judging her for that.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

9. This capitulation will be among the most stinging of any healthcare center in the United States. What happens when they next come for PReP, HIV care, reproductive care, and more?

A line must be drawn, and Fenway should have fought back like other clinics.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

1. In a major capitulation to Trump, Fenway Health, a center ostensibly dedicated to LGBTQ+ healthcare, has ended its trans care program under 19.

It could have fought for its patients. It chose instead to roll over.

Community members are devastated.

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Fenway Health Restricts Treatment for Patients Under 19 In Capitulation To Trump

“This is a fundamental betrayal to the core mission of Fenway and the patients they serve.”

www.erininthemorning.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22h

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 21h

This is the bill that my trans friends and loved ones were most concerned about. It overwhelmingly passed the state legislature, but Gavin Newsom vetoed it.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23h

3. Newsom rejected a bill that would have allowed transgender people—and anyone using HRT—to maintain a 12-month supply of their medication, a backstop to protect access amid federal crackdowns and disruptions. The bill would have also amended healthcare laws to explicitly protect gender identity.

leginfo.legislature.ca.gov

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23h

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

Some necessary info on The Oysterman. Make of it what you will

He’ll have some top-notch help doing that. Platner’s team includes Rebecca Katz, a New York-based strategist who has helped a string of outsider Democrats, including now-Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona and Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman; her business partner, ad-maker Morris Katz, fresh from helping Zohran Mamdani win the Democratic primary for mayor of New York; and Joe Calvello, who was Fetterman’s communications director and worked on Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign.

Platner said he’ll focus on small-dollar fundraising, take no money from corporate PACs, or donations from “weird” interest groups like AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobby.

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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 1d

I swear to God, transphobes cannot stop themselves from thinking and talking about children's genitals, just constantly, even when those children are dead. Do not let your kids (trans or otherwise) associate with these people. If you've got a relative like this do not let them babysit.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 1d

A young trans girl DIED by her own hand, in part over feelings of desperation that trans healthcare was unobtainable.

And Graham Linehan wrote THIS!!! 😤🤬

Save this and post it in response to journalists writing “trans people ruined my marriage” articles about him in the future!!!

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

Like I know there are edgelord leftists out there who look down their noses at shit like No Kings but sorry you guys, the more mass protest looks fun and family-friendly, the bigger it gets and the better its chances of being broadly effective

Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 3d

Portland does not own the patent on inflatable animal costume protests, come on people

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 4d

Just a reminder that Banned Books Week isn’t about selling more copies of 1984. It’s about keeping authors and teachers and librarians safe and making sure all of us have the freedom to read widely. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Children’s Authors on the Real-World Cost of Book Banning

Authors discuss how having their work targeted by censors has directly affected their livelihood and their well-being.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Beth @bethinsac.bsky.social · 5d

If they give that man a Nobel peace prize I am personally going to war with Norway.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 5d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 5d

High school students hoping to attend California State University will soon be admitted automatically under a new law — as long as their grades are good enough to get in.

No application required: Cal State to automatically admit qualified students under new law

High school students hoping to attend California State University will soon be admitted automatically under a new law — as long as their grades are good enough to get in.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 5d

Don’t you hate it when you think you’re DMing somebody your nudes or your illegal orders to prosecute a political opponent in violation of the US constitution and actually you are posting on main?

Trump Accidentally Posted Message That Could Destroy Entire Comey Case

It turns out Donald Trump didn’t mean to make that Truth Social post public after all.

newrepublic.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 5d

"Make the proof" colloquial phrase that means fabrication of data

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 5d

It seems... less than ideal... that a random woman in New York who is not elected to anything appears to be dictating what LGBTQ+ people can do in public in communities she does not live in

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6d

It's interesting how easy it is for people to look at someone *wildly* succeeding at a horrific goal, and continue acting as if they are failing at a very different goal which they have repeatedly and loudly declared they do not have.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6d

A journalist not asking basic followup questions to a person in power, has a goal.

If you assumed that goal was "informing the public," you would think they were failing at that goal instead of very successfully attaining it.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6d

RFK's goal is to kill children, specifically sick children.

If you assumed that was *not* his goal, you'd think that he was failing at an entirely, completely different goal: not killing children.

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