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Liz Krueger @lizkrueger.bsky.social · 1m

Plug-in solar is a game changer, cutting energy bills and building resilience and real energy independence. One small change in statute can unlock solar access for millions of New Yorkers. The SUNNY Act, which I carry w/@emilyassembly.bsky.social, will deliver it. www.thecooldown.com/green-busine...

Lawmakers propose game-changing law to combat skyrocketing electricity costs: 'Everyone should be able to benefit from it'

Senate Bill S8512, also known as the Solar Up Now New York Act, aims to make plug-in solar more accessible for New Yorkers.

www.thecooldown.com

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1m

Now Trump is sending $40 BILLION to bailout Argentina.

This would fund at LEAST a year of the ACA tax credits millions rely on to afford health care.

Meanwhile, Argentina has universal health care.

U.S. support for Argentina could hit $40 billion

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said an additional $20 billion in private-sector loans for Argentina could effectively double the value of a U.S. rescue plan.

www.nbcnews.com

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Billie @billieo2.bsky.social · 1m

Happy Thursday! 🌸

Billie @billieo2.bsky.social · 3m

Yikes! He sounds like a pro. 😜

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12h

What's your rewrite? "President Trump on Wednesday issued a document claiming he could grant himself powers not granted to him to snatch up federal funds the Constitution grants Congress jurisdiction over, in a move sure to meet with legal challenges."

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone please call your local TV and radio stations and ask them to send a crew to the protests and report on them. Much of the media would prefer to ignore them like they did last time, even claiming they didn't know it was happening. Make sure they know this time and that we want to see it.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 11h

Congressional offices are closed, but their inboxes aren't. Demand Congress pass this bill to release the Epstein files--YOU CAN DO IT NOW HERE:
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Pass the bipartisan Epstein Files Transparency Act

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11h

Collins: Speaker Johnson that Republicans are actually the party that wants to fix health care by addressing issues with it, as he says they did in the one big beautiful bill.

Sanders: Did he really say that? They're trying to fix health care by throwing 15 million people off of it?

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Billie @billieo2.bsky.social · 11h

That’s not too bad. I don’t much like gambling…guess if one is lucky it’s much more fun. 😀

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 11h

oh come on how much land will a bunch of pop-up books take

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11h

A Florida judge has temporarily blocked the planned transfer of prime downtown Miami land for Trump's future presidential library.

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Billie @billieo2.bsky.social · 16h

It does make sense. He really doesn’t know half of what’s going on.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

You have to wonder if White House staffers are simply showing him AI videos at this point and he thinks it's reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

Yep. Wormtongue keeping Theoden captive with AI.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

You have to wonder if White House staffers are simply showing him AI videos at this point and he thinks it's reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Left Voice @leftvoice.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has doubled down on an authoritarian agenda designed to preemptively weaken working-class organization in a period of capitalist uncertainty and crisis.
www.leftvoice.org/is-trumps-au...

Trump's Authoritarian Turn and the Limits of Liberal Democracy - Left Voice

Trump has doubled down on an authoritarian agenda designed to preemptively weaken working-class organization in a period of capitalist uncertainty and crisis.

www.leftvoice.org

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h

I honestly cannot believe the whole center console on cars thing isn’t illegal and stigmatized. The messages, the alerts, the notifications — it’s all absolutely, positively dangerous and unnecessary.

joesferatu🦇🔱 @24fps.bsky.social · 18h

i love that my car flashes a message to keep my eyes on the road on a screen in the center console that i have to dismiss

"sorry officer, i didn't see that pedestrian there. my car was yelling at me to keep my eyes on the road"

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 16h

The forces of white Christian nationalism are ascendant all over and our newsroom leaders are not only refusing to call it out, they are acquiescing.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 16h

Don’t let them tell you this was planted there. It wasn’t.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 18h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Billie @billieo2.bsky.social · 16h

Seems that way. Quotas and no warrants is rotten.

Did you win anything at the casino?

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Phil @darkphil.bsky.social · 1d

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17h

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

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