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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 4h

why the hell are they confirming trump's judges when trump's speaker of the house won't swear in Grijalva?

Senate Press Gallery @senatepress.bsky.social · 5h

By a vote of 66-32, the #Senate invoked cloture on the nomination of Harold D. Mooty III to be US District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

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Fella Historian🌻 @thisuserisdumb.bsky.social · 3h

My mother-in-law just called. She got her health insurance info for 2026. Her premium went up 91%. She knew it would increase alot, but she is stunned & distraught by a 91% increase. She's a 80 yr old widow on a fixed income, she can't afford her health insurance premium to almost double!!!

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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 7h

It's truly astounding what damage Trump and Republicans are doing to Virginia's economy bluevirginia.us/2025/10/tues... h/t @SpeakerDonScott

VA Speaker Don Scott says Trump and VA Rs are "destroying Virginia's economy," as news of VA's GDP dropping from 6.2% to 1.7% comes out

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest mistake we all made was assuming the wealthy and “academics” didn’t bother with the internet the same way us normies did because they were above such frivolous nonsense. Turns out their brains were cooked by social media at an even higher temperature than your average drunk uncle.

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sunnieskye @sunnieskye.bsky.social · 8h

How about you GOP fuddies bring back educating people to be great doctors, and helping them with the cost?
Oh.
That’s not as lucrative as robbing people, I guess…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Ron Johnson: "Let's bring free market competition back into the healthcare industry. Let's bring back way more consumer choice. Rick Scott, an expert in healthcare, he's working with people like myself and the White House, let's design the Republican plan."

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 7h

You don't say. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Fox News host Laura Ingraham joins business venture with Donald Trump Jr

Host often criticized Hunter Biden’s business on her show and said he capitalized on his father’s presidency for deals

www.theguardian.com

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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 7h

Fox News viewers cannot define hypocrisy.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

This is unforgivable -- innocent, helpless families being tortured and torn apart for the entertainment of a decadent, bloodthirsty domestic audience. I feel sick being part of it.

Portfolio: The Trap at 26 Federal Plaza

Every day in downtown Manhattan immigrants arriving for routine hearings are targeted by ICE agents and taken from their families.

nymag.com

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 20h

Edward and Shari Glazer
Harold Hamm
Benjamin Leon, Jr.
The Lutnick Family
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Konstantin Sokolov
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
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Source: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | Trump Hosts Corporate Ballroom Donors at Glitzy White House Dinner

The event included representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon.com and Palantir.

www.wsj.com

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 20h

Micron Technology Inc.
Microsoft Corp.
NextEra Energy Inc.
Palantir Technologies Inc.
Ripple
Reynolds American Inc.
T-Mobile US Inc.
Tether
Union Pacific Railroad
J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
Adelson Family Foundation
Stefan E. Brodie
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 20h

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 18h

MAGA, did you stick your dick in a blender?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 21h

Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.

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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 19h

In all of my life, I have never heard anyone use "Chinaman," except on black and white movies.
The GOP goes for classic racism.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 1d

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

Taint

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/20/t...

Taint - emptywheel

Judge Michael Nachmanoff's order denying the loaner prosecutors in the Jim Comey case a quick filter review discloses that the main FBI investigators may have already sneaked a peak into Comey's privi...

www.emptywheel.net

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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 20h

Yes!

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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 20h

I don't want to find out that RFKjr has done his inspection of girls.

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 21h

RFK Jr. is erroneously claiming girls are entering puberty six years early. www.readfrontier.org/stories/we-f...

We fact-checked Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims as part of the ‘Make Oklahoma Healthy Again’ campaign

The U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary made half-true or false statements about fluoride in public drinking water, Alzheimer's disease, autism and puberty during his visit to Oklahoma.

www.readfrontier.org

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Possum Princess Pluto Space Force Queen @possumprincess6.bsky.social · 21h

gimme a hammer and I can do it with hundreds of other people - just like the Berlin Wall ....

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 1d

The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Halloween season from my dogs, Benson and Bun_E.
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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 1d

PSA from a very longtime food writer here: SNAP cutoff in #epsteinshutdown won't just hurt poors. Nonindustrial American farmers are gonna get totally fucked.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

The Midwest Farmer Massacre

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

Hello, 28th precinct, I was just yelling slurs at a bunch of people on a public sidewalk and some little skater kid snatched my transitions lenses and when I tried to chase him I fell flat on my face. Yes I’ll hold

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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