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BarbJoan @bjgt.bsky.social · 52m

Mariners at 8pm Eastern time then the Seahawks kick off at 10pm Eastern.

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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 2h

Even ardent protectionists would tell you that tariffing bananas and coffee is idiotic and yet it took the administration six months to get here

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 6h

Sorry but this is the funniest headline I will read all year

Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre
Andrew Harding
Paris correspondent, at the scene

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

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

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3h

Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4h

Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h

Shouting match. Cursing.

And this ⤵️

Trump "adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own statements about Russia’s weaknesses..

"Trump told Zelenskyy that Putin had told him the conflict was a 'special operation, not even a war.'”

www.ft.com/content/7960...

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia
US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 11h

Washington Post editorial board, 2 days ago: "The idea that Trump is easily swayed by Putin, let alone manipulated or controlled by him, does not hold water."

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11h

Shouting match. Cursing.

And this ⤵️

Trump "adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own statements about Russia’s weaknesses..

"Trump told Zelenskyy that Putin had told him the conflict was a 'special operation, not even a war.'”

www.ft.com/content/7960...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 5h

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15h

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states.

See if you can spot it! /s

Then you can find today's story on p A23

Front page of NYT on September 22, 2025, with large top-of-page photo of a Charlie Kirk memorial service, and the lead page-one story on the same topic.

Front page of today's NYT, Oct 19, with no story about the nationwide protests, and a "below the fold" montage of two photos, and a link to a story on page 23.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

This is what the 25th Amendment is for.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 7h

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

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BarbJoan @bjgt.bsky.social · 3h

Explains why he thinks drug prices are going down 500%

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 4h

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

Original photo from post showing a well dressed man with a blazer, hat and umbrella standing next to police. I have helpfully circled the man on the photo and drawn arrows pointing at him to help law enforcement

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10h

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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BarbJoan @bjgt.bsky.social · 3h

I was in such a good mood yesterday after the rally. I really can’t watch these videos of him.

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Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · 17h

Got flak for saying on CNN last Friday that Trump deserves no credit for resolving the Gaza war because he... didn't resolve the Gaza war. Sure enough:

Israel accuses Hamas of breaching ceasefire, reportedly attacks Gaza

An Israeli military official accused Hamas of a "bold violation of the ceasefire," while a senior Hamas official accused Israel of violating the agreement.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 7h

Would it be too much to leave out the ”Top Gun” reference and rephrase it with “completely inappropriate and unbelievable to anyone with an ounce of sanity and decorum?”

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7h

On his Truth Social platform on Saturday night, Trump posted a Top Gun-style AI video of himself wearing a crown and dropping raw sewage on the protesters from a military plane.

(Yes, you read that right.)

Donald Trump and Mike Johnson are melting down over "No Kings" success

Trump posted an AI video of himself dropping raw sewage on the protesters from a plane. Yes, you read that right

www.motherjones.com

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Ellen Braaten @ellenbraaten.bsky.social · 4h

The misogyny is disgusting

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: What do you have to say to farmers who feel that the deal is benefitting Argentina more than it is them?

TRUMP: Look, Argentina is fighting for its life, young lady. You don't know anything about it. You understand what that means? They are dying

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9h

The NYT does not believe in covering the views of the people, just their elite friends:

🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 9h

It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.

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BarbJoan @bjgt.bsky.social · 4h

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

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BarbJoan @bjgt.bsky.social · 4h

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 13h

The 7 million Americans who took the streets for 'No Kings' made history, and they did something even more important

They got under the skin of Donald Trump and his dictatorial regime, on a day that showed that most Americans love democracy instead

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...