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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

An honor to receive the endorsement of
of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter.

I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.

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blurosie.bsky.social @blurosie.bsky.social · 1h

Well put

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1h

They don’t fear violence; they fetishize it. What they fear is happiness, because happy people don’t need saviors or strongmen.
substack.com/@jojofromjer...

No Kings, No Pants, No Problem

How Portland answered authoritarianism with bare asses and better ideas.

substack.com

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 2h

my local paper seems not to have caught on that “repressive as ever” is what the US is all about now

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 2h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 18h

Hey remember when Lawler and his flunkie Republican trolls tried to weaponize anti-semitism against actual Jewish people like me?

Yeah, fuck off forever.

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blurosie.bsky.social @blurosie.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah he’ll get right on that

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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blurosie.bsky.social @blurosie.bsky.social · 11h

Clearly Biden’s fault

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 12h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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blurosie.bsky.social @blurosie.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t live in Maine so maybe you have more information

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 12h

For the Epsteinth time, swear her in

Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 14h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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blurosie.bsky.social @blurosie.bsky.social · 12h

Just looking at CPR rating, not other polling

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blurosie.bsky.social @blurosie.bsky.social · 12h

I agree, and I like the idea of Platner
But the upstate/downstate issue in Maine is real
CPR had it Lean Republican
Collins is hard to beat there because of name recognition

So maybe that’s key in Maine

These former GOP politicos are interesting

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Anthony Scaramucci Thinks Trump Has

Podcast Episode · The Best People with Nicolle Wallace · 10/06/2025 · 55m

podcasts.apple.com

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blurosie.bsky.social @blurosie.bsky.social · 14h

Is it though?
Or is it to compete with the name recognition of the senator who voted to get rid of Roe and supports the dismantling of our government?
CPR just changed rating for senate seat to Toss Up

So maybe it’s the best chance of defeating susan Collins

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blurosie.bsky.social @blurosie.bsky.social · 14h

Winning does seem important here

blurosie.bsky.social @blurosie.bsky.social · 14h

Agree but cook political report just changed rating for the seat to Toss Up now that she announced.

She committed to one term limit.
I don’t know
When
Winning is what matters.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 19h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 19h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Former President Barack Obama has filmed an ad for Gavin Newsom’s Prop 50.

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blurosie.bsky.social @blurosie.bsky.social · 19h

Who gets the money American tax payers just gave to miles in Argentina? What’s the stated purpose of that “loan” while our own government is in shutdown

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