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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 39m

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 28m

Looking into it

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Just watched this clip where Gavin Newsom was asked about AIPAC by podcaster Van Lathan Jrand he says it's an interesting question no less than 10 times in 60 seconds

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 31m

Dear Bluesky: Please stop playing the pathetic, phony little game of pretending that the *only* thing discussed in this piece is masks. Take the bad faith bullshit factional posturing elsewhere. Thanks.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 31m

Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 23h

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 1h

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 2h

This young republican leader thinks he's superior based on one thing: his looks. Because he's white, he feels entitled to be a "supremacist." I respect that you disagree but in this context I believe his looks are fair game.

TheRealGChu @therealgchu.bsky.social · 2h

love you frank, but don't shame based on looks. there's a million other reasons to shame these POS, but looks shouldn't be one of them.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 3h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 2h

Anti-trans Democrat Seth Moulton is trying to take a senate seat from a good fellow Democrat.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Rep. Seth Moulton Announces Run for Senator Markey’s Seat in Massachusetts

www.nytimes.com

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Rory Blank @roryblank.bsky.social · 2h

I mean there's recordings of Nixon raving about Jews and gay people, there's recordings of Reagan's press secretary giggling about the AIDS crisis

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 2h

The Goliaths of Big Tech are now gushing over Trump leadership, writes Zephyr Teachout. That isn’t a result of any character flaws in Mark Zuckerberg; that’s the result of a structural flaw in our system.

So Long as Oligarchs Control the Public Square, There Will Be Corruption

It's time to break up Big Media, Big Tech, and the finance system that binds them together.

www.thenation.com

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 2h

new union alert!

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 2h

Battle.net workers unionize as Microsoft neutrality agreement expires
aftermath.site/battle-net-wor...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 2h

Funniest thing about this is all the conservatives saying it’s “college aged kids”/“boys will be boys” and it’s actually a bunch of subcreatures in their 30s-40s.

onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2h

We are moving pretty quickly from “discrimination is illegal” to “discrimination is fine” to “discrimination must be protected by law.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

New, from me: I break down all that is happening with the shutdown.
Shutdowns are bad. But only Trump and Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

The Shutdown Shitshow

As Trump uses the shutdown to settle scores, the public bears the cost

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 4h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 4h

"The president is illegitimate and should be removed from office" is the minimum pitch for anyone nominally opposing him

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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CR! @chadrocco.bsky.social · 14h

When i was a kid this poster made me thing it was sort of energy or crystalline entity. Then I saw the movie on Scifi and it was the wettest, bloodiest thing. But the poster still conveys the cosmic dread of it all.

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 15h

One thing that’s probably getting overlooked here is: these folks are serious about this stuff.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 23h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15h

Can that generation fuck off already? Have they not ruined enough for all the generations that follow?

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 15h

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

A 79 year-old freshman senator would be … unusual

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has announced her intention to run for Senate against the state's well-known — ahem — incumbent, Susan Collins. When the next Senate term begins in January 2027, Collins wil...

www.pbump.net

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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 1d

It may no longer be Indigenous Peoples' Day but this is when and where your support truly matters. We have several Native communities devastated by flooding, families have literally lost everything.

Link to community fundraiser for people impacted by this storm: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

A a teal flyer for the Western Alaska Disaster Relief with a QR code to donate. Text reads:

WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF

Alaska's Western coastal communities are experiencing devastating impacts from Typhoon Halong, with families displaced and villages facing severe flooding and loss.

ONLINE FUNDRAISER:
Join us in supporting relief efforts. Scan the QR code to donate
online. All funds raised will go directly to
assisting communities.
QUYANA CAKNEQ - QUYANAQPAK - QAGAASAKUNG - TAIKUU
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MAHSÌ CHO - GUNALCHÈESH - HÀW’AA - THANK YOU

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Jon Wesley Huff @jonwesleyhuff.bsky.social · 1d

Struzan was hugely influential not just because his art was nice to look at. It was, of course. But he was just really freaking good at making interesting designs. I can guarantee you the new Masters of the Universe poster won't be this good, sadly.

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