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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20h

#NOKINGS

New York City, NY

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16h

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?

anyway that’s why these events are important

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lil snack @chatterbop.bsky.social · 15h

Morristown, NJ
#NoKings

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lil snack @chatterbop.bsky.social · 1d

and only going to get worse over time when every single eligible candidate will have been recording their live & posting online since age 8.

like the need for complete tidy perfection prevents the most promising candidates for running, already!! hopefully people start getting over themselves.

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lil snack @chatterbop.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve spoken to multiple people I know from different areas of my life about running and the thing they all say is they “have too many pictures partying” or whatever. like we seriously have to stop acting like people should come out of the womb campaigning. it’s a big hurdle for a lot of folks.

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lil snack @chatterbop.bsky.social · 1d

and moving forward with millennials and Gen Zs running for office — everyone will have an internet history. we’re going to have to get used to that!!! if we want ANYONE to feel comfortable running.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe"

Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

A federal judge said "DHS, you cannot legally put this language into a grant." So what DHS did is... keep putting that language in grants — but with a new disclaimer saying it would only apply if the court order was struck down.

The judge was NOT happy.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 4d

Judge William Smith (W. Bush appointee): The Government has done "precisely what the ... [court's] Order forbids."

The case is Illinois v. FEMA

On Wednesday, we'll publish an updated catalogue of such judicial decisions on noncompliance with court orders at @justsecurity.org at the link below:

The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation

Comprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity."

www.justsecurity.org

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

What depresses me about this reporting is that it will lead to no introspection and very little accountability. We have just moved past any sort of world in which shame matters, or decency matters.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 4d

4) What’s happening now is an attempt to render those sentiments acceptable in polite company & to make people feel guilty for having negative judgments about people who express their racism and anti-semitism.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 6d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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lil snack @chatterbop.bsky.social · 5d

#bookban #censorship send it

Screenshot from 404media article reading:

“As always, we will need some help from our readers. We need help deciding what to look for, which school districts and cities to seek public records from, and need leads on where we should point our reporting efforts. During the height of the pandemic, many city councils made their meeting minutes and meeting transcripts searchable, so we have a good sense of the types of organizations and communities that have been most severely affected by educational censorship and book bans, and have a good idea of where to get started. But if you are a librarian, teacher, educator, parent, local politician, or activist who is aware of systemic efforts to ban books, censor curricula, defund libraries, or otherwise attack educational freedom, please let us know by emailing jason@404media.co or by reaching out to Jason securely over Signal at jason.404”

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lil snack @chatterbop.bsky.social · 5d

hey if you know of specific book ban efforts, let @404media.co know so they can request those FOIAs #bannedbookweek — www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

www.404media.co

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6d

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 7d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 6d

Our future is being shaped to a terrifying degree by people who have just … completely lost their marbles…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 6d

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

steady.page

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 7d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 7d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 7d

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Jeffrey Vagle of the Carcosa Vagles @jvagle.me · 7d

“The goal isn’t to police all behavior at all times. It’s to make us fearful to the point that we police our own behavior.”

radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

The courage to be decent

The Trump administration wants to make us too afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.

radleybalko.substack.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d

This Is Fascism

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Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org · 8d

🐟 This month we’re celebrating National Seafood Month with a recovery success story–Pacific bluefin tuna is making a comeback! Historically, this iconic species suffered from overfishing but has made a dramatic turnaround thanks to global cooperation among countries around the Pacific.

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 8d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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