Chris Lombardi
@chrisblue.bsky.social
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Bronx-born Philadelphian. #Journalist. #Author of 'brilliant but disturbing' books from The New Press and Mumblers Press. No longer on Substack; find me on Medium, WagingNonviolence.org, On Watch, and an oped near you. #Disabled from 40 yrs of MS.
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chrisblue.bsky.social
Today feels like a Jehanne day
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joshuajfriedman.com
Every clause more exhausting than the last.

"... Mr. Lee, whom they came to view as a holdover from the Biden administration, though he had been hired during the George W. Bush administration and promoted during the first Trump administration."
waldo.net
It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Funding for legal assistance will be very helpful.
ABC News logo. Los Angeles County is home to over 3 million immigrants, according to supervisors, who said the ICE raids have "caused widespread fear" and led to "decreased attendance at
workplaces, disruption of local economies, and strain on critical services such as schools, hospitals, and places of worship."
Rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the ICE raids and money for legal aid and other services are among the provisions in the declaration.
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thestudyofwar.bsky.social
NEW: Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander Mazloum Abdi said on October 11 that he and the Syrian transitional government reached a “preliminary agreement” last week to integrate the SDF and Kurdish internal security forces into the state’s defense and interior ministries, respectively. 🧵 (1/5)
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faineg.bsky.social
this is true, and I also would like activists to finally figure out that Facebook hates you and works for Donald Trump
klonick.bsky.social
"The DOJ will continue engaging tech companies to *eliminate platforms* . . ."

This is your daily reminder Bondi specifically, and MAGA generally, spent the last 4 years accusing the Biden admin of jawboning tech companies to take down content in violation of the 1A.
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andycraig.bsky.social
The inherent corollary of "this is murder" is that we prosecute and punish people who commit murder.
markey.senate.gov
Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.
U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.
chrisblue.bsky.social
Now you know how New Yorkers feel abt Trump
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melissagiragrant.com
we’ve gone so far past “sex workers are the canaries in the coal mine” re: internet freedom, to an internet that’s run off and robbed from all the sex workers in order to replace them with planet-destroying simulations of sex workers
mattburgess1.bsky.social
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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juliametraux.bsky.social
Working on a reported essay on inflammation rhetoric espoused by MAHA etc, and it's hitting me how much this harms chronically ill people, both for putting blame on ourselves for being sick and clinging to pseudoscience sometimes out of desperation.
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warren.senate.gov
More and more Americans are literally being forced to use GoFundMe to survive.

So what are Donald Trump and the Republicans doing to help?

Ripping away families' health care and jacking up insurance premiums to pay for giant tax handouts for their billionaire buddies.
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...
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philmandelbaum.bsky.social
“We need everyone to get involved in the fight, and we need everyone to have a vested interest in continuing to resist.”

🚨 new from me 🚨

ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.

How Local Organizing, Community Defense and Security Culture Protect Us in Ways Technology Never Could
ICEBlock Can’t Block ICE. No App Can.
“Despite the app’s goal of protecting people from ICE, its viral success, and the state repression against it, ICEBlock has serious issues: Most
www.counterpunch.org
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freepress.bsky.social
We get a lot of questions from folks who think Free Press and "The Free Press" are one and the same. We're not. Our Free Press actually stands up to billionaires and fights to protect free speech.

More here: https://www.freepress.net/blog/this-free-press-isnt-the-free-press
chrisblue.bsky.social
Painful to read, tho! And some of these dudes are legislators!
chrisblue.bsky.social
Painful reading, @politico.com . Some of these dudes are NYS legislators,
sarahweinman.com
"If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr"
adamserwer.bsky.social
Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
chrisblue.bsky.social
erininthemorning.com
The medication stockpile bill is the bill I had pegged this year as the most important kind of bill to pass given federal threats, with a short time window to make it happen. Washington passed the same bill earlier this year.

It's so shameful for Newsom to veto this bill.
erininthemorning.com
1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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chrisblue.bsky.social
dropsitenews.com
🇪🇸 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said those responsible for the destruction of Gaza must be prosecuted, stressing that “peace cannot mean forgetting.” Speaking to Spain’s largest radio network, Cadena SER, he said there should be no impunity for the main actors in the genocide that has...
🇪🇸 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said those responsible for the destruction of Gaza must be prosecuted, stressing that “peace cannot mean forgetting.” Speaking to Spain’s largest radio network, Cadena SER, he said there should be no impunity for the main actors in the genocide that has been perpetrated in Gaza, citing ongoing ICC cases against Israeli leaders. Spain has been one of Europe’s sharpest critics of Israel’s two-year war in Gaza, with Sánchez last month explicitly calling Israel’s actions a genocide.
chrisblue.bsky.social
cooperlund.online
These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.
atrupar.com
Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."
chrisblue.bsky.social
Been at this awhile. "Esper recalled that his boss asked him at least twice in 2020 about the feasibility of launching missiles into Mexico to “destroy the drug labs” and wipe out the cartels."
responsiblestatecraft.org/cartels-vess...
Why we need to take Trump's Drug War very seriously
The president has broadcasted his zeal for military force against cartels for years and appears ready and willing to let it play out
responsiblestatecraft.org