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judithbolyard.bsky.social @judithbolyard.bsky.social · 11h

Imagine...

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 15h

Jeff Bezos: "I bought WaPo to get rid of 'Wokeness' in the news. The American people want news that is exciting and dazzling for all."

WaPo: "Except now our circulation numbers are below 100,000 for the first time in over 55 years"

www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 13h

Full list of Young Republicans involved in offensive chats

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Full list of Young Republicans involved in offensive chats

Politico obtained 2,900 pages of exchanges over seven months among a dozen Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.

www.newsweek.com

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Deb Brown 🚨🇺🇲 @debpixcom.bsky.social · 13h

If only our eyes saw souls
instead of bodies
how very different our ideals
of beauty would be.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19h

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 19h

Apropos of nothing, once the President of the United States confirms covert CIA operations in a country… say, Venezuela, those operations are no longer covert.

And it puts CIA officers at significantly more risk.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: Trump is inching closer to illegally invoking the Insurrection Act.

If ever there was a moment for America’s governors — especially in Blue States — to hold an emergency summit, it’s now.

The federal government is plotting invasions of their states.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

We got $20 billion for Argentina though.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20h

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 20h

"In unison."

Amen.

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Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20h

Statement released by the Pentagon Press Association.

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Tony Negron @tnite02.bsky.social · 20h

The Dweeb is just a small man afraid of his shadow. We should send him a few cat ladies to give him a wedgie.

Tony

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Cricket @cjcricket.bsky.social · 19h

Threatening???? What a joke!

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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 20h

This is exactly why we must vote YES ON PROP 50!

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 23h

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 20h

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Cricket @cjcricket.bsky.social · 19h

Platner is the kind of dem politician we need. And we need a lot more of them. Not the status quo dems who don't really want to change anything.

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Tony Negron @tnite02.bsky.social · 20h

My man in Maine is running against a 77 year old lady democrat who should be retiring and joining a knitting circle. Yet the damn neoliberals in the party are committed to supporting her. They out their minds!

Tony

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 20h

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Cricket @cjcricket.bsky.social · 19h

Huge shock...oh yeah, not. 🤬

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Cricket @cjcricket.bsky.social · 19h

Ummmm, they aren't kids. They are adults.

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Cricket @cjcricket.bsky.social · 23h

Nice.

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George Hahn @georgehahn.com · 1d

“Omygod you’re kidding no way this is such a surprise I can’t believe it so random and off-brand these people aren’t like that I wouldn‘t see this coming at all…,” said no one ever.

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

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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