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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 24m

Excellent column on East Wing demolition: Collin Levy, on @wsj.com op-ed page. Yes, that WSJ.

www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

(For the record, terrible WaPo editorial on same subject, on now-usually-terrible WaPo ed page. I'm omitting a link. And to 'cleverly' contrarian column by NYT regular.)

Opinion | Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to the People’s House

The White House isn’t private property. The demolition of the East Wing is unprecedented.

www.wsj.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1h

An MRI? Of what?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump on his recent trip to Walter Reed: "I got an MRI. It was perfect ... if I didn't think it was gonna be good, either I would let you know negatively, I wouldn't run, I'd do something."

(Note how he's openly talking about running for a third term.)

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2h

Trying to think about what Jasmine Crockett and AOC have in common that might prompt him to call them "low IQ"...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2h

“If only these fretful Republicans belonged to some sort of governmental body that had the ability to limit or even stop these troublesome actions. One could image, say, a separate legislative body to check the executive, control spending & vet unfit nominees.” open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

It is So ‘Disconcerting’ that We Have No Congress

Republicans refuse to do their jobs

open.substack.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

GDT: ".. AI, particularly generative AI — I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. .. I’m 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak."

@variety.com @realgdt.bsky.social
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Guillermo del Toro Says He’d ‘Rather Die’ Than Use Generative AI in His Films: ‘Not Interested’

Guillermo del Toro says he would 'rather die' than use generative AI in his films.

variety.com

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2h

Timeline poetry.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2h

“In a sane world, America’s electorate would not usher into office sociopaths…Trump went off to Malaysia for a week and the GOP-controlled Congress remained out of session refusing to negotiate an end to the suffering.”

www.americaamerica.news/p/hunger-bri...

Hunger, Bribes and Sociopathy

As food assistance runs out and a billionaire offers money for troops, Trump dances in Malaysia

www.americaamerica.news

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2h

Fun fact. Trump destruction of soybean exports (rightfully) gets lots of attention. But you know what we sell even more of to China? Education.
2024 soybean exports to China: $13B.
Higher Ed: $14B.
Yes, all those internat’l students count as *exports.* Trump is STILL actively destroying that market.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Bessent says China to delay rare earths rules by a year, buy U.S. soybeans reut.rs/42YJMO9

Bessent says China to delay rare earths rules by a year, buy U.S. soybeans

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that he anticipates that China will revive substantial purchases of U.S. soybeans for several years and will delay its expanded licensing regime for rare earths by a year and re-examine it after two days of trade talks in Malaysia.

reut.rs

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

When dressing up as a Nazi for Halloween is even remotely acceptable then you know as a country we have lost the plot.

We can never normalize this:

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 11h

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 12h

LSU will spend more money paying off a fired coach than it did on merit scholarships last year.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

Why is Trump celebrating in a foreign country while Americans are going without a paycheck and millions are on the verge of losing SNAP?

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 11h

“We may live in an attention economy, but time remains a finite resource. People are tired, scared, desperate, and ready to be overwhelmed by the crises initiated and maintained by Republican rule.”

Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 12h

We are at the precipice of a great economic calamity—and the left coalition has spent the bulk of the last week arguing about Nazi tattoos.

Graham Platner, Disaster, and a Ticking Clock | Kaitlin Byrd - GothamGirlBlue

www.patreon.com

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 8h

A lot of manly performative hand waving here and rampant over testing, even though it all comes down to the basics: Sleep, exercise, food and friends and family. (Maybe a little GLP-1s, but tbd) www.cbsnews.com/news/prepari...

Billionaires seek out this doctor's help preparing for advanced age. Here's what he prescribes.

Dr. Peter Attia has declared war on what he calls the marginal decade, the final years of life that are often plagued by sickness and immobility.

www.cbsnews.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5h

“The Russian can see us just from the other side of the river, and a minute later they hit you - and they are specifically targeting residential areas, kindergartens, hospitals.”

read this horrific report from Kherson:

open.substack.com/pub/twogrump...

Talking to Ukrainians under the rain of Russian bombs

Far away from the futile Trump-Putin noise (will he? won’t he? why didn't he?), Ukrainians are being targeted and killed every day. I talked to friends and acquaintances in Kherson, a frontline city.

open.substack.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

Granted we’re just over here in Tennessee, but it kinda seems like greedy bigots threatening to self-deport from NYC if he wins is more of a reason to vote for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social than against him?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10h

2/ this makes it hard not to seem like an alarmist, or unsympathetic to more sanguine interpretations of the trajectories we are on. But you are a history-informed realist.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10h

1/ even among those least likely of whom you’d expect this to be true, there is a phenomenal amount of denial about the moment that we face and what will be needed to fight back

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

More of that free speech absolutism eh?

CAIR: “Abducting a prominent British Muslim journalist and political commentator on a speaking tour in 🇺🇸 because he dared to criticize the Israeli government’s genocide is a blatant affront to free speech.” www.cnn.com/2025/10/26/u...

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 11h

Pregnant Women, DON’T TAKE PARENTING ADVICE FROM A CONVICTED FELON WHO OWNED A TEENAGE BEAUTY PAGEANT AND HAS SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT HE WAS BEST FRIENDS WITH THE MOST NOTORIOUS CHILD RAPIST IN MODERN HISTORY.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 8h

October 26, 2025

Economist Paul Krugman probably didn’t have the Erie Canal in mind today when he wrote about the rise of renewable energy, but he could have.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5h

When asked about Russia’s war in Ukraine, ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek, and xAI’s Grok all regularly cite Russian propaganda
www.wired.com/story/chatbo...