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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13m

Hochul looked at which way the winds were blowing and unfurled her sails.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Liam @lidget.bsky.social · 8h

Pounded in the butt by my own reelection

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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 1h

geriatric millennial assassin: you're going to be heckin' deaderino when i'm through with you

geriatric millennial victim: yes please. thanks so much

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 54m

Asking the question in reverse can tell you the answer.

Instead of asking “why do Dems lose elections when their policies are broadly popular?”

Ask yourself “why do Republicans win elections when their policies are broadly unpopular?”

The answer is right there: Policy is irrelevant to elections

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 11h

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 57m

content warning: all of them

Politico @politico.com · 6h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 1h

first he'd have to stop his own state police from helping them run wild

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Asakiyume/Morinotsuma @asakiyume.bsky.social · 55m

I love them, and by another name, they are key elements in the novel I'm writing.
Now read this thread from c0nc0rdance! Any thread by them is great.

c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · Feb 20

There's so much to love about the Java Mouse-Deer (Tragulus Javanicus) in such a small package.

No bigger than a rabbit, they're the smallest living ungulates & probably resemble the ancestors of all ruminants more than any other species.

But let's look at their tiny blood cells!

(📷: Levg)

Tragulus Javanicus (Lesser Malay Mouse-deer) in the Jerusalem Zoo
CREDIT: Levg

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 3h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 4h

If a random guy in a mask grabbed someone and threw them in a vehicle—we'd call that a kidnapping. Until an alleged ICE agent identifies themselves, that's what this is.

For all we know they're a rapist murderer stalker looking for their next victim. Indefensible. Dem leadership must act NOW.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 48m

Every time!

Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 1h

The boring and obvious take that anti-woke positions have the effect (and in many cases the intent) of making it acceptable in polite circles to be a degenerate racist was and remains correct.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7h

6. There is no such thing as free violence. All violence harms the wielder.

Every time someone tries to sell you on the idea that there is something we can do, without cost, that harms other people, realize that they are lying to you.

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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 7h

made porc au cidre for dinner last night, thanks to finding a cut of pork in the exact amount I needed for the recipe at the grocery last weekend. good way to use up bruised apples, too, and some cider I needed to use up for cooking.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 8h

A gorgeous fall day here in the burning hellscape of Portland.

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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 8h

Super fun how we basically don’t have a Fourth Amendment anymore thanks to a shadow docket decision

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 7h

and mine's coming today!

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Johnson: “The most threatening thing I’ve seen yet was the naked bicyclers in Portland who were protesting ICE down there. I mean it’s getting really ugly.”

The Trump regime is really losing the narrative battle now.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 8h

Please gang, when someone makes a very generalized statement and prefaces it with the words "VERY loosely" ("VERY" in caps and everything) - please understand that generalization to be VERY loose and not an encyclopedic determination of all the variables in the circumstances described.

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 7h

The Post was a near-daily read my entire adult life. Then they made a hard right turn and I dropped my subscription. It's been harder to find DC-area coverage at the right granularity for me (living 100 miles away), but they'd gotten worse at that in the past ~decade anyway.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. 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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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 8h

This will definitely end super well.

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 2d

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

i'm just a little independent journalist but i don't think the credibility of your reporting should be dependent on access to a paid government mouthpiece

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Mina Li (she/her) @codenameminali.bsky.social · 7h

I'm so sorry.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 1d

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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