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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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Ellen K 🍁🎃 @datagoodies.bsky.social · 7m

Wtf

David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 10m

America's largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to grant federal contractors blanket immunity from human trafficking laws.

What stage of capitalism is this?

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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Ellen K 🍁🎃 @datagoodies.bsky.social · 10m

Live Updates: Supreme Court Questions Role of Race in State Election Maps www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Weighs Role of Race in State Election Maps

www.nytimes.com

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Ellen K 🍁🎃 @datagoodies.bsky.social · 14h

Trump Targets Democratic Districts By Halting Billions During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

US Trade Rep Greer gets asked: whatever happened to “90 trade deals in 90 days?” — on Fox.

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Ellen K 🍁🎃 @datagoodies.bsky.social · 14h

Trump Targets Democratic Districts By Halting Billions During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 1d

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Ellen K 🍁🎃 @datagoodies.bsky.social · 16h

Future cellmates?

mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 1d

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Matt Round @mattround.com · 17h

OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in

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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 18h

🚨BREAKING: Arizona’s 7th District is certified — Adelita Grijalva is now U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson’s last excuse is gone. No more lies. No more delays. Swear her in NOW so she can do her job. They can delay, lie, and hide—but the Epstein files aren’t going anywhere. The cover-up is cracking.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19h

The three major airports near New York City have joined Los Angeles, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Charlotte, Cleveland, and Buffalo.

Newark, JFK, LaGuardia will decline to play Kristi Noem’s politicized TSA video - New Jersey Globe

Three major airports in the New York City area – Newark Liberty International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, and LaGuardia Airport –

newjerseyglobe.com

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Forbes @forbes.com · 20h

The U.S. military has struck at least five boats in the Caribbean in recent weeks it claims were smuggling drugs to the U.S.

U.S. Strikes Another Boat Off Venezuela, Killing 6

The U.S. military has struck at least five boats in the Caribbean in recent weeks it claims were smuggling drugs to the U.S.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: James Comey is filing a motion to dismiss his case based on United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, being appointed illegally.

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Ellen K 🍁🎃 @datagoodies.bsky.social · 17h

Soul of a burnt marshmallow

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine?!

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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 17h

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Ellen K 🍁🎃 @datagoodies.bsky.social · 17h

Trump Targets Democratic Districts By Halting Billions During Shutdown www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19h

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Rebecca 🦋 @rebecca79903973.bsky.social · 1d

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Ellen K 🍁🎃 @datagoodies.bsky.social · 18h

Saturday. It will be historically big. Be there.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

> @denverpost.com #NoKings 👑

www.denverpost.com/2025/10/14/c...

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Ellen K 🍁🎃 @datagoodies.bsky.social · 18h

Blue eyed Americans don’t need a passport to walk around.
But otherwise…

Mike Meadway 🇪🇺 🇩🇰 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @mmeadway.bsky.social · 1d

I just read an article saying that a legal resident was given a $130 ticket because he "didn't have his papers".

So, we're now at the "papers, please" stage of things. I'm a natural-born US citizen, and I'm carrying my passport now because of this crap.

How far we've fallen...

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TXRebel (She/Her) @redrebel.bsky.social · 19h

I use avocado oil from Mexico or California & olive oil from Italy & Greece.

What the numbskull in chief doesn’t understand is that our Soybean farmers were subsidized by the govt to purposely grow soybeans for Asian countries but DOGE & TARIFFS fucked that all up!