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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 59m

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

How rightwing groups help Trump’s education department target school districts

Conservative groups are aiding the administration’s crackdown on equity policies in schools across the US

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

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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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 2h

This is dark. But also, this display of solidarity on the part of the pentagon press corps should be a model for dealing with the regime

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 7h

elmo from sesame street is making a funny face and says omg .

Alt: elmo from sesame street is making a funny face and says omg . And falls down from not being able to handle this joke either.

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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 7h

Ok there's a third and it's the Kill Mr Rochester novel we all dream about writing

Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 7h

Well imma do the Holy Creep dance all the way to the dispensary now omggg

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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 7h

I have two modes and they are both right out of Jane Eyre.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 10h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

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Music Box Theatre @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 22h

The Casting Director of ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES said "Get me the best actors early-90s Broadway theatre has to offer!"

RATED Q presents ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES, this Thursday at 9:45pm

Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Christine Baranski in ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES

David Hyde Pierce in ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 21h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 1d

My dirty little secret is that I wear socks with my loafers in the morning and take them off and hide them in my purse for the afternoon. Secret sockscapades

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 5d

Sorry luddites but this technology is here to stay and if you are not learning to use these tools then you are falling behind.

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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 1d

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 1d

@appalshop.bsky.social is v cool

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@appalshop.bsky.social

Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 1d

🪾❤️💪 that's right

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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 1d

That is to say, without the appalshop archivists.

Her stories and cadence have lived rent free in my soul since I was 8. Now I have an interview where she talks about using it in classrooms!! WA state will be enriched by you all. 🙏❤️

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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 1d

Hello! If not for you I would not have found my favorite storyteller giving an interview on YouTube (Andranna /sic/ Belcher) yesterday.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d

It’s genuinely alarming that the official DHS account is talking like this. This isn’t a parody account, it’s a federal agency using the tone of an online teenage bully to respond to fair public criticism.

DHS Twitter account responding to Maria Cardona

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

Adelita Grijalva won her election 19 days ago and she still hasn’t been sworn in.

The government has been shut down for 12 days with no end in sight.

They can stall as long as they want but the Epstein files ain’t going away.

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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 1d

Gasp!

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Mrs. Dudek @degram.bsky.social · 1d

You just blew my miiiind