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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 3h

"The period of time during which White youth are not expected to be fully responsible for their actions can extend well into their late 20s. By contrast, Black children are often treated as adults by age 13, if not well before."

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Bill Nemacheck @billnemacheck.bsky.social · 8h

Here's a helpful infographic....

The four ages of white innocence:
Too young to understand
Made a youthful mistake
Listening and learning
From a different time

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 7h

JD Vance (41) defending hate speech from 40 year olds by saying "kids will be kids" is some weapons-grade telling-on-yourself

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8h

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

A dark batch of headlines tonight.

@wsj.com @nytimes.com @axios.com @politico.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 7h

Billionaires decided long ago they’d rather have low taxes than democracy.

Bolts @boltsmag.org · 7h

Conservative billionaire Jeff Yass, the richest man in Pennsylvania, is helping fund the GOP’s bid to oust three Democratic state supreme court justices this fall.

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

Crazy how these guys just keep showing up everywhere

ICE Agent in skull mask Broadview Illinois

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2h

I really think we need to reconceptualize this shutdown as the last stand for the rule of law and Art I. Bring it to default if that’s what it takes. If Congress can’t assert the power of the purse, we are in “move to Portugal” territory of screwed.

Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2h

This cannot just be about healthcare. The existing constitutional system hangs in the balance. The rule of law is now baked into this shutdown in a huge way.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 2h

you know I could have sworn that like ten years ago they pretended this happened against them (it didn’t) and said it was the worst offense that had ever happened (again it didn’t).

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Beau Baumann 🍏 @beaubaumann.bsky.social · 2h

This cannot just be about healthcare. The existing constitutional system hangs in the balance. The rule of law is now baked into this shutdown in a huge way.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1h

Sorry to harp on this, but another almost-unbelievably terrible unsigned editorial from WaPo. This one has a crucial "tell" that Murdoch's Fleet Street team is in full control.

The tell: Would any US writer refer to Trump as "the American," the way the WaPo does in passage below?

A Washington Post editorial which refers to Trump as "the American."

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Gary Dauphin @ebogjonson.bsky.social · 1h

Gotta hear both sides

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1h

"I helped!" meowed Wendy.

Security camera catches cat dropping mouse into human family's dinner

Animal rescuers in California shared security camera stills showing the moment a foster kitten spiced up her human family's dinner with a dead mouse.

www.upi.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1h

"I helped!" meowed Wendy.

Security camera catches cat dropping mouse into human family's dinner

Animal rescuers in California shared security camera stills showing the moment a foster kitten spiced up her human family's dinner with a dead mouse.

www.upi.com

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

Contrast this with the administration’s justification of kidnapping a 14-year-old kid by calling them a “hardened criminal”

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 5h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 6h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4h

Article One of the United States Constitution, not in effect

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 6h

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3h

They've been arguing in court repeatedly that there are no plans for a shutdown and that they will honor all statutory obligations.
Not sure what a legal system does with a government that simply isn't credible.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 4h

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

FBI agents will get paid despite government shutdown, Patel says

The Trump administration will continue paying FBI agents despite the ongoing government shutdown that has frozen paychecks for nearly all federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

www.cbsnews.com

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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 7h

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 3h

So this is just facially illegal right?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antidef...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 15h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

I have a lot of respect for Zolan Kanno-Youngs and @haleaziz.bsky.social and have talked to both many times in the past. That the Times lets them be so blunt about what is happening with the U.S. refugee admissions program is a good sign of how much the Trump admin is not even trying to deny it.

Zolan Kanno-YoungsHamed Aleaziz
By Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Hamed Aleaziz
Reporting from Washington

Oct. 15, 2025
Updated 3:44 p.m. ET

The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

The proposals, some of which already have gone into effect, would transform a decades-old program aimed at helping the world’s most desperate people into one that conforms to Mr. Trump’s vision of immigration — which is to help mostly white people who say they are being persecuted while keeping the vast majority of other people out.

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