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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 8h

Well, they've got it now. Hope they like it.

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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 1d

If the social media manager at any company or organization posted this they would be fired, no?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 12h

Conveniently ignoring his own role in normalizing the rightward drift of Republicans and legitimizing culture wars. He's having a face-eating leopards moment.

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1d

Mocking totalitarian regimes has a proven history: art students in Wrocław, Poland started painting gnomes over communist propaganda around the city while they were under martial law.

Crackdowns on Gnomes’ Rights marches got national attention & made police look dumb.

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

The cheeky gnomes taking over Wrocław

Cute as they may be, each statue is a nod to the Orange Alternative, an anti-Soviet resistance movement that helped bring down Poland’s oppressive communist regime in the 1980s.

www.bbc.com

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 15h

“This has nothing to do with Epstein” written on Mike Johnson jacket. Photoshop ofc

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Boris Johnson, "I tried to get the scientists to say that lockdown was a bad idea"

*they all laugh*

There were 26,000 covid deaths because Boris Johnson ignored scientists and delayed the first lockdown by a week

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 13h

I'll bet the people who chanted "globalize the intifada" weren't thinking of one in the streets of Chicago.

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 13h

Will she be hiring a reporter to cover the Antichrist beat?

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 14h

This is really quite something. Can we declare the Young Republicans an extremist organization? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 14h

Quite right.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18h

General Motors will book a negative impact of $1.6 billion in its next quarter after tax incentives for electric vehicles were slashed by the U.S. and rules governing emissions are relaxed.

GM to take a $1.6 billion hit as tax incentives for EVs are slashed and emission rules ease

General Motors will book a negative impact of $1.6 billion in its next quarter after tax incentives for electric vehicles were slashed by the U.S. and rules governing emissions are relaxed.

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Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 14h

Which is exactly why they want to hobble it.

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 18h

🧪A good perspective.

Mothers from the 1950s, who saw how polio affected children's lives would like a word.

For every $ spent on the MMR vaccine, the healthcare system saves $13. Now, The direct medical costs of a measles case is $1793. This translates to $~1.79B/yr for Americans.

RFK Jr. says vaccines don’t save lives. He’s wrong

Now RFK Jr. is claiming vaccines don’t actually save lives. Here’s the math to show what he gets wrong.

www.statnews.com

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 15h

It's the Reagan deal with Iran not to release the hostages until after the 1980 election v.2.

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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 17h

Wait - so there was a peace deal in place under Biden, but Netanyahu met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago (tinyurl.com/4fn64wah) and scuttled it to give them both a political win.

𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗬 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗦 𝗪𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘?

Nobel?? More like the Hague.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 18h

Market manipulation

Lori (Little Lulu) @lori51051723.bsky.social · 19h

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 15h

"Deliberately created famine in Ukraine" - oh, wait -- that was just Stalin. "Set up forced labor prison camps in which millions died" - oh, wait, just Stalin again. He isn't even as anti-democratic as Boris. This comparison is jejeune.

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Ellin Stein @ellinst.bsky.social · 15h

This has been a long-held goal of the Tea Party and ALEC.

Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 16h

“It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 17h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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