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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 9h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 7h

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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Sarah Florini @florini.bsky.social · 6h

When I was in elementary school, as a grammar lesson, the teacher told us to go all day without using pronouns & we would get a prize. Later that day she had us all spell “Mississippi.” Then she told us if we said the letter “i,” we lost the challenge. I’m still indignant about her homonym trickery.

John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 7h

What meaningless thing/experience are you still mad about? Like it should not matter at all, DOES not matter at all. But you’re still MAD.

And how long has it been?

I bought some bagels at Hy-Vee four years ago. So bad. Too big. Hard. Bland. WORTHLESS.

I’m still FURIOUS.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5h

Well, so much for that ceasefire and peace deal and...
www.cbsnews.com/news/netanya...

Netanyahu says Hamas must disarm or "all hell breaks loose"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told "CBS Mornings" co-host Tony Dokoupil that conditions outlined in the 20-point plan "are very clear."

www.cbsnews.com

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Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 4h

It's set over 4 days but should have the intensity of a real-time thriller where some in the audience are clawing out their eyes

Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 4h

It needs a scene on August 7th where Goldwater and other Republicans go to Nixon to tell him they'll impeach him if he doesn't step down, just to make modern audiences feel jealous that we had a less dysfunctional government back then.

Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 4h

Pitch: an 89ish minute movie called CORRUPT BARGAIN set in the Nixon White House from August 6th, 1974 to August 9th. It's about the tense back-and-forth negotiation re: securing a pardon for Nixon should he resign.

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KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 7h

Mike Johnson tomorrow when asked by the press if he knew this guy or what's his comment about these texts:
"I am not aware nor have seen this report"
So predictable.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 5h

leaked by republicans. maybe we should get out of the way until they're done charlie kirking each other.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct 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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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 5h

Need someone with a small niche podcast to bring me on about this so I can say stuff I wouldn’t say elsewhere.

ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 5h

leaked by republicans. maybe we should get out of the way until they're done charlie kirking each other.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 16h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 5h

But this is a very dark side effect of the 2016 election. We've had trumpism normalized for 10 years now.

Whatever the minority of young maga is, I"m sure they were even smaller in 2016.

It'll probably be worse in 2028, 2032, etc...

Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 5h

I think the problem isn't their age but their Republicanism.

Sure there are gonna be some edgelord Nazis but I'm guessing their an even smaller minority compared to normal young people.

I'm fairly sure Kamala won people under 30

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when you tried to tell us “the younger generations don’t think that way.” And “the young people will save us.” There are a lot of great, humane, decent, bright young people out there. But there are also a lot of these young people. And they’re not going anywhere.

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Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 5h

I think the problem isn't their age but their Republicanism.

Sure there are gonna be some edgelord Nazis but I'm guessing their an even smaller minority compared to normal young people.

I'm fairly sure Kamala won people under 30

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when you tried to tell us “the younger generations don’t think that way.” And “the young people will save us.” There are a lot of great, humane, decent, bright young people out there. But there are also a lot of these young people. And they’re not going anywhere.

Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 15h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6h

Watched the excellent John Oliver episode about presidential libraries, which came out 3 days after I wrote this and also contains a Stephen Miller joke similar to one I made on here months ago and all I’m saying is if anyone there follows me we are on the same page and I got laid off recently

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 11d

Did you know that the Trump Presidential LIbrary Foundation (run by Eric Trump, of course) was given a piece of Miami real estate likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars this week. Like, just donated to them. By the state. For nothing. On which they can build anything.

What Even Is a Trump Presidential Library?

Hello, welcome to my relaunched newsletter, read more about the deal here and please subscribe below! A week ago, a plot of incredibly valuable land in downtown Miami belonged to public Miami Dade Co...

www.gravityisgone.com

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Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 6h

Last time that happened was in 2013 when the Red Sox finished 97-65 (.599) too

Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 6h

For the first time in 12 years, no team in the MLB got over a .600 winning percentage.

The Brewers were the top team with .599 (97-65)

Usually, there's a handful of teams that finish in the .600s

Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 6h

Update:

Brewers lose, fall to 3-4

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Lindsay Wiley @lindsaywiley.bsky.social · 7h

“Rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the ICE raids and money for legal aid and other services are among the provisions in the declaration.”

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 8h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 7h

Spirit Halloween is featuring Charlie Kirk costumes this year.

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Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 13h

I love that the first film might become like an origin tale of the Grabber, like if the first Nightmare on Elm Street film was set in 1968ish and called The Springwood Slasher or something. Either way, seeing it Thursday night, looking forward to it!

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Michael 🔪🎃 @fumikechu.bsky.social · 13h

Remember his supporters would cry out, "what about due process!?"

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 15h

Florida man murders 6 people after losing Nobel Peace Prize.

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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