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Writer. He/him. Too boring for social media. Incandescently angry. #RCTID #BAON #YNWA Trans rights are human rights. There is no going back. Cheetah & Cheshire are robbing the Justice League. Newsletter: https://front-towards-enemy.ghost.io

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · Nov 9

“We leave bodies stacked in Seattle, that’s a local feature. Do that here, it’s national goddamn news.”
“Yes.”
“So we’re clear.”
“They threatened our baby.”
“I know.”
“They threatened our baby,” she repeated. "Somebody dies for that.”
“Somebody will,” I assured her.

#amwriting #k8 #whisper

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Nick McGeehan @ncgeehan.bsky.social · 2h

"Peace is a good broadcast deal and a viral PR moment." @karimzidan.com excellent as always on Infantino and the 'peace summit' at @sportspolitika.news www.sportspolitika.news/p/nfantino-p...

Gianni Infantino, Peacemaker

Infantino’s diplomacy is not the diplomacy of treaties and compromises. It is the diplomacy of branding and spectacle. Where others see conflict, he sees opportunity.

www.sportspolitika.news

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 23m

A gorgeous fall day here in the burning hellscape of Portland.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 1h

New newsletter! About Cats, Bats, and Complications! Mildly interesting, possibly amusing, and with art from DaNi, @nicolascottart.bsky.social, @comixbychloe.bsky.social, and @michaellark.bsky.social! FREE!!

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18 - The Gang’s All Here

A Greg Rucka newsletter

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 19h

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE.

It’s time to cancel your account.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

Taxpayers aren’t supposed to deduct losses from something that has no hope of being a profitable business.

But billionaire-owned operations that look like expensive hobbies, like race horses, rack up business deductions by the tens of millions of dollars.

(Published 2023)

Private Planes and Luxury Yachts Aren’t Just Toys for the Ultrawealthy. They’re Also Huge Tax Breaks.

What’s the only thing better than having your own Gulfstream jet? Why, getting to claim millions in tax deductions for it. All you have to do is make a case you’re using it for business, which turns o...

www.propublica.org

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 12h

Not that I recall….

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 12h

I was thinking Kate….

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 12h

May hold you to that sir.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 13h

I’m going to have someone call someone impressive and NOT sleep with them, just to show you.

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Stephen Foskett @stephen.fosketts.net · 18h

No, #Portland is still not burning.

isportlandburning.com/

Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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Benito del Pliego @benitodelpliego.bsky.social · 13h

NC is already plotting the 2026 gerrymandering coup... We need to stop it.

North Carolina Republicans Plan to Redraw Congressional Map to Add a Seat

www.nytimes.com

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 6d

"Asked what percentage of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward, Justice told ProPublica: 'I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.'”

by @megomatz.bsky.social / @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

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...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 15h

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.
https://to.pbs.org/42GW5hU

LISTEN LIVE: SCOTUS hears redistricting case that could reduce representation for Black voters

In arguments Wednesday, lawyers for Louisiana and the Trump administration will try to persuade the justices to wipe away the state's second majority Black congressional district and make it much harder, if not impossible, to take account of race in red...

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 21h

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 1d

Russ Vought is now officially using the government shutdown as a pretext for his continued attempts to permanently gut the civil service.

The executive branch cannot unilaterally reduce agency funding that Congress has allocated: This is a serious separation of powers issue.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d

History gives us plenty of examples of disease used as a weapon. There are fewer cases of governments deliberately using disease against their own citizens. We are living (or dying) through one right now.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

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Dii Moffatt @diimoffatt.bsky.social · 2d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

When they tell you they plan on throwing out the constitution, believe them.

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 1d

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 1d

I had the exact same thought. He's not really killing it on the couture front, is he?

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OPB @opb.org · 1d

Ongoing protests against President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement policies took a two-wheeled turn in Portland today, when hundreds of people — some fully or partially nude — gathered for what organizers dubbed an Emergency World Naked Bike Ride.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

He's got the Grim Reaper looking over one shoulder and the Ghost of Epstein Past looking over the other

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Ruckawriter @gregrucka.com · 1d

STUMPTOWN is currently OOP. Waiting on developments before we reissue and maybe do a new one.

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