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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 1m

No, but in yellow.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 59m

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Liquid Jade @liquidjade.bsky.social · 27m

The DoD’s weekly payroll is roughly $3.7 billion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 59m

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3m

Ya think?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6m

More than a dozen U.S. airports are refusing to display a video of Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, blaming Democrats for the government shutdown and any travel disruptions that may result from it. Some said that the video was overly partisan.

Airports Refuse to Show Video of Kristi Noem Blaming Democrats for Shutdown

More than a dozen airports aren’t displaying the Homeland Security secretary’s roughly 30-second clip. Some said it violates policies against partisan political messaging.

nyti.ms

Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3m

It’s not that all or even most of Trump’s supports are bigots. It’s that the bigots, whatever percentage they represent, are in charge.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 29m

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 6m

They talk about smart decisions and hard work. But plenty of people have those things and don’t make it big. It *does* take brains and hard work luck is a factor. In timing, if nothing else.

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 10m

This is the second time in 24 hours he's said something like this. Yesterday he made that quip saying about Karoline Leavit, "those lips --- they move like a machine gun."

He's losing all inhibitions. Not that he ever had many to begin with.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 44m

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

He got here because this town has fantastic Special Ed teachers who got him to the point where he can be ima regular class without a helper. If these people really cared about autistic kids, they’d be screaming blue murder about the cuts to special ed funding.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

Are you implying that DHS is … fibbing?

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 19h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 3h

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

My supposedly broken autistic kid who will never write a poem or play baseball or have a job just tested 97th percentile in math.

Stick it up your ass, RFK.

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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 3h

I’m old enough to remember when the idea of the government reaching out to social media companies to ask for moderation was a gigantic scandal

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4h

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

Also gotta love the anti-cancel culture guys boasting about all the people they’ve cancelled.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3h

I've said this before, but one of the more striking things about the current generation of righties is that they really show no sign of understanding that there's a world *beyond* their screens, beyond owning & being owned on social media. A real world, with real people & real problems.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

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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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15h

Military aid to Ukraine has fallen substantially, even as Russia’s aggression has not.

That hard fact, not any “change of tone” or “expression of frustration” or “consideration of sending more advanced equipment” is what matters most on the ground. Moscow surely knows that, and sees encouragement.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15h

⚡️Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says.

Military aid to Ukraine has fallen dramatically in recent months, a report by the Kiel Institute published on Oct. 14 has found.

Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says

In July and August, total military aid to Ukraine fell 43% lower than the amount received in the first half of the year, a report by the Kiel Institute finds.

kyivindependent.com

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 5h

Hard to justify shooting someone in an inflatable chicken suit.

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15h

It's amazing and also horrifying at how angry the fascists are that protesters are putting on inflatable costumes. Like they think it's unfair to highlight just how evil these cosplaying fascist fucks are.

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 16h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 5h

Blech.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7h

The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

abcnews.go.com

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 6h

Once again: you can’t fact-check things that haven’t happened yet.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 6h

In Paxton’s case, it wouldn’t help.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 15h

I can smell these pictures.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

Media framing the Gaza deal and other international affairs around Trump’s quest for the Nobel peace prize highlights how much news and public discourse have become warped around one man’s pathologies.

Whether he gets praise is one of the least important thing about this.

Me, in @msnbc.com:

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 15h

"Crowd on Demand CEO"? I'd sooner trust the opinion of my cat. And she's been dead for five years.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

Fox Propaganda is desperately spinning the "No Kings" events in fearful anticipation of their success.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 22h

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Clip from the attached story that says: He points to the current outbreak in South Carolina where more than 150 unvaccinated school children at two schools are now being subject to a 21-day quarantine after being exposed

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