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Natalie @hbnole.bsky.social · 1h

That's why the billionaires bought all the media outlets. But I get it. My dad has his head up Fox News's poop shoot all day long.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 2h

14 million excess deaths from gutting USAID.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 5h

*BESSENT SAYS ACTION WILL TOTAL $40B FOR ARGENTINA: SEMAFOR

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 2h

Systemic racism was/is the warm-up act for authoritarianism across the board. In case anyone is still unclear on that point

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 1h

According to local officials, safety at the park has improved. But gangs and gang violence is still a concern for park-goers and residents citywide.
bit.ly/42GtCIY

LA parks survey blames homelessness, but some South LA residents say gang violence is the real issue affecting park-goers

An assessment of LA’s parks highlights why people don’t use them–and what can be done to change that.

bit.ly

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 5h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 23h

deeply sick of all the goddamn nazis

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Senator Martin Heinrich @heinrich.senate.gov · 2h

The cost of holding down ACA premiums for a year is less than this…

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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orynthia blue. @javeauriel.blacksky.app · 6h

Black people can be Black and only Black.

The way that our full identities are dismissed is exhausting. You see it when people try to separate Black ppl from the LGBTQIA+ community. Or when it’s time to discuss ICE. Everyone understands intersectionality until it comes to us.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

again, it’s an open secret in DC that basically all of the GOP staff class are unabashed (literal swastika flags in their cubicles!) Nazis

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 5h

So many ppl spent the entire 2010s online trying to find ways to exclude Blackness from their interpretation and analysis of history; the cost of doing so is a level of intellectual and political unpreparedness that cannot meet the current moment in a way that’d be laughable if it wasn’t dangerous.

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Caleb Dume @thacalebdume.bsky.social · 2h

The same thing HE'S doing with Bolsonaro, Putin, and Netanyahu. When you're in an evil brotherhood, you gotta look out for your evil brothers.

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 5h

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Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Tech Witch @techwitch.bsky.social · 1h

Air traffic controllers calling in sick during the 2018-19 government shutdown helped end it.

Everyone who flies is affected by air traffic controller shortages, even billionaires.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

US airline group urges end to government shutdown, citing aviation risks reut.rs/3KSlO0H

US airline group urges end to government shutdown, citing aviation risks

The head of a U.S. airline trade group urged an end to the 15-day government shutdown, citing concerns about rising pressure faced by air traffic controllers who are working without pay.

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Debbie @deboraho.bsky.social · 1h

Latinos for Trump what do have to say about this.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program and give preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration. nyti.ms/4qjRk8b

Donald Trump wears a blue jacket and red tie. A headline reads: "Trump Considers Overhaul Of Refugee System That Would Favor White People." Photo credit: Doug Mills/ The New York Times.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

Is the Patient Black? Check this Box for Yes

A race-based calculation kept Black patients from kidney transplants.

wordinblack.com

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 1h

It was already planned with or without a shutdown.

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Nate Powell @natepowell.bsky.social · 1h

Also of note, to get past the headline’s passive voice:

The swastika-flag was pinned onto a workspace just like every other piece on the wall/cubicle there. Noticed in the background of a zoom call. Not called in by the office.

C’mon, it’s the staffer’s *decoration*, not a prank or sabotage.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

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

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Debra Davidson @debralhd.bsky.social · 1h

Does he mean the great city of San Francisco that Mayor Gavin Newsom was AG Kamala Harris ran 10-15 years ago?

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Jason Tinsley @jasontinsley.bsky.social · 1h

This clown hates America.

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 2h

Opening the comments section to find out it’s actually $40 billion now

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Natalie @hbnole.bsky.social · 1h

JFC

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2h

briefly interrupting my shame posting to tap one of the other signs: a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 3h

SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...

Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · Jul 30

Everything Republicans believe is wrong, and everything they do is immoral.

There's no such thing as a good Republican. No, not your friend, not your uncle, none of them.

They're either willfully ignorant selfish morons, or malignant bigoted sociopaths, or both.

Conservative = Moral Failing.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 1h

When I advocate for works of art set during that time with the persecuted playing the hero, it's not cosplay to me and mine. It's catharsis. You dress up as a Nazi because you think being monstrous is funny. I want to play as a freedom fighter to assuage the guilt of not being able to protect.

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