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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 5h

Hoo boy.

Wonder Woman Demands Justice 🐝🎗 @alsowonderwoman.bsky.social · 5h

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Sheryl RN ✡️🎗️ @beu4ic.bsky.social · 16m

This is an important detail in the story about Platner. Great admiration for Genevieve McDonald for standing up for what’s right.

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h

(sigh)

And that's that, I'd say.

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“It was not until I started hearing from reporters and DC insiders that I realized this tattoo resembled a Nazi symbol,” he said. “I absolutely would not have gone through life having this on my chest if I knew that — and to insinuate that I did is disgusting. I am already planning to get this removed.”

Platner’s former political director, Genevieve McDonald, who resigned from his campaign last week over her objection to his recently unearthed incendiary Reddit comments, said in a Facebook post on Tuesday that “Graham has an antisemitic tattoo on his chest.”

“He’s not an idiot, he’s a military history buff,” McDonald wrote in the post, which was reviewed by JI. “Maybe he didn’t know it when he got it, but he got it years ago and he should have had it covered up because he knows damn well what it means.”

McDonald said that Platner’s campaign “released it themselves to some podcast bros, along with a video of him shirtless and drunk at a wedding to try to get ahead of it.”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15m

Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.

(Published July)
By @andreasuozzo.com, Kavitha Surana and Lizzie Presser

Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas, Our Analysis Shows. Here’s How We Did It.

Using seven years of hospital discharge data, we found that the number of blood transfusions during emergency room visits for first-trimester miscarriage shot up by 54% since Texas banned abortion.

www.propublica.org

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Janai Nelson @janainelson.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: Paul Ingrassia withdraws nomination after racist texts surface. But he's still a White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security on a taxpayer-funded salary. He should be removed from all govt service immediately as unfit & unhinged.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Ingrassia withdraws nomination after racist texts

The 30-year-old lawyer nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel was slated to appear before senators on Thursday. His move comes after POLITICO reported comments he made in a text chat.

www.politico.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 🧟‍♂️ dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 5h

Yesterday in Shilling v. Trump (the 9th Circuit case about the military transgender ban), the government admitted that it has found no evidence to support any of the "traits" that the Secretary of Defense attributed to transgender servicemembers.

D.A.A.G. Kambli: So, Your Honor, as one example: The privacy interest. That affects, um, how --
Judge Christen: Has it been a problem?
D.A.A.G. Kambli: I can’t say there’s anything in the record with these individual plaintiffs.
Judge Christen: Me either; I can’t find it. I have a related question. At oral argument in front of the district court, the government responded … there was no evidence associating transgender people with a lack of honesty or humility. … Is there any evidence associating transgender service members with a lack of integrity?
D.A.A.G. Kambli: So, Your Honor, there’s no evidence in the record of that.
Judge Christen: Okay. I’m going to ask the other four traits. I’m not trying to be pedantic, but I want to make sure I’m not missing anything because there are a lot of different studies. … Lack of selflessness?
D.A.A.G. Kambli: So, Your Honor, there’s no evidence in the record on that.
Judge Christen: Honor?
D.A.A.G. Kambli: There’s no evidence in the record on that
Judge Christen: Truth?
D.A.A.G. Kambli: The same answer.
Judge Christen: And the same answer for lack of discipline?
D.A.A.G. Kambli: The same answer for that.

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 12h

what the fuck, I was just in Syracuse, how do you spend that much? I was even going to steakhouses and seafood places.

Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 13h

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 10h

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych @jonathanconp.bsky.social · 23h

"Because it’s well within my control to limit harm to others simply by masking in public, I’d be ashamed not to."

Guiness Pig @guinesspig.bsky.social · 1d

Fool Me Once, Shame On You: Why Ignorance of Covid is a Dogshit Excuse

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Fool Me Once, Shame On You: Why Ignorance of Covid is a Dogshit Excuse

Hi friends, Before we dive into this post, I also wanted to share this link to Wayside Episode 18 - Dive, just published today. I've heard from a few of you that emails with the full text of each epi...

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 23h

Lindsey Halligan has a broadcast journalism degree from Regis University in Denver. I am confident they covered how "off the record" works.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21h

2nd time they did this.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 23h

Still appalled at how paltry and terrible the NYT coverage of the protests were and how nobody there feels any responsibility to address the criticism. This was not something that caught them off guard. This was many levels of decisions.

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 23h

If ANYONE ELSE ON THE PLANET did to our White House what Donald Trump just did to our White House, Republicans would be losing their motherfucking minds.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 22h

No. 19: Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough. I’m not yet a dad, but I want to propose a new type of dad to add to the pantheon of Civil War and World War II dads: the mid-century politics dad. The more histories of the 50s-70s I’ve read, the more convinced I am that understanding what went right and what

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 1d

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 1d

8/ If Halligan wasn't validly appointed, then everything she's done has been ultra vires and void ab initio. That means the stuff she's done gets unwound.

Halligan was the only lawyer willing to sign the James Comey and Letitia James indictments. As far as we can tell, she & only she secured them.

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P. Andrew Torrez @andrewtorrez.bsky.social · 1d

1/ Thanks to Comey's lawyers, we have the appointment order for Lindsey Halligan in EDVa that the gov't has been trying to hide for weeks.

I think it means Halligan is not long for this job & the Comey and Tish James indictments not long for this world.

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ORDER NO 6402-2025 AUTHORIZING LINDSEY HALLIGAN TO BE THE INTERIM UNITED STATES ATTORNEY FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA DURING THE VACANCY IN THAT OFFICE

pursuant to 28 USC Section 546

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True Blue Sea @truebluesea.bsky.social · 1d

This is what Trump is currently doing to the White House East Wing. Look at the broken and unusable windows destroyed and just hanging off their hinges. no attempt to save anything for re-use or history. Such respect for the People's house, eh?

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KTLA 5 @ktla.com · 1d

Californians have until midnight to register to vote in Nov. 4 special election

Californians have until midnight tonight to register to vote in the statewide special election on Nov. 4. Gov. Gavin Newsom in August signed a bill calling for a Nov. 4 special election that will l…

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

"sir a second Nazi groupchat infodump has hit Politico"

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I try to unpack in the piece: The Trumpists launched an unhinged demonization campaign against “No Kings” – and then did nothing.

So, they didn’t believe their own propaganda? Not the specifics, no. But they do believe that all protest is fundamentally illegitimate.

America As No-Longer-Democracy and Not-Yet-Dictatorship

Where does the country stand after the largest day of protest in U.S. history? Putting “No Kings” in perspective

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

www.huffpost.com

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

polls, special election victories, massive protests, I think have slowly forced elites to realize that MAGA's eternal ascendancy is very much not assured. 1

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nikwojcik.bsky.social @nikwojcik.bsky.social · 2d

You really can’t make this shit up.

Live ammunition detonates over I-5 and damages CHP vehicle being used for Vance security at Pendleton. This, after the VP mocked Newsom’s safety concerns about live rounds being shot across the nation’s busiest highway.

Haven’t seen a WH reply since.

John Ismay @johnismay.bsky.social · 2d

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. We were relieved for the hostages, prisoners and children of Gaza…

…but knew the genocide would continue.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 2d

All week the pro-Israel and pro-Trump supporters screamed at us, in unison: why aren’t you celebrating the ceasefire??

Because we knew it wouldn’t last. But even I didn’t think it’d be over in less than a week. What a complete & utter humiliation for Trump, thanks to Netanyahu.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

Our pro-democracy movement is surging. Now it’s up to each of us to channel this incredible energy into the organizing power it will take to win.

Join us on Tuesday for a mass call of movement leaders and activists to discuss what’s next: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even... #NoKings

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VC @vgc1720.bsky.social · 2d

You cannot pick and choose when to care about uninformed & under informed consent and infection.

It can’t be ok when you spread disease but not ok in a controlled research setting.

Let’s have a think on this.

And consider the number & demographics of ppl living with Long COVID.

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