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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12h

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits.
I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger

The administration’s decision to fast-track a bunch of changes to food stamps—including new work requirements—is as stupid as it is cruel.

www.thenation.com

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 9h

This is now more than double the NASA budget, which the White House wants to slash.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 7h

there’s an officeful of other staffers who’ve been walking past that flag without saying anything as long as it’s been there

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 1d

Sex is cool, but have you ever heckled Andrew Cuomo for 10 minutes straight?

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 9h

You have to wonder if White House staffers are simply showing him AI videos at this point and he thinks it's reality.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "The people of Chicago are walking around with MAGA hats. You have women, beautiful Black women, walking around with MAGA hats. 'Please let the president in and we don't care how he does it ... bring in the Marines.'"

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 10h

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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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 10h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 9h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 8h

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 10h

More images from what was just reported in Politico (www.politico.com/news/2025/10...)

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10h

Trump is a white supremacist who wants the US to take in more Nazis from abroad.

That's what this is. That's how it should be discussed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 10h

Just spitballing here, but maybe "Nazis are bad, actually" would be a good message for a party wanting to appeal to a majority of Americans, whom I'm pretty sure still don't like Nazis, the efforts of Trump and his party notwithstanding

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Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 11h

Confirmation beyond any doubt that Ben Gvir is a psychopath who needs to go to the ICC.

Romeo Kokriatski @vagrantjourno.bsky.social · 12h

Ben Gvir personally oversaw the torture of Greta Thunberg, as reported by Aftonbladet.

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 10h

Weird this keeps happening

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

New in PN: The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

"Dismissal is probably the best result for the government, since it would spare the DOJ having its dirty laundry aired in court before getting spanked for having brought such a garbage case. But even so, it'd be very, very funny."

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

www.publicnotice.co

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 12h

These radical left attacks on free speech must end

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 12h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 12h

Vance reacts to the Young Republicans chat leak

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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 11h

This is a good teaching.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

We have a teaching in Judaism that "you are not required to complete the task but neither are you free to desist from it."

We're in a fight where each inch of success allows the next folks to fight for their inch. We do what we can, give ourselves & each other grace, & keep fighting. In frog suits.

the word fin is written on a black background .

Alt: the word "fin" ("the end") is written on a black background .

media.tenor.com

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 12h

Billionaire wealth has gone up by $33 trillion in the last ten years.

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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 11h

awesome! 🤩

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 13h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

Dear media,
1/ ICE consistently lies about its violence toward people in Chicago, with its initial accounts later disproven.
2/ When protesters shout at ICE agents to get out of their neighborhood and ICE tear-gasses them and throws them to the ground, that's not a "clash" – that's ICE violence.

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Joe Calhoun @jbc3.bsky.social · 11h

Interesting thread

Stephen DeCasien, Ph.D. @sdecasien.bsky.social · 14h

I was asked recently what the “big debates” are in ancient naval studies, the maritime equivalent of the hoplite debate. Three stand out clearly. Here is a short summary of some!

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 12h

Ooh! Happy THE WORKS OF VERMIN day to those who celebrate, which should be everybody. I got to read this as an ARC *ages* ago and I've been excited to push it one everyone -- it has bugs who love opera and weaponized perfume and just gooey wonderfulness.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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