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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 19m

Ironically the administration is serving as the best advertisement for the No Kings rallies at this point

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 3h

Reza Zavvar, 52, came to the US from Iran when he was 12 (so 40 yrs ago). He was granted asylum & permanent residence. Then, in the 1990s, when he was in his 20s, he had 2 misdemeanor convictions for possession of pot. ...
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Steven D. Greydanus @decentfilms.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a trivial lie, but a brazen one, and in a way those are the most dangerous sort. Lies like this are a public declaration that the speaker can lie about literally anything and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...

Manufactured Drama

ICE violence in Chicago is real, but it's also made for Instagram

open.substack.com

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Ghastreblyansky @yastreblyansky.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a report of the meeting where it's clear in hindsight that this happened www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/...

Netanyahu meets Trump, capping US trip marked by Gaza protests

Israeli PM seeks to mend ties with Republican presidential candidate after meetings with Biden, Harris.

www.aljazeera.com

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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John Goldin @johngoldin.com · 2d

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

How Trump Is Making China Great

Why we’re going to lose the trade war, and much more besides

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John Goldin @johngoldin.com · 2d

If Trump and MAGA were more skillful at execution of policy, this would be even more scary. In part we are counting on incompetence to save us.

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John Goldin @johngoldin.com · 2d

I didn’t read this substack when it first came out. It’s sad that it is still so relevant.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

obviously john roberts and the trump majority aren't going a little thing like "history" or "the written text of the constitution" get in the way of their ideological drive to remake the (republican) presidency as an elected dictatorship.

Originalist ‘Bombshell’ Complicates Case on Trump’s Power to Fire Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

what's actually happening is in the first instance a war for narrative control, not physical control. blinding a troop with a laser, to use a technical term, "looks bad" to normies. being normal and peaceful at masked thugs "looks good" to normies.

www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-win-a...

How to Win a Rigged Game

The Civil Rights Movement is worth studying not just because they were right, but because they won.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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John Goldin @johngoldin.com · 2d

substack.com/@maiamindel/.... OK after reading this I feel I have some understanding of the latest Economics prize.

Maia Mindel (@maiamindel)

New Substack post: the Nobel Prize goes to an economic historian and two economists of growth trying to answer the question, where do new technologies come from? https://someunpleasant.substack.com/...

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John Goldin @johngoldin.com · 2d

xkcd.com/3030/

Lasering Incidents

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OPB @opb.org · 2d

Researchers discovered that since 2017, firearms have surpassed motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of mortality for youth ages 11-18, spiking from 1,945 deaths in 2001 to 3,224 in 2022.

Gun deaths among high schoolers on the rise, WSU study finds

The researchers found that, nationwide, high schoolers ages 14 to 18 are at an exceptionally elevated risk for gun-inflicted injury and death compared to children in other age groups in both rural and urban settings.

www.opb.org

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John Goldin @johngoldin.com · 2d

Poster about laser tagging ICE helicopters with overlaid warning message "Do NOT do this. Bad for you and bad for everyone else. ICE would love to show someone is doing this.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 4d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 5d

Poorly-executed ripoffs of fine watches are so on-brand for the guy who has for years been giving fake "diamond and platinum" cufflinks as gifts to his pals.
nypost.com/2016/06/21/t...

Trump has been giving out fake diamond cuff links for years

Donald Trump has been doling out diamond cuff links to unsuspecting pals as presents — but they’re actually fabulous fakes, sources say. At least three recipients later learned that the glittery gi…

nypost.com

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John Goldin @johngoldin.com · 2d

So the guy really is a jerk. Only the Trump administration would allow a guy like this have so much influence.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Vought is singularly focused on bending the entire government machine to Trump’s will. He believes that any check on the power of Donald Trump, who Vought literally describes as a “gift of God,” is illegitimate. There is no line he doesn’t feel justified to cross.

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 3d

A few days ago, I wrote up a piece on Republicans routinely forgetting when Biden took office and how the problem seems to be getting worse: tinyurl.com/3bdxp3te

I suddenly wish I’d held off a few more days. (The “Biden FBI” didn’t exist on Jan. 6. Trump was president at the time.)

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CyberFella @cyberfella.bsky.social · 3d

Remember when Republicans said no to student loan forgiveness? But they are more than willing to give it to their masked storm troopers.

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