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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 2h

It’s not a job for that Black lady y’all denied.

It’s not a job for that Black man you think owes you something just because you voted for him twice.

It’s up to the whites.

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 2h

And it isn’t just the fringes—it’s time for well-meaning white Dems to have a come-to-Jesus moment about party leadership.

Sh*t is broken.

Y’all have to fix it.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

If you were an admin or member of one of the Facebook groups that the DOJ jawboned Facebook into censoring, we want to talk to you!

Please shoot me a message,

Rtorney Pamela
' @AGPamBondi
Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a
large group page that was being used to dox and target
@lCEgov
in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and
social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing
their jobs. The Departrnent of Justice will continue engaging tech
companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent
violence against federal law enforcernent.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 2h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 58m

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 4h

The strength of libertarianism is you never run out of other people’s money

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5h

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

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 8h

We are witnessing in real time how racist lawmakers have entrenched all modern race law. This is a great summation of how it happens across many sectors. Racism under the guise of something else that we all know will be used explicitly racistly.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9h

Remember, according to the Republican Justices, it's okay to gerrymander for party advantage, not racial advantage. It's an unknowable distinction, but one that allows the Republicans to okay racist gerrymandering under the guise of political gerrymandering.

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koos167.bsky.social @koos167.bsky.social · 8h

I literally paid $12 to subscribe to Vanity Fair just for the Coates piece. Then the next day the Nunzzi news broke, and I cancelled. Got me a nice tote out of it, but had to unsubscribe to about fifteen different emails.

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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 8h

I've been saying this for years, whoever figures out a way to make it so you can just tap to buy an article without making a potentially lifetime credit card commitment is going to get rich and save journalism

alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 8h

NEWS OUTLETS
could you please offer an opportunity for me to buy an article a la carte

many times i don't want to subscribe because i don't want you to keep sending me shit. i do not want a continued relationship. but i would absolutely spend a nominal amount to read an article Right Now

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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 1d

I dunno. Even though I can't explain the disconnect, the regular police have been slaughtering pet dogs for many years and people don't seem to care at all

The *low* estimate is 10,000 dogs killed by police each year. 27 per day!

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

More than Just Collateral Damage: Pet Shootings by Police

The Department of Justice estimates that American police officers shoot 10,000 pet dogs in the line of duty each year. It is impossible to ascertain a reliable number, however, because most law enforc...

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 1d

Over at Reason we have a "puppycide" tag for cop-shoots-dog stories going back to 2012. Easiest way to get a normie 4th Amendment-pilled against the cops is to show them this stuff reason.com/tag/puppycide/

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 1d

Great news! We have built the Blackmail Machine from the classic sci-fi short story, "Help, The Blackmail Machine Is Selling My Sex Dreams to Stephen Miller"

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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

I see that this small-minded puritanical pixie is laser-focused on getting the government reopened and the troops paid.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Alan Smithee @kane-highsinger.bsky.social · 1d

I wish there was a reaction other than "like," because he's exactly right about this but it's horrible.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

The real kick in the pants is this honestly isn’t meaningfully different from any other occurrence that hasn’t already been folded into the “dreaded Woke times” anecdotes. They turned Amy Wax into a free speech martyr they’ll turn these kids into some as well.

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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 1d

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koos167.bsky.social @koos167.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans don't have "programs" - they have grifts, they have giveaways, they have boondoggles. They have never ONCE proposed anything intended to help the populace of this country in any way shape or form, & have actively sought to prohibit the implementation of all such programs.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 1d

You can understand this shutdown with 3 numbers.

15M — the number of people Republicans want to kick off health care

20M — the number of people Republicans want to 2x health premiums for

0 — the number of times Republicans have called the House back to reopen the government

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

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...