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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 10h

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Kt @kty38.bsky.social · 9h

Exactly 💯

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Jean Pocket @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 10h

Wowwwwwww 🤩

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 1d

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortage costs www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d

ICE keeps grabbing US citizens. wweek.com/news/2025/10...

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 12h

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 16h

NSO Group confirms that it has a US buyer and whole thing is even sketchier than you would imagine: techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/s...

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1d

Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide”
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/13/ilan_pappe_israel_on_the_brink

Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé: Despite Ceasefire, Palestinians Still Face “Elimination, Genocide”

Renowned Israeli historian, author and professor Ilan Pappé discusses the postwar prospects of Palestinian statehood and of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is under investigation for co...

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 2d

Add to this the Court’s usurpation of trial judges’ fact-finding function, often getting facts way wrong, in ways that get the Court to desired outcomes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 12h

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www.moscowtimes.ru/2025/10/14/t...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

MEMPHIS — Trump’s invaders are already using the new Tennessee Republican law to keep people from filming Trump’s invaders up close (media outlets are suing over it)

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Pumpkinloaf @toneloaf.bsky.social · 1d

The Federal government has attacked Chicago but Chicagoans are doing a great job documenting what is happening. However, I do not feel that there is a solid timeline of key events forming, and so I put one together

Here is a 🧵with details on each, including sourcing and videos. AMA

A timeline I have put together to document key monents in the attack on Chicago:

6/16/2025 : Limited but heavily militarized and anonymized ICE activity
9/19/2025 : Broadview Escalation: 9/22/2025: Broadview: More chemical irritant use:
9/23/2025: Silverio Villegas González Murdered
9/26/2025: Broadview Scrum 1: Vehicular Violence and indiscriminate chemical irritants
9/30/2025: South Shore Raid
10/3/2025: Logan Square Tear Gassed
10/3/2025: Broadview Scrum 2: ISP+ crowd control; Deliberate attack on protesters by ICE while filming for content, Dan Bovino
10/3/2025: Arrested Alderman
10/4/2025: Brighton Park Stand Off
10/10/2025: WGN Producer Aggressively Arrested under suspicious reasons, no charge
10/12/2025: Albany Park Standoff

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 17h

‘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/news/2025/10...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/w...

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

And we're already seeing some cave to the idea that being part of ICE makes you a "protected class." So... yeah... www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/a...

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

In the first month of direct state aid for Missouri’s voucher scheme, 98% of funds went to religious schools...

missouriindependent.com/2025/10/13/n...

Nearly all state funding for Missouri school vouchers used for religious schools • Missouri Independent

As state funding begins directly fueling Missouri's voucher program, a majority of students use the money for religious education.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

Not even a week in and prosecutors in the Jim Comey case have SEKRITS.

I'd give at least a 25% probability that the judge requires this unsealed (there's no sign of permission to sign it under seal).

Maybe it's about Trump's fee fees.

A screen cap of two docket entries reading:

10/14/2025 44 Sealed Motion by USA as to James B. Comey, Jr. (Attachments: # 1 Proposed Order) (jlan) (Entered: 10/14/2025)
10/14/2025 45 Sealed Document as to 44 Sealed Motion as to as to James B. Comey, Jr. (jlan) (Entered: 10/14/2025)

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 2d

caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/10/13/i...

Israeli Officials Are Openly Saying They Plan To Resume Attacks On Gaza

Israel’s top officials are openly declaring that they intend to terminate the Gaza ceasefire after they get their hostages back.

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29 U.S.C. § 157 @organizingpower.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, are ICE agents complying with this order? I’m sure the answer is “no” but my follow-up is “where is the contempt motion”?
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