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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

At this point I would be shocked if Taiwan is an independent country in about 10 months.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 9h

The first rule of covert CIA action is do not talk about covert CIA action www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Note blindspot Mike Schmidt creates here.

He argues that Don McGahn (left 10/17/18) and John Kelly (fired 1/2/19) kept Trump in bounds.

He LITERALLY appears ignorant of anything that happened after that, including Impeachment 1, Barr's side channel that framed Joe Biden, & Durham investigation.

PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 18h

To Mike Schmidt @nytimes.com
Why won’t you fucking people call out Trump for what he is. He’s a fascist who is burning down every institution and must be removed from office. Guardrails? You did enough to put him in office by sanewashing him.
#DV1 #ProudBlue www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

When the Trump Guardrails Fall

www.nytimes.com

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queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 17h

yeah the article discussed that & how it would be a miracle of science for it to be converted to collagen used by the body (tho may be useful as a protein in other ways).

and it focused heavily on how the supplement craze began bc manufacturers wanted to stop throwing away the byproduct.

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queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 20h

I LOST MY TABS WHEN I LOST MY PHONE

queer & pleasant danger @laurenmpayne.bsky.social · 20h

there was a “collagen is a scam” investigative piece a while back that now i can’t find. anyone have a link? i think it was sub stack but not sure.

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 21h

Reminder (mostly to myself): the goal of a todo list is not to create a list of obstacles between you and rest when “done”.

The goal of a todo list is to get more done *than you would without the list*. Don’t measure against an arbitrary “done”; measure against what you’d accomplish with no list.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 21h

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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merritt @merrittk.com · 21h

hello twitter users who are just joining us! we're happy to have you on bluesky. you're just in time for "wet wet wednesdays" where we all share the sauces, gravies, and marinades we're working on

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 21h

But there's been such a total dissolution of cause and effect in the Zionist imagination that it seems like people really cannot wrap their mind around things like "if you murder, imprison, displace, and relentlessly mistreat your neighbors then it's very normal for them to be upset about it."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20h

If you're at SFO and you stop by Green Apple Books, you'll find signed copies of Redshirts, Kaiju and Moon. Go get them!

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h

John Roberts: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.

Brett Kavanaugh: Totes.

*immigrants being profiled by ICE enter the chat*

Roberts Court: Yeah but I didn't mean like that. The cops can definitely still arrest you because you're brown.

Kav: *chugs beer in agreement*

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 21h

SNAP runs out in a couple of weeks

Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 21h

Everyone’s talking about Milpay, but reminder that USDA is currently using excess 25 funds to pay for WIC and School Lunch. They say they have like maybe a month of that left.

Red States are going to lose their fucking minds if they can’t draw those soon.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h

fuck john roberts. honestly. fuck him.

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 1d

Frog and Toad Are Gonna Fuck Shit Up

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Joé McKen @joemcken.net · 21h

So weird how one major US political party keeps getting caught electing nazis and hiring nazi staffers and hanging out in nazi group chats and displaying nazi symbols and using nazi talking points and stuff

Anyway, let’s put them in charge of the government for a while, I’m sure it’ll be fine

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 23h

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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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 21h

CNN: Oakland begins amphibious invasion of San Francisco's financial district in an effort to liberate the besieged city from DreamForce

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Haaahahaha. Kagan says "in Milligan, we rejected a number of arguments. It seems to me that you just made every one of them." Then she started to list them.
... she's still listing them. :)

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

They were not, in fact, 100% clear on OPSEC.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

EFF mourns the loss and honors the life of Ahmed Mekkawy (@linuxawy.org), a friend and supporter who was a passionate advocate for free and open-source software and digital rights manassa.news/en/stories/2...

Farewell, Mekkawy

Ahmed Mekkawy, a pioneering Egyptian tech and digital rights advocate, is remembered for his generosity, activism, and lasting impact on open knowledge and technology.

manassa.news

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 1d

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 1d

Oof, relatable disclosure in Illinois's/Chicago's National Guard case: One of Judge Perry's law clerks tried to text a fellow clerk to complain about DOJ, accidentally texted a friend who worked for the opposing party (IL AG's office)

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 15m
U.S. District Judge April Perry just took the bench for this morning's status hearing in Illinois v. Trump, over deployment of the National Guard.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 10m
Perry called everyone in to make a disclosure. After listening to 9th Circuit oral arguments on Nat Guard over the weekend, Perry says one of her clerks realized the government had taken a position there
"inconsistent" with what had been said in Perry's courtroom.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 8m
That frustrated law clerk texted someone they "believed" to be another law clerk, but who turned out to be a "friend of theirs who works at the Illinois attorney general's office."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 7m
That clerk realized what they'd done within about 90 seconds, deleted/edited the message and asked the friend if they'd read it. The friend said they'd "seen enough to know it was not meant for them."

Jon Seidel
@jonseidel.bsky.social
Bottom line: Perry says that clerk will no longer be working on this case, going forward.
Neither side made a motion based on this disclosure, but I didn't hear anyone rule it out, either.
Either way, hearing adjourned.
October 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 1d

Yellow fever, dengue, and malaria used to be endemic to river valleys and the southeastern US. That was back in the day before we had decorative man made ponds in gated subdivisions and stagnant puddles from lawn irrigation everywhere. They'd be much more widespread now.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 1d

the “what’s the worst game you’ve ever finished” thread revealed to me that a lot of people haven’t even begun to understand the depths of how bad video games can be

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