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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 5h

Hey Georgia! @hankgreen.bsky.social has a convincing pitch for why you should vote AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS in the upcoming Georgia Public Service Commission special election! Potentially save consumers money, kick out some Rs, feel good! YOUR VOTE WILL COUNT HUGELY! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

This is some vile stuff. And these aren't teenagers. Many are Republican staffers. At least one works for Trump.

"Epithets like “faggot,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined."

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 12h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents 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 Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

I made a little tool to answer the trickiest question in American politics. pbump.net/who/

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 7h

Oh ffs -- the Boston Fed President is a Black woman named Susan Collins - the first woman of color to lead any regional federal bank! Get. It. Together! 🤦🏾‍♀️

Reuters @reuters.com · 7h

Fed's Collins still favors additional rate cuts to aid job market reut.rs/4nUlPzU

Fed's Collins still favors additional rate cuts to aid job market

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Susan Collins reiterated Tuesday that rising risks to the job market support additional central bank interest rate cuts in what remains an uncertain economic environment.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 12h

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12h

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 6h

Holy crap. I lived through all of this; as a child, a parent, and a citizen who has heard the phrase "fill her up with ethyl". I was absolutely aware of the effects of lead but not to this level. Thank God for the EPA.

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 8h

Right? It’s like the old Kevin Drum piece’s weird, afterlife coda.

America's Real Criminal Element Is Lead

The hidden villain behind violent crime, lower IQs, and the maybe even the ADHD epidemic.

www.motherjones.com

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 1d

In the reading room today: super 1903 book if activities for girls in which Chapter 1 is building things with a hammer and a saw. There's also making fireworks using the metal from your stays. @theulspeccoll.bsky.social 1903.7. 554

What a girl can make and do, by Lina Beard and Adelia B. Beard.

Instructions for making a frankly fabulous reading nook chair from packing boxes, upon which to stretch oneself luxuriantly.

Instructions for home-made pyrotechnics, including a Snap-fire made from " a side-steel taken from a dress-stay" to fling your firework gaily into the air. Also a Rushing Comet made from a 3" rubber ball: "How heartily you will laugh when it strikes against some object which drives it flying backward". I think these girls are really quite subversive.

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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 1d

I do not have one yellow item in my closet, not even a scarf or cap. Must be time to hit the thrift store.

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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 1d

We lived overseas and long distance calling was only if someone died. Even when we returned calling was kept short bc my mother would freak out. I still, at my old age, almost get hives when calls last beyond a couple of minutes. I do like texting though. Serves all the function without the bloat.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

So efficiency

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

Scientists in China have developed a tough new bamboo-based plastic that biodegrades in 50 days. The new material matches the strength of engineering plastics used in cars and appliances while retaining 90% of its durability after recycling. buff.ly/zXWVoIS
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Biodegradable plastic made from bamboo is strong and easy to recycle

Bamboo is a highly renewable resource, and its cellulose fibres can be turned into a hard, mouldable plastic for use in cars and appliances

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LindaG23 @lindag23.bsky.social · 1d

The link indicates article published in the "Journal of Politics" on behalf of the University of Chicago Press.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

Today, Maine observes Indigenous Peoples' Day. We honor the lands and legacies of the Wabanaki Nations — Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Abenaki.

I look forward to passing legislation in the Senate to protect tribal sovereignty, which has been trampled for too long.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 2d

I have always loved @propublica.org's mission statement. It speaks to method as much as mission, and does not shrink from describling their journalism as a moral undertaking. www.propublica.org/about/

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 2d

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 2d

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

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Angus Hervey @angushervey.com · 1d

Feelings of global safety reach record high.

How’s that for an unexpected headline? Gallup’s 2025 Global Safety Report finds that 73% of people feel safe walking alone at night, the highest level recorded since Gallup began asking the question.

https://f.mtr.cool/gxxmybkeqt

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

It really is superior.
www.islands.com/1988125/clea...

If you want to experience lake life in the U.S., there's one body of water that's far superior to the rest. A study by Lake.com declared Lake Superior the cleanest lake in the country. Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes, and it has the most expansive surface area of any freshwater lake in the world. It's approximately 350 miles wide and 160 miles long, and spreads across Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and the Canadian province of Ontario. Lake Superior is also the coldest and deepest of all the Great Lakes.

Lake Superior is filled with water that's exceptionally rich in oxygen and low in mineral content — it received a pollution score of zero out of 10 in the Lake.com study.

Read More: https://www.islands.com/1988125/cleanest-america-crystal-clear-lake-superior-freshwater/

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Hostages and political prisoners freed is an unambiguous good. I hope they and their families can find relief, and eventually move past the trauma.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d

Sens. Schumer, Merkley, Murray, and Peters are calling for the resignation of OMB Director Russell Vought.

"By impounding billions of dollars … and aggressively pursuing the illegal use of pocket rescissions, Vought has done everything in his power to gut the federal government piece by piece."

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