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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 43m

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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lnotl.bsky.social @lnotl.bsky.social · 3h

Hell yes!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

BROWN UNIV.: “.. the compact by its nature and by various provisions would restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance, critically compromising our ability to fulfill our mission.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 7h

" ... DOGE is jeopardizing Americans’ most sensitive data, while its employees operate under a layer of secrecy that shields them from meaningful oversight and accountability. This environment results in serious cybersecurity vulnerabilities, privacy violations, and risk of corruption ... "

Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 8h

yeah, once more with a cover photo - I really, really encourage all tech folks to read this

cover of the report linked: a light green-grey eagle silhouette on a darker background with 5 yellow stars and the text:

United States Senate Committee On
Homeland Security
& Governmental Affairs
Ranking Member Gary Peters

Unchecked and Unaccountable
How DOGE Jeopardizes Americans' Data Without Regard for Law and Congress

HSGAC Minority Staff Report
September 2025

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 7h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

Three hours apart. 🤡

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

This is fucking awful but has the byproduct of making ICE look like dumb babies.

three stills from a video showing robby roadsteamer getting arrested by ICE

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h

Guess we have to go with “Kings”, then? 🤡

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

I had to listen to the audio to confirm it, but yes, as troops are being deployed to American cities, as masked goons are disappearing citizens from our streets, as ICE agents are shooting pepper balls at priests ... Mike Johnson thinks nude bicyclists are "the most threatening thing I've seen yet."

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 23h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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lnotl.bsky.social @lnotl.bsky.social · 9h

Always struck by this too. Rich people are killing America and the world to save a few percent on their already low taxes.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 9h

I'm not saying people have to love counter-protests against them, but I am so fuck of sick of seeing my rights erode because selfish assholes would rather have an extra dollar than see a certain hundred and fifty million people as real human beings.

lnotl.bsky.social @lnotl.bsky.social · 9h

🦎 🐁 🦎

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 19h

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

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Sean Satori @seansatori.bsky.social · 10h

They are legit scared of the No Kings protests. Why else focus so much attention on it?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 11h

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

"I have been reliably informed that the Wallet Inspector has almost completed his work and is prepared to announce his findings."

Rep Luna tweet:

My office just received word from the @RusEmbUSA
that the ambassador from Russia to the United States will be hand delivering the @GovernmentRF
’s findings on who assassinated JFK to my office.

This is a 350 page document.

We will be uploading these documents as soon as we receive them working with @jeffersonmorley
to ensure that the American people have direct access to them immediately.

It is important to note that Congress attempted to obtain these files in the 90’s and was denied. We have been given access to them now for the first time in history.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 20h

Not mine! I put my blood, sweat, and like, many tears into my articles! They come out late because I am but a human and living under fascism makes for really bad cases of writer's block!

Support your local indie pub, folks, we're doing our best against the slop machine

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 21h

Over half of all articles on the Internet are now written by AI

(via Axios)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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lnotl.bsky.social @lnotl.bsky.social · 22h

Brain eating worms spreading to the populace

lnotl.bsky.social @lnotl.bsky.social · 22h

Insane. It's like trump still won.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 22h

Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado appeared on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast.

She touted the oil reserves in Venezuela (the largest in the world) and vowed to privatize the oil industry to enable American corporations to exploit and profit from the country’s resources if she gains power.

lnotl.bsky.social @lnotl.bsky.social · 22h

"hegseth thought"... Those two words have such a violent repulsion with one another. like antimatter

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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lnotl.bsky.social @lnotl.bsky.social · 22h

🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛🧠 🐛 🐛 🐛 🐛

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

😭👌 she said just a little bit of brain got ate by worm so don’t worry

Vulture
17m •
Cheryl Hines promised that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s brain worm 'ate just a little bit' of her husband's brain. 'So don't worry.
vulture.com
The Worm 'Ate Just a Little Bit' of RFK Jr.'s Brain

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

😭👌 she said just a little bit of brain got ate by worm so don’t worry

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Department of State v
@StateDept
g..
The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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