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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h

Health insurance companies are finalizing their rates RIGHT NOW.

Doesn't matter if you're in a red or blue state, your premium might skyrocket.

And somehow, Republican senators are okay with throwing thousands of their own constituents under the bus.

Republican senators are okay with throwing thousands of their own constituents under the bus.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 2h

"The American founders expected better leaders than Johnson. They thought Congress would check the president. They didn’t think one branch would surrender completely to another."

This is the whole ballgame, folks.

The authoritarianism will continue until coequal branches decide it will not.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

If you put your ear against the Capitol, you can hear the sound of a man who will do nothing to challenge—and anything to justify—presidential violations of the Constitution, as long as the president is of his own party. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism

Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.

www.thebulwark.com

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 12h

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
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MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 3h

THAT IS NOT THE STORY:

Millions of Americans are protesting Trump's destruction of government, the mistreatment of federal workers and the human rights violations of immigrants and protesters. The upcoming No Kings nationwide protests are Americans exercising their First Amendment right.

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Scott Smith @canaansdad1987.bsky.social · 4h

Did people see the Mamdani rally where Letitia James got up and told the city, country and the world that the more they come after her, the harder she will fight? And that she supports Mamdani for Mayor of NYC. Great job Letitia James

#USDemocracy

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 5h

8/ But Trump doesn't want to end the shutdown. Because he thinks he's a king and he doesn't believe the law applies to him. He thinks he has extra powers in a shutdown. He doesn't.

But the longer Republicans boycott talks, the more the shutdown will hurt. So it's their move.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

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

Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says

Willamette Week reported federal agents allegedly blocked an ambulance from quickly leaving with an injured protester on Oct. 5.

www.oregonlive.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5h

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 4h

The coverage that's been consistently wide, deep and accurate has come from two main sources: @propublica.org and @guardianus.bsky.social. One does long form investigative reporting that is always excellent, but requires an educated readership. The Guardian's stable of reporters is 🥇

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 13h

This is a sign of immense weakness. It’s like a mobster asking others if they’d be interested in a shakedown because their first targets didn’t cooperate.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 17h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 16h

Congrats to University of California professors & alumni for being awarded 5 Nobel Prizes!

California’s scientists are leading the world in crucial breakthroughs.

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week

The UC system made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 15h

Barron’s upstairs in the White House seeing what stock he can short tomorrow when his old man gets home and posts some more China sh*t. Market manipulation is real.

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audie verde @audieverde.bsky.social · 14h

I have been watching the devastating videos from friends and colleagues. Some folks are still missing in cold waters. The few news and info sources for locals are also the same ones being cut by federal funding. People should know this is happening

KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 14h

The U.S. Coast Guard commander for Western Alaska compared the devastation in Southwest Alaska villages over the weekend to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities

A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.

www.ktoo.org

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Kathy @katvan62desertrose.bsky.social · 17h

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lobsternanny @lobsternanny.bsky.social · 17h

#ReturnTheDakotas

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22h

NYT wrote a 2,400 word story abt Todd Blanche without mentioning that he personally ordered the arrest of Newark Mayor @rasjbaraka.bsky.social, and as such is deeply implicated in @replamonica.bsky.social case.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/u...

The front page of a NYT story, titled, "Part Enabler, Part Buffer: the Bind of the Justice Dept's No. 2"

A picture shows Blanche partly visible behind a journalist's raised hand.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 1d

Today is Indigenous Peoples Day – a time to honor the 11 sovereign Tribal Nations and robust urban Native communities that continue to enrich our state’s cultural landscape, economy, and heritage.

It was a beautiful morning to celebrate on the shore of Bde Maka Ska.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

Two preventable causes of death that we have chosen to do nothing about. Two preventable causes of death with evidence-based solutions that we have chosen to ignore.

OPB @opb.org · 1d

Researchers discovered that since 2017, firearms have surpassed motor vehicle collisions as the leading cause of mortality for youth ages 11-18, spiking from 1,945 deaths in 2001 to 3,224 in 2022.

Gun deaths among high schoolers on the rise, WSU study finds

The researchers found that, nationwide, high schoolers ages 14 to 18 are at an exceptionally elevated risk for gun-inflicted injury and death compared to children in other age groups in both rural and urban settings.

www.opb.org

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

She probably should have impressed this upon Kavanaugh before he issued an opinion endorsing what are now known as “Kavanaugh stops.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1d

Sign that your 9YO may have two lawyers for parents:

Me: “You’re not complaining, are you?”

9YO: “No. I’m just stating my feelings in an aggravated tone!”

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