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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6h

Moments after they shot his 19-year-old daughter, Diana, San Jose police rushed Jim Showman to an interrogation room, isolated him from his ex-wife, and questioned him for 27 minutes before revealing they'd killed her.

California has finally banned the practice.

California cops can no longer conceal police killings while interrogating loved ones for dirt

A Reveal investigation helped spark a crackdown on a disturbing, widespread practice.

www.motherjones.com

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thestinkfoot.bsky.social @thestinkfoot.bsky.social · 13h

What Vought is doing is against the law and against the Constitution. Small potatoes next to sending the army into cities and brown people to gulags, maybe, but this administration is lawless from top to bottom.

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 6h

Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if it’s a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.

Reuters @reuters.com · 13h

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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Dr Rebecca Hall I’m Spartacus! @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 10h

www.kickstarter.com/projects/wak...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

Check it out!

From the vault: Mike Johnson said he’d take a blowtorch to the ACA.

Here’s the thing… 45% of marketplace enrollees are Republicans. Cool! So he’s threatening to burn the GOP’s own base. 🔥
#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 9h

Arizona’s attorney general is threatening legal action if House Speaker Mike Johnson continues to delay the swearing-in of Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 10h

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 10h

Just openly building the infrastructure for a profoundly evil type of digital society.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 10h

I think we need to talk more about entitlement in the “do fascists feel shame?” debate.

Fascists aren’t ashamed of oppressing people. But they do feel entitled to adoration for their oppression.

When we reject them, they act like an abusive parent, mortified that their kids don’t really love them.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 16h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11h

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
zeteo.com/p/mehdi-conn...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13h

briefly interrupting my shame posting to tap one of the other signs: a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...

Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11h

Maybe it's time for the pathetic and cowardly Democratic Leadership to FINALLY ENDORSE ZOHRAN MAMDANI?

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

My message to President Trump.

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Megan Frampton 🤷🏻‍♀️ @meganf.bsky.social · 11h

“But once again, Cuomo does something without consent”

Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 1d

Sex is cool, but have you ever heckled Andrew Cuomo for 10 minutes straight?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11h

United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher calls for immediate 'unhindered access' for aid deliveries.

UN calls for Israel to open more Gaza crossings for surge in aid deliveries

United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher calls for immediate 'unhindered access' for aid deliveries.

bit.ly

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.

Elon Musk does too.

Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.

There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.

One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

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Dan Seitz @dseitz.bsky.social · 13h

That state senator would be Samuel Douglass. He serves on the Senate Sexual Harassment Prevention Panel, no less. He also works in rural mental health, according to his bio, so that's... just great.

Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 13h

1.) One of those „kids“ is a state senator in Vermont. (They’re not kids)
2.) kids are bigots is a weird stance
3.) going full boys will be boys about the „I love Hitler“ chat is quite a choice
4.) What else to expect from a guy who still follows Bronze Age Pervert on X? (Rhetorical question)

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13h

Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE

He was singing when ICE started shooting pepper balls at him, then detained Robby.

Robby is being brought up on trespassing charges and asked to appear in court in Portland even though ICE dragged him onto their property!
www.gofundme.com/f/robby-road...

Donate to Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE in Portland!, organized by Robby Roadsteamer

Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE in Portland, Orego… Robby Roadsteamer needs your support for Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE in Portland!

www.gofundme.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 12h

Mark Bray on his journey out of the US and how he, an historian of anti-fascism, interprets MAGA www.democracynow.org/2025/10/15/m...

Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Fearing for His Family’s Safety Amid Trump’s “Antifa” Fearmongering

We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The ...

www.democracynow.org

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 13h

These goons look more and more pathetic by the day. Y'all just dispatched three faux-tough-guy dudes to arrest a singing giraffe who did nothing wrong. Go home, look in the mirror, flex your muscles and feel like big boys, ya mopes.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13h

Well-known internet personality Robby Roadsteamer makes fun of ICE and calls them Nazis. They prove his point & come out to arrest him for trespassing after shoving him over the property line.

Just like Russia, if you protest the regime, men with guns come to take you away.
youtu.be/HHTuJ7P8YiM?...

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13h

Well-known internet personality Robby Roadsteamer makes fun of ICE and calls them Nazis. They prove his point & come out to arrest him for trespassing after shoving him over the property line.

Just like Russia, if you protest the regime, men with guns come to take you away.
youtu.be/HHTuJ7P8YiM?...

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Colin @csanberg.bsky.social · 1d

The Tobolowsky Files is a truly wonderful podcast. Give it a listen if you haven't already.

David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · 1d

I was recently made aware that the Tobolowsky Files (my storytelling podcast with Stephen Tobolowsky) was not available on Spotify. As of today, that has now been rectified. open.spotify.com/show/5Pd30EQ...

Spotify – Web Player

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12h

Listen to how casually Justice Gorsuch presents as fact the idea that remedying racial gerrymandering requires racial discrimination.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

I don't get a ton of FB traffic and can remember only one other post in the last year or so that got shared as much as this article. you may be "unsurprised" as an extremely online person but people seem to be paying attention to this, for whatever that's worth

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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