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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 25m

we have spent the last decade witnessing a national epidemic of “it should be illegal to not hang out with me just because I’m a mean asshole” behavior

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 7h

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

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Adele M. Stan @addiestan.bsky.social · 30m

This should be an even bigger story than it is. Like, a screaming from the rooftops story.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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SupercalifragilisticexpialiBOOcious Max @2xaught7.ing · 39m

Oh man.

Co-anchor Rene Knott apparently gone from KSDK

Knott has been with the station since January 2004.

www.stltoday.com

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meh 🎃 @mharvey816.bsky.social · 28m

He was great as the sports anchor here on WJLA7 back in the day when it was still a good news organization.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 46m

The ‘laughing news anchors’ photo that accompanies this story on devastating & apparently targeted layoffs is a bit much. Yikes.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

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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meh 🎃 @mharvey816.bsky.social · 48m

INORITE

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 1h

Have a good day. Sigh.

Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 1h

SCOTUS decision killing what’s left of Voting Rights Act could cost Dems 19 House seats, eliminate every majority-minority district in South, eviscerate 14th/15th Amendments & fulfill John Roberts 40-year crusade against country’s most important civil rights law www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Republican justices appear poised to destroy what’s left of the Voting Rights Act

The results will be "catastrophic."

www.motherjones.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

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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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1h

fuck john roberts. honestly. fuck him.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 3h

This whole interview with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is amazing, but we need to shout this from the rooftops.

There's this message that abusive men like to send that's something like "yeah, I'm an abuser, but I'm a strong man who can get things done."

And no, he isn't.

LINDSEY BOYLAN: People who abuse women abuse every kind of power they have.

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GreGORY Maupin @gjmaupin.bsky.social · 58m

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

between this and the papers please news i am starting to wonder just a bit what is going on

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

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Phillip Iscove @pmiscove.bsky.social · 1h

Don't mind me I'm just sitting here crying watching The Rabbi's opening speech from Angels in America thinking about the immigrant experience in America right now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXJ3...

Meryl Streep's eulogy from the opening of Angels in America

YouTube video by Redsnork

www.youtube.com

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 1h

As children and families die.

#ProLifeMyAss

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

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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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 2h

#NowPlaying at LGFHQ: The Jim Carroll Band > Catholic Boy > People Who Died

The Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy

People Who Died

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 2h

He wants to start a war in Venezuela for no other reason than racism. This is some Hitler shit.

Anyone who thought Trump was anti war is a sucker.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 2h

President Donald Trump said he was looking at military strikes on land in Venezuela after weeks of targeting boats off the country's coast.

Trump threatens land strikes in Venezuela after blowing up boats

President Donald Trump said he was looking at military strikes on land in Venezuela after weeks of targeting boats off the country's coast.While speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, Trump insisted that the U.S. Coast Guard could not effectively stop drug traffickers."We've been doi...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4h

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

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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 2h

This is the future of the republican party - or maybe it is today's republican party.

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 3h

I’ve been telling folks what Ohio’s become.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 2h

@npr.org's Tom Bowman:

"I've held my Pentagon press pass for 28 years... Did I as a reporter solicit information? Of course. It's called journalism: finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says."

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 2h

Come say "Hi" on Nov. 1, Seattle!
#BookSky
#AuthorEvent

Cathy Pegau 📚🌈🥊 - Should be writing! @cathypegau.bsky.social · 4d

Hey, Seattlites!
@mbaustin.bsky.social and I will be at the Northgate @barnesandnoble.com at 11am on Saturday Nov. 1 to sign books and chat!
Come on down and say hello!
stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

Author Signing with Cathy Pegau & MB Austin

Join us for an in-store event, Author Signing with Cathy Pegau & MB Austin, on Saturday, November 01, 2025.

stores.barnesandnoble.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2h

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 3h

Any news outlet that reports ICE/DHS statements as fact is committing journalism malpractice. The same is true of the entire trump admin but we are especially focused on the daily ICE lies about what’s happening here in Chicago.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

Dear media,
1/ ICE consistently lies about its violence toward people in Chicago, with its initial accounts later disproven.
2/ When protesters shout at ICE agents to get out of their neighborhood and ICE tear-gasses them and throws them to the ground, that's not a "clash" – that's ICE violence.

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4h

ekko is playing the sinkhole in st louis tonight. if you’re in the area come through, and if you’re not — spread the word ❤️

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 4h

They're everywhere in Trump-MAGA world. It's who and what they are: Nazis, something that many of us have been saying for years now... and were told we were overreacting.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4h

Just an edgy joke by kids, no doubt

Politico @politico.com · 4h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

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Kris Stoever @krisstoever.bsky.social · 4h

protective order? What protective order? Domestic violence on the Wharf nbd to House Speaker Mike Johnson.
The story below is free to read.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Florida Congressman

www.nytimes.com

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