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Tiger Elephant Giraffe Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

But he did close the mineshaft gap right

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 7h

A monkey is running the zoo. A clown is running the circus. A lunatic is running the asylum.

Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. would resume nuclear weapons testing, restarting a practice that the nation halted in 1992.
www.newschannel5.com/politics/the...

President Trump says the US will resume nuclear weapons testing 'immediately'

President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. would resume nuclear weapons testing, restarting a practice that the nation halted in 1992.

www.newschannel5.com

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 18h

The bottom line is that the GOP absolutely cannot be trusted to deal with any societal problem.

They lead with cruelty and focus exclusively on how to package private greed as public service.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

"If I were a commander today, I would not sign an NDA like the one reportedly being circulated in the Southern Command theater. Not out of defiance, but out of respect for the oath I took to support and defend the Constitution."

Why Commanders Don’t Sign NDAs

Existing rules and laws applying to military secrecy are sufficient—and asking officers to sign NDAs is deeply inappropriate.

www.thebulwark.com

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 18h

She said that with a straight face

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20h

Ireland pays artists a living wage. The United States impregnates its children and lets them starve. — First world country my ass.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18h

Maaaaan, this. So much this. Every time there's any kind of actual in-depth survey we find that the American people are *abysmally* ignorant about even the most basic political facts, but the pundit class just immediately forgets & proceeds with political analysis based on subtle policy differences.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23h

Feels like so many of our convos are revolving about how voters respond to what politicians are doing, or what parties’ positions on issues are, without much actual empirical sense of what they actually know about those topics.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 14h

My brother wisely asks:

Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 14h

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 23h

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 20h

Mike Johnson is letting the House stay home while the government is shut down. Here’s the kicker:

Members of Congress will still be paid on Nov. 1 unless they personally ask not to. I’ve done that. But our staff won’t get a dime. What kind of boss pays him or herself while their team goes unpaid?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

hmm really not a good time psychologically to be reading “nuclear war: a scenario”

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Sarah Langs @slangsonsports.bsky.social · 13h

There has not been a save so far this World Series

This is the first time neither team recorded a save through the first 5 games of a World Series since 1977, when there were none in the 6-game series

h/t @EliasSports

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12h

LOL. "who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press."

Perfect. No notes.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 15h

This colossal Times of London/de Blasio screwup gets more amazing at every turn.

Scoop via @maxtani.bsky.social

www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Three people familiar with the situation told Semafor that Hurley reached out to an email address the reporter believed belonged to the former mayor of New York. It's unclear where he got the address, or who it actually belongs to.
In a state nent shared with outlets including Semafor, a News UK spokesperson blamed the debacle on whoever that email address belongs to, saying the paper had "apologised to Bill de Biasio and removed the article immediately after discovering that our reporter had been misled by an individual falsely claiming to be the former New York mayor."

Part of the push came from the top. As the New York mayor's race approaches, The Times of London has accelerated its push for more, and largely hostile, coverage of Mamdani. That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin, a New York Post veteran who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press, and who assigned the de Blasio piece, per two people with knowledge of the situation.

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🇺🇸🇨🇿🇺🇦⚫ @czeckmate2024.bsky.social · 9h

2/me in advance. A pregnant friend had. I told her not to believe them. She stayed away from the office and had a healthy baby.

Oz is FoS. COVID infections even if not highly symptomatic increase risk of heart attack and stroke

Wear N95 facemasks everywhere except home. Get vacxx’d.

Let Darwin

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🇺🇸🇨🇿🇺🇦⚫ @czeckmate2024.bsky.social · 9h

Dr Oz said COVID is over. The Bush Admin said the air in downtown NY wasn’t toxic several weeks after 9/11.
My boyhood friend went back to work— and became debilitated from persistant pulmonary problems, and was fired from his job as creative director for a gigundo int’l firm. He hadn’t contacted

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 19h

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 13h

💙💛

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moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 16h

10/29/2025
Trump's spiritual advisor
Robert Morris sentenced to 6 years.

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Michele Dostert @micheledostert.bsky.social · 11h

I just reread "On the Beach", just watched "Housr of Dynamite" -so I am mentally prepared for nuclear armaggedon of any type from 1950 -present.

Though, set in Australia, the book posited a very calm, civilized dystopia. Featuring a
"cobalt bomb", which nobody appears to have ever made.

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

"Witnesses say they saw U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra launch into an expletive-laden tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, David Paterson."

Time to strip this MAGAT fuck of his credentials and kick his fat ass out of Canada.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, witnesses say | CBC News

The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News

www.cbc.ca

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD 🐸(🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 15h

"I did not raise my right hand to be used as a pawn and activated against my community." ✊🏾

Capt. Dylan Blaha

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 13h

Honestly, of all the things to worry about, this one is not on the list. (Yes, you can trigger disasters with nukes underwater, I guess, but I'd worry more about having 20 minutes to live before the city you're in evaporates in a fireball.)

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

Putin said on Wednesday that Russia had successfully tested a Poseidon nuclear-powered super torpedo that military analysts say is capable of devastating coastal regions by triggering vast radioactive ocean swells.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 12h

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 14h

The phrase “We tried to tell you” springs to mind for some reason

YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 2d

NEW Economist/YouGov
Net favorability of Donald Trump [at the start of his second term | now] among...
White Americans +13 | -3
Hispanic Americans -12 | -34
Black Americans -31 | -70
today.yougov.com/politics/art...

A multiple line chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Views of Donald Trump among U.S. adult citizens, and among white, Black, and Hispanic Americans."

The chart has the sub-headline: "Do you have a favorable or an unfavorable opinion of the following people? [Donald Trump] (% with a very or somewhat favorable opinion minus the % with a very or somewhat unfavorable opinion)."

The chart has the note: "Note: Responses of "don't know" are not shown."

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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