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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 26m

Im still skeptical.

Is "close I5 for live fire into Camp Pendleton" something that routinely happens? With how much notice

David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 41m

LA Times now confirms, I5 through Pendleton might be shut down Fri Sat for some sort of live fire demo / "parade". 😧. www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 15m

Trump announced today, seemingly at random, that he is cancelling fed funding for Gateway Tunnel, a tunnel for intercity & commuter trains under the Hudson River.

The motivation for the cancellation—which is likely to be contested—appears to be purely the president’s hatred of Sen Schumer.

Mark Abraham @markabraham.bsky.social · 1h

"If this system of transportation collapses, the Northeastern economy and the economy of the country collapses." The most important economic development project in the entire nation threatened with cancellation: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/n...

Trump Says $16 Billion Hudson River Tunnel Project Is ‘Terminated’

www.nytimes.com

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1h

time bombs could include scandals, inability to address or handle crucial issues, inability to handle stress or press questions...like, there's a range of things that can go wrong with a candidate who's never run a high profile race before.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1h

however!

it's possible Platner has a weakness we don't know about which would sink him in the general and which we need to find out about in the primary.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1h

really hard to know if this is true; I think Collins may have met her year, and I think any D nominee is going to have a good chance to beat her. and strong primary candidates aren't always the best general election candidates. 1

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

If Platner can't beat Janet Mills he probably can't beat Sue Collins.

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 2h

i see the VP's full on backing of the hitlerite group chat as showing the GOP understands that their power in large part flows from their unified front. meanwhile the democrats continue to attack their left and progressive members. not a surprise the GOP keeps running circles around them

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1h

Republicans love to portray immigrants as domestic abusers but when actually given the opportunity to say whether they care about domestic violence, the answer is always no.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1h

‼️ this is one of the reasons why the Musk shutdown of USAID broke me, like

Congress said 'we're allocating these funds to save lives'

a random asshole with too much money and unresolved bitterness about the end of Apartheid said 'no you're not'

so the funding disappeared??

and people are dying??

Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 4h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

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

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1h

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go,

…but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 50m

people bouncing around in frog costumes making protest look fun? great!

faith leaders confronting ice and making protest look brave and honorable? great!

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 52m

I think in general amplifying protest, expressing solidarity, and, if you have other ideas, implementing them is the way to go.

I don't think protest x undermines or takes away from other protest y. I think all protest helps create momentum.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 53m

we're in a really bad situation and we're not really sure what protest is likely to be most effective in what situation.

what we do know is that resistance builds resistance, and that it's important to convince institutions/pols/public that there *is* resistance.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 54m

I think Talia generally has a lot of good things to say. I don't agree with this though. 1

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2h

Lol.

Just burst already. 🫧

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 2h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 49m

If we're measuring "bigness" by number of Nobel Peace Prizes won, or federal laws passed, or number of people willing to give their lives to the cause, or FUCKING INFLUENCE ON THE COUNTRY'S HISTORY, the CRM is quantitatively, objectively bigger. So no, to say NK is "bigger" isn't "true."

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1h

Like, if I were to claim that "No Kings is bigger than Google," or "No Kings is bigger than the Empire State Building," or "No Kings is bigger than Niagara Falls," you'd be confused. And if you asked me to explain, and I said "how many people go to marches for Google?" you'd just walk away.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1h

Because the civil rights movement WASN'T A MARCH. It wasn't a series of marches. That's just factually, empirically, fundamentally not what the civil rights movement was.

To say No Kings is "bigger" because of crowd size, you must first adopt an incorrect definition of the civil rights movement.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 1h

Seeing people say that "by the numbers" Stancil is right about No Kings being bigger than the civil rights mvt. But no. That's not how any of this works.

It's like saying I'm a bigger organizer than Greta Thunberg because I'm taller. It's not technically true, it's just stupid.

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 9h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 10h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 8h

Billionaires decided long ago they’d rather have low taxes than democracy.

Bolts @boltsmag.org · 8h

Conservative billionaire Jeff Yass, the richest man in Pennsylvania, is helping fund the GOP’s bid to oust three Democratic state supreme court justices this fall.

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 2h

Putting teeth in the Hatch Act should be high on the to-do list for whenever Congress remembers it’s Article 1.

“Legal experts say Kristi Noem's airport video breaks the law. Penalties are unlikely” — www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...

Legal experts say Kristi Noem's airport video breaks the law. Penalties are unlikely

In a Department of Homeland Security video, Kristi Noem blames Democrats for the government shutdown. Law and ethics experts say it violates the Hatch Act, but there are rarely serious consequences.

www.npr.org

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Democrats @democrats.org · 2h

He's doing this as he wines and dines billionaire donors from Palantir and Lockheed Martin btw

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3h

Trump shows off his models to his wealthy donors:

"So that's Lady Liberty. Lady, did you ever hear of Lady Liberty? But, uh, so the sizes would be very different than this lady. They did this and they did that. So this would be... small, medium, and large."

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Sean for Congress (VA-01) @subletteweather.com · 2h

We have become a banana republic.

H/T @mallyrow.bsky.social

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 3h

Trump shows off his models to his wealthy donors:

"So that's Lady Liberty. Lady, did you ever hear of Lady Liberty? But, uh, so the sizes would be very different than this lady. They did this and they did that. So this would be... small, medium, and large."

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 5h

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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David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 3h

Rob Finnerty of Newsmax said tonight that the No Kings protests are an attempt by the left to start a civil war. Indeed, he spoke at length, assuring the audience that he meant it seriously and literally.

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