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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

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

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Kaï Matthews 🍉 @kai-mtl.bsky.social · 7h

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École ensemble @ecoleensemble.com · 14h

⚡️ « Le constat : le système d’éducation du Québec tend à exacerber les inégalités alors qu’il devrait contribuer à les réduire. »
—Mylène Drouin, directrice régionale de Santé publique à Montréal

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 1d

How can any self-respecting journalist write an article on this and NOT mention that the compact allows the federal government to not only withhold but claw back funding from any university whose faculty or students "belittle" conservative -- and only conservative -- ideas?

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

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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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 5h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 6h

The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again

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ScarletCoral @scarletcoral.ca · 4h

À RDI, @laurew.bsky.social au micro de @geraldfillion.bsky.social

« Québec et Ottawa revoient leurs cibles de réduction des #GES à la baisse, mais disent en contrepartie investir plus dans l'adaptation aux #changementsclimatiques. »

#changementsclimatiques #transitionécologique

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 12h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"If they're going to be sending us stupid policies, Communist policies, which has proven for thousands of years doesn't work..."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 10h

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Major clashes in southeast Chicago this pm.

DHS agents who crashed a car had eggs thrown at them. According to ABC7, they then fired pepper balls at local residents. It’s now a scene of flying rocks & tear gas.

Chicago was never a war zone. But Trump’s militia is turning it into one.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

Right there in the Declaration of Independence:

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

“He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun…”

Right. There.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 11h

This looks like America under Trump.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct 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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Look Both Ways with David & Wes @lookbothwayspod.bsky.social · 12h

Why do new transit buses cost 2-3x more in the US than in other rich countries?

@davidzipper.bsky.social: "US transit agencies customize *everything*."

Full episode here (or on your fave podcast app):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5yd...

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Alain Noël @alainnoel.bsky.social · 13h

New column, on federalism and redistribution
policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/10/fede...

Federalism: obstacle or engine of redistribution?

Federalism is often accused of hindering redistribution. Yet data shows it can also enhance it, depending on political choices.

policyoptions.irpp.org

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Sam Vimes' Boot Salesman @bam5.bsky.social · 14h

You see Vance and other would-be successors get tripped up by this all the time. It takes a special sort of skill to whine constantly in a way that your followers find endearing. Most don’t have it!

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NicolasRobiodux.bsky.social @nicolasrobiodux.bsky.social · 14h

Trump is an enabler

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14h

this was an eye-opening revelation for me. the fact that he performs machismo and yet is a giant whiny baby about everything — these are features, not bugs. it allows whiny people, especially men, to imagine they're still macho even as they bitch and moan about every little slight.

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14h

please do not fool yourselves: trump whining about the photo for the TIME cover is the kind of thing that ppl who hate him cannot imagine anyone enjoying but people who like him genuinely love about him. they think "I'd feel the same way! I'd say the same thing! He's just like me!"

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 15h

“America’s Voice highlighted some 15 cases of citizens who have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), some violently, despite having identification,” writes Maribel Hastings: www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...

Citizenship Is No Protection Against Trump's Deportation Machine | Common Dreams

It seems that those who do not fit the racial profile of a "true" American, even if they are citizens of this country, are also considered "enemy within," judging by the way they trample on their righ...

www.commondreams.org

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Mathieu C @oursmathieu.bsky.social · 15h

Je viens de lire dans le journal que «les problèmes d’itinérance et de santé mentale nuisent à l’expérience de magasinage».

Ça va être assez de média d'information pour la journée.

« L’enjeu numéro un de l’itinérance, c’est le sentiment d’insécurité et je dirais même – ce n’est pas politically correct –, l’effet repoussoir d’avoir des gens qui dérangent », lance sans détour Paul-André Goulet, propriétaire d’une dizaine de magasins Sports Experts, dont deux sont situés rue Sainte-Catherine, à Montréal.

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