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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 6h

I just watched this whole clip and oh my god Kathy??? The way she also takes the opportunity to boost Zohran and drag Mike Lawler????

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 7h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6h

The moment when he starts giving his canned response and she goes “that’s such bullshit” lmao I have no idea who these ladies are but they rock

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 10h

Today JPL lost so many incredible people. My heart hurts for every single one of them. This administration is gutting American science institutions and throwing away hyper specific experts who cannot be replaced. This is an extremely detrimental loss.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 1d

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

Journalists should ask every Republican they encounter whether they consider the things said by these Young Republicans to be deplorable.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 8h

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 7h

Lots of rich guys are cowards

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 9h

A common pattern I hear again and again, is "Most people in the USA want [good thing]!"

Sure! That would be great! If we hadn't intentionally designed a system of government to give outsized political power to the subset of US white voters that consistently and repeatedly want "[bad thing]."

Oops!

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 13h

did you see the pictures of the guys? they look like they know a thing or two about bullying

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 13h

The stadium where these games will be played is owned by Trump supporter Bob Kraft. I'm sure Kraft will be thrilled to see this lmao

NBC10 Boston @nbcboston.com · 13h

President Trump on Tuesday suggested he could pull 2026 World Cup Games out of Boston over safety concerns, criticizing Mayor Michelle Wu in his comments. He made similar comments about other cities last month, prompting FIFA officials to push back. on.nbcboston.com/cvrUazy

Trump, citing safety and Wu's politics, says he could pull Boston's World Cup games

President Donald Trump threatened to pull 2026 World Cup Games out of Boston over safety concerns, criticizing Boston Mayor Michelle Wu in his comments.

on.nbcboston.com

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 13h

it's striking that such a group would choose to focus on how people look

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 13h

The US government has known about the vulnerability in our cellphone networks for many, many years. They choose to do nothing.

Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 14h

Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.

He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.

The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 14h

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 13h

Perhaps someday our leaders will do something about this jacobin.com/2025/09/drug...

Seth Harp: I would say that US complicity in the international drug trade was never as substantial as it was in the war in Afghanistan, or as out in the open. No bones about it, really. Gary Webb did great reporting on how the contra rebels of Nicaragua, which had covert US backing, were being tacitly allowed to traffic cocaine into the United States through Mexico. But as bad as the crack epidemic was in the US, which this fueled, it’s nothing compared to the heroin crisis that we saw in the United States in 2010.

The drug problem in the US has gotten way worse than it was in the 1980s, and most of that heroin came from Afghanistan, although the DEA has covered up that fact. But it’s true all over the world: Europe and Australia all had heroin crises around this time that were driven by an incredibly abundant supply and high potency of heroin, virtually all of which came from Afghanistan. Virtually all of it was being produced by warlords, police chiefs, top client state officials — all with the open backing of the US military, and many of whom were secretly on the CIA’s payroll.

So the US created Afghanistan as a narco state, and protected and armed it for twenty years as it pumped heroin into the veins of the entire world. And the lack of reckoning around that is truly awe-inspiring, as is the degree of elite omertà around this massive global crime that the whole of the US government committed, which had such disastrous consequences for us as a country and for the whole world.

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Shay O’Reilly @shaygabriel.bsky.social · 15h

Guys the dog gimmick Facebook accounts from 2009 are radicalizing

We rate dogs posting about a dog killed by ICE

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 15h

No kidding. The Nazi party is racist?

Politico @politico.com · 16h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 22h

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 1d

Encrypt your shit! Use signal

Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 1d

“Multiple current and former aides to Trump recount being forced to watch live TV while sitting with him at the White House, on a plane, or elsewhere, and the president melting down in real time at something he heard about himself and declaring that those remarks were ‘illegal.’”

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

“In the earliest moments of Team Trump’s rapid-fire drafting process in mid-September 2025, administration officials say, names that kept coming up in the revenge-minded deliberations included: antifa…ActBlue…George Soros… @indivisible.org …” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

The truth about the administration’s threat federal employees won’t get paid when shutdown ends. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 1d

They are absolutely panicking that on October 18, ordinary people from all walks of life in every part of this country are going to say in one voice that this administration is waging an unprecedented attack on the rule of law and our democracy. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen. Let’s go.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

The Treasury Secretary declares himself to be pro-monarchy, and promises to punish the entire country if the people exercise their First Amendment rights.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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