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Bell @pocono.bsky.social · 1m

This whole baseball game is just bombs

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3m

I'm old enough to remember when conservatives made hyped-up accusations the IRS was being politicized and denounced that.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 49m

The Trump administration is planning massive changes that will allow the IRS to go after left-wing groups, according to a new report late Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.

New Trump scheme seeks to let loyalists hunt down left-wing groups through IRS

The Trump administration is planning massive changes that will allow the IRS to go after left-wing groups, according to a new report late Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal.The change would allow the administration to stack the IRS's criminal investigation unit with Trump allies "to exert firmer c...

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 4m

Ironically, the Coast Guard was bragging about interdictions today (so, it is possible)

Trump apparently wants to go to war with Venezuela under the pretext that it is about drugs

So they are executing people instead of stopping those boats

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Over 50 tons of cocaine seized by US Coast Guard in Pacific since August

The U.S. Coast Guard says that it has seized over 50 tons of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean since launching Operation Pacific Viper in early August.

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Jake Goldsbie @jakegoldsbie.bsky.social · 24m

This is possibly the all-time funniest real answer to an interview question

Cheryl Hines clarifying her mutant husband only had a bit of his brain eaten by an actual worm

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 23m

CDC division within the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) that directs the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) — a bellwether of the country’s health — lost all its planners in last weekend’s firings. www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21m

AOC: I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care. I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1h

Rep. AOC: Republicans want to sign on 1 extra year of these ACA subsidies. Why? Midterm elections. They want to extend the subsidies just 1 year so people don't realize the dupe they're pulling on everyone, so that they can all reelect themselves and allow them to expire when they win reelection

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Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 1h

Reuters reporting this blatant crime as if it’s a lunch date is a prime example of the kind of careless, aloof normalization in journalism that has greased the skids of this catastrophic authoritarian power grab.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

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

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 54m

AOC: Trump should be having congressional leaders in the WH. Do you see that every day? No, you don't because they're playing golf and they're going to mar-a-lago and the Republicans in the house have been on vacation for weeks now

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 34m

Shorter Mike Johnson:

Beating up a woman isn’t “really serious.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

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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Jason D. Salvagni @salvagni.org · 6h

Or they could just, you know, fucking pay taxes

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h

Joel Holsinger, a partner at Ares Management Corp., on Wednesday launched Promote Giving, an initiative encouraging investment managers to donate a portion of their fees to charity.

How Promote Giving, a new investment model, will raise millions for charities

Joel Holsinger, a partner at Ares Management Corp., on Wednesday launched Promote Giving, an initiative encouraging investment managers to donate a portion of their fees to charity.

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404 Media @404media.co · 11h

The end of free Windows 10 support this Wednesday could be an environmental disaster, cutting off 400 million PCs from security updates and dooming millions of still usable computers.

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The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

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Bell @pocono.bsky.social · 50m

Blue Jay just hitting bombs all night

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 1h

Here, spread across two posts to fit seven pages, is the federal complaint against harmless mother and musician Oriana Korol. Look how brazenly Trump's right-wing attorneys and authoritarian cops are willing to lie under oath to federal judges and to the public.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 57m

Trump and Speaker Johnson think that destroying our health care and jacking up the cost of groceries is about hurting Democrats.

It’s not. It’s about hurting and punishing the American people.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

BERNIE: “I worry we are increasingly becoming an oligarchic form of society, where a very small # of people control our economy + have huge influence over both political parties. if there was ever a time to stand up for working families and prevent authoritarianism, this is it.”

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

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Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

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Bell @pocono.bsky.social · 59m

They're going to try and crush public education

ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

Among the Education Department’s new appointees is Lindsey Burke, the lead author of Project 2025’s education section.

She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1h

“A diorama of power dynamics”?
The New York Times headline writers need to stop dropping acid during the workweek.

Oval Office becomes a diorama of power dynamics as Trump goes after rivals

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Bell @pocono.bsky.social · 1h

Going for the gentleman's sweep

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 2h

Julio Rodriguez HOME RUN! You don't need to be a scientist to see a BIG moment like that. Great start to game 3!

# SeizeTheMoment

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