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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 6h

Hello on Thursday morning, 16 October 2025.

Russia is now going all out to make life unliveable for Ukraine's citizens, destroying all energy and heat infrastructure it can.

While Ukraine hits energy targets too, it's almost all to hit Russia's exports/finances.

Here's the🧵

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1h

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1h

It's not a presidency – it's an organized crime takeover of your government.

The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1h

President Donald Trump and his family have reaped more than $1 billion in crypto cash over the past year, thanks to an industry boom fueled by the administration’s own crypto-friendly policies.

Trump’s Empire Rakes in Over $1B in Colossal Crypto Cash Grab

The president’s son said the true total is “probably more.”

trib.al

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 1h

On ICE‘s abuses of power & accountability: “Swalwell said he and other Democrats are discussing ways to make agency funding directly contingent on dispensing with masks.
‘We cannot have a budget that allows them to wear masks,” Swalwell said. “We’re not going to fund a department that does that.’”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social · 20h

Today on #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the rootin, tootin terrific @holliem.bsky.social about her research into sex work on the American frontier.

Listen whenever you get your podcasts.

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Sam Kam @samkampix.bsky.social · 4d

open.substack.com/pub/oliverko...

Innocent Until Proven Poor

We’re told the law exists to protect us—to uphold fairness, to defend the powerless, to keep order.

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Sam Kam @samkampix.bsky.social · 4d

“…until law is measured not by who it protects but by what, by whether it safeguards dignity over dividends—we will keep living under this empire of illusion. Where charity is criminal, greed is legal, truth is censored, & cruelty gets quarterly growth” open.substack.com/pub/oliverkorn…

https://open.substack.com/pub/oliverkorn…

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The Why Process @thewhyprocess.bsky.social · 23d

Enjoy the waves of ease and relaxation with singing bowls, sound healing instruments, a sultry warm electric bass on a roiling bed of Ableton Live finger wonder drumming... Long deep dubs for moving in flow good for walking in chance, painting, yoga & joy.
feelslikerita.bandcamp.com/track/milos-...

Milo's Magic Mysic, by FEELS LIKE RITA

from the album Milo's Magic Mysic

feelslikerita.bandcamp.com

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Sam Kam @samkampix.bsky.social · 5d

Tad Stoermer on the US history of creating alternative institutions of power to counter a rogue government’s abuse of power tiktok.com/t/ZTMDyKWuW/ #statelaws #challengepowerwithpower

TikTok - Make Your Day

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 6d

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Sam Kam @samkampix.bsky.social · 6d

Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) compares the political forms and methods of Stephen Miller and Joseph Stalin

snyder.substack.com/p/stalinism-...

Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

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Sam Kam @samkampix.bsky.social · 8d

“Because real law and order, the kind Locke and Jefferson and Madison risked their necks for, isn’t about domination. It’s about restraint.”

On “Law & Order”

Robert Arnold

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOPN...

On “Law & Order”

YouTube video by Robert Arnold

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The Onion @theonion.com · 8d

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat https://theonion.com/u-s-military-carries-out-strike-on-scuffy-the-tugboat/

U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat
Pentagon Claims Little Red Vessel Working With ‘Narco-Terrorists’

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9d

“.. On closer inspection, however, it turned out that the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart ..”

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9d

"Some of them do end up being redeemed, but the tragic thing is that all of them are clearly redeemable, if only they’d made different choices." A series of westerns that expertly captured both the genre and much of human nature: www.thebulwark.com/p/randolph-s...

Randolph Scott, Virtuous Loner of the West

Lonesomeness, nobility, and anti-machismo: the ‘Ranown’ westerns are an underappreciated treasure of American cinema.

www.thebulwark.com

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Sam Kam @samkampix.bsky.social · 9d

"temu patton
in front of the american flag
sayin yer all too damn gay
yea yer all too damn fat
all the golden stars and the purple hearts looked dead as spray-on napoleon commander-casino said
get ready boys
look pretty
we're goin into the city"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DguE...

We're Going to the City

YouTube video by Jesse Welles

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 12d

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 12d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12d

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Nashville ruled that the Department of Justice’s criminal case against Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia may be a form of punishment against him for legally challenging his abrupt removal to an El Salvador megaprison earlier this year.

Judge Says DOJ May Be Vindictively Punishing Abrego Garcia for Challenging Removal to El Salvador

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 12d

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 12d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 12d

Wanna know whose shutdown this is?

Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 12d

⚡️ Drones shut down Munich Airport again.

Airport officials say both runways are closed after drone sightings — the second shutdown in less than 24 hours.

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Sam Kam @samkampix.bsky.social · 12d

"Wealthy Americans, who’ve benefitted so much from the pillars Trump is attacking, need to get our shit together and seize the means of consumption." 5/5 www.profgalloway.com/strike/

Strike | No Mercy / No Malice

Government shutdowns have been normalized. Since 1976, we’ve seen 20 funding gaps, resulting in 10 government shutdowns. It’s a form of economic strike — just not an effective one, as shutdowns create...

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Sam Kam @samkampix.bsky.social · 12d

"Bob Dylan said money doesn’t talk, it swears. Well, fucking enough already. Trump has seized the means of production (a golden share in U.S. Steel, investments in Intel, carving up TikTok for his donors, and weaponizing institutions so firms bend the knee)." 4/5

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Sam Kam @samkampix.bsky.social · 12d

"If you believe a company shouldn’t let the president dictate its workplace policies, cancel your Target card and purchase a Costco membership. If you’re worried that Trump’s deal to sell TikTok to his cronies will make the platform “100% MAGA,” delete your account." 3/5

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