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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2h

Conservatives have built their own social media platforms, Trump has his own Twitter alternative, his allies are buying major social media platforms to weaponize for their propaganda and influence and we’re still arguing if having a left-leaning social media platform is a bad thing

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NPR @npr.org · 9h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 3h

You’ve got me convinced

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 4h

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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Equal Under THEE Law 🪷🇺🇦 @equalunderlaw.bsky.social · 6h

Wall Street needs to wake up & smell what's happening. Fascism is bad for business.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 7h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 9h

Can we get some respect for the narrow ass open guys

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Author Alexis “AC” K. @acknight3.bsky.social · 9h

The push for universal health care needs to be the goal for the next two decades, no matter the opposition, from there we can work up.

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 9h

I’m not going to provide cover for crypto. Charlie Munger had it right and everyone should be repeating this:

youtu.be/Uf7OZld47K4?...

Charlie Munger on crypto: It's ridiculous anybody would buy this 'massively stupid' stuff

YouTube video by CNBC Television

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 10h

Crypto is for money laundering and that should be the message. Dishonest people and nation states use crypto while ‘honest’ people provide liquidity

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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 12h

Unemployment is surging for Black workers — and federal government layoffs will only make it worse. Important story from @lydiadepillis.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b... #EconSky

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

Portland, OR, 2025

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14h

This frog will need to get the Nobel peace prize … and the Presidential Medal of Freedom some day. 🙏🏼🐸

“I’ve definitely had spicier tamales,” says Portland ICE protest frog that feds pepper sprayed - per the Oregonian.

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gm0rk.bsky.social @gm0rk.bsky.social · 15h

It's a small thing, but I think journalists need to respond with a lot more condescension when pols try to get away with "I haven't seen it."

"Wow -- that kind of widespread mortgage fraud in your own admin seems like it would concern you if you thought it were serious to indict her over it."

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Kris Wilson @kriswilson.bsky.social · 12h

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I’m Yer Boogiewoman @erin-p.bsky.social · 14h

As I never tire of pointing out, what Elon paid for Twitter was three times George Soros’ entire fortune.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

and this is in turn tied to what they think america is supposed to be: a rigidly hierarchical and patriarchal society dominated by a religious and business elite

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 14h

if we'd treated their obvious baldfaced lies and deflections more like this over the past eight years maybe we wouldn't be in this situation

shocking how easy it is when you actually see it done

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 14h

“I don’t want depression for the United States”

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 14h

i continue to believe that there is massive insider trading going on inside the administration with this market manipulation -- whether trump is behaving with intentionality or not is a separate question

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 14h

My “don’t worry about China, it will all be fine” shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my shirt

A tweet from Donald Trump that reads “Don’t worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment. He doesn’t want Depression for his country, and neither do I. The U.S.A. wants to help China, not hurt it!!! President DJT”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Pritzker: "If the Constitution means anything -- and I guess we all are questioning that right now -- the Insurrection Act cannot be invoked ... they just want troops on the ground because they want to militarize especially blue cities in blue states."

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Ian @slwdth.bsky.social · 14h

“Look, we need to be able to hold republicans to one standard and democrats to another”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 14h

whether or not you protect your constituents from being disappeared by masked goons isn't a "purity test"

it's more like, are you doing your job at all or not

Brenda Carter @bcacar.bsky.social · 17h

Reading this turns my stomach. When you find a perfect human being, let us know because after all your “purity” test has to be flawless, right? My question is how your commentary will save democracy because without it your words are meaningless?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 17h

Vought’s ideology of “radical constitutionalism” captures the defining sensibility on the Trumpist Right: “The Left,” he believes, has command of America, there is nothing left to conserve, nothing short of a radical “counter-revolution” can now save the nation.

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