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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 9m

Trump isn’t planning to cancel the midterm elections. He’s banking on his enablers on SCOTUS to help him steal them.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9m

My friend @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social and I talked on Substack Live about how the Trump regime is terrorizing immigrants and violently assaulting protesters and journalists. Chicagoans rightly see this as an invasion, and they're coming together to mount peaceful resistance.

Mark Jacob & Steven Beschloss discuss Trump's assault on Chicago

Substack Live: How Chicagoans are dealing with federal agents' violence and how local media are chronicling it

www.stopthepresses.news

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Kacey325 @kacey325.bsky.social · 28m

No one should act surprised by this. They've been headed in this direction for awhile.

Stop supporting Peacock, NBC, AT&T, and Comcast in general.

I hope folks FINALLY catch a clue.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Little Daddy House Shoes @bronxboyjoy.bsky.social · 18m

NBC: “YOU 🫵🏻 don’t matter anymore😤”

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 19m

Raise your hand if you voted for the Venezuelan-American War, and if you think the president can declare it without Congressional consent, as required by the Constitution. #DepartmentofForeverWar

MORE: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20m

All the edgy sneering about "representation" was a way to ironize and therefore obscure the complaint that someone not white was being hired to do a job.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23m

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 58m

Fun fact…
If you protect Black Women’s voting rights all women’s voting rights are protected.

It really is that simple 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 1h

super left have spent the last 10 years telling people that “identity politics“ are bad and race shouldn’t be a factor.

Well…l hope we can ALL AGREE this is who the country will have to rely on when voting rights are gutted and it’s not looking pretty 🤷🏾‍♀️

Once again…racism & enabling it never pays.

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Miss Aja @brat2381.bsky.social · 1h

This was always the plan.

That’s why Black Folks begged people to pay attention to voting rights.

Folks ignored us and now the demographic that ALWAYS stands in the gap and puts up huge numbers for progressive legislation to get passed is going to have our vote diluted.

The regressives on the

Bear Jewess 🟦🎗️ @388shark.bsky.social · 1h

Understand.

This country is on track to make sure Black people can never vote or be represented again. It’s happening.

Voting Rights is the root of EVERYTHING. Voting rights are about to END.

I know there’s a lot going on. But without Voting Rights… this country ENDS.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

So just how bad is this? I got a text from an appropriator friend saying "The Republic has fallen. Pack it in."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

And the craziest part is this was needless. Congress would've passed a military pay bill with near unanimous support! Congressional Ds have been begging Rs to bring a bill to pay the military to the floor! But Johnson refuses to gavel in because he doesn't want an Epstein vote.

Johnson wearing a jacket that's photoshopped to say "this has nothing to do with epstein"

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

That is profoundly illegal. You may not spend money on a purpose without funding. The constitution expressly forbids it, as does the ADA.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

The White House told approps they would not be transferring the money. Not now, not ever. They said, explicitly, that they'd use RDTE money on milpers.

Direct deposits went out yesterday. No transfers happened. They spent RDTE money, which can only be used on RDTE, on milpers.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

You can check the milpers accounts in the OMB apportionment website. There is no money transferred into those accounts for them to use. No money has been transferred from RDTE to milpers.

Instead, what happened? They spent RDTE money, which can only be used on RDTE, on milpers.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

But here's the problem: if you tried to transfer that money into the military personnel accounts (milpers), it would immediately transform into money whose period of availability ended on September 30, 2025 - and thus not be usable anymore, despite the money existing.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

Trump is using money from the research development testing and evaluation funds (RDTE) account. Why does that still have money? It's period of availability was October 1, 2024-Spetember 30, 2026. It was meant to be spent over 2 years, so it has a lot left in it.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

When money is appropriated, it's also authorized to be used only for certain activities. So if you give $50 million to the Department of Transportation to build bridges, it couldn't use that money to build airports instead.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

Military pay is appropriated one year at a time, with a one-year period of availability. The fiscal year ended on September 30th, and we did not pass new appropriations bills (the government is shut down), so there's no money available to pay the troops (or to do lots of things).

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

Most money has what's called a period of availability. You can go about obligating it only during that period. While it's illegal to not use it all (that's the illegal impoundments Trump has been doing all year), after that period of availability ends, you can't use it anymore.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

Under the Constitution and under the ADA, it is illegal to spend money without funding for that purpose. The president may not spend money to do something unless there's actually money to carry it out and that action is expressly allowed.

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S9-C7-1/ALDE_00001095/

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22m

This entire thread explains why Trump's money laundering to pay the troops is a crime.

Here's the key bit.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

But here's the problem: if you tried to transfer that money into the military personnel accounts (milpers), it would immediately transform into money whose period of availability ended on September 30, 2025 - and thus not be usable anymore, despite the money existing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 2h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

www.historians.org

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