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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2h

She and you keep us sane!

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

This from the great @sulliview.bsky.social on the media's anemic (or non-) coverage of the massive No Kings movement is such a great point

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 20h

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Broadway Musicians Have Voted to Authorize a Strike

Musicians and actors are currently negotiating with the Broadway League for a new labor contract—and a strike is now officially on the table.

playbill.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 22h

wait wut

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I’m still upset about woodchucks and groundhogs being the same thing

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 22h

It's why he's purging Black women from the government

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

The main reason why Vought is so angry is that he is not just after political power in a narrow sense but obsessed with status and cultural domination. He believes there is a “natural” order of white male Christian domination in all spheres of life – and America is supposed to follow it.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 1d

Protect John Oliver at all costs.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The Daily is committed to sanitizing Vought and ignoring what they regard as unsavory ideology. Because engaging with what is actually animating Vought would make it very hard to uphold the “normal politics” framework that defines much of mainstream political journalism.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

We tell people if they work hard and play by the (entirely arbitrary white supremacist) rules, they'll have healthcare and a house with a white picket fence. Instead we have the world's largest prison population, jails used as mental health facilities,

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 2d

Takes all kinds lol

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 3d

"We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells tamales every morning to support her family — was taken by ICE. We never got a call. We had to learn about it from strangers online."

Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 3d

This is a GoFundMe supporting the tamale lady taken by ICE on 21st Place and Damen in Pilsen yesterday.

“Now she’s being forced to start over in Mexico with nothing — no home, no job, and no access to the medical care she desperately needs.”

Donate to Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE, organized by marilyn perez

We just found out through social media that my aunt — who sells t… marilyn perez needs your support for Help My Aunt Rebuild Her Life After Being Taken by ICE

www.gofundme.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 3d

I don't want to be insulting, smug, and snobbish, but on top of everything else, is a fugly ass watch.

I desperately want Americans to want better *for themselves* than tacky licensed gold plated slop. It's so depressing.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 3d

It's very weird (and yet clearly effective) that maga keeps smearing DEI as "unconstitutional"

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 3d

This is a perilous moment for democracy in the United States, but I couldn’t be prouder of the Knight Institute’s work right now, and I don’t take for granted that we have the freedom and resources to do it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This free speech group at Columbia is taking on Trump when the university won’t – and winning

The Knight Institute is defending free speech at a school now synonymous with compromising on it

www.theguardian.com

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

The third-country removal tracker has been updated to add three Honduran nationals removed to Guatemala yesterday.
hardghistory.ghost.io/tracking-all...

Tracking All of Trump’s Third-Country Removals (That We Know Of)

Bookmark this post, it will be updated.

hardghistory.ghost.io

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen.

We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously.

Here's how to get in touch securely 👇

How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica

Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

propublica.org

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 3d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 3d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3d

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Designer Hasan @designer4hasand.bsky.social · 13d

“Daddy…we just want to live like before”
Small words from my kids, yet they fall on my heart like a mountain.

I'm trying to provide my family with the simplest of needs.. but sometimes I feel the weight is too heavy to carry alone.💔

Your support can ease this burden.🙏

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joes-spot.bsky.social @joes-spot.bsky.social · 3d

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 3d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 3d

Douthat is laundering hard core white Christian supremacy into the mainstream, with the NYT's blessing.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 3d

His ankles say otherwise

Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3d

There's a major book to be written about the manner in which Elon Musk bucked all health and safety regulation and blocked enforcement action through corruption and legerdemain. This is the essential fact behind his political engagement in 2024, and his maneuvering into DOGE.

Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas

Violations include digging without permits and dumping wastewater into storm drains.

arstechnica.com

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 3d

I think a lot about how Michelle Obama remarked on regularly being in rooms with the most powerful and wealthy people in the world and her chief takeaway was that they're just not that smart

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