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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 2m

Hamas Says It Has Returned All Hostage Remains It Can Recover, Putting Fragile Truce at Risk:

The Palestinian militant group said it needed special equipment to locate and extract the remaining remains. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/w...

Hamas Says It Has Returned All Hostage Remains It Can Recover, Putting Fragile Truce at Risk

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 19m

Trump Suggests Ground Strikes on Venezuela Could Be Next:

“We are certainly looking at land now, because we’ve got the sea very well under control,” he said.

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 2h

Trump indicated that he wanted to send federal troops to San Francisco hours after Mayor Daniel Lurie and local law enforcement leaders pushed back on calls for the president to do just that.

Daniel Lurie has an urgent message: S.F. doesn’t need Donald Trump to send the National Guard

Mayor Daniel Lurie and San Francisco law enforcement leaders have delivered an unmistakable rebuke of calls for President Trump to send federal troops to the city.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 7h

Emerging from the darkness of this era will require us to acknowledge that the previous status quo, including many institutions that may have served us well in another era, have been failing for my entire lifetime.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Sunny Hostin to Cheryl Hines: "The problem is that your husband is the least qualified HHS head that we've had in history. I think that's very dangerous. He has spread a lot of misinformation, chaos, and confusion."

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

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...

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 4h

I have words to say

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 21h

MSNBC EXCLUSIVE: House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi reacts to Speaker Mike Johnson saying he doesn't "have anything to negotiate" during the government shutdown.

"They do have a strategy, and that is to give tax breaks to the richest people in America at the expense of America's working families."

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 2h

Researchers in France looked at more than 500,000 infants and found no connection between Covid vaccination in the first trimester and any of dozens of birth defects, adding to the body of evidence for the vaccines' safety during pregnancy.

Covid Vaccines in First Trimester Not Tied to Birth Defects, Study Finds

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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 11h

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radek Sikorski, presented a Shahed drone to the British Parliament; russia used it to violate Polish airspace.

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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 2h

Exodus from the Pentagon apnews.com/article/pent...

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the sea...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4h

“D’Angelo was a generational talent—an unusually artful singer, and an experimental and idiosyncratic songwriter.” Amanda Petrusich remembers the R. & B. singer D’Angelo, who died this week at 51.

D’Angelo’s Genius Was Pure, and Rare

The musician, who died this week, made work so sensual it prompted women at his concerts to howl for him to disrobe. But his artistry was always deeper than that.

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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 3h

The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

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The Boston Globe @bostonglobe.com · 3h

Brown University's president rejected the Trump administration’s demand that the school sign a compact in exchange for preferential treatment in a letter addressed to senior White House staff and US Education Secretary Linda McMahon.

Brown University rejects Trump’s higher education compact - The Boston Globe

Students at Brown, MIT, Dartmouth, other elite schools on Wednesday sent a joint statement pressuring their universities not to sign Trump’s compact as well.

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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 3h

Judge blocks Trump administration from laying off federal workers during government shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Temporarily Blocks Layoffs During Federal Shutdown

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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 4h

The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system to slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, documents obtained by The NYT show 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 6h

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Toss Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

In a Louisiana voting map case, the conservative majority signaled it might ban using race as a factor in creating election districts.

Redistricting could cement GOP control of Congress. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Upend Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 6h

Powerful no more.

The U.S. passport is now in the 12th spot — it was first a decade ago.

The index ranks how many destinations a passport holder can visit without needing a visa. www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/...

U.S. falls out of top 10 on list of the world’s most powerful passports

The U.S. is now in the 12th spot — it was first a decade ago. The index ranks how many destinations a passport holder can visit without needing a visa.

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Morning Joe @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social · 12h

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Wendell Jenkins @gothamdc.bsky.social · 6h

So let me get this straight. During the Biden Administration, red states were busing migrants to blue cities. Now red states are sending their National Guard to those same blue cities to round up those migrants. This is nuts!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 7h

Some info on Ed Gein, whose behavior inspired numerous books and movies, including:

- Psycho (1960)
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Illustration of Ed Gein's life and crimes with key locations like his family home, Spirit Land Cemetery, and Worden's hardware store on a purple background. More info at: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ed-Gein

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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 6h

Right-wing influencer Candace Owens loses her fight to overturn a denial of a visa to enter Australia after a court upheld a decision that her record failed a “character test” www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Far-right US influencer Candace Owens loses legal fight to enter Australia

Far-right U.S. influencer Candace Owens has lost her bid to enter Australia after the country’s highest court on Wednesday backed the government’s decision to deny her a visa over concerns she could “incite discord” in the community.

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