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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 2h

Go, Aussies!

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h

In unanimous decision, Australia’s highest court is not having Candace Owens. They're denying her a visa, claiming she failed a “character test” according to that nation’s standards.

More of this, please.

www.rawstory.com/candace-owen...

MAGA influencer denied visa for failing 'character test': report

MAGA influencer denied visa for failing character test: report

www.rawstory.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2h

Trump doubles the bailout to Argentina, now $40 billion, and Argentina takes all China’s soybean orders away from our American farmers - 7 million tons. Was it Argentina first?

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 2h

A lot to unpack here.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4h

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Subject of Investigation: Are some Congressional Republicans Nazis
Means of Investigation: look at them
Conclusion of Investigation: yeop

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4h

Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 4h

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

NEW: No Kings is this Saturday, and here are my tips for how to mitigate anxiety in large crowds. Feel free to share! youtu.be/nxpkVk9TGgQ?...

NO KINGS! Tips for Protesting with PTS and Anxiety

YouTube video by MSW Media

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 2h

That's 'an asshole.'
We want to be grammatically correct here.

Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 2h

As if we needed more proof that Bill Ackman is a asshole.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3h

Bill Ackman donates $1mn to oppose Zohran Mamdani’s NY mayoral campaign on.ft.com/4he6veW

Bill Ackman donates $1mn to oppose Zohran Mamdani’s NY mayoral campaign

Hedge fund billionaire in last-ditch effort to stop democratic socialist frontrunner in race for city hall

on.ft.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 3h

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 3h

Wonderful.

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not sure the Fed will have any data to work with before the December FOMC meeting.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 3h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Cory Mills, boy I dunno

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/14/j...

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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beepatrix @radm.transsexual.navy · 10h

REAL

piper @roodypatooti.bsky.social · Aug 26

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h

In more than a dozen states, the average electricity bill has jumped more than 10 percent over the last year — and more increases have already been announced.

The increased prices could become a major political issue. https://wapo.st/4q7l3RD

Soaring electricity bills could be the sleeper campaign issue of 2025

As costs continue to increase, voters are turning their ire toward politicians, shaking up this year’s governors races.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 6h

Where California goes, other states follow.
It will take a while, of course.
But this is a good start.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 9h

100% on OPSEC.

A government of idiots.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

Every wannabe king forgets the same lesson: Americans don’t kneel. The weak call it chaos. The strong call it a wake-up call. The Constitution doesn’t need worshippers. It needs warriors.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 17h

I think everyone in the UK should have to pass A-levels in English before they can work.

Let’s see how that works out.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 7h

It's tough to decide what the worst criteria of the Roberts court might be, but yeah, that's up there.

Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 9h

The empty formalism used to constitutionally forbid diversity-enhancing or remedial action—that to “stop discriminating on the basis of race we must stop discriminating on the basis of race”—is possibly the most invidious trope the Roberts Court has cultivated in our modern legal culture.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

‼️ this was a striking moment, to me

Louisiana was basically like 'here come these Black people always asking for more' and Justice Jackson was like, 'that's not what the fuck they're asking for, they're saying: stop discriminating against us'

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9h

Louisiana: "The plaintiffs came in and said 'we want a second majority-minority district."
KBJ: "NO THEY DID NOT. They said our votes are being dilluted."
Louisiana: "That's the same thing."
KBJ: "No it's not. ... trust me on this."
:)

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 14h

Ma'am, you just defined communism but called the state the "bourgeoisie."

And you seem to be missing the whole Revolutionary Vanguard and Dictatorship of the Proletariat part of Marxist theory.

Just because the USSR didn't leap to communist utopia doesn't mean it was...capitalist. JFC.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7h

I see the intolerant echo-chamber media elite as a net positive for public health because without them some people would have to throw themselves in front of a bus to slake their lust for victimhood

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 9h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Terry Coleman @tcgamer.bsky.social · 7h

One could say 'what a disappointment' but Lisa Murkowski's betrayal of her constituents and her country goes well beyond that.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12h

Remember when Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski told a room of nonprofit leaders “we are all afraid”? Then in July, she cast the crucial yes vote for Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” hoping to stay in his good graces. I wonder how she feels today, with Alaska underwater and no help coming.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 9h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 9h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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