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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Jeffries: "If Donald Trump can find $20b to bail out his right-wing dictator friend in Argentina, it's extraordinary to me that Republicans are unwilling to even have a discussion about how we address the healthcare crisis that they've created."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 36m

Vance, miserable liar that he is, referred to these bigoted, Nazi-flavored Young Republican posts as a "college group chat."

But most of the quoted in the Politico article are GROWN ADULTS with JOBS.

ADULT REPUBLICANS RUNNING A REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.

Filth.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 10m

I'm not a logistics expert but I don't think 300 trucks is gonna feed a million and a half people living with 0 reserves and next to no infrastructure www.newarab.com/news/israel-...

Israel cuts Gaza aid by half, as four captive bodies handed over

Israel said it will cut the aid being sent to Gaza in half, as Hamas hands over four more captive bodies to Israel.

www.newarab.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14h

Free speech is when Republicans can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/noup...

Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sorry, is the Trump Administration talking to a tech platform?

Is it...requesting content moderation?

Today following outreach from @thejusticedept, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target @ICEgov agents in Chicago.
The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11h

Many focusing on the hubristic blasphemy of “we’re saving God”—and fair enough—but also, Kaepernick?

All he did was exercise his 1A right to expression in a calm, quiet, unobtrusive way. And he last played Jan. 1, 2017!

How lacking in real problems that this was ever a grievance, let alone still.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 11h

Ian Berry.
The English.

County Durham, 1974.
Whitby, 1974.
Liverpool, 1981.
Salisbury, 2017.

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 13h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h

Uday speaks. Man with no known religious conviction gives interview to paid propaganda agent of the Kremlin and describes how he is remaking Christianity. This is hysterical. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 13h

To see Palestinians and Israelis reunite with their families has been deeply moving.

This must be the start of a process that ends Israel’s illegal occupation and punishes those responsible for war crimes.

I asked the PM how he will ensure justice and self-determination for the Palestinian people.

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Libro Amante 🌎🖊️😷 @libroamante.bsky.social · 13h

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aleha_84 @aleha84.bsky.social · 13h

Night stairs 4

music: Blut Own - drifting
Photo by Vodnev Aleksandr was used as a basis for this scene.

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Anne Muntean @annemuntean.bsky.social · 13h

"Israel has withdrawn its forces to an agreed line just outside most populated areas, and Hamas militants have already emerged from their tunnels to conduct triumphant parades down the rubble-filled streets."

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 13h

Powerful image from Ben Jennings.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A cartoon showing a tiny hand doing a V for victory sign, protruding from the cuff of a blood-stained shirt, with a American flag cufflink. There are smoking ruins in the background.

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 13h

Warnings on AI Chatbots are not enough.

Both models of ChatGPT include warnings about the dangers of their advice, but it places them next to that very same risky guidance – including flagging crisis hotline next to suicide techniques.

So, what needs to happen?

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 13h

🚨 NEW: OpenAI’s new “safer” version of ChatGPT actually allows more harm.

TW: Suicide, self-harm, substance abuse & eating disorders

We tested ChatGPT-5 and found that the new AI model that uses “safe completions” fails to reduce safety risks to users ⤵️

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

You will very rarely see this type of identity politics named and condemned as such bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood announces that immigrants will have to recite Beowulf in its entirety in Old English, without notes, before being allowed entry to the U.K.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Mike Johnson does a gigantic eye roll in response to Fox News pressing him on the Epstein coverup

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Tea Junkie @teajunkie.bsky.social · 13h

We need saving from people who think they're on a mission from god.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Eric Trump: "If he wasn't heaven-bound, he wouldn't have been alive after Butler. If he wasn't heaven-bound, that flag wouldn't have folded up like a perfect angel right above his head. If he wasn't heaven-bound, if he wasn't meant for this purpose, he wouldn't have beaten Hillary."

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 14h

It's a strange state of affairs where world leaders have to consider whether public support of Trump's Nobel Prize quest can get them, say, a tariff reduction of 5 percentage points.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Johnson: "Together with my friend Speaker Ohana of the Israeli Knesset we're going to rally speakers and presidents of parliaments around the world so we will jointly nominate President Donald J Trump for next year's Nobel Prize. No one has ever deserved that prize more & that is an objective fact."

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 14h

"We're saving God."

Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13h

Mike Johnson — man of deep faith, we are told — wants pastors to be shot in the head with pepper balls.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Supreme Court officially declines to hear Alex Jones appeal of judgement against him for calling Sandy Hook a hoax.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families

www.nytimes.com

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