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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Mike Johnson hates the First Amendment. Which means Mike Johnson hates the Bill of Rights. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson on CNBC: "I think it has a lot to do with the 'Hate America Rally' that's gonna be on the Mall on Saturday. You're gonna have all the antifa and BLM and pro-Hamas people, all the Marxists will be on the Mall."

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

Much worse was the presidential candidate who said “I love the poorly educated” because he thought he could hornswoggle them. Whatever happened to him— … oh wait

Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 20h

Actor Michael Keaton on Trump supporters: “When Trump said ‘I could shoot somebody on 5th Avenue and they’d still vote for me,’ basically what he’s saying is these people are so stupid, they’d still vote for me. They have no respect for you”

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Annie Andrews, MD @drannieandrews.com · 15h

Here is a photo of two people who really don’t like Lindsey Graham.

Appreciate your support @gtconway.bsky.social 🇺🇸

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16h

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Newsom: We were under the understanding that we were going to close I-5 — up to 80,000 vehicles tomorrow and Saturday. They seemed to have backed off of that. They were going to move forward with a display, but they’re not clearly sharing that with state officials.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

Stansbury: These guys are trying to create a pretext for the deployment of the military against American citizens. And part of how they're trying to do that is by labeling them terrorists…

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

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therreport.bsky.social @therreport.bsky.social · 10h

And that alone is enough of a reason to vote for Mamdani ... Billionaires spend big to oppose Zohran Mamdani in closing days of NYC mayor's race www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Billionaires spend big to oppose Zohran Mamdani in closing days of NYC mayor's race

Bill Ackman recently contributed $1 million to a super PAC opposing Mamdani. Will it work this time to stop the socialist leading the race?

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NPR @npr.org · 14h

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

Who’s eating the tariffs? You, mostly.

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: A photo from 2024 shows Trump backstage at a campaign rally with two members of the Young Republican National Federation involved in the deeply disturbing, racist group chat leaked this week. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Photo Shows Trump Backstage At Rally With Republicans In Racist Texts Scandal

JD Vance said the “kids” were just being “edgy” by praising Hitler. Except they were adults, and they rubbed shoulders with everybody in Republican politics.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

“.. one of the U.S. officials, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters, said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 19h

JD Vance,
who willfully spread a racist lie
abt Haitians eating pets,
who grovels to a racist he once called "Hitler,"
wants you woke anti-racists
to stop criticizing these adult racists
over their harmless pro-Nazi racism.

As he waits for his kids to grow up
& discover exactly what their dad is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 14h

We Found That More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

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Corey Brettschneider @democracyprof.bsky.social · 13h

Live now: a clear map of the self-coup. Three prosecutions—James, Comey, Bolton—make sense only together, as an attack on the rule of law. We break down the charges. Also the free-speech challenge to conversion-therapy bans.

@johnfugelsang.bsky.social

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Trump’s Self-Coup: The Three Prosecutions that Expose It

Podcast Episode · The Oath and The Office · 10/16/2025 · 53m

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

Here's another Kavanaugh stop in action. Agent says: "Why are you running?" Admitting that he had no cause to stop and tackle this boy.

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 12h

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 15h

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Trump wants violence at No Kings protest so he can send in military—don’t give him the excuse!

Glenn Kirschner slammed GOP's dangerous and deranged rhetoric about No Kings

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Glenn Kirschner @glennkirschner.bsky.social · 14h

Trump's Hapless DOJ Lawyers ALREADY LOSE
First Court Battle In Comey Case
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Trump's Hapless DOJ Lawyers ALREADY LOSE First Court Battle In Comey Case

YouTube video by Glenn Kirschner

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16h

I have some great news: coming soon, finally, The Last Republican! Standby for more!

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THE LAST REPUBLICAN Trailer

YouTube video by Film Forum

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18h

FYI “Young Republicans” are adult men

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17h

Because this isn’t the movement of Reagan or Eisenhower or even Bush… if you still find yourself defending it, maybe the joke’s on you—because history never laughs with those who excuse the inexcusable.
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The GOP’s Young ‘Leaders’ Aren’t Kids — They’re Adults Praising Hitler

There’s a world of difference between gallows humor and glorifying genocide — one saves your sanity, the other kills your soul.

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