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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 20h

Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2h

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31m

The trial of Sydney Reid, who was initially charged w/felony assault for videotaping ICE, then charged w/misdemeanor, and whose case has been beset by all sorts of discovery problems since, has finished.

Judge Sooknanan threw out allegation involving one of two "victims" (on same assault charge).

Case Name: USA v. REID
Case Number: 1:25-cr-00244-SLS
Filer:
Document Number: No document attached
Docket Text:
Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan: Jury Trial as to SYDNEY LORI REID resumed on 10/15/2025 with the same jury of twelve (12) and two (2) alternates. Oral motion by the defense for a "mistrial", heard and reserved. Government rests. Oral Rule 29 motion by the defense, heard and granted as to Officer Liang only. Defense commenced and concluded their case in chief. Oral renewed Rule 29 motion as to all other portions of the Information, heard and reserved. Charge conference held. Jury Trial continued to 10/16/2025 at 09:00 AM in Courtroom 14- In Person before Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan. Bond Status of Defendant: PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE; Court Reporter: Bryan Wayne; Defense Attorney: Eugene Ohm and Tezira Abe; US Attorney: Travis Wolfe and Jason Facci; Government Witness: Agent Eugenia Bates: Defense Witnesses: Jessica Mason and Katie Campbell-Morrison. (znbn)

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 3h

Hmmm

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h

The aircraft carrying US Secretary of Defense/war/whatevs Pete Hegseth from Brussels declared an emergency before turning around over the Atlantic and heading back toward the UK.

Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 3h

EXACTLY!

Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 3h

"I do think he needs help – and I don't think anybody around him, on a day-to-day basis, wants to get him any help, because they have more power based upon his diminished capacity."

Gov. JB Pritzker
re Donald Trump

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3h

Apparently $20B of our taxpayer money wasn't enough to bail out Argentina.

Now Trump wants U.S. banks to divert ANOTHER $20B away from lending to American businesses, farmers, and families to prop up Milei's corrupt presidency and failing economy.

So much for America First.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 3h

Millions of Americans are using Klarna and GoFundMe to buy groceries, and Trump is sending another $20 billion to bail out Argentina. Who’s going to bail out working people? Who’s going to bail out farmers or small business owners? So much for America First.

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 3h

😂😂😂

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

Bring as many American flags to No Kings as you can.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 8h

Cato filed an amicus brief in RAICES v. Noem, the case challenging Trump's Border Dictator order that purports to suspend all immigration law because it is "ineffective." Our brief describes how the government's arguments are baseless www.cato.org/legal-briefs...

RAICES v. Noem

The government’s assertions are based on either misinterpretations or tortured readings of the data, attempting to find justification for a spurious legal argument in facts that simply are not there.

www.cato.org

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 8h

Color me shocked.

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 8h

When the main stream media shows the awful videos of people being brutally arrested by ICE, why don’t they emphasize the fact that the goal was supposed to be “the worst of the worst “, “rapists and criminals”. Moms in school pick up queues are not.

Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 8h

The #EpsteinShutdown has entered week 3

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 9h

The Nobel Prize Committee announced its annual awards over the last week or so. Aside from the number of winners based at U.S. universities, something else caught my attention: Are the Nobel Prize judges…trolling Donald Trump?
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

A Nobel Prize for Trolling?

The distinguished awards further illustrated that Trump is wrong on just about everything

open.substack.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 19h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Overlands @19seventyseven.bsky.social · 20h

They're about to get us into a couple wars. All to cover up epstein. They can't let the media in on attack plans.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 20h

"The Trumpified right is at this point scarcely conservative. It is increasingly uninterested in virtue as it is actually practiced. And it is in no position to tell others what it means to be a man." Always good from the archives: www.thebulwark.com/the-rights-i...

The Right’s Ironic Fixation on Roman Virtues

The Trumpified right adores the manly and republican virtues of the Romans and the American Founders, but doesn’t live up to them.

www.thebulwark.com

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Traci @tracililmom.bsky.social · 20h

Another shitty Republican.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h

A judge has issued a restraining order against Republican Rep. Cory Mills after he was accused by a former girlfriend of threatening to circulate sexually explicit videos of her.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 20h

Former Fox & Friends weekend co-host and defense secretary Pete Hegseth learned a sharp lesson in choosing his words more carefully.

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