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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · 1h

I've heard it said that you shouldn't speak ill of the dead.

So, I'd like to get it in ahead of time.

Mitch McConnell is a truly awful human who has worked hard to make the US a much worse place. (And much of the rest of the world too, come to think of it.)

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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 23m

Jessica Tarlov managed to get out that Politico uncovered a disturbing group chat of Republican operatives who joked about gas chambers, praised Hitler and used racist slurs. True to form Greg Gutfeld yelled over her and said he didn't care about it.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 23m

Price increases for "things" under Donald Trump:

Coffee is up 26%
Baby strollers are up 25%
Beef is up 14%
School supplies are up 7%
Electricity is up 5%

Car prices are at a RECORD high.

And thanks to Republicans in Congress, health insurance premiums are about to DOUBLE.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 28m

NEW: John Bolton's criminal case has been assigned to Judge Theodore Chuang, an Obama appointee who earlier this year issued one of the most sweeping rulings against DOGE.

The latest w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2h

This is an emergency. In a month, health premiums are going to go up by 75%, ruining families' lives. What's happening in Chicago, where people's rights are being obliterated, is an emergency. What the FCC is doing - censoring our political speech - is an emergency.

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🌮 Alacrity's Ghost @alacritysshadow.bsky.social · 2h

you know shit-for-brains is going to take any excuse from the No Kings rallies to declare it an insurrection- don't take the bait.

any agitators- ANY AGITATORS- need to be overwhelmingly smothered, while smiling and singing God Bless America.

channel your Ethel Merman.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 6h

Only in the Federalist Society academic bubble could you say that the government going in and splitting up geographically contiguous communities of Black voters in order to prevent them from ever being a majority in any House district is "government not taking race into account."

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Dennis @jedclampett.bsky.social · 28m

Well it’s that time of the month again. The time when Trump gets played once again by Putin. Tomahawks for Ukraine will be placed on hold or cancelled while Putin pretends that he wants to make peace with Ukraine.

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Whimsy @unrequitedwhimsy.bsky.social · 25m

“Our parents aren’t having children”?? Aren’t they already parents?

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yolanda7712.bsky.social @yolanda7712.bsky.social · 44m

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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 13h

The Twat-in-Chief

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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING!

No Kings organizers are asking attendees to wear yellow on Saturday!

If you can, please do!

♻️ Pass it on ♻️

Join here: seiu.com/NoCrowns

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3h

Whether he jumped or was pushed, this seems like a big deal. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

Clear and petty tyrant behavior on full display

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h

Mockler: I have spent all my formative years watching the President talk about the opposition party like they should not exist. His claim to fame in politics was saying that Obama was not born in America.

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NOTUS @notus.com · 3h

Politicians whose campaigns still owe large sums, according to October FEC filings:
- Newt Gingrich: $4.6 million
- Al Sharpton: $925,000
- Rick Santorum: $983,000
- Mehmet Oz: $25.5 million
- Mike Pence: $127,000

via @davelevinthal.com & @taylorgiorno.bsky.social
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Deadbeat Political Campaigns Still Owe Creditors Millions

Old campaigns of also-ran politicians remain hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in debt. Will they ever pay?

www.notus.org

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Tangueray ♐️❤️‍🩹🤓 @tangueray-1each.bsky.social · 3h

These children are missing. They were taken from the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. If you could just share this video, it would be a great help. #blacksky #missingchildren

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

Who’s eating the tariffs? You, mostly.

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

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

As a baby lawyer in the Reagan White House, John Roberts was writing memos arguing that violations of the Voting Rights Act should not be "too easy to prove." This is not just any legal issue that happens to come before him. This is his life's work. He just wants to finish what he started.

Inside John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act

Roberts remains at the center of an impassioned debate about voting rights in America.

www.politico.com

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.