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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

Kavanaugh stop

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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The Dangerous Ones @thedangerousones.com · 7h

🚨BEST TROLL EVER!!

Our guts still hurt!! 🤣

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Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 5h

I hate headlines that ask the reader. 😏

Diana B. Henriques @dianabhenriques.bsky.social · 8h

Andrew Ross Sorkin and I agree: "The pattern is familiar, stretching back to 1929: Whenever access expands faster than safeguards, charlatans rush in and ordinary investors are often left holding the bag."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/m...

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?

www.nytimes.com

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seven @seven.modr.us · 5h

News flash, OTA firmware updates for vehicles are a bad idea, thats why you had to go to dealer…

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 18h

Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend

Jeep has pulled the update; owners are advised to ignore it if it already downloaded.

arstechnica.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Solidarity is the only way

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Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 9h

Sheriff. Hmph.

Rachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 10h

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse.

Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.

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Rachel de Leon @raeoflion.bsky.social · 10h

Last year, we wrote about survivor Taylor Cadle. When she was 12, she told police she’d been raped. They said she was lying and charged her with false reporting. She then took the extraordinary measure of recording the next act of abuse.

Now, Taylor has legal counsel and filed a lawsuit.

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Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 9h

Eff Texas. Were I young, I'd be gone.

Seems Abbott & Co. yearn for Texas to be Mississippi.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 11h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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QuadCityPat @quadcitypat.bsky.social · 10h

The Hottest Club in town is called ICE, it's got naked bikers, inflatables, Salsa music and sad people in uniform

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 10h

The cheese 🧀 stands alone #oan #dod

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

So far, the only media outlet that has signed Pete Hegseth's new prohibitive press policy for covering the Pentagon is One America News.

Even Newsmax and the Washington Times have rejected the letter.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Even Newsmax rejects the Pentagon’s new press restrictions ahead of signing deadline

‘Newsmax has no plans to sign the letter,’ the network stated on Monday. ‘We believe the requirements are unnecessary and onerous and hope that the Pentagon with review the matter further’

www.independent.co.uk

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 1d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10h

Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done?

Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.

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Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 10h

Oh, really? So cool! 😆

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energy9086.bsky.social @energy9086.bsky.social · 12h

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10h

Someone in or close to the White House is making a killing with inside information on what Trump will threaten next before chickening out.

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Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 10h

"Gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump."

Translation: Cheat and rig the election.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 10h

Untrained ICE pack gassed themselves, too.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 11h

The Tube and his ilk pandering to the ignorant base.

And a US senator still referring to himself as coach at his age. Says a lot. 😏

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

If this will make groceries, housing and electricity cheaper then I’m all for it.

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David Lazarus @davidlaz.bsky.social · 11h

He routinely exits the house through Teddy's dog door. But when it's time to return, he expects a little assist

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Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 11h

I'll wait for the written version.

🌸🌺Cindy Alexander Capaldo🌺 @cyn1422.bsky.social · 11h

SATURDAY OCTOBER 18th
NO KINGS DAY!!

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 11h

Watch this before going to a protest.

Bill Lamb @zachvat.bsky.social · 11h

This guy is more slimy than a giant slimy thing.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

“Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your health care plan?

@SpeakerJohnson: *attacks the ACA and says Republicans are the party of wanting to fix health care🤔 even though they have no plan, sabotaged the ACA, just cut $1 trillion from health care*

#MedicareForAll

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Sam Litzinger @samlitzinger.bsky.social · 12h

This is the way.

“Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.”

-The Washington Post

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12h

Over 150 unvaccinated kids quarantined for 21 days in SC measles outbreak

The outbreak includes at least seven confirmed cases, but some are clearly being missed.

arstechnica.com

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