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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

Someone should do a video of him dropping cash on Milei.

Diamond Life @diamondlifeca.bsky.social · 6h

Trump is delighting in defecating on the American taxpayers during his government shutdown while handing Argentina $40B of our tax dollars.

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A. A. Ron @aarontheh.bsky.social · 6h

Let the incredible nationwide turnout at today’s #NoKings protests be a reminder to us all that we are not in this fight alone. That we are all in this together. That we may feel beaten down at times, but we will never let them break us.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9h

🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherman named Alejandro Carranza.

Screenshot of a post on X from Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s verified account. The post reads: “US government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters. Fisherman Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government.”

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10h

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.”

Damn. Just … damn.

Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 11h

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 12h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 20h

“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair

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jbaileywrites @jbaileywrites.bsky.social · 20h

Protest is a joyful expression of our 1A rights. Dance, sing, enjoy the drums & kazoos. There’s no feeling in the world like marching in solidarity with your people.

GrouchyMarkx @grouchymarkx.bsky.social · 1d

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WIRED @wired.com · 21h

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are steps you can take to evade it.

The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to…

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 22h

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 21h

CLEAR EYES, FULL HEARTS, NO KINGS

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A. A. Ron @aarontheh.bsky.social · 1d

Very likely the greatest single game performance in baseball history.

The Athletic @theathletic.com · 1d

What a night for Shohei Ohtani! 👏

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A. A. Ron @aarontheh.bsky.social · 1d

It begins.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

The 30-second video from the National Republican Senatorial Committee is raising alarms among many observers who warn it crosses a new boundary in politics and could unleash a flood of AI-generated deepfake attack ads.

A GOP attack ad deepfakes Chuck Schumer with AI

The 30-second video from the National Republican Senatorial Committee is raising alarms among many observers who warn it crosses a new boundary in politics and could unleash a flood of AI-generated deepfake attack ads.

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A. A. Ron @aarontheh.bsky.social · 1d

In a just, sane world, everyone would be talking about how fantastic #OneBattleAfterAnother is.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This is critical. Rep Adam Smith ties bombings to troops in cities.

"How far are we away from Trump deciding to use the US military to do a kinetic strike on people within the US because he sees them as a threat, by whatever definition he wants to throw out there?"

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

This picture is from about 5 minutes after being hit. A visible bruise is forming on my right cheekbone and by my right eye.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

“.. It’s to the point now where .. I could lose everything ... Being a small business owner isn’t worth it when your country turns on you,” said Jared Hendricks, the CEO of Village Lighting, a small business selling Christmas products.

@cnbc.com
www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/h...

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Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 1d

So, I have to say — as members of Congress go, Adam Smith is about as run of the mill as there is (used to be). He’s sensible, compromises, believes in bipartisan work, believes evidence, thoroughly studies material for his committee work.

Seeing quotes like this from him is… deeply unnerving. /1

Smith: Well, I mean, that's part of the overall disturbing pattern here, is we have seen the president seize more and more unilateral power without any checks and balances on it. And then part of the way he does that is to try to convince the people of this country that it's normal-this is what people do all the time, nothing to see here, it's not any different. And that's just a lie in many instances.
And so I think what's most interesting about it is that Karoline Leavitt thinks she can get away with that lie-just say it and have people believe it and say, it's just normal. And this is part of how we're creeping toward an authoritarian government and seeing, really, the end of our constitutional republic.

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A. A. Ron @aarontheh.bsky.social · 1d

Please donate to Wikipedia. Any amount helps.

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 2d

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

In response to HuffPost’s query about who suggested Budapest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded, “Your mom did,” and White House communications director Steven Cheung replied: “Your mom.”

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

Drew Struzan, the artist behind some of the most recognizable movie posters in cinema history — including for the Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Back to the Future franchises — has died at 78.

Drew Struzan’s movie posters captured the essence of Hollywood magic

The artist, who has died at 78, made posters for dozens of movie touchstones, including the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.

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A. A. Ron @aarontheh.bsky.social · 2d

California, don't forget to vote. #YesOn50

A. A. Ron @aarontheh.bsky.social · 2d

Fight On. 💪

Daniel Miller @danielnmiller.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: USC has rejected President Trump's education compact. The university's interim president Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer, which has been presented to nine schools. www.latimes.com/california/s...

USC rejects Trump education compact

The University of Southern California had rejected the controversial education compact the Trump administration offered it and eight other schools.

www.latimes.com

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Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 2d

Every time I see a story about farms struggling because of this administration's policies, I'm reminded that JD Vance invested in a fund that buys up farm lands.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

(ABC News) - The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to President Trump’s immigration raids ..

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 3d

These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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