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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

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Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. @admiralstav.bsky.social · 17h

A powerful personal testament from Tom Bowman of NPR about the Pentagon attempt to exert complete control over all information. Protecting classified is of course fine. But when neither Fox News nor NY Times sign up to your policy, you should ask yourself if you are getting something very wrong.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 1d

Our public money to support research at our universities is mandated by our Congress.

It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him.

Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Vintage Audio Love @vintageaudiolove.bsky.social · 1d

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

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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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

Ridiculous.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 14h

Ideally, no more?

a man is saying `` you lose ! good day sir ! ''

ALT: a man is saying `` you lose ! good day sir ! ''

media.tenor.com

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 17h

Finally some good news www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Supreme Court Denies Alex Jones’s Appeal of Payment to Sandy Hook Families

www.nytimes.com

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

How shameful. Trump is firing these people for NO good reason and leaving students with disabilities and their families with even fewer resources.

This is cruel and stupid.

Kids with disabilities deserve a great education, just like anyone else.

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

When you've lost Newsmax...

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 1d

Newsmax refuses to sign Pentagon media rules as press corps warns of threats to access and free reporting.

Newsmax Refuses to Sign Trump Admin’s New Pentagon Press Access Policy

www.newsweek.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Atta boy....

"Chinese shipments to the U.S. plunged 27% in September, but overall exports rose 8.3%. The World Bank now expects China’s economy to grow 4.8% in 2025, while it downgraded U.S. growth to 1.4%"

fortune.com/2025/10/13/t...

Trump bet China would face ‘tremendous difficulties’ without U.S. consumers—Beijing just focused on the rest of the world instead | Fortune

China’s trade diversification has been so successful that its export market is growing significantly despite the trade war.

fortune.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 2d

Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low"

Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings.

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

In previous government shutdown situations did the President ever travel abroad?

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Dak @dak.myatproto.social · Jul 28

Most of adulthood is just whispering “what the hell is going on” and pretending you get it.

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

So the administration is pro-kings? 🧐

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedChicago

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

"No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Sounds like DHS is losing the battle.

www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility

Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill.

www.americamagazine.org

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James Martin, SJ @jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · 1d

From Kevin Clarke at America: "Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility"
www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility

Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill.

www.americamagazine.org

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed.

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Adam J Schmidt @adamjschmidt.bsky.social · 2d

Not only is it dangerous, it's also illegal. Don't do it.

Jake @jakeythesnakey.bsky.social · 2d

This is such an astoundingly bad idea that I kinda think it’s a false flag or an op of some sort

Merits aside, it is insanely easy to be caught if you do this and the punishment for doing this is much more severe than you’d guess.

(@faineg.bsky.social often writes on stuff like this)

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