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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 4h

Still no coherent explanation offered for how this excellent government of supposedly brilliant talents, who listened to the public and changed their offer to give the public what they were crying out for, are despised by the public after 18 months. This is quite remarkable, historically.

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Latest YouGov government approval ratings,
18-20 October 2025
Approve: 12% (-2 from 11-13 Oct)
Disapprove: 68% (-1)
Net: -56 (-1)

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

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Adelita Grijalva: "There is so much that cannot be done until I'm sworn in. So every moment that passes that I'm not able to provide constituent services or be a voice for Arizona, I cannot bring the issues forward that they send me here to do."

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 7h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 7h

WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts

A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

www.bloomberg.com

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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 1h

Symptoms of Long Covid
#medsky

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @thefarce.org · 1h

“The map targets the district of Democratic US House Rep. Don Davis, which has been represented by a Black member of Congress for more than three decades, shifting it from a district that Trump won by 3 points in 2024 to 12 points under the new lines.”

Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 2h

North Carolina already one of most gerrymandered states. Now GOP passing new gerrymander giving Rs nearly 80% of seats in state where Trump got 51%. Specifically targets Black Dem Don Davis. This is preview of what post-Voting Rights Act America will look like www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Republicans are making one of the most gerrymandered states in the nation even more rigged

North Carolina Republicans just passed a new Trump-inspired congressional map to oust a Black Democrat.

www.motherjones.com

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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 1h

He hates it when people vote.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 1h

So now we're REALLY gonna predetermine election outcomes by:
-SCOTUS rulings
-gerrymandering/redistricting
-stacking election boards
-buying voting machine co's
-disenfranchising voters
-cheating/rigging
-supermajorities are passing bad bills
-putting armed thugs at polling places

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

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ACLU @aclu.org · 1h

The Defense Department banned nearly 600 books from schools on military bases — but in a win for free speech, a federal judge just ordered those books back to the shelves.

Federal judge orders Pentagon to restore LGBTQ+ books, gender & diversity lessons in military schools

Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DoDEA Director Beth Schiavino-Narvaez to comply immediately.

www.advocate.com

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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 1h

Wonder what her percentage will be?

Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 1h

Pam Bondi, who was paid what might as well be a retainer for her services, is presumably who will approve the nine-figure payout from DOJ to Donald.

www.google.com/url?q=https:...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

As most are aware by now, ICE is slamming the north side today. They've been seen in Andersonville, Rogers Park, West Ridge, Edgewater + Evanston. Several people abducted, agents still active.

Shared with permission—rapid response whistle team at Bryn Mawr & Broadway this morning.

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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 1h

Trump Dismisses Another Inspector General, Fueling Oversight Concerns

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

Trump Dismisses Another Inspector General, Fueling Oversight Concerns

www.nytimes.com

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Alt-IRS @alt-irs.altgov.info · 1h

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1h

This is bad. Very bad.

DHS quietly eliminates ban on surveillance based on sexual orientation and gender identity

The DHS quietly updated its policy manual earlier this month, removing LGBTQ+ identities from the section prohibiting surveillance based solely on immutable characteristics.

www.advocate.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Brian Schatz: "This is not about money. There is enough money to bail out Argentina with $20b. There is enough money to purchase a brand new aircraft for $173m for Noem. There is enough money to renovate the WH ballroom. What there isn't enough money for under this Republican government is you."

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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 1h

Supreme Court to Decide If Trump Is Entitled to His Own Facts

By Ed Kilgore

nymag.com/intelligence...

Supreme Court to Decide If Trump Is Entitled to His Own Facts

In a case before the Court, the White House claims Trump alone gets to decide when conditions in U.S. cities warrant Guard deployments.

nymag.com

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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 1h

Donald Trump managed to stall these prosecutions until he was elected and they were dropped. Now he is demanding the taxpayers give him $230 million dollars. His grifting for money will never end.

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases

www.nytimes.com

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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 1h

If his lips are moving, he is making shit up.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "We'll probably make a distribution out of some of the tariff money over the next fairly short period of time to people."

aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 1h

Holy F! Upsetting, but not surprising. He's already demolished the Constitution, Congress, the law, voting rights, equal rights, health care, education, EPA, agriculture, privacy, free speech, science, ethics, culture and everything that made the US special in the world. So why not tear it all down?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5h

This is nearly entirely mail-in ballots, which is why it's so dominated by registered Democrats both years (though that doesn't account for the shift).

Why am I keeping an eye on PA, rather than just NJ / VA? This: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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Jana Warrior Angel @janabw81.bsky.social · 5h

The US beef market is about tank.
With the market being inundated with Argentinian beef and multiple countries like China cancelling their imports of American beef, cattle farmers are in for a rude awakening.

www.newsweek.com/sold-us-out-...

‘Sold us out’: Farmers outraged at Trump’s Argentina beef deal

Experts doubt whether the president's plan to import Argentinian beef would lower domestic prices.

www.newsweek.com

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 9h

Former presidents can go to jail if they are guilty of criminal offenses without causing democracy to collapse
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sarkozy enters jail over campaign financing - France's first ex-president behind bars

Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-2012, has appealed against his jail term at La Santé prison.

www.bbc.com

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 7h

Trump usually doesn’t take disrespect so well. What does Putin have on him?
www.ft.com/content/7af3...

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aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 7h

You know it's coming.

Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 7h

White House official pushes back on report that Trump is considering pardoning Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs

www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-c...

White House official pushes back on report that Trump is considering pardoning Sean 'Diddy' Combs

TMZ reported on Monday that the president was "vacillating" on a commutation for the music mogul, citing a "high-ranking White House official."

www.nbcnews.com

aem711.bsky.social @aem711.bsky.social · 7h

They never know anything about anything. What liars.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: A pardoned January 6 rioter was charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries

MIKE JOHNSON: Terrible. That's the first I've heard of that. I don't know anything about it.

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