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Kathy E. Gill 🏍️ @kegill.bsky.social · 3h

Did we get a list of the people who bankrolled #jan6th? 🧐

“…an unnamed organization budgeted as much as $3 million on the Jan. 6 rally and related events, including for bringing VIP guests and protesters to Washington and ad buys for a show of force.”

$1M went to TPUSA … 1/x

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Ron Johnson on the No Kings protest: "One of the things I hope Kash Patel and Pam Bondi are looking into is the funding of these groups. Who pays for the busses to bus a lot of these folks in?"

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 3h

I’m not even engaging with the rest of what’s wrong or factually incorrect about this; would he apply this standard to young job applicants to any profession making a cruel joke online about Charlie Kirk’s murder

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 3h

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 3h

Our remedies for racism include:

1. Getting yelled at JD Vance for caring about it.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 5h

Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism.

This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Aunty Em @everycourthouse.bsky.social · 1d

We must list names and faces. Comment below if you have more info.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3h

Less than 24 hours after federal agents intentionally plowed into an SUV and tear-gassed a crowd in a residential neighborhood on the Southeast Side, community organizers presented a clear message.

Southeast Side organizers after feds ram SUV and tear-gas crowd: 'Leave our city, you are not welcome here'

Federal agents rammed an SUV, then used pepper balls, smoke grenades and deployed several rounds of tear gas in Tuesday's incident.

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 3h

Faculty unions fighting back.

"At Cal State, a faculty union filed suit Friday in state court after learning the personal phone numbers and email addresses of 2,600 Los Angeles campus employees were turned over to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission..."

www.latimes.com/california/s...

UC, CSU released troves of personal employee information to the feds. Now the backlash

Cal State and UC have face campus protest and intense rebuke by faculty, students and staff for sharing employee personal information with the Trump administration as part of investigations into alle...

www.latimes.com

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3h

dogg if you can't sell PRB coal coal is fucking dead. PRB coal is *so cheap*

J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 2d

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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Dino Pulerà @dpulera.bsky.social · 7h

It’s #WorldAnatomyDay today. Here’s an illustration depicting the anatomy of antlers. Fall is deer breeding season which is a time when antlers harden for buck’s to use in fighting and establishing dominance. #WorldAnatomyDay, #anatomy, #SciArt, #antler #deer

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AHeise @aheise.bsky.social · 6h

Marvelous! Unless I get really lucky this will be the best thing I see online today.

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 23h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Aman Batheja @amanbatheja.bsky.social · 7h

Axios: "The most expensive political ad campaign of the year is being run by the Department of Homeland Security."

DHS has spent "at least $51 million this year on ads thanking President Trump for securing the border, according to AdImpact."

U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign

The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

www.axios.com

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 7h

Wednesday in your Nations Capital
Shutdown Day 15

Things continue to unravel.
The House is presumably enjoying their PAID VACATION thanks to the Speaker.

Meanwhile thousands of federal employees aren’t getting paychecks. And can’t talk to the media about it

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 7h

Historians have been observing the US evolve into a fascist state & the lawlessness of a paramilitary force, ICE. It appears that these heavily armed squads are chanting antisemitic lyrics. The similarities with the fascist extra-military forces in Italy & Germany, in the ‘30s, are disturbing.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 7h

BMA wishes all our UK supporters a powerful Black History Month! 🇬🇧 This year’s theme, “Standing Firm in Power and Pride” is everything 💥
Read our new #MGen article on how we’re helping Black microbiologists thrive through #BlackinMicro Week: doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

A flyer with a red to green gradient and black microbe pattern. The text reads "HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH from the Black Microbiologists Association

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 7h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 10h

The biggest lie they ever told us is that the revenge of the nerds would be a good thing

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Maxine Joselow @maxinejoselow.bsky.social · 22h

Before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, the EPA canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from extreme flooding. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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CNN @cnn.com · 10h

President Donald Trump threatened to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston, after suggesting that parts of the city had been “taken over” by unrest. https://cnn.it/4901Nze

Trump threatens to yank World Cup games from Boston, though it's up to FIFA to choose sites | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in suburban Boston, after suggesting that parts of the city had been “taken over” by unrest.

cnn.it

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Again, this is not what needs to be done. "Why are you breaking the law & violating the Constitution & your oath of office?" is the question. When he doesn't answer it, the next journalist needs to ask it, & then the next one, & the one after that. Stop giving him & John Thune free passes every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

www.cnn.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it.
And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

The 15 year old girl who was dragged from her car by ICE had recently had kidney surgery.

She was thrown to the ground despite screaming “I’m not resisting”

She had to return to the hospital.

These aggressive tactics will disable. They will kill.

They must be held accountable.

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