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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 2h

We're "crap journalist" shaming.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14h

A testimonial of a Young Republican from the 1960s who quickly found his way into a heavily armed, right wing domestic terror group called The Minutemen.

"MINUTEMEN"
P. O. BOX 68
NORBORNE, MISSOURI
AdditiónAl INFORMAtIÓN:
AND
I hAVE BEEN ACTiVE IN Pohitics AND
the ANTi-COMMUNiST MOVEMENT SiNCE I WAS
14 pEnAS oF AGE, How did my iNtEREst StrAt?
My FAthER is violeNthy ANti-Jaw, NEGRo, AND Communist, I KNEW At thAt timE whAt A NEG-Ro, WAS AND WhAt A NEW WAS, but the CommUNisT puzzlEd mE, My FAthER RAVE ME MARI AND LENiN TO READ...
I JOINED (AtI4) the yoUnG REpuBlicANs than YouNG AmERiChNs FOR Freedom, thAN the PitRick HenRy Group, there the John BikcH Society, And Finally the Minuterson, My HisH School yongs found me totally.
ShandeRed by othER pupils (2700 iN M.S.)
DECAuSE oF my ANti-cOmmuNist LECtURES
AND MY VIEWS dURiNE dEBAtES. my psycholosy And Sociohony chnsses left. mE discusted, AND WhAt I didNe dEsm
"KosHER"I usuAlly dEt my tenchERs know, ABOUT. THE dEbRE OF INFiLtRAtIoN by COmm-
WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER
OVER,

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12h

Pete Hegseth hasn’t briefed Pentagon reporters in FOUR MONTHS.

The DoD’s own press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, hasn’t briefed reporters for TWO MONTHS.

The Pentagon is now, effectively, a dark site.

Meanwhile, the world’s largest military continues to assassinate dozens in international waters.

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 11h

Adelita Grijalva won her special election to Congress Sept 23. Sniveling coward Mike Johnson still hasn’t sworn her in because she’s be a deciding vote on releasing the Epstein Files.
Yup - thwarting democracy to protect pedophiles.
#SwearHerIn

Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 16h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: Southeast Chicago, Tuesday October 14, 2025.

Welcome to Donald Trump’s America. If there isn’t a domestic warzone, manufacture one.

Fascism.

📸 Credit to local Chicago freelance photographer Matthew Kaplan for all these images.

A masked armed agent points a pepper gun at protestors. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A fed Pokice officer wearing a gas masks is surrounded by smoke and it’ll about to throw a tear gas cannister. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

Around 20 masked armed agents are seen with guns drawn, surrounded by smoke, about to advance on local residents. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

A local resident is seen being knelt on and cuffed in the background as two armed Police with automatic weapons are seen standing in the foreground. Photo credit to Matthew Kaplan

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 10h

Kathy Hochul on racist, rapey, Hitler fanboy young Republicans:
“This bullshit has to stop.”
Amen, Governor.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 7h

Why are they rising? Trump. Say it in the headline, #MurdochMedia. It's stupid's economy.
Grocery Prices Keep Rising. Frustrated Consumers Are Trying to Adapt. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

Grocery Prices Keep Rising. Frustrated Consumers Are Trying to Adapt.

Shoppers say they are cutting back on purchases, stockpiling certain foods or exploring more-affordable stores.

www.wsj.com

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Amy Ayers @amyayers.bsky.social · 2h

He can if we nullify that illegitimate court

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 7h

And yet Trump can never be prosecuted because of that Supreme Court ruling. The justices have legalized murder, exactly as was argued in court at the time

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 21h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 22h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) posted .. a potential [health insurance] premium increase, sent to him by a constituent, from $307 per month to $964 per month.

“.. The post has 6.5 million views.”

@axios.com
www.axios.com/newsletters/...

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Amy Ayers @amyayers.bsky.social · 2h

And of course the photo on the right shows the tensions between the violent fascist goons who are brutalizing innocent, law-abiding, non-violent people.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 6h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Amy Ayers @amyayers.bsky.social · 2h

Yep. Same as the stories about an old, feeble president with obvious cognitive issues.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h

What would you say if you saw it in another country? What would you say if you had been told in 2015 that this is where we would be?

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 15h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 5h

One reason I read @fxnewsletter.bsky.social is they don't mince words

AMERICAS
VENEZUELA
Donald Trump announced that the US military had murdered six more boaters off the Venezuelan coast on
Tuesday, which is at least the fifth time it's done so since he decided to bring the same rigor and accountability that marked the War on Terror to the War on (Alleged) Drugs. According to Trump, US "intelligence" confirmed that the boat was trafficking drugs, which is surely solid enough to order an airstrike.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5h

I was told that Trump had achieved peace in the Middle East

Israel keeps Gaza border crossing closed while reducing aid deliveries

The ceasefire on Wednesday was largely holding, although Hamas described Israeli attacks in Gaza as violations of the agreement.

www.npr.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

Trump has cancelled $18B of spending in blue states. He fired more than 4,000 federal employees the same day he sent $20B to Argentina. He is propping up the government of the guy on the left, while firing government officials working for the guy on the right. But those employees also work for us!

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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 5h

I hate to get all partisan, but Hitler was a monster and there is nothing funny about gas chambering Jews.

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 17h

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5h

A light has left the world.

youtu.be/3OEzt6Y2oRU?...

D'Angelo talks funk and plays a P-Funk tune.

YouTube video by Nelson George

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h

My free Stop the Presses newsletter is giving out letter grades to news outlets, based on their level of truth-telling to expose the MAGA assault on our democracy.
The Guardian: A
Associated Press: B+
New York Times: C
CNN: C-
Washington Post: D-
CBS News: F
See more grades and my rationale here.

I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media

The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F

www.stopthepresses.news

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Amy Ayers @amyayers.bsky.social · 3h

Seth would be a far worse senator

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 5h

Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., is running for Senate. “We’re in a crisis. And with everything we learned last election, I just don’t believe Senator Markey should be running for another six-year term at 80 years old,” he says in his announcement video. Moulton is 46; Markey is 79.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h

By the time Joe Biden left office, inflation was neither “high” nor “permanent,” but it was deeply unpopular to point this out, because it conflicted with The Narrative™️ that could not fail (it could only be failed).

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Dec 29

This got me curious, so data: The Fed's had a formal 2% target since 2012. The current 3-month moving average of deviation from 2% is 0.285.

The mean absolute value of the 2012-24 deviation is 1.19.

There have only been 24 of 155 (15.5%) months where we've ever been <closer> to target than now.

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