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Cori Bush @coribush.bsky.social · 4h

Missouri’s 1st District needs a representative who will answer to the people of St. Louis, not a bought-off politician who waits for permission.

I'm running for Congress to fight for the survival of our families, not the interests of billionaires.

▶️ Watch more at CoriBush.org/Fireside

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 4h

But it's important to note that the destruction of the federal government is the ENTIRE POINT of this administration. They're hoping they can destroy the government fast enough that when the consequences catch up, they mean nothing.

Band together, resist everything. There are more of us than them.

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 4h

The Trump regime hasn't made it a year and are already the single worst, most disliked administration in American history. They're working actively to steal every election in the next three years because they're going to prison if they don't.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win.

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 4h

Underwater approval with every demographic. Underwater approval on every policy decision. Underwater approval on every regime value. Worst dollar value in recent history.

Reporter walkouts. University solidarity. ICE humiliation by inflatable suits.

The Trump regime is losing hard, EVERYWHERE.

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 4h

The Trump regime has been reduced to a strategically impressive move known as "death throes", where every single course of action the regime has taken is so extraordinarily and undebatably unpopular that the regime has been reduced to petulant, juvenile tantrums that nakedly grasp for dominance.

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 5h

"National security" ALWAYS means whatever the government wants it to mean, which means it means nothing at all.

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 5h

"We stand by our policy because it's what's best for our troops and the national security of this country."

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 5h

Interpreting Punisher as pro-cop? Maybe? But both are fully loser dipshit behavior.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 5h

Analysts say Republicans are scrambling to stop an effort to allow voters to weigh in on the gerrymandered congressional maps

Missouri Republicans head to court to fend off challenge to gerrymandered maps

Analysts say Republicans are scrambling to stop an effort to allow voters to weigh in on the gerrymandered congressional maps

www.stltoday.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 7h

I wish Scrubs didn't have so much of that patently 00s queer-bashing humor because the show's so fucking good otherwise.

Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 7h

it pains me how much I have to dig for a gif of Turk's "yeah, you know, I do what I do when I do what I do"

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Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 12h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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NPR @npr.org · 11h

Politico exposed racist and homophobic messages sent by leaders of the Kansas Young Republicans. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said the state GOP modeled similar behavior in its own social media posts.

After racist Kansas Young Republicans chats leak, Gov. Kelly calls out posts from state GOP

Politico exposed racist and homophobic messages sent by leaders of the Kansas Young Republicans. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said the state GOP modeled similar behavior in its own social media posts.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11h

It’s weird how the “young” Republicans are actually full-grown men and JD Vance treats them as children who shouldn’t face consequences for their racism, misogyny, or xenophobia.

But pregnant 12-year-old little girls are treated as adults and must literally bear the consequences of rape and incest.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 10h

The conservative justices of the Supreme Court are ready to wind the clock back to 1982, if not earlier.

Republican justices appear poised to destroy what’s left of the Voting Rights Act

The results will be "catastrophic."

www.motherjones.com

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 10h

Clayco Cara wants to give your tax dollars to deadbeat land developers. Tell Clayco Cara no at (314) 622-3201 [Office of the Mayor].

Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 11h

You're making it really difficult for me to not want to figure out Pulp or Lua, Kenney...

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Cody @codyjohnston.bsky.social · 21h

Young Republicans at the bar.

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 23h

There's something bad about the repaves lately in general. The one on 40E between the Pappin merge and the Goodwill Outlet is rough like something dragged along it while it was still setting. Several other repaves I've seen and driven over have seemed rough or lumpy.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 8d

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?"

lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth

📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

Journalist Plestia Alaqad Is Publishing Her Diaries From Gaza: "A Dystopian World"
"Every time I read it, I just feel disbelief — is this real? Did I really live that? Are there still thousands of people in Gaza living that?”
By Lex McMenamin

Politics
Assata Shakur Was a Black Revolutionary Who Fought for Freedom Even in Exile
“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
By Marian Jones

Politics
Inside Gen Z Candidate Kat Abughazaleh's Viral ICE Rally Tear-Gassing: "Fascism 101"
“If they are willing to do this to a congressional candidate in front of a bunch of press, imagine what they're doing behind boarded-up windows.”
By Maia McDonald

Politics
Hurricane Helene Devastated Asheville. A Local LGBTQ+ Organization Is Supporting Youth — With Cash
“We know that [direct cash transfers] are the number one support for preventing youth homelessness.”
By Colleen Hamilton

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 1d

shame and stigma are extremely powerful forces in american society, the issue is just that we stigmatize all the wrong stuff, like having a job that actually improves society (like teaching elementary school or working in sanitation)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

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Zack 🎲 Bammax @bammax.itch.io · 1d

Oliver Roberts is an insidious motherfucker for referencing Musk's Memphis data center. That data center is actively destroying the local environment and has led to utility rate increases for the entire surrounding area. But, you know, fuck our suffering as long as the megacorps make money!

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Kavahn Mansouri @kavahnmansouri.bsky.social · 1d

A deep dive from me dissecting how data centers might actually impact St. Louis and its tax base.

St. Louis Public Radio @stlpublicradio.bsky.social · 1d

As officials in Missouri and St. Louis try to attract data center proposals from companies, pushback grows in communities where the projects are planned.

One expert says the economic benefit isn’t crystal clear.

Officials say data centers can be the future of Missouri’s economy. But it’s complicated

As officials in Missouri and St. Louis try to attract data center proposals from companies, pushback grows in communities where the projects are planned. One expert says the economic benefit isn’t…

www.stlpr.org

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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 1d

This is dark. But also, this display of solidarity on the part of the pentagon press corps should be a model for dealing with the regime

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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