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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 15h

No one knows what is or isn't possible politically. Anyone who says they do is lying.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 16h

Mamdani's big secret:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/mamdanis-b...

Mamdani's Big Secret

How the impossible makes his ascent possible

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 16h

there are very few things that are genuinely a litmus test for intelligence, but getting mad at hearing other languages is on the very short list

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StoptheButterflyRevolution @bluestockings59.bsky.social · 1h

Good.

NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 21h

Does anyone remember MAD Magazine's Spy vs Spy? Only this time it's not a joke.

California says it will monitor the Justice Department's election watchers next week

State Attorney General Rob Bonta said California will deploy its own election observers after U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the DOJ would monitor polls in five counties.

www.nbcnews.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine that.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 3h

“There’s no such thing as white privilege“

Well then why are the Bobs and Karens sitting at home watching this horror show unfold like they know they're safe?

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 1h

i don’t know, jd, one of my great grandfathers was an immigrant from ireland who helped form a steelworkers union so it seems kinda like you’re just making shit up

JD “Jerkin DePenis” Vance:
Donald Trump and I are proud to be the most pro-worker Republican ticket in hist—
BOOOOOOOOOOO!

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StoptheButterflyRevolution @bluestockings59.bsky.social · 1h

So... what happens if the federal govt stays closed for another month, three months, six months, a year, until 2028?

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Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 23h

Color me unsurprised that the war on terror tactics we used abroad are now being used by the panopticon state domestically.

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”

www.404media.co

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 3h

The Jan 6 insurrection was successful, & now it gets to be preserved as a success by this administration it brought to power.

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 16h

Even back when they handed George W Bush the White House, it still used to feel like we had a Supreme Court. Now we have a Supreme Corpse.

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Crooked Union Guy @peezytx.bsky.social · 16h

That Graham Platner shit fuckin stung because as a leftist who works in the trades I know that the right wing has gaslit so many of those dudes into thinking that you can’t be masculine and support even the most common sense leftist causes. I thought maybe this dude could change that but here we are

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2h

Similar signs popped up around DC during the ICE surge

Sign on a newspaper box reading "YOUR NEIGHBOR WAS KIDNAPPED RIGHT HERE"

Sign on a tree reading "ICE ABDUCTED SOMEONE HERE"

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Crooked Union Guy @peezytx.bsky.social · 17h

The cool thing about class solidarity is that it’s also rooted in self interest. You can literally look out for your own best interests simply by caring about what happens to the people around you. Selfish mfs can pull up to the function too

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

Retired couple (teacher & union carpenter) on ACA premiums skyrocketing — from $443/month to $2,224/month: “It's like buying another house and trying to pay for two houses at the same time… without the subsidy we honestly don’t know what we’re gonna do.” #TrumpShutdown

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Legend @fubarrockchick.bsky.social · 18h

It's begun #skynet

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Rev. Deral "FreeLink" Fenderson @fendersonia.bsky.social · 2h

While it's great that people are finally bagging on Spotify, it's just disappointing that it took "forced me to listen to an ad for ICE" to have it happen, and not years and years worth of "they don't pay the artists shit".

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 21h

ICE’s forced face scans to verify citizens is unconstitutional, lawmakers say

Videos show ICE conducting random face scans on US streets.

arstechnica.com

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StoptheButterflyRevolution @bluestockings59.bsky.social · 1h

Why are men so creepy about sex? Why? Why is it always about not getting consent for them?

Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 1d

People are using Meta's Ray-Ban glasses to secretly film themselves asking massage parlor workers for sex work. This is incredibly dangerous and sadly a trend across social media www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...

Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers

“The shameless use of covert recording technology at massage parlours to gain likes, attention, and online notoriety is both disgusting and dangerous.”

www.404media.co

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 5h

TACO is NOT building a ballroom.

He is building a bunker.

Booze Allen is not an architecture firm.

It’s a defense contractor.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 5h

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 21h

Got into a discussion of chewable Viagra (yes it's real) and was told that something like 50% of men don't like to swallow pills and I feel like this is such a perfect set up for a "fellas, is it gay to" joke

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2h

Gaza patients dying as medical supplies remain low, hospital chief warns - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/patients-gaza-dying-lack-medical-supplies-health-officials-warn

Gaza patients dying as medical supplies remain low, hospital chief warns

Director of al-Shifa hospital says only 10 percent of required supplies have entered the territory since the ceasefire

www.middleeasteye.net

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

Did Mamdani turn out this way because his dad is Mahmood Mamdani and his mom is Mira Nair or is it because of four years at Bowdoin, where Mahmood Mamdani and Mira Nair are almost certainly on several syllabi

News at 11

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Baltimore Beat @baltimorebeat.bsky.social · 2h

A coalition of labor and grassroots organizations is blasting Baltimore's new tax agreement with the city's wealthiest institutions, calling it a "backroom" deal negotiated without community input. baltimorebeat.com/baltimores-n...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3h

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

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