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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 9h

On this day in 1977, tragedy struck Lynyrd Skynyrd when Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines, Cassie Gaines, and manager Dean Kilpatrick lost their lives in a plane crash in Mississippi. The music stopped that night, but their Southern rock legacy still flies high.

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Brooklynwatch @brooklynwatch.bsky.social · 9h

Blue Jays advance to the World Series for the first time since 1993

www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

Blue Jays advance to the World Series for the first time since 1993

George Springer’s three-run homer in the seventh inning pushed Toronto to a win over Seattle in Game 7 of the ALCS.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h

A federal appeals court on Monday considered whether Alina Habba, a former personal attorney to President Trump, is lawfully acting as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor.

Appeals Court Weighs Whether Alina Habba Is a Lawful U.S. Attorney

President Trump installed his former personal lawyer as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey. A legal challenge could clarify the limits of his power to keep U.S. attorneys in office without Senate involvement.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 9h

A group of blind patients can now read again after being fitted with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye.
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Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again

The results are astounding and a major advance, say surgeons involved in international research using the pioneering technology.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 10h

Ecuador says no evidence to detain survivor of US strike on suspected drug vessel reut.rs/48GiDmO

Ecuador says no evidence to detain survivor of US strike on suspected drug vessel

Ecuador's prosecutor's office said on Monday it would not detain the Ecuadorean survivor of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean.

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Brooklynwatch @brooklynwatch.bsky.social · 10h

I'm already old.
How do you think I feel

🕸️jess m. 🎃🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 10h

I'm going to be so fucking old by the time any of this is okay again

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jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social @jeffreyalexander07.bsky.social · 2d

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Obama Slams Democrats for Being in 'Fetal Positions' as He Calls for Left to 'Toughen Up' Against Trump

Former President Obama urged Democrats to abandon their "fetal positions" and "get in there and do something" to fight back against the Trump administration.

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Brooklynwatch @brooklynwatch.bsky.social · 10h

Oh please.
Trump and Netanyahu planned this all along.

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White House Works to Preserve Gaza Deal Amid Concerns About Netanyahu

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gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · 13h

More than a third of the recruits at ICE's training academy are failing the personal-fitness test, Nick Miroff reports. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told Miroff. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

ICE’s ‘Athletically Allergic’ Recruits

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a brisk jog pose a threat to Trump’s deportation campaign.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

Donald Trump is far too selfish a person to go to the trouble of building an enormous ballroom that won't be finished until his last, legal term is up if he weren't planning to use it in his next, illegal term.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Everyone's focused on how idiotic Lindsey Halligan is, but don't sleep on the official response from Department of Justice spokeswoman Natalie Baldassarre.

It's just Mean Girls all the way down, if they'd written that script while huffing paint fumes.

You clearly didn’t get the response you wanted—which was information handed over to you without having to dig into the facts of the case to craft a truthful story—so you thought you’d “tattletale” to main justice. Lindsay [sic] Halligan was attempting to point you to facts, not gossip, but when clarifying that she would adhere to the rule of the law and not disclose Grand Jury information, you threaten to leak an entire conversation. Good luck ever getting anyone to talk to you when you publish their texts.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 13h

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16h

🚨BREAKING: A federal appeals court Monday all but cleared the way for President Donald Trump to deploy National Guard troops into Portland, Oregon. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Appeals Judges Greenlight Trump's Portland Military Deployment

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Brooklynwatch @brooklynwatch.bsky.social · 13h

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Trump Administration Live Updates: White House East Wing Facade Torn Down to Make Way for Ballroom

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Brooklynwatch @brooklynwatch.bsky.social · 13h

White House hits roadblock in effort to get top colleges to agree to deal

www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

White House hits roadblock in effort to get top colleges to agree to deal

Six of nine universities that were asked to sign an agreement in exchange for funding advantages have rejected the offer, two said they were open to more discussion

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Brooklynwatch @brooklynwatch.bsky.social · 13h

America really, really should have listened to New Yorkers.
We warned you.

www.nytimes.com/1980/06/06/a...

Developer Scraps Bonwit Sculptures; Builder Orders Bonwit Art Deco Sculptures Destroyed (Published 1980)

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 13h

'He sputtered!' Legal expert floored as Epstein prosecutor fumbles under intense grilling

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'He sputtered!' Legal expert floored as Epstein prosecutor fumbles under intense grilling

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Michael Adzema @sillymickel.bsky.social · 13h

so, what's this i hear?

Donald Trump trolled #NoKings in a meme showing him in a plane spewing liquid down on the protesters

much like his fetish of peeing on women?

do i got that right?

#TruthWarriors #MirthWarriors #SteeleDossierIsTrue

#FBR #resist #TrumpPedoFiles #TheTrumpEpsteinFiles

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Steve Mullis @stevemullis.net · 15h

New concept photo for the White House East Wing Ballroom just dropped

Image from "Back to the Future 2" showing Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise Casino in the alternate timeline of Hill Valley

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16h

Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop

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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 14h

“This is not about drugs, it’s not about Venezuela, it’s not about anything else but this new assertion by the president that the U.S. military will kill anyone he points at, for any reason he deems sufficient.”

Very true and very scary comment by Tom Nichols.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h

omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

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Brooklynwatch @brooklynwatch.bsky.social · 13h

They reveal that for years, several key members of the team of developers, engineers and architects behind 432 Park had expressed concerns about its white exterior, even before the concrete was poured.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/n...

A Tower on Billionaires’ Row Is Full of Cracks. Who’s to Blame?

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Brooklynwatch @brooklynwatch.bsky.social · 14h

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here.”

My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

www.lawfaremedia.org