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Angela King KUOW @angelakingkuow.bsky.social · 1h

A legend has left us.

Thank you Susan Stamberg.

www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

www.npr.org

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Fuse Washington @fusewashington.org · 1d

Ballots for the Nov 4 WA election are being mailed out starting today! Celebrate by researching your local candidates with the Progressive Voters Guide and voting early when yours arrives #waelex progressivevotersguide.com/washington

Progressive Voters Guide

Get the facts before you vote!

progressivevotersguide.com

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Joan McCarter @joanmccarter.com · 6h

After two years post-covid, coffee finally tasted good to me again. Of course, I can't afford it now. Sigh.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 6h

Gonna have to hold a second “denounce Nazis” press conference because the first “denounce Nazis” press conference defended Nazis lol

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.

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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 6h

You guys, Bell Street is so good now.

Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 7h

Money is speech unless it's Jewish money, then it's a RICO violation.

Shoe + @shoe.bsky.social · 7h

RICO Deeze Nuts

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 8h

Now Trump is sending $40 BILLION to bailout Argentina.

This would fund at LEAST a year of the ACA tax credits millions rely on to afford health care.

Meanwhile, Argentina has universal health care.

U.S. support for Argentina could hit $40 billion

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said an additional $20 billion in private-sector loans for Argentina could effectively double the value of a U.S. rescue plan.

www.nbcnews.com

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SAL @sarahannelloyd.com · 16h

ICE picked up a THIRTEEN YEAR OLD CHILD from his town's local jail last week while his mom was on her way to pick him up. They not only held onto him—they moved him across state lines. He's THIRTEEN.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/15/u...

Her 13-year-old boy was sent to an ICE detention facility. Now we’re learning more about how it happened | CNN

Any mother adores getting phone calls from her children. For Josiele Berto, they are now a lifeline and the only way to know where her 13-year-old son is and what he’s facing alone.

www.cnn.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 1d

Washington AG pushing new law to protect workers from immigration raids

Attorney General Nick Brown is proposing legislation that would require employers to notify their employees of a planned inspection of employment eligibility paperwork within 72 hours of being notified about it by ICE.

Washington AG pushing new law to protect workers from immigration raids

Washington’s Democratic attorney general is looking at a new way to shield the state’s immigrant workers amid the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation agenda.

www.kuow.org

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just saying no one hacked HRC's server.

Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 2d

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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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people have been making claims about H5N1 being on the verge of “going pandemic.”

We don’t that, or how or if a pandemic with H5N1 would occur.

But we do know what the virus would need to do & there are ways we can stop it.
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/what-would...

What Would it Take for Bird Flu to Go Pandemic?

How H5N1 could make the jump and what we can do to stop that

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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RANGE Media @rangemedia.co · 1d

A year of reporting by INVW has uncovered the unjust reality for the roughly 1,300 women currently in Idaho prisons: Once behind bars, they’re kept there by mostly male guards who can harass, grope, and sexually assault them with confidence that it will be kept quiet.

In Idaho women’s prisons, guards get away with sexual abuse and victims are blamed – RANGE Media

A yearlong investigation finds rampant sexual abuse by guards, systemic cover-ups, and punishment for victims

rangemedia.co

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

“On any given week, the administrator of CMS could speak for a few minutes before a shirtless Russell Brand calls in from what appears to be a bathtub, or a former member of The Pussycat Dolls argues that the COVID-19 vaccine destroyed her ability to dance.”

www.notus.org/health-scien...

'Fluoride Disconnects One from God': Inside the Weekly Call With RFK Jr.'s MAHA Hype Squad

A growing weekly call gives insight into RFK Jr.'s biggest allies, showcasing how a fringe movement now holds legitimate power.

www.notus.org

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Leah Sottile @leahsottile.bsky.social · 1d

"When we were at war with fascists in Europe, everyday people, everyone would have been an anti-fascist. Being an anti-fascist should not be a controversial thing. It should be controversial to be a fascist."

Wrote this five years ago. It shouldn't hold up this well.

www.hcn.org/articles/nor...

What really is antifa? - High Country News

Effie Baum, an ‘everyday anti-fascist,’ talks about President Trump’s threat to designate the movement as a terrorist organization, and corrects the record.

www.hcn.org

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 2d

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing him unretire specifically to fight disease and then become a gigantic cheerleader for Trump's COVID policy, and seeing him cheer on people running a Biden campaign bus off the road didn't prepare me for how awful he turned out.

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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 1d

What a sheltered life this fucker wants you to believe he lives.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 2d

This is the FIFTH time Trump has carried out an illegal bombing in the Caribbean.

Using the military to execute alleged criminals with no due process or input from Congress is brazenly unconstitutional and damaging to our democracy.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 1d

Brandi Kruse last week.

www.thedailybeast.com/trump-79-mak...

Trump, 79, Makes Creepy Remark to Fan Girl Reporter, 37

The exchange capped off a bizarre roundtable in which Trump invited guests to air their grievances about Antifa and the mainstream media.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 2d

We just launched the final season of Within the Wires so I wrote a small farewell of sorts.
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io/a-farewell/

A farewell

The first episode of the tenth and final season of Within the Wires is out today. I have been working on this show for ten years, which makes absolutely no sense. I cannot imagine working on somethin...

ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 2d

Until he shows me otherwise I have to presume that Johnson is in the files.

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 2d

“Johnson has maintained that Grijalva should not be sworn in during the brief House meetings known as pro forma sessions, despite having done so for two Republicans — Randy Fine and Jimmy Patronis, both of Florida — earlier this Congress.” rollcall.com/2025/10/09/b...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

The CDC RIFs are terrible in more ways than just immediate impact to people’s health.

It’s bad enough that we will lose access to our own health data. It’s worse that these data can and will be weaponized against us.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/a-health-d...

A Health Data Surveillance State that Dominates

It's a short trip from "data modernization" to national eugenics registries

rasmussenretorts.substack.com

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Carl Ballard @carlballard.bsky.social · 2d

Fall is nice because you can see what pockets you were going to get around to darning in the spring, but just didn't.

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Beth Day @thebethocracy.bsky.social · 2d

For those of us who live in Ballard or adjacent territories, My Ballard is again putting together a trick-or-treating map. myballard.com/2025/10/13/a...

Add your house to the 2025 Ballard Halloween Trick-or-Treating map - My Ballard

Halloween is nearly here, which means it's time for your Ballard Halloween neighborhood trick-or-treating map. To edit the map, click the "[ ]" to open Google Maps. Then, click "Edit" and enter your a...

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