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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

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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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

She also spent a considerable amount of time on Donald Trump’s Truth Social account and on Rapid Response 47 on Twitter.

NOT shocking that the staffer of guy who DMd classified war plans to a journalist is wildly careless with her “important work” in public.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4d

“No Speaker Johnson, The No Kings rally October 18 is not a hate America rally. It’s a love America rally.” - Sen. Bernie Sanders

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 10h

Chicago, LA, etc. have already become something that to me is more worrying than Trump’s “training ground for the military”: training grounds for a rapidly expanding parallel domestic paramilitary force—CBP—that lacks the military’s guardrails and is eager to do what the military is reluctant to.

Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 1d

"The United States cannot remain a federalist system when soldiers from one state are sent to police another state against the explicit wishes of its elected leaders and when the justification for it is a lie.” @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

The ‘Chipocalypse’ is now

A training ground for the military?

www.ifyoucankeepit.org

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

in all the discussion (and sometimes tokenizing) of Portland protests being a creative spectacle that neutralizes law enforcement, don’t overlook:

Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 1d

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

My friend @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social and I talked on Substack Live about how the Trump regime is terrorizing immigrants and violently assaulting protesters and journalists. Chicagoans rightly see this as an invasion, and they're coming together to mount peaceful resistance.

Mark Jacob & Steven Beschloss discuss Trump's assault on Chicago

Substack Live: How Chicagoans are dealing with federal agents' violence and how local media are chronicling it

www.stopthepresses.news

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 7h

I've said it before, but once upon a time Bezos was known as a no-nonsense, bottom line businessman. Prior to 2024, his only instruction to the paper's management was "Make a profit."

Perhaps he now sees the Post as a loss-leader? Its losses create more gains elsewhere?

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 15h

“I’ve never done a bond or a habeas for a kid this young, ever." – U.S. District Judge Richard G. Stearns

"The boy remains trapped in a prison 500 miles away from home with an unhealed broken foot, sleeping on a concrete floor with an aluminum blanket, and crying to his mother on the phone."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 8h

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 6h

NBC News eliminated its teams dedicated to covering issues affecting Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ groups as part of its layoffs of about 150 staffers on Wednesday, according to two sources familiar with the matter

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...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h

"In unison."

Amen.

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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NPS Cambot @nps-cambot.bsky.social · 11h

Jordan Pond House, Acadia National Park

#NPS #NationalParkService #AcadiaNationalPark

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 2d

There isn’t another side to the argument. Every actor in the system—from defense attorneys to Justices on the Supreme Court—recognizes what is happening. The only question is how the criminal justice system should respond.”

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

The Irredeemable DOJ

Why James has an even stronger case of selective prosecution than Comey.

open.substack.com

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 1d

Due process. Academic freedom. An independent judiciary. A free press. A professional civil service. A protected environment. These aren't partisan talking points; they are the pillars of a healthy nation. And every single one of them is under direct assault by the Trump administration.

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Terry Moore @trm5591.bsky.social · 15h

Defending Trump’s lawfare as just deserts misremembers what actually happened.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Don’t Blame the Democrats for Trump’s Revenge Tour

Defending Trump’s lawfare as just deserts misremembers what actually happened.

www.theatlantic.com

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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 1d

Jackie Merlos represents the best of Oregon. Today, she had a hearing on her immigration case. We have fought with everything we have to reunite her with her children and end Trump’s cruelty.

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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 5d

The clear story in Immigration this week is the escalation of—and pushback against—the Trump administration’s militarized raids and warrantless stops in Democrat-run major cities. We’ve updated our timeline with a lot of events in this zone:

unbreaking.org/issues/immig...

Immigration — Unbreaking

How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

unbreaking.org

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Bits and Bobs @carmelseaotter.bsky.social · 6h

'Dozens of reporters turned in access badges and exited the Pentagon on Wednesday rather than agree to government-imposed restrictions on their work, pushing journalists who cover the American military further from the seat of its power.'

apnews.com/article/pent...

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs at the seat of U.S. military power.

apnews.com

Bits and Bobs @carmelseaotter.bsky.social · 7h

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Live updates: Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from firing workers during government shutdown

President Donald Trump’s administration for now must stop firing workers during the government shutdown, a federal judge in San Francisco ordered on Wednesday.

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Gail Waldby ❌👑 @gailwaldby.bsky.social · 9h

Attending a Protest
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Attending a Protest

For quick reference, we've created a handy guide designed to be printed, folded, and carried in your pocket (PDF download). Now, more than ever, citizens must be able to hold those in power acco...

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Bits and Bobs @carmelseaotter.bsky.social · 12h

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump is opting some of the government out of the shutdown

The administration is finding ways to pay troops and for government work Trump favors, while targeting “Democrat programs” for layoffs or closures.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

Boom! Who’s winning the shutdown debate? THE ACA.

More Republicans than Democrats use the ACA marketplace. So the GOP’s base is relying on the same program their party is causing premiums to skyrocket.

45% of ACA marketplace enrollees are Republicans, and most live in GOP-held districts.

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LiL'Silver @officiallilsilver.bsky.social · 12d

MSNBC: Spanberger Slams Earle-Sears for Refusing to Stand Up Against Trump's Firing of Virginians

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV_R...

MSNBC: Spanberger Slams Earle-Sears for Refusing to Stand Up Against Trump's Firing of Virginians

YouTube video by Abigail Spanberger for Governor

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Walz is the ONLY guy the democrats have that can bring farmers and ranchers back to the table. He's it.

I'm from a multigenerational ranching family. I'm a co-owner today. I exist in the ag world and nobody is talking to them. Walz can break through, and that's important.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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