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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 13h

Trump doubles the bailout to Argentina, now $40 billion, and Argentina takes all China’s soybean orders away from our American farmers - 7 million tons. Was it Argentina first?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

if you're black and 14, you're a man. if you're white and 40, you're just a kid

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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 21h

❗️🇵🇱Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski brought a 🇷🇺Russian Shahed kamikaze drone to the 🇬🇧British Parliament and warns Europe to prepare for potential deep strikes from Russia.

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 12h

Look, it's not perfect but given how insanely bad the Dems have been in opposition I'll take a U.S. Senator saying out loud that the POTUS using the U.S. armed forces to murder dozens of people is "very troubling".

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

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DHS Says Social Media Will Be Screened for ‘Antisemitism’ as It Purges Pro-Palestine Immigrants
Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem says people shouldn't try to "hide behind the First Amendment."

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs
The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.
By Matt Novak
Updated October 15, 2025

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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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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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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Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 17h

Judge Illston says the "evidence suggests" OMB & OPM "have taken advantage of the lapse in government spending, government functioning to assume that all bets are off, that the laws don’t apply to them any more."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h

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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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

I understand that it's hard to find the right language to talk about what is escalating, what is shifting, and how that compares with what existed before, but we desperately need white people especially to actually do the hard work of finding the right language and not be lax about it

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

Like it is totally tragic that they don't care what white liberals think of them anymore and that the balance of power is such that they are able to do even more of this shit consequence-free but they were always calling us monkeys and hanging nooses at school and getting away with it. that matters.

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David White @dwhite10701.bsky.social · 18h

There's a fascinating split on the timeline today with a bunch of white people arguing that these people weren't like this in the past and all the Black people saying that they absolutely were like this in the past. A real "Two Americas" moment.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18h

Like it is totally tragic that they don't care what white liberals think of them anymore and that the balance of power is such that they are able to do even more of this shit consequence-free but they were always calling us monkeys and hanging nooses at school and getting away with it. that matters.

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 14h

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Dominic Michael Tripi &
@DMichaelTripi
X.com
NEW: X executive says creator monetization program may potentially be ended, saying that the system does
"more harm than good."
10:27 AM • 10/15/25

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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe we should focus on the fact that our Premier goes around threatening to beat innocent people. The 'shoplifter' proved his innocence according to the National Post story.

"Convinced ... weren’t stolen, however, showing them rust on the tool..."

And Ford still threatened him anyway!!!

Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles says Ontario Premier Doug Ford is “not Batman” and should focus on the province’s unemployment, after he told a story about threatening to give an alleged shoplifter “a beating.” #onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1147947...

‘He’s not Batman’: Stiles says Ford shoplifter story shows wrong priorities | Globalnews.ca

'Buddy, I’m going to kick your ass all over the parking lot,' Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he told an alleged shoplifter over the summer.

globalnews.ca

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles says Ontario Premier Doug Ford is “not Batman” and should focus on the province’s unemployment, after he told a story about threatening to give an alleged shoplifter “a beating.” #onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1147947...

‘He’s not Batman’: Stiles says Ford shoplifter story shows wrong priorities | Globalnews.ca

'Buddy, I’m going to kick your ass all over the parking lot,' Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he told an alleged shoplifter over the summer.

globalnews.ca

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Chad Crichton @chadcrichton.bsky.social · 13h

Also, of course, there's Belgium, Denmark, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Thailand...

... plenty of modern democracies on the list of 43 nations with a monarch as head of state.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 13h

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13h

Modal Atlantic Monthly contributor when they finally look at the vice president's X account

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 13h

A normal president would never admit that they've authorized covert CIA actions in another country because it puts agents at risk. Secondarily, he's openly admitting an attempted coup.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Why did you authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela?

TRUMP: They have emptied their prisons into the US. Prisoners from mental institutions, insane asylums ...

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 13h

Do you know how racist you have to be to be racist in Vermont?! The only black people that man sees are fictional characters on TV and he's still mad.

Henry Epp @henryepp.bsky.social · 13h

One of them is a state senator in Vermont.

www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"All political actors are sorted into two great camps, and what matters aren’t any of the actual relevant facts about their behavior, motivations, or leadership. All that matters is whether Trump perceives them as loyal allies or outside agitators."

Is He Lying or Crazy? Does It Matter?

Living in the world the president dreams up.

www.thebulwark.com

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 14h

the government needs to stay shut down until the authoritarianism is meaningfully constrained or Republicans break the filibuster

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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