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CNN @cnn.com · 3h

Federal agents have shifted attention away from serious gun crimes and shady weapons dealers to focus on President Donald Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants and deployments to patrol cities, according to current and former officials and data reviewed by CNN. https://cnn.it/3J9jvpv

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404 Media @404media.co · 4h

The end of free Windows 10 support this Wednesday could be an environmental disaster, cutting off 400 million PCs from security updates and dooming millions of still usable computers.

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The End of Windows 10 Support Is an E-Waste Disaster in the Making

In an example of egregious planned obsolescence, as many as 400 million computers will soon hit the waste stream.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 5h

This is a jaw-dropping, terrifying number. The CDC's workforce has decreased by 3,000 people since January.

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 5h

Los Angeles County officials vote to declare a state of emergency that gives them power to provide assistance for residents they say have suffered financially from ongoing federal immigration raids.

Los Angeles County officials approve emergency declaration over immigration raids

The move allows the LA County Board of Supervisors to provide rent relief for tenants who have fallen behind as a result of the crackdown on immigrants.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

CO₂ in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening. Levels of CO₂ in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world.

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

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Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 6h

“Magic seats,” sometimes called “golden tickets,” open up when incumbent judges file for retention but decide against running for reelection after the primary, allowing the parties to select nominees without the input of voters. (2/2)

Three lawyers are poised to win ‘magic seats’ as Philadelphia judges after being nominated by Democratic ward leaders

Judicial candidates Jennifer Santiago, Joseph Russo, and Michael Parkinson will all appear on the ballot as Democratic nominees despite not running in the primary.

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LNP | LancasterOnline @lancasteronline.bsky.social · 16h

Elizabethtown Area School District’s 270 teachers have a new 5-year contract granting a 3.6% average annual raise following a unanimous vote by the school board Tuesday evening.
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Elizabethtown school board unanimously approves teacher contract with 3.6% annual raise - 106 days late

Elizabethtown Area School District’s 270 teachers have a new 5-year contract granting a 3.6% average annual raise following a unanimous vote by the school board Tuesday evening.

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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 6h

Today's Lancaster County letters to the editor include one from retired U.S. Rep. Robert S. Walker. Read all of them here: lancasteronline.com/opinion/lett...

Reactions to Smucker discontent over LNP editorial: Letters to the Editor for Oct. 15, 2025

The LNP | LancasterOnline Opinion department publishes reader letters in both the newspaper and online on Wednesdays and Sundays.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker's attorney, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, sent a letter to leaders of LNP and parent company Pennon on Oct. 9, the day after the editorial was published. lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

Smucker claims LNP opinion piece defamatory, seeks retraction

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker is claiming defamation after an Oct. 8 editorial published by LNP | LancasterOnline said the lawmaker is “lying to his constituents” by saying in a newsletter

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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 1d

I will be honored to deliver the 2025 Harriet Kenderdine Lecture at Millersville University on Friday. Details here.
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2025 Harriet Kenderdine Lecture with Barbara McQuade | Ware Center for the Arts

SPEAKER: Barbara McQuadeAttack from Within: How Disinformation Is Sabotaging AmericaLaw professor and former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade will discuss the tactics of disinformation, how…

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.bsky.social · 1d

Powell is saying, in his understated way, that the unemployment rate does not yet appear catastrophic because so many people have been forced into hiding or deported.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Powell on Trump's immigration policies: "Stronger policy than most people had expected. We've seen a very sharp decline in growth of the labor force and in and people entering the country ... new people that come into the workforce create supply but they also create their own demand."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Former ICE director John Sandweg says the ways in which Holman is conducting operations is totally unprecedented for the agency and clearly appears calculated to be needlessly violent and provocative. It's as if they want a show of mayhem, he offers. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Those Rules Are Gone’: How ICE Is Rethinking its Raids

ICE used to arrest the “worst first.” Under the new Trump administration, the agency is following a different playbook, says a former ICE chief.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: The 3rd Circuit *denies* a push by national GOP to reconsider ruling on misdated mail ballots in Pa.

Judge Emil Bove may have cast his first vote here in dissent of the decision -- and plans to write about it later. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 1d

This is the editorial that Smucker and his attorney are referring to. lancasteronline.com/opinion/edit...

US Rep. Smucker and other Republicans are lying about shutdown and Democrats' health care aims [editorial]

THE ISSUE

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Chris Otto (LNP | LancasterOnline) @chrisottolnp.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker's attorney, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, sent a letter to leaders of LNP and parent company Pennon on Oct. 9, the day after the editorial was published. lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

Smucker claims LNP opinion piece defamatory, seeks retraction

U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker is claiming defamation after an Oct. 8 editorial published by LNP | LancasterOnline said the lawmaker is “lying to his constituents” by saying in a newsletter

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Some good, brave stuff happening

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

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Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Trump just interrupted his speech at the Egypt peace summit to ask Pakistan's PM to "say what you said to me the other day".

PM Sharif then spent the next 5 minutes talking about how amazing Trump is, how he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize & parroting Trump's nonsense claims of preventing nuclear war.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2d

It's bigger than V-E Day....

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

MARCO RUBIO: This is probably one of the most important days for world peace in 50 years. That's not an exaggeration

TRUMP: Only 50?

RUBIO: Maybe 100

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 2d

EU plans to provide Ukraine with €140 billion in loans using frozen Russian assets — Bloomberg

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