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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 44m

Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.”

*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*

Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”

This Congressman’s office:

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 42m

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

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Stardust 🌏🎬 @stardustbluepr.com · 8h

Great question!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

“Kids”

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 3h

🚨The war on Antifa has begun, with the FBI canvassing informants for insights on the group, scrutinizing financial records and gathering intelligence on left-wing affinity groups, sources tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/inside-the...

Inside the War on Antifa

Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2h

I’m old enough to remember when we had a system of checks & balances that involved Congress, when Congress controlled the purse and legislated, and the president respected the Constitution & rule of law. I’m old enough to remember when a U.S. president wouldn’t want to be King George or a dictator.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

"Adding to the train wreck, Halligan’s appointment as US attorney may not even be legal, meaning that the indictment is a legal nullity … which may actually be the least embarrassing outcome here for the Justice Department." — @lizdye.bsky.social

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

www.publicnotice.co

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Allen Tien, MD, MHS mdlogix.com 94,698 田一彦 @allentien.bsky.social · 2h

www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

#mRNA
#VaccineScience #HealthScience #CellularReality #MolecularReality #NonEquilibriumThermodynamics

Why the next generation of mRNA vaccines is set to be even better

Scientists are designing mRNA vaccines to produce virus-like nanoparticles, which should lead to a more robust immune response with even fewer side effects than either of these immunisation approaches...

www.newscientist.com

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 18m

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year

The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.

www.bbc.co.uk

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 48m

article I powers just completely liquidated, dead on arrival.

Newsweek @newsweek.com · 1h

FBI agents will be paid during the shutdown, Trump says, using unspent funds to bypass frozen federal pay.

Trump Administration to Continue Paying FBI Amid Government Shutdown

www.newsweek.com

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18m

What's crazy about this is that the US military owns a large, uninhabited island directly off the coast from Camp Pendleton specifically for the purpose of targetting in naval live fire exercises en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Cle...

www.latimes.com/california/s...

I-5 may be shut down due to concerns over live-fire military event at Camp Pendleton

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office is weighing whether to close parts of Interstate 5 beginning Friday amid concerns over what it says is a White House-directed plan to use live ordnance during a military ann...

www.latimes.com

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Raymond Norman @raymondnorman.bsky.social · 5h

U.S. Capitol Police were called about an American flag altered to include a swastika and displayed inside the office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio), his spokesperson said.

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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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

And not a single mention in the Times about Michael Ellis installing himself as CIA general counsel. Fascinating.

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 6h

🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

A federal judge in Montana on Wednesday dismissed a novel lawsuit filed by 22 young people alleging that three of President Trump’s executive orders on energy and the environment violated their constitutional rights.

Judge Throws Out Children’s Lawsuit Against Trump’s Energy Policies

The group had challenged the president’s executive orders as unconstitutional. A judge “reluctantly” said the suit was too broad in scope.

nyti.ms

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Wayne Exclaims @waynesbrain.bsky.social · 5h

Assault with a reed instrument, terrifying. Ohh and the Ghost busters theme....horrendous.

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Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 6h

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

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 of the Pentagon rather than comply with its restrictive policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Caley Orr @caleyorr.bsky.social · 13h

Paranthropus boisei is a human fossil cousin w/ giant jaws and teeth that lived in East Africa ~2.6 to 1.3 million years ago. Whether it could make & use tools has been a paleoanthropological mystery since the 1960s. Our new paper describes the first firmly associated hand and foot. 1/

New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature

Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...

www.nature.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

Meta has removed a Chicago ICE-tracking Facebook page.

The move follows Apple and Google removing ICE activity tracking apps from their app stores.

The removals came after a demand from Trump’s DOJ.

Once again, Big Tech is bending the knee to our tyrant-in-chief to protect its bottom line.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 13h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15h

HAPPENING SOON: SCOTUS will hear arguments in a case that could end one of the last safeguards against racial gerrymanders, and lock in GOP control of the U.S. House for generations to come. We’ll be providing real-time court updates at the blog below👇

LIVE BLOG: Supreme Court Hears Case That Could Gut the Voting Rights Act

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 13h

you would think governments might have a vested interest in telling microsoft "no you can't do that" but i suspect they look at it as an opportunity to incentivize consumer spending and synthetically juice the economy

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13h

New from 404 Media: the end of Windows 10 support is an e-waste disaster in the making. 400 million computers that cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 set to be cut off from receiving free security updates. Set to affect as many as 42% of all Windows computers worldwide.
www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

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.

www.404media.co

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21h

The nativist right keeps talking about “heritage Americans.” It's a buzzword engineered to move the goalposts on immigration even further, argues @alibreland.bsky.social.

Are You a ‘Heritage American’?

Why the far right wants to know if your ancestors were here during the Civil War.

bit.ly

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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 13h

As Publius famously opined in The Federalist, "Ye minion Americans, prostrate thyself before thy king, bestow upon him emoluments, and then thy shall get thy bag maybe"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Citizen X @citizenx.bsky.social · 13h

Such two faced bullshit

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

So a couple people have now hinted at the idea that Black people didn’t have it so bad post-9/11 because Muslims had it bad. This ignores that there were and are a lot of Black Muslims. This also ignores that more than one group of people can be targeted for state violence. It’s never just one group

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