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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 32m

Let’s just open up the parts of government that are hurting people and close down the parts that are helping.

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 1h

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

FBI agents will get paid despite government shutdown, Patel says

The Trump administration will continue paying FBI agents despite the ongoing government shutdown that has frozen paychecks for nearly all federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 1h

If you aren’t ready to stand ten toes down, inform your GOP-voting family members that their politics are a reflection of the racism that has terrorized Black Americans from jump, and cut them OFF, your protests mean NOTHING.

If you aren’t ready to cancel Thanksgiving, your anger means NOTHING.

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Great Uncle Bob @greatunclebob.bsky.social · 1h

1. Cleaning up after Larry Hogan
2. Fighting against Trump
3. Recovering from the Key bridge collapse in his first year

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Banner poll: 54% approval for Moore, but voters can’t identify his accomplishments

While a majority of Marylanders approve of the job Gov. Wes Moore is doing, they struggle to identify his achievements and offer only soft support, according to a new statewide poll from The Banner.

www.thebanner.com

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 2h

If the other side is hopeless, then you all really and truly need to finally acknowledge how bad things are over here.

White Dem leadership will not listen to us. It’s up to you all to make the noise that fixes the issues within our party.

It’s up to the whites.

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Hal Sparks @halsparks.com · 2h

But… I don’t understand… she’s conventionally attractive … isn’t that enough? What is this world coming to?!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

"Halligan is finding out that prosecuting a case is harder than it looks — particularly when that case has already been rejected by seasoned prosecutors as unwinnable. Add in that it will be tried on the fastest federal docket in the US, and you’ve got the makings of a total humiliation in court."

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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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 2h

It’s not a job for that Black lady y’all denied.

It’s not a job for that Black man you think owes you something just because you voted for him twice.

It’s up to the whites.

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 2h

And it isn’t just the fringes—it’s time for well-meaning white Dems to have a come-to-Jesus moment about party leadership.

Sh*t is broken.

Y’all have to fix it.

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 2h

You all need to clean house on THIS side of the aisle.

You need to have tough conversations.

You need to watch Eyes on the Prize.

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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 2h

White people need to talk to other white people. It is entirely up to the whites to move the needle on their end.

Let me be clear: racism and antisemitism are rampant on *both* sides of the aisle.

Your twentysomething niece has fallen for the okie doke just as easily as your Boomer uncle.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2h

NARRATOR: That was not, indeed, the thing that matters.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: There are Republicans and Democrats concerned that they are not getting information about who is on those ships

TRUMP: Well, but they are given information that they are loaded up with drugs, and that's the thing that matters

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics.

You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 4h

Tesla is sitting on nearly a billion dollars of unsold Cybertrucks. Now Elon's using the imaginary value of SpaceX and xAI to bail out Tesla... While asking Tesla investors for a blank check to "invest" in xAI. The entire empire is a giant scam. #teslatakedown www.dailykos.com/story/2025/1...

Cybertruck sales are so bad Musk is selling them to ... himself

You wanna see a dead body? Third-quarter sales numbers for Tesla’s misbegotten Cybertruck are in, and it is definitely spooky season for tech titan Elon Musk, who moved only 5,385 of the hideous ...

www.dailykos.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6h

First take out of court: The court appeared ready to make it more difficult for Voting Rights Act vote-dilution challenges to lead to additional majority-minority districts, but a majority also seemed likely to reject Louisiana’s argument that all “race-based redistricting” is unconstitutional.

Law Dork | Chris Geidner | Substack

The Supreme Court, law, politics, and more. Click to read Law Dork, by Chris Geidner, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

www.lawdork.com

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 7h

She actively wrote anti-Biden & Harris articles while banging an interview subject who was still a Presidential candidate that tried to only take his name off the ballot where it hurt Trump, is friends w/ white supremacists, & her ex fiancée was was fired for sexual misconduct allegations anyway.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 21h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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Horatio Flamethrower🪷🇺🇸🇳🇬🇮🇪 @blindmellojelly.bsky.social · 6h

Told y'all back in 2016 this would happen.
WARNED Y'ALL!
Establishment/Neo Liberals am I right?🙄

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 7h

The unfettered right to vote is as American as motherhood, baseball and apple pie.

It's the cornerstone of our democracy.

The Supreme Court must uphold the Voting Rights Act and the Constitutional protection against racial gerrymandering.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Opinion | The Shadow of Jim Crow Looms Over the Supreme Court

www.nytimes.com

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 8h

"The establishment" is the favorite Berner catch phrase to describe the Democratic Party - but: does Oyster Boy realize he becomes the establishment if he wins as a Democrat, or does he think he'll get to continue perpetuating the outsider fallacy like 30+ year member of Congress Bernie Sanders?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Parnas: A lot of people are saying this idea that, well, Graham Platner hasn’t won statewide, and Janet Mills has.

Platner: We have a number of excellent senators who had never run for office or won a statewide race before.

That’s an argument the establishment makes to protect itself

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 8h

I'm not slut shaming Olivia Nuzzi, I'm just saying that if you find a Nazi Cryptkeeper hot we don't need to understand each other

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 8h

These populist political actors cultivated distrust like crazed, anti-democratic gardeners. Others helped spread its spores, like the wind (more on them in a moment). As it increased, those actors reaped bigger & bigger harvests of attention &, ultimately, of votes with each subsequent election.

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 23h

Your actions have consequences.

You choose not to vote, you lose your say.

You elect a felon, expect to get robbed.

Not everyone voted for this administration, but everyone must live through it.

#ProudBlue

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 8h

Everyone else is a model here for a check but the dude licking her foot is in it for the love of the game

Candy✨ @labeautenoire3.bsky.social · 8h

Sigh🥰

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Temu Tisha Campbell @thatgirlbamz.bsky.social · 9h

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 10h

Go fall on your sword for the former Blackwater employee who cosplays as an innocent oyster farmer in someone else's mentions, Karen. That Indignant White Woman shit does not play well here.

𝒮𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝒮𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 🐬 @alcibiades1234.bsky.social · 10h

Once again, we are going to stomp all over a candidate who actually offers a departure from the moderate tactics that have made the party stagnant. And then we will wonder why we keep losing this motherfucking Senate race all the time.

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✨Giver of Problems✨ @jforjae.bsky.social · 10h

I know racism plays a part. I just can’t prove it yet.

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