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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 1d

Ta Nehisi Coates went to a country that imposed a military dictatorship onto five million people on the arbitrary basis of race and came away thinking that that's bad and some people are still angry with him because of that

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 6h

i have to be honest, gang, i have some questions about this republican strategy of telling everyone to tune in and pay attention to what’s likely to be one of the largest days of political protest in american history directed at the republican party

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating new paper: higher levels of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater correlate with higher health-related absences from work.

"COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic," the authors write.

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

jamanetwork.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 4h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

www.historians.org

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Me: Ugh I have been sitting for days on this trip I feel gross
Detroit Airport: Can I offer you a three-mile walk from security to your gate
Me: PERFECT
[Later]
DA: Are . . . Are you using the mobile walkway
Me: It would be rude not to
DA: …
Me: IT SAYS IT IS FOR MY COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE

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Chris Washington 🧛‍♂️ @cwashington.bsky.social · 5h

I just remembered this. 😂

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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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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

I just want to be very clear here. This is the Vice President of the United States saying it’s a regular practice among white people to enthusiastically endorse slavery, Hitler, and rape.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 5h

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 7h

"When our member was kidnapped off the streets by ICE, we knew about it before anybody did." This is how unions can play a crucial role in standing up to Trump's war against immigrants.

"We Have a Common Enemy--And It's Not Your Immigrant Neighbor"

The SEIU's Dave Foley and Dr. A. Naomi Paik on how worker solidarity can overcome Trump's war on immigrants.

www.thenation.com

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 5h

Sometime when I hear about stuff like a room full of 'Christians' rooting for children to die of easily prevented diseases, I think about Matt Christman saying that modern evangelical Protestantism is literally Satanic

Keith Harris @usefulnoise.bsky.social · 7h

As promised, here's how I spent my gorgeous fall Saturday afternoon.

What I Saw at This Weekend’s Minnesota MAHA Fest Scared the Hell out of Me - Racket

Over 1,000 Christian opponents of modern medicine descended on Alexandria, MN, to testify that drugs, doctors, and Satan were making us all sick at the 7th annual Freedom Summit.

racketmn.com

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Kristin Wilson 📎 @kristin-wilson.bsky.social · 7h

Would seem to me that a Congressman beating his girlfriend and having a judge order a restraining order against him is "really serious..."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

When all of this is finally over, I hope the people who ordered and carried out these extrajudicial assassinations are given the due process they don't believe in before they're punished for murder.

www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump's Venezuela Military Strikes Hit a Colombian Ship: Report

At least one Colombian ship has been struck by US Military amid escalations in the Caribbean.

www.newsweek.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 5h

I’m not even engaging with the rest of what’s wrong or factually incorrect about this; would he apply this standard to young job applicants to any profession making a cruel joke online about Charlie Kirk’s murder

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

“Go to a No Kings rally. What do you see? You see moms and grandmas and kids and dogs and funny signs and dancing and happy displays of opposition to the regime that are foundationally nonviolent. And on the other end, you’ve got a regime that’s led by a guy who cheered the January 6th insurrection”

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

Regarding past rallies Indivisible has organized, such as the “Hands Off” rallies that took place in all fifty states in April, co-executive director Ezra Levin said: “It was far larger than January 6th, and there was no violence. None.” www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...

‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray

Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.

www.thebulwark.com

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 6h

Eric Trump, in three different right-wing media interviews over the past week, accused Jack Smith of "planting" evidence obtained in the Aug. 2023 Mar-a-Lago raid.

Problem: Smith didn't become special counsel until three months after that search. www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/e...

Eric Trump attacks Jack Smith for “planting” evidence during Mar-a-Lago search that predated Smith’s service as special counsel

www.mediamatters.org

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 8h

the admin that imprisoned and tried to deport a student over a pro-Palestinian op-ed, calling it anti-semitism, calls outrage over "I love Hitler" texts by young Republicans "pearl-clutching"

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 9h

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.

www.mediaite.com

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 21h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Robyn Swirling @rswirling.bsky.social · 1d

Once again: this is also happening in DC. Still.

It feels like we’ve been forgotten, maybe because there aren’t huge confrontations to run photos of. But our neighbors are still being taken every day. Routine traffic stops are now done by 12+ feds alongside local police.

Please talk about us too.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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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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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 5h

The corrupt Trump Justice Department is trying to cover the tracks of its wrongful arrest by charging Oriana Korol with a spurious crime. She will be arraigned before a US magistrate judge this afteroon. This outrageous abuse of criminal law is going to backfire badly for the regime.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 5h

Tired: The Deprogram

Wired: The Decopaganda

Bumblejack @bumblejack.bsky.social · 5h

There could be a whole podcast where someone merely spends the whole time re-writing headlines to give people the actual news with words that actually mean things

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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