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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24m

Again, this is not what needs to be done. "Why are you breaking the law & violating the Constitution & your oath of office?" is the question. When he doesn't answer it, the next journalist needs to ask it, & then the next one, & the one after that. Stop giving him & John Thune free passes every day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 52m

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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DrDucko-enstein 🦆🧌 @drducko.myatproto.social · 3m

I've long known my last name was altered at some point, andbthe story as I understand it was likely due to anti-Polish sentiment while looking for work.

But I'm also adopted, so my connection to an issue like this is more abstract.

It's usually a good idea to have a softer touch communicating tho.

DrDucko-enstein 🦆🧌 @drducko.myatproto.social · 3m

The myths surrounding ones own family are among the most personal myths people hold on to. Nobody is going to willingly call their ancestors liars because someone on a social media app told them to.

But anyone who starts digging into their ancestry will eventually come up against these stories.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 45m

Fine, I truly, truly do not give a fuck anymore if people want to pretend that the people who worked at Ellis Island changed people's names. There is literally no record of this ever having happened, but go ahead and believe whatever you want. Please leave me the fuck alone.

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1h

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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DrDucko-enstein 🦆🧌 @drducko.myatproto.social · 1h

TIL: Newsmax has more self respect than OANN.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12h

Solidarity is the only way

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 3h

Janet Mills has done a wonderful job as Governor. I'm from Maine and she embodies the best kind of Mainer- tough, kind, generous, and neighborly. As much as I like her, she is 77, and needs to enjoy retirement. We need fresh ideas and fresh faces in the Senate, not near Octogenarians.

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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 5h

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Tweet from Quds News Network @QudsNen
BREAKING: Three Palestinians were killed after Israeli quadcopter drones opened fire on residents inspecting their homes in the Shujaiyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 2h

If I were a Mainer, and I'm not a Mainer, and the Senate election were today, I'd vote for Graham Platner to take on Susan Collins. Simply put, I can't think of a metric by which Janet Mills would be better against Collins, better for Maine, or better for the Democratic Party than Platner. THREAD.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5h

Here's video from the Hingham police showing a driver in a Tesla speeding by a stopped school bus. The driver blamed the self-driving mode. He still got a ticket.

www.masslive.com/news/2025/10...

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meh @seakw.bsky.social · 11h

how about this instead bsky.app/profile/4nik...

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 3d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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NPR @npr.org · 4h

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11h

Jesus christ

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 20h

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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NPR @npr.org · 5h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 11h

This is a description of what happened with the intimidation protest the Proud Boys tried to stage across the street from my apartment building in 2020, back when they thought I was Public Enemy #1.

The community pushback was amazing and inspiring.

marymary🍁🍁🍁🍁 @marymarymary.bsky.social · 1d

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 12h

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 15h

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 14h

rt if you are the founder of antifa

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 16h

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 14h

Rest in Power, Miss Major.💔

On solidarity: “We can’t go it alone… I mean, you can try, and get knocked down and get up and try again, and get knocked down and get up and try again. But that’s how it’ll be, until somebody helps you up and says, let me stand with you.”
truthout.org/articles/a-m...

A Mother’s Day Chat With Revolutionary Trans Activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

Janet Mock has called Miss Major, who has nurtured generations of queer and trans youth, “the mother we all deserve.”…

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DrDucko-enstein 🦆🧌 @drducko.myatproto.social · 14h

If not documents... Is it not within the realm of possibility that low-level staff, from highly-racist America, overworked and underpaid, dealing with thousands of individuals who spoke different languages, wouldn't make claims and give orders that were beyond their official capacity?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15h

Looks like the news is out. May her memory be a blessing. Miss Major, Presente!

Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 15h

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died

The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

www.advocate.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve simply lived too long & too much to let people restate my position as their “critique” of what I just said. You can issue as many compassionate “agree to disagrees” as you want. I will keep saying, “yes that’s what I said” until we both die of thirst, starvation or embarrassment. I do not care

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DrDucko-enstein 🦆🧌 @drducko.myatproto.social · 19h

Christopher Columbus was exactly the kind of violent invader the right keeps warning us about.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20h

The Rightwing in the U.S. can't "rehabilitate" Columbus and it's driving them off the deep end. That ship sailed.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 19h

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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