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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 3h

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Red State Workers Could Lose Out on Disability Benefits as Trump Administration Rewrites Eligibility Rules

Planned changes to Social Security’s disability program could leave hundreds of thousands of older blue-collar workers ineligible for aid. These changes would fall disproportionately on some of Presid...

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 5h

We've got you 👍

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5h

'Federal prosecutors opposed Dunn’s lawyers’ motion to dismiss the charge, writing that Dunn was “recorded throwing a sandwich at a federal officer at point-blank range".

POINT BLANK RANGE. A SANDWICH. LMAOOO

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h

the sandwich guy is a political prisoner www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy'

Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 5h

I’m in Florida this morning to take this health care fight directly to people most affected.

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans in Florida with ACA coverage could lose their health insurance because of Donald Trump and Republicans' cuts.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sorry… but this is insane

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Matthew Siadak @backwardsknight.com · 8h

Good morning, friends! Happy Monday!

Meme image of a roadside sign for construction that says "It's Coming. It's Bad."

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Grist @grist.org · 1d

For a struggling Iowa ranch, the government shutdown may be the last straw.

A family farm’s fight to recover from a devastating flood shows how the gridlock in Washington is only making it harder to grow and sell food.

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#Farms #Farming #Iowa #IA #Food #Agriculture

For a struggling Iowa ranch, the government shutdown may be the last straw

A family farm’s fight to recover from a devastating flood shows how the gridlock in Washington is only making it harder to grow and sell food.

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Councilmember Charles Allen @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social · 5h

We have 2 free tickets to give away for Wednesday evening's hockey game, when the Caps take on the St. Louis Blues!

Just email your proof of Ward 6 residency to [email protected] by 3 p.m. Nov. 4 for a chance to get the tickets. The resident who gets the tickets will be selected at random.

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 5h

Jury selection is underway in the trial of the DC “sandwich guy,” but Judge Nichols is doing the whole thing with hushers. Closing voir dire has previously been a violation of 6th Amendment. @nbcnews.com and other outlets have raised objections. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Jury selection begins in the trial of D.C.'s 'sandwich guy'

Sean Dunn went viral this summer for throwing a salami sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent.

www.nbcnews.com

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 13h

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Obamacare enrollee sees premium spike over 300% as sign-up period begins: 'This will devastate us'

Millions across the country will discover just how much their plans will cost when open enrollment for Affordable Care Act insurance plans begins on Nov. 1.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 7h

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h

A great question. The roll out of dynamic pricing in low margin bargain retail has me more worried than the expansion of afterpay, I swear.

lelac.bsky.social @lelac.bsky.social · 7h

This will be interesting when grocery stores, Walmart, Target, etc start using dynamic pricing. Hw is that gong to square with SNAP regs?

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 7h

"Reuters has discovered a mass grave near Damascus that was created in a clandestine campaign to conceal atrocities under Bashar al-Assad. From 2019 to 2021, thousands of bodies were dug up from a known mass grave and trucked to a vast new site in the desert... This is the story of how it was done."

Assad-era plot to hide dead bodies turned Syria desert into mass grave

For two years, Syria’s Assad government secretly trucked thousands of bodies from an exposed mass grave to the desert, trying to hide evidence of atrocities.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 7h

🧾 Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes'

In today's 'First Draft', @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debunks the president's lies, unpacks the failure of our mainstream media, and has the latest from Gaza, as well as Trump's 'Great Gatsby'-esque Halloween party.

Read it here:
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🧾 Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes'

Mehdi debunks the president's lies, unpacks the failure of our mainstream media, and has the latest from Gaza, as well as Trump's 'Great Gatsby'-esque Halloween party.

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 7h

This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: Meet some of the 223 (!!) endorsed candidates we're tracking in elections tomorrow. They're SO GOOD!!!
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RFS feel-good update (11/3): Happy Election Day Eve!!

The next generation of leaders is about to win big

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20h

So there were, y’know…edits?

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 20h

Only about a third of the Trump interview aired on "60 Minutes." CBS has published the transcript of the complete interview here —> www.cbsnews.com/news/read-fu...

Read the full transcript of Norah O'Donnell's interview with President Trump here.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

This quote continues to rattle me to my core:

"So what you’re telling us is you need less evidence to kill somebody than you do to hold them."

That's Rep Adam Smith to Pentagon officials in a briefing on Trump's illegal boat bombings. As he told me in this piece, they didn't answer his objection:

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Awful: Pentagon officials told lawmakers Trump now claims authority to bomb people merely “affiliated” with “narco-terrorist" groups, Rep Adam Smith tells me. But under questioning, they wouldn't say what “affiliated” even means!

Lots of fresh info in my new piece:

newrepublic.com/article/2025...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

"It became necessary to destroy the town to save it."
–U.S. military officer during the Vietnam War

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

DHS's Tricia McLaughlin: "They will deploy tear gas to control that crowd as a method to make sure the public is safe."

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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 7h

🎥 “It's not about public safety. It's about optics and immigration enforcement, plain and simple.”

Former acting ICE Chief of Staff @dtfleisch.bsky.social warned that operation "Midway Blitz” is only the beginning.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 19h

I skimmed the 60 Mins transcript. They edited out some of the crazier shit he said, and his glee about Bari Weiss and CBS’s “new ownership.” But Norah O’Donnell also just let him ramble and deflect and say crazy lies uninterrupted. In other democracies, interviewers don’t tolerate that.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 19h

Virginia state Senator Louise Lucas (a Democrat who is the chamber's president pro tempore) just tweeted this:

Remember when Republicans drew Virginia's Congressional map so Black people were packed into one district and said we should be grateful they gave our community this district. NOW they can have one district and see how much they love it.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 17h

American Nazis in DC are shouting what they previously were merely saying out loud. (The "quiet part" has not been the quiet part for years, by the way.)

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

I hope this is the start of something big for Democrats‼️

NEW: Barack Obama personally called Zohran Mamdani, the front-runner for NYC mayor, to praise his campaign and offer to be a “sounding board.”

Democrats, take notes…
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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 17h

Bill Madden

The pushback against Trump's cruelty is coming — and it's going to be brutal. 😳

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 21h

This is one of those inconvenient truths: it’s a lot easier for various well-paid strategists and pundits to advise “stop saying Latinx” (a non-issue) versus “substantively change the media environment and people’s online consumption habits”

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

woof

In the months after Harris’ loss, much was made over the demographic shifts in the party. Young voters, Hispanic voters and Black voters — all central to the Democratic coalition — had moved substantially to the right. But Priorities’ post-election polling revealed an equally staggering swing: Between 2020 and 2024, people who consumed at least three hours of YouTube a day had moved 10 points toward Trump — a bigger swing than Black voters, Black men, young voters and a slew of other categories that were dominating headlines.

“The driver of behavior in ‘24 was so much more about your media consumption,” Butterfield said.

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