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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 1h

I love this for Russia

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

$WTI CRUDE IS NOW BELOW $60 A BARREL!

A chart showing that on October 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM, WTI Crude is priced at $58.37 a barrell, down $2.66 and 4.36 percent.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

yeah i don't think i ever appreciate how well constrained Trump was during his first term and how everyone kinda assumed that would happen again without putting in any of the work

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12h

The siren call of electoral strategy and analysis partially crowded out work on things like law, organizational resistance, and protest. I blame myself, too

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 1h

In hindsight, it's clear COVID broke everyone's brains and that includes Trump and his goons. They have obsessed over 2020 as the "what I should have done" and it's consumed them that they're repeating all the bad moves and it's exploding in their faces.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1h

I actually think Trump himself was also significantly more constrained in his first term. He actually acted like a politician who believed in certain political gravities and got rid of people who made things a clown show.

He's basically diminished significantly and become a golem of insecurity

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

yeah i don't think i ever appreciate how well constrained Trump was during his first term and how everyone kinda assumed that would happen again without putting in any of the work

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12h

The siren call of electoral strategy and analysis partially crowded out work on things like law, organizational resistance, and protest. I blame myself, too

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 5h

I can't help but notice that some of the people who loudly said it was slander to accuse them of helping Trump to harm Democrats as punishment for how they voted in the 16 primary are some of the strongest proponents of harming Red staters as punishment for how they voted in the 24 general.

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 9h

These types were happy when Trump won last year because it allowed them to say "see, liberals didn't really win in 2020, they just delayed an even worse disaster!" So when liberalism defeats Trump *again*, these guys will feel twice as humiliated, and they're preemptively taking it out on all of us.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 5h

Among the many reasons why Democrats shouldn't abandon trans people is, as a coalition of many different vulnerable people, it's important to be able to credibly promise to protect coalition members & it turns out constantly threatening to underbus people for how they voted doesn't do that!

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 3h

Yep nothing screams they’re winning when airports decide to not play their propaganda

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 4h

Hell fucking yes.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 5h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 9h

No, the protesters aren’t being paid. Believe it or not, lots of people are genuinely upset about authoritarianism!

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/ahead-of-n...

Ahead of No Kings Protest, Trump and GOP Try to Delegitimize All Dissent

There is no such thing as genuine progressive public opinion, and therefore mass and mobilized opposition to Trump doesn't count.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 9h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

Graphs showing coal production (left) and employment in coal (right) for the state of Wyoming from 1983 to 2020 from the linked website. Coal production was rapidly increasing until 2008 and has more or less steadily decreased since. Employment in coal likewise rapidly increased until 2009, was stable until 2012 and has rapidly decreased since.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 8h

It's just pathetic. But right-wing media has also worked hard for years to make Newsom a topic of derangement in a way that Abbott isn't on the left.

David Nir @davidnir.com · 8h

The gaslighting—from NC Republicans and many others—is really something else. They're just outright pretending that California launched this year's redistricting wars, even though it started with Texas. bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 8h

Im sure this absolutely will not be a risky move in what is expected to be a backlash year for the GOP and will also see a Dem powerhouse on the ballot running for an open senate seat

Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 8h

North Carolina Republicans just announced they plan to pass a more extreme congressional gerrymander for 2026.

Republicans re-gerrymandered this swing state's congressional map just last cycle to turn what had been 7 Dem - 7 Rep split into a 10-4 majority. Now they're going for an 11-3 edge

General Assembly Heeds President Trump’s Call to Thwart Blue State Attempts to Take Congress

Raleigh, N.C. — Today, legislative leaders agreed to hold votes during the previously scheduled October legislative session to block the…

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Alexander Hamizdat @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 8h

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Dan Shay @dfs4114.bsky.social · 7h

5\The legal pushback, for starters, would be massive. I would not be surprised if there were mass protests/strikes as well in response to literally *canceling* elections. Beyond that, I rather doubt most people have seriously imagined what happens. Like, truly, the "doomer" mindset stops there.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 7h

Because it’s access journalism

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 7h

"native born americans"

"man holdin up 3 fingers" meme from the film inglorious basterds

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

TONIGHT @ 7:00pm:

Our Time Has Come
Rally Livestream on IG + YouTube

Feat.
Attorney General Tish James
Rep. Nydia Velázquez
Rep. Adriano Espaillat
CM Chi Ossé
@kristengonzalez.bsky.social
Lina Khan
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The Kid Mero

MC'd by @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Big colorful graphic of Zohran smiling that says, "Our Time Has Come: Rally Tonight" and a list of speakers.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 7h

They said they were going to do X!

Yeah, they say lots of shit. They said they were going to suspend Habeas Corpus. Stephen Miller gets on TV and shits his pants loudly every week and barely any of what he's said has happened.

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 5h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 7h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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ChelseaNH @chelseanh.bsky.social · Jun 28

Came across the term "petro-masculinity":

"In these spaces, fossil fuels can serve as potent conservative symbols that represent masculinity, autonomy, and self-sufficiency, even when they are not real economic interests for most of the public."

autonomy.work/portfolio/pe...

Petro-masculinity and the politics of climate refusal

Writer in Residence Cara Daggett explores how 'climate refusal' is being created by new violent forms of petro-masculinity.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 7h

What I don't get is if hardcore tankies really think raiding detention facilities is the best path forward, if you're not just engaged in performative bullshit, then why do I, the shitlib, have to do it?

Like, shouldn't YOU be doing it?

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 10h

I love bluesky

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