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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1h

Rick Scott was CEO of a company forced to settle what the DOJ called “the largest healthcare fraud case in history.”
Is that the expertise that’s driving your “plan.”
www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...

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Progressive Power @progressivepower.bsky.social · 1h

My friend sent this to me and I think it is GENIUS! Apparently they are all over Portland? #Portland

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1h

Affirmative action for fascists

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

So weird how this keeps happening. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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WIRED @wired.com · 1h

On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

Inside the Trump Adminstration's Bluesky Invasion

On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1h

Valuable reporting here. I think the key thing is the use of Venezuela to accustom American armed forces to lawless murder. The goal then is to get them to do the same thing inside the US.
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats

The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.

www.newyorker.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 58m

Turns out the Young Repubs are Trumpy in more ways than one

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

When you love to to dine and dash, but without the dashing www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...

NY State Young Republicans stiffed Syracuse hotel for lavish party before racist chat ended their run

Embattled GOP group failed to fully pay bills for three-course steak dinner, luncheon and open bars at Syracuse hotel.

www.syracuse.com

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: A Jan. 6 rioter who breached the Senate floor — and was subsequently pardoned by Trump — was arrested Sunday for threatening to assassinate Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h

🚨BREAKING: The North Carolina Senate hastily passed a GOP gerrymander Tuesday in a 26-20 vote, advancing a proposed congressional map that aims to dismantle one of the state’s Black Democratic seats at the request of President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Senate Approves Gerrymander Targeting Black Voters

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 5d

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 3d

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Thom Hartmann @hartmannreport.com · 1d

Why was Whiskey Pete wearing a Russian flag tie (white blue red) when he and Trump met with Zelenskyy? unn.ua/en/news/us-s...

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Why even interview these gaslighters?

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 13h

Tough shit, Gregory. That’s not how this works

ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information.

(Published July)
With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org

Texas Governor’s Office Says Its Emails With Elon Musk May Be, in Part, Too “Embarrassing” to Release to the Public

We asked Abbott for his and his staff’s emails with Elon Musk and Musk’s companies. The governor’s office won’t turn them over, saying some contain “intimate and embarrassing” information that is “not...

www.propublica.org

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Clarence Thomas Has Laid Out the Conservative Plan to Take Away Marriage Equality and Birth Control

If the Supreme Court justice pulls this off, it would be the crowning triumph of his vengeance-fueled career.

www.esquire.com

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 15h

I'm tired. We're all tired. This isn't hard to understand. You can't inflate prices of basic necessities like food and housing to ridiculous highs while keeping wages at poverty levels, then act surprised when luxury goods/services and large purchases become unattainable or payments unaffordable.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 13h

"Trump over the weekend repeatedly said he plans on sending the National Guard to San Francisco and voiced his frustration with legal efforts so far to prevent him from using the National Guard at all.

The president has also said he can use the Insurrection Act to make it happen."

NBC Bay Area @nbcbayarea.com · 14h

President Donald Trump over the weekend made the most direct statements yet about his plans to send National Guard troops to San Francisco: nbcbay.com/Nev7Xl9

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13h

Racism is a qualification for advancement in the Republican Party.

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 16h

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction

Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

www.wsj.com

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 12h

The president of the United States has a revenge committee.

America has become an authoritarian state.

Reuters @reuters.com · 14h

Exclusive: A group of dozens of officials from across the federal government, including US intelligence officers, has been helping to steer President Trump's drive for retribution against his perceived enemies reut.rs/3IXEVG9

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12h

Senator Tuberville Claims Mamdani and Muslims Are ‘Trying to Take Over’ the Country: ‘Send Him Home’ Again MAGA is a hate group. From Jan 6 to saying "I love Hitler" to calling to deport Muslims, MAGA tells you who they are daily. MAGA should be banned from USA same way Al Qaeda is.

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 12h

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered.

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