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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10h

Confirmed, the "Gaza peace deal" was the same deal offered to Netanyahu and the US repeatdly, but it was turned down by Israel because they wanted to gift Trump (Israeli asset) a perceived victory at the expense of the Israeli hostages and Gaza population.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine if a woman president went off about every picture of herself she didn’t like. “Hysterical.” “Emotional.” “PMSing.” “Petty bitch.”

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 16h

"Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass" by Tom Bowman of NPR. www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g... Recommended.

A thing frequently forgotten or ignored is that journalism is one of the few professions people will die for. [Via @brianstelter.bsky.social ]

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 scen...

www.npr.org

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11h

JUST GONNA ASSUME IM NOT ACTUALLY GOING TO BE SHOCKED

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/14/t...

CNBC
There's a shocking disparity between how high income and low income earners feel about the economy

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 18h

If you’re a parent of a child with a disability, you’re worried about how your family will be impacted by SpecEd Department of Education layoffs and you want to talk to a journalist about it, please DM, email (sluterman at 19thnews dot org) or Signal (slooterman.18).

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fluxnomad.bsky.social @fluxnomad.bsky.social · 10h

Why is he still allowed to talk?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

First there was the Opium Wars. Now we have the Cooking Oil War.

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🫶🏻LaylaBella🫶🏻 @laylabelle3.bsky.social · 15h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 10h

Major news outlets are standing together and refusing to sign. ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News have all rejected a new Pentagon policy that would impose unprecedented restrictions on news gathering.

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Will🇺🇸📎✌️🌲 @econaturalist.bsky.social · 10h

The National Guard should be deployed to Alaska, but the regime has them landscaping instead.

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fluxnomad.bsky.social @fluxnomad.bsky.social · 10h

Not sure if that is how it works, mikey. Now if there was a prize for the most hated person in the world, he is definitely in the running. Or maybe the dumbest world leader? The worst hair and makeup? He would win that hands down.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Just now— @SpeakerJohnson announces he will lead a global pressure campaign to get the narcissist-in-chief a Nobel Prize next year

(Also revealing he doesn’t understand what “objective facts” are)

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Images By Jon Evan @imagesbyjonevan.bsky.social · 4d

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B.Ajayi 10x E.B.I.T.D.A @aduke3a.bsky.social · 18h

The day we aligned profit with healthcare was the day we invited death and destruction…

ProPublica @propublica.org · 18h

Around 80% of the psychiatric hospitals in the U.S. that have violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act in the past 15 years are owned by for-profit corporations.

Only a few have faced any repercussions from regulators.

By @emcahan.bsky.social

For-Profit Corporations Are Buying Up More Psychiatric Hospitals. Some Flout Federal Law With Scarce Repercussions.

Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica ...

www.propublica.org

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12h

I sense a pardon on its way.

A tweet by Jacob Shamsian reads: “The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she’s getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.”

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 1d

“She affirmed that our lives hold meaning and that we stand on the shoulders of giants like her, whose courageous love and relentless fight assured our right to live with dignity.”

RIP, Miss Major.

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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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 13h

Congratulations to the idiot media execs, who were sure they could pay a ransom to make Trump be nice to them and it would have no long-term effects whatsoever

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We'll take a couple questions from the news. I'm sure they'll be extremely non-hostile and friendly, like JD went through a very friendly interview with George Slopodopolous, who is nice enough to pay me $16 million ... he had to pay $16 million to me."

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 12h

NEW — For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in a Chicago residential area.

Members of the media, Chicago police officers on the scene for crowd control, and the broader nearby community were also exposed to the tear gas.

thetriibe.com/2025/10/fede...

Federal agents gas Chicago’s East Side • The TRiiBE

For the second time in less than a week, militarized federal agents deployed tear gas in Chicago residential neighborhoods.

thetriibe.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 14h

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 12h

By the morals of their times,

Slavers were hated by those they enslaved
Rapists by those who they raped
Murderers by the survivors

The morals of the past are the same as today. Assholes are assholes

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 10h

thank heavens the party whose cadres joke in private about "loving Hitler," "hating the Jews," and sending their political opponents "to the gas chambers" has taken charge of the effort to purge our college campuses of antisemitism

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12h

ICE targeted an apartment building near my home. Masked agents in unmarked cars. I've said this before. Democratic Governors & Mayors need to order their local police depts to arrest any & all unidentified & masked alleged ICE agents.

This anonymous denial of due process is deadly.

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midnightsun49.bsky.social @midnightsun49.bsky.social · 12h

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fluxnomad.bsky.social @fluxnomad.bsky.social · 10h

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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 1d

Located on the African American Museum at 7th and Arch Streets, this 2024 mural by Ernel Martinez with Mural Arts and Worth Rises advocates that we #EndTheException to the 13th Amendment.