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Francis Wilkinson
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🎃🪦 BLOODSUGARSETHMASKET 🪦🎃 @smotus.bsky.social · 9h
He's enjoying a legit accomplishment and can't help but confess to conspiring with a foreign government to affect a federal election
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Trump: "There was a reason we chose Egypt because you were very helpful. Everybody wanted to have this. You are a great leader. You have very little crime. I want to thank you. He's been my friend right from the beginning during the campaign against Crooked Hillary Clinton. Have you heard of her?"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 17h
oh. right.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 9h
What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 18h
Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 2d
Secret police staffed by thugs.
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 2d
“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”
Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d
The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d
See below for the incredible way Meta’s AI tool describes this video.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d
“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)
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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 2d
This alone should get him impeached and subsequently prosecuted and it’s barely even a story
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 2d
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Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 2d
Little Accents by Vasily Kandinsky, 1940
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The Hilla Rebay Collection © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 2d
Death cult update.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d
FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 2d
At last, we have located the real “war zone.”
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2d
More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 3d
They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."
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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d
“The jobs that low-skilled migrants do…let people in other parts of the economy take on more skilled work. Florence Jaumotte of the IMF and colleagues find that in rich countries a 1 pct pt rise in migrants’ share of the adult population ultimately raises GDP per person by 2%.”
Welcome to Zero Migration America
Closed borders will make the country smaller, poorer and less innovative
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 2d
Canada is surrounded by ocean on 3 sides. And by Donald Trump on the 4th. Long read on a precarious state.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 7d
Gift Link// Whether the US's ongoing act of political suicide evolves as a murder-suicide is of more than passing interest to the US’s northern domestic partner. Canada is extremely -- uniquely -- vulnerable. I spoke to executives, defense analysts, others. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?
Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d
I’ve met billionaires who are not idiots. I just didn’t realize how rare they are.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
“.. Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has bought up numerous parcels of land. He said that he wasn’t sure how many days he spends each year in San Francisco ..”

@nytimes.com $CRM
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 3d
His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d
Republican elected officials will tell you this is a case of law-abiding federal agents in pursuit of murderers, rapists and other violent criminals.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 3d
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d
Lie-based political party.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d
Death cult update:
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 4d
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d
Tommy Bags O'Cash might not be on the level. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
Opinion | I Investigated Corruption. The Homan Affair Is Full of Red Flags.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4d
Whether it’s Donald Trump saying J.B. Pritzker should be in jail or Donald Trump being convicted of 36 felonies but not going to jail because the American people re-elected him as president, both sides have been linked to jail time.
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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d
Compare/contrast: “I alone can fix it.”
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 3d
“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d
Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States
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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 4d
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 3d
I wonder if there are any lessons or inspiration to be drawn from a woman who “keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”
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