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David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · 3h

NPR's veteran defense reporter Tom Bowman: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon Pass

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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...

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LigoranoReese @nora-ligorano.bsky.social · 2d

Last Call - DemocracyICED
October 15, 2025 on The National Mall D.C.
MeltedAway.com

@yobencohen.bsky.social @upinarms-us.bsky.social

Distant US Capitol building framed by melting ice sculpture in foreground. Child reaches up to touch enormous letter A carved in ice. Text box overlay: “The ice sculptures materially underscore the impact of political and social ideas - you think about loss and disappearance. What does that kind of change mean when you're looking at Democracy?”

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 3d

Public health was already under assault – and the current shutdown accelerates the destruction of our health defenses that began ten months ago.

In my new piece, I share why this affects us all and what we can do about it.

The Shutdown Puts the Health of Every American at Risk

It's accelerating the destruction of our health defenses that began ten months ago

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

Partisan shutdown standoff ignores key risk to US stability: rising national debt reut.rs/4nY0dSY

Partisan shutdown standoff ignores key risk to US stability: rising national debt

The ongoing shutdown debate between Democrats and President Donald Trump's Republicans is largely avoiding the difficult fiscal issues clouding the country's future - the rising national debt and the long-term financial health of Social Security and Medicare.

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 2d

🤦🏻 UPDATE/NYT: The Trump administration on Saturday raced to rescind layoffs of hundreds of scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

A 77 year old man sent a postcard to Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia that simply read: “You lack values.”

Police showed up at his door.

This is not only a first amendment violation but a clear sign of how fast the fascists are moving to censorship and constant monitoring.

Judy Stone @drjudystone.bsky.social · 2d

Law experts appalled as cops swoop on 77-year-old for writing 'innocuous' postcard

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Law experts appalled as cops swoop on 77-year-old for writing 'innocuous' postcard

Florida resident James O’Gara received a surprise visit from law enforcement at his home last week in what First Amendment experts have labeled a clear attempt at intimidation in response to a “pretty...

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 2d

“I don’t have a name when I ride this big airplane / They just call me one more deportee.” @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t...

The Only Recording of Woody Guthrie Singing the Protest Song 'Deportee' Has Been Released for the First Time

The singer-songwriter recorded the audio on a reel-to-reel tape machine in his apartment in the 1950s. Now, the previously unheard song has been restored using A.I. audio technology

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 2d

(duh) Their immigration crackdown is hurting farmers and risking higher food prices by cutting off agriculture’s labor supply.
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Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 2d

The “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe received layoff notices, previously spared in an earlier round in February.

CDC’s furloughed HR staff was called back to work to send out layoff notices to their colleagues.
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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 2d

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cdc RIFs gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Screenshot NYT: Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C.
Officials
"Disease detectives," high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 3d

My old friends are back at it with the poetic public art…
Last Call: DemocracyICED on the National Mall in D.C. next week
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LigoranoReese @nora-ligorano.bsky.social · 3d

The temporary monuments of Melted Away are markers for the opening decades in the 21st century - DEMOCRACY broken, the ECONOMY ruined, the MIDDLE CLASS disappears, THE FUTURE tenuous, THE AMERICAN DREAM vanishes, TRUTH an open question. meltedaway.com/video

enormous ice sculpture, letters spell out DEMOCRACY

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 6d

This little twerp, who’s been there a few months, axed two of the lions of WaPo??

Fisher is an investigative champion and had been at The Post for 39 years. Hoffman had been there for 42, and he won a Pulitzer LAST YEAR.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6d

Last week, new WaPo opinion editor Adam O'Neal quietly carried out another purge of staffers, cutting editors and major names like Marc Fisher and David Hoffman, among others.

Meanwhile, he welcomed three conservatives to the section.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Post Traumatic Disorder

Adam O’Neal says he’s bringing “intellectual diversity” to The Washington Post’s opinion pages—but the moves he’s making behind the scenes tell a different story.

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Indivisible Brooklyn @bkindivisible.bsky.social · 3d

Standing with our communities to say #HandsOffTish — keep your tiny hands off our badass Attorney General @newyorkstateag.bsky.social. Tish always fights for us, and we will fight for her!
#HandsOffNYC #NoKings

@indivisible.org @nywfp.bsky.social @riseandresist.bsky.social

Protesters holding Hands Off Tish signs and speakers at the rally

A sign that says Hero over a picture of Tish James and Zero over a picture of Trump

Sign that says Cowards We See You and Enough Distractions Release the Epstein Files

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 4d

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WaPo screenshot Courts & Law
“Judge blocks Trump from deploying troops in Illinois for now
Officials in Illinois and Oregon had challenged the Trump administration's push to dispatch the National Guard in both states.”
Thurs 10/9 at 7:18 p.m. ET

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 5d

Performing Arts Recommended: William Kentridge’s Sibyl at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus. Phenomenal show, great new venue, $30 community tix.

Powerhouse Arts, @powerhousearts.bsky.social
322 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY
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Sibyl at Powerhouse: International

Powerhouse: International brings groundbreaking artists from around the world to Brooklyn this fall. Join us for live dance, theater, and music that sparks joy, change, and connection. Tickets availab...

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 5d

Like little babies that are still figuring out object permanence through peek-a-boo.

Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 5d

Trump team thinks if you can’t see a law, it no longer exists www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Trump team thinks if you can’t see a law, it no longer exists

Showing the same reasoning skills as a toddler under a blanket who thinks you can’t see them if they can’t see you, the Trump administration has decided that, if it just deletes references to ...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 6d

I met Samantha after Trump’s agents took her mom off the street yesterday, which she confirmed by watching video we showed her.

“She looks ready to cry… she wanted to go to the store. She wanted to make some albondigas which is basically a meatball stew” youtu.be/9dx266qOOic?...

Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 6d

“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 6d

two men were taken at a bakery by armed and masked federal agents in Cicero, Illinois this morning while having coffee before work. we were there moments later. Trump says they’re going after the “worst of the worst” around Chicago. that’s not what we saw. youtu.be/EkCcsaFdpsw?...

Jacob Soboroff speaks to people in Chicago suburb after ICE arrests 2 men at bakery

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 5d

Maddow: "Since Trump has been back in office, he has just been destroying the top leadership of the U.S. military."

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