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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 13h

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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🕊️KatarinaKriz🕊️On the turning away~Pink Floyd @katarinakriz.bsky.social · 12h

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Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 15h

"Epstein not only didn’t hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care."

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Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 16h

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025."

"I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well."

- She was 16

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 15h

Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president," since "he might be watching right now."

Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this >>>

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17h

Check it out!

From the vault: Mike Johnson said he’d take a blowtorch to the ACA.

Here’s the thing… 45% of marketplace enrollees are Republicans. Cool! So he’s threatening to burn the GOP’s own base. 🔥
#TrumpsShutdownDragsOn

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manzanman.bsky.social @manzanman.bsky.social · 19h

Same ICE crew that kidnapped the clarinet player from the brass band. Sunday night. Still no charges and not clear where the mother of a 3 year old is. She was knocked down while ICE pursured someone else and they felt it easier to take away a female clarinet player.

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manzanman.bsky.social @manzanman.bsky.social · 19h

KIdnapping from a public street. Come on Portland Police, do your job.

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 19h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 19h

One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.

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Hal Gumbert 🌴🧑🏼‍💻 @halgumbert.bsky.social · 20h

SCOTUS Voting Rights Act Hearing play by play in regular English...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 20h

yeah Mike that was terrible

photo of the Capital building swarmed by mobs on January 6th

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 23h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Senator Elissa Slotkin @slotkin.senate.gov · 2d

A retiree from Jackson, who is too young for Medicare, told me he found out that without the healthcare.gov tax credits, his payments are going up $1500 a month! From $440 to $1,900.

Share your story: www.slotkin.senate.gov/letters/

Send me your letters. - Senator Elissa Slotkin

As of October 1, 2025, the federal government is shut down. Senator Slotkin is working in a bipartisan way to reopen the government as soon as possible, and her office will remain open during the…

www.slotkin.senate.gov

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🇨🇦 @normp.bsky.social · 21h

No Kings = The Declaration Of Independence

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 21h

they see themselves as kings

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 21h

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 23h

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 22h

JD Vance openly defends young GOPers calling Black people monkeys and “the watermelon people,” writing "I love Hitler,” using white supremacist code for praising Hitler and threatening violence against political opponents. But why wouldn't he? This perfectly sums up MAGA.

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Hal Gumbert 🌴🧑🏼‍💻 @halgumbert.bsky.social · 1d

Mac OS 26 with less glass...
tidbits.com/2025/10/09/h...

How to Turn Liquid Glass into a Solid Interface - TidBITS

Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design can be hard to read in certain situations. If you encounter any issues, here’s how to adjust the transparency and other visual effects across macOS, iOS, watc...

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 1d

And they say the perfect cartoon doesn’t exist.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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