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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 45m

🔴‘The Stolen Children Scandal in Syria Exposes a Deeper Problem in SOS Care’

Investigations revealed how children disappeared by Bashar al-Assad’s regime were transported to facilities run by a global charity

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/14/t...

'The Stolen Children Scandal in Syria Exposes a Deeper Problem in SOS Care'

Investigations revealed how children disappeared by Bashar al-Assad's regime were transported to facilities run by a global charity

bylinetimes.com

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 5h

a near 15% increase of sales in hamburger helper jesus christ.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

Let's be clear: If North Carolina Republicans gerrymander their already illegal map further, they will be sued and they will lose.

I never bluff and I usually win.

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6h

Where’s Fox?

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Solidarity is the only way

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rally👇🏽

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Solidarity is the only way

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6h

And just unbelievable chutzpah & disdain for all of us as citizens:

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Dennis K Jr @dkjrhi.bsky.social · 7h

“This is, simply put, bullshit.” - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

www.lawdork.com/p/barrett-tu...

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15h

👇🎯💯 What is journalism, anyway?

Also, yet another day when the Speaker is given total free passes by the assembled journalists & not asked a single time about why he is allowing unprecedented constitutional violations nullifying Congress’ power of the purse & war to take place on his watch 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h

Welcome to Chicago, fascist.

www.chicagomag.com/news/chicago...

Chicago Is Organizing for All

Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.

www.chicagomag.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

ICYMI — with electricity rates already skyrocketing, Trump just canceled the largest solar project in North America.

Utah’s Republican governor seems to understand this is probably not the best idea: “This is how we lose the AI/energy race with China” 👇🏽

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7h

To be clear - what Trump is doing is already illegal! But this is about adding some obstacles intended to make it harder to keep doing the illegal thing

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Dean Barker @deanbarker.bsky.social · 7h

"(His family) says he has a cognitive ability of a 4- or 5-year-old."

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 13h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

They also cancelled government data collection about hunger to minimize evidence about their policies

José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 18h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Rep. James Walkinshaw @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social · 3d

RIFs during a shutdown are 100% illegal.

@oversightdemocrats.house.gov Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia and I called on @USGAO to investigate Russ Vought’s illegal directive ordering agencies to fire federal workers in violation of the Antideficiency Act.

This scheme needs to be investigated.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8h

Just rounding people up. A US citizen who says he had his birth certificate with him (!) was still thrown in the back of a truck and detained.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 8h

Someday this could be you or someone you love

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 16h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 8h

They're going to get some yesses, but it's going to be from non-research colleges that are partisan aligned, and so that's going to be interesting.

Maayyybee someone like UAlabama takes it.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 11h

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

Our university system has been without doubt our single greatest source of soft power worldwide, and (for both better and worse) often the source of our hard power as well.

And spiteful conservatives are burning it all to the ground.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 11h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

"After we win in November, we do not demobilize. The rich and corporate interests who tried to buy this election with the millions they stole from our pockets will want to see us fail.

We won’t let them." - Chi Ossé

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Senseidai2547 @senseidai.bsky.social · 14h

Good news that some media outlets are standing up to the Secretary of Drunk.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks #RepublicansAreDestroyingAmerica

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline

The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Keys for Liberty @demskeys.bsky.social · 21h

The so-called peace President has doubled the government expenditure for pepperballs and non-lethal rounds to be used against Americans exercising their First Amendment Rights.

#NoKings

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 9h

Partisan gerrymandering is still unconstitutional. It denies equal protection by intentionally diluting votes; it denies free association by punishing the other party; and it violates Art. I’s promise that “the People” pick their representatives. SCOTUS punished people who behave constitutionally.

Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 11h

Demonstrating once again that, by holding that partisan gerrymandering is a nonjusticiable “political question,” SCOTUS set up a situation in which voters and their representatives are essentially punished in Congress if they choose to run their own states fairly.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h

North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn

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marjtroyer.bsky.social @marjtroyer.bsky.social · 1d

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 9h

If you want to help those fired from CDC over the weekend, the CDC Mutual Aid Network is helping folks with emergency rent, groceries, etc.

altCDC gets no funds from donations, but we can verify they are legit and funds go directly to those impacted.

CDC Mutual Aid Network @cdcmutualaid.bsky.social · 6d

We're collecting resources for furloughed CDC workers (and other feds!) on our new Shutdown Survival Guide page. Check it out (and let us know if we've missed something!) www.cdcresourceportal.org/resources/sh...

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