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Beka @itsbeka.bsky.social · 17m

Why is the guy from the bear doing karaoke

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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Bill Shea @billshea19.bsky.social · 1h

This is how authoritarianism cements itself in power and crushes opposition, all while the eggheads debate if it's fascism or something else.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING via WSJ

The Trump administration is planning sweeping changes in criminal division at the IRS.

Full Story: on.wsj.com/3LbVFtK

The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter.
A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said.
The undertaking aims to install allies of President Trump at the IRS criminal-investigative division, or IRS-CI, to exert firmer control over the unit and weaken the involvement of IRS lawyers in criminal investigations, officials said. The proposed changes could open the door to politically motivated probes and are being driven by Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 7h

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

newrepublic.com

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 2h

I have some bad news about violence against women in conservative circles. Utah is so proud of their low numbers and your numbers would be low too if you ignored reports

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Sam Lloyd @llamsoyd.bsky.social · 1h

please do not make me listen to a song about Klay Thompson's dick

Oh No He Didn't @ohnohedidnt24.bsky.social · 1h

Is this the first time Megan Thee Stallion is attending one of Klay's games??

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Crazy how these guys just keep showing up everywhere

ICE Agent in skull mask Broadview Illinois

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · 4h

A perfect photo of Eugenio Suárez. No notes.

📸 Steph Chambers/Getty Images

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2h

Inside NBC News on Wednesday, it was "grim and somber," as 150-some staffers were slashed from the newsroom's workforce.

Details via @nataliekorach.bsky.social in @status.news: www.status.news/p/nbc-news-l...

Rattled at 30 Rock

NBC News is reeling from its biggest round of cuts in years, cutting about 150 staffers as it divorces itself from MSNBC and CNBC.

www.status.news

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 6h

gutting the vra *right now* is honestly going to be scotus ruling itself into irrelevance, i think, and not in a good way. it's going to make it much more possible for the reactionary anti-democracy faction to solidify its power.

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Josie Duffy Rice @jduffyrice.bsky.social · 6h

can't help but feel that the total gutting of the VRA is going to lead to someone running to the right of trump/vance...and winning. i don't think they are worst case scenario. i think worst case scenario is what comes next.

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Help Mohammed and Heba @mohammedandheba68.bsky.social · 7h

Look at me humanely please😭.

I don't have money to buy food and treatment for my child and we are starving. The war is over but we can't find a place to work. Destruction is everywhere. My child are crying from hunger.

If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot.
gofund.me/774ea80c9

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 6h

Could give $2500 to every Veteran in America.

Could give $20,000 to every farm in America.

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 6h

Trump could give $300 to every American household for what he's spending on bailing out Argentina

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Beka @itsbeka.bsky.social · 5h

Cake is based 😭 we are going the distance yall

CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 7h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 9h

"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

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 5h

apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 7h

Palestine’s most popular leader, Marwan Barghouti, was beaten unconscious and has his ribs broken by Israeli prison guards and his family fears for his life, his son has said, citing evidence given by former Palestinian detainees released this week as part of the ceasefire deal.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti assaulted by Israeli prison guards, son says

Family fears for 66-year-old’s life after assault while he was being transferred between prisons

www.theguardian.com

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 8h

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 8h

absolutely unthinkable to help pass a budget as long as he feels comfortable saying this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 9h

The first Nazis said they were joking too, it’s a strategy to get people not to take the threat seriously, and a pretty obvious one that people should be embarrassed to have fallen for.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 10h

One day y'all gon learn that trying to split hairs between aesthetic/ironic bigotry and bigotry-bigotry is a fool's errand.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 10h

One day y'all gon learn that trying to split hairs between aesthetic/ironic bigotry and bigotry-bigotry is a fool's errand.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 8h

The Alaska Native village of Kipnuk was due to receive a $20M grant from the EPA that they were going to use for flood protection.

It was labelled “wasteful DEI spending” and canceled.

The recent storm destroyed homes & flooded Kipnuk: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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