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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1h

Silicon Valley is effectively doing digital state capture of the most wealthy and largest states in the union and by proxy their political apparatus.

This is a deeply authoritarian move from Newsom and should be disqualifying for his future political ambitions

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 1h

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete

The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1h

They said ICE would go after criminals. They are arresting cops.

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Jim White @jawhite.bsky.social · 42m

Her law license should be yanked. I am not sure she needs one to be a US attorney but I don’t care. This is deeply,
deeply unethical.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1h

Jeanine Pirro’s office tried three times to indict a woman on bogus felony charges of assaulting an ICE agent. A DC grand jury turned her down each time. So Pirro brought a misdemeanor charge instead. And now a trial jury has acquitted her of that. www.huffpost.com/entry/sidney...

Jeanine Pirro Strikes Out Yet Again In Federal Court

Prosecutor Jeanine Pirro failed to secure a felony indictment against the woman three times, then lost a jury trial on a misdemeanor charge. Ouch.

www.huffpost.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1h

the amount of time conservatives spend thinking about childrens genitals is legit crazy

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

RFK Jr: "Today the average teenager in this country has 50% of the sperm count, 50% of the testosterone of a 65 year old man. Our girls are hitting puberty 6 years early ... our parents aren't having children."

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Jim White @jawhite.bsky.social · 52m

But that’s not how courts work when they are working correctly. They deal with real actual disputes over things that have happened. Not what might happen in the future.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1h

A legend

NPR @npr.org · 4h

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died. n.pr/4qjVMDS

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died

Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

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Jim White @jawhite.bsky.social · 1h

I know some fantastic lawyers who are Federal Defenders.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4h

Trial shows that ICE agents lied, concealed evidence in an illegal effort to convict the "libtard" who filmed them.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1h

Because it is illegal

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Leavitt: "The president tapped into tariff revenue to keep WIC money going out the door. He found a creative solution to keep the troops paid. And rather than congratulate him for doing that, this unprecedented action to get our troops paid, Dems want to sue him for it. They're saying it's illegal."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 2h

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

Sounds like it was pretty clear.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1h

"It was unclear why Adm. Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure....But one of the U.S. officials...said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Boo-rian Smite @brianxsmith.bsky.social · 2h

She's smerkin all the way to the bank

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 2h

These stories hit differently when the same shit is happening in Portland.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 2h

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4h

When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points

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Jim White @jawhite.bsky.social · 2h

The only issue in the case is federalizing and deploying the guard in Illinois. There is no purported order federalizing the guard all over the United States.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life.

If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution.

Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h

IRS employees asked to participate in White House-directed political targeting should remember that Jan. 6 foot soldiers were the easiest to prosecute.

Do you want to gamble your future on this criminal presidency lasting forever?

And yes, Democrats should make this threat of prosecution explicit.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 10h

There’s always more, and it’s always worse. But it’s never new....

1965:

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h

The “average Russian”…in Switzerland

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