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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

TEL AVIV — HOSTAGES SQUARE

WITKOFF: “To Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…”

CROWD: “BOOOOOO!!!!”

WITKOFF: *tries again*

CROWD: *EVEN LOUDER BOOS (as Kushner holds back laughter)*

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4h

Omg. Send in another battalion.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 7h

A new Portland character has entered the chat at the ICE facility….meet The Unipiper!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

WSJ reports that Ghislaine Maxwell is treated like a VIP guest at a five-star resort in her new minimum-security Club Fed prison. She recently received a special visitor, and the entire facility was placed on lock-down while the guest was there so that no one could see who she or he was. Creepy.

Lockdowns and a Mysterious Meeting: A Quiet Texas Prison Adapts to Life With Ghislaine Maxwell

The unexpected arrival of the Epstein associate upset the camp’s routines. Some inmates say she got favorable treatment.

www.wsj.com

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WaterBluSky 🇺🇸 🌻 🇺🇦 @waterblusky.bsky.social · 4h

Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bailing-ou...

Bailing out Bessent’s Buddies’ Bets on Argentina

Trump bails out hedge funds’ failed bets on Milei while his foreign aid cuts will kill millions of children

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

The WH is laughing at Republicans in Congress, because they know they’re dog walking them.

Trump’s top advisers joke about ruling Congress w/an “iron fist.” Bannon compared the GOP-controlled House to the Russian Duma, a ceremonial rubber stamp.

They’re Trump’s puppets, and everyone knows it.

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 6h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 6h

Go Pope!

“At times, pseudo-scientific data are invoked to support the claim that a free market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty.”

www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi te of the Holy Father Leo XIV on Love for the Poor (4 October 2025)

APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE OF THE HOLY FATHER LEO XIV TO ALL CHRISTIANS ON LOVE FOR THE POOR [ Multimedia ] _____________________

www.vatican.va

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 6h

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 5h

This is great...and describes a bunch of Establishment Democrats as well.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A5G...

Weekend Update: Concerned New Yorker Rhonda LaCenzo on Zohran Mamdani - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

www.youtube.com

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, and the problem is the use of that money to distort the laws that protect the rest of us including maintaining freedom of expression, fair labor standards, clean air & water, and so on. See

greenbag.org/v16n3/v16n3_...

greenbag.org

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 7h

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 5h

It’s the inequality

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 7h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 7h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7h

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 6h

interesting that justice barrett thinks it's appropriate for a judge to appear on a transparently partisan propaganda network like FNC

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 5h

I ♥️ you even more, @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 6h

See you in the morning!

www.youtube.com/live/E5lCVzY...

Jen Taub LIVE - "Not Heaven Bound"?!!

YouTube video by Jen Taub

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 7h

That is OUR money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Dasha Burns said she talked with Trump on the phone 4 days ago. But now he doesn’t know who she is 🤔

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Axios @axios.com · 7h

Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo closed today due to the government shutdown, with their websites urging visitors to check back for updates on when they'll reopen.

Smithsonian museums and National Zoo close as government shutdown persists

The zoo's panda cam and all other live animal feeds will not broadcast during the shutdown.

www.axios.com

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ZenGali @zengali.bsky.social · 8h

Time to take away his nukes.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 8h

Hell-o?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Doocy: Does this help get you into heaven?

Trump: I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I think I’m not heaven bound.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 8h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

Rep. Jim Himes on Trump blowing up boats in the Caribbean: "The White House has not shared what they believe their legal justification is. They did put out a memo. I will tell you based on what I know now and the reading of that memo, these are illegal killings."

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h

This is infuriating. She excuses the orders as "preliminary," but that's an argument for applying settled law or preserving the status quo. Allowing POTUS to disregard Congressional appropriations and fire independent agency heads are neither, they're a radical restructuring of Constitutional order.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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