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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry... is this a thing? Having one party to a ceasefire turn it off and on like a f*cking light switch?

Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 12h

Israel's military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight across the Palestinian territory that killed 104 people, including 66 women and children, according to local health officials.

Israel’s military says ceasefire is back on as death toll from Gaza strikes reaches 104

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

They must expect a lot of people all over the country to be really upset about something next year. I wonder what that could be?

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 6h

Bill Gates has been demonized by MAGA for his vaccines and "plans to depopulate the world." He fucking sold out! What is wrong with all these people? They own everything. They have more money than they could spend in 100 lifetimes, yet they are still selling their souls to Trump.

Damn.

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ʇᴉɯᴉl ɐɯǝɥɔs® @timforgot.bsky.social · 7h

ahh, when you're accustomed to a certain status

Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social · 7h

“Everything that the president is messing with and interfering with affects my farming operation,” Virginia cattle rancher John Boyd Jr. told NPR.

“ It feels like a slap in the face to rural America,” said Destinee Weeks, cattle rancher in Oklahoma, “It makes you feel invisible and overlooked.”

Argentinian beef is at the center of American farmers’ woes

‘It feels like a slap in the face to rural America,’ said one farmer

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 7h

"Today in a Chicago suburb, ICE agents surrounded the car of a US citizen in a parking lot,firing into her windshield as she screamed that her children were inside. Agents dragged her from the car without presenting a warrant or probable cause. Excessive force. No warrant. No justification."

Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 9h

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump Is Very Confused About Nuclear Weapons

The president says he wants to resume nuclear testing but doesn’t seem to know why.

www.theatlantic.com

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 10h

AI is coming. It will take jobs. It will reallocate even more income from the poor and middle class to the billionaires.

Our supposed "leaders" are doing nothing. Republicans are hiding from their voters because they and Trump's stupid tariffs are raising prices and reducing income. Democrats are ?

Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 10h

"Every week brings a new headline, a new justification, a new euphemism for the same act: erasing people in the name of progress."

"Economists call this “restructuring.” I call it an economic bloodletting."

AI is going to fuck us all.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

The federal criminal justice system is being systematically dismantled and destroyed piece by piece and turned into a mob boss’s network of corrupt consiglieres and thugs, where good people simply doing their jobs are rooted out and eradicated.

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 12h

Uh oh. He made Trump's tweets look even more stupid. Is it time for RFK to get fired? Is there a tiny bit of hope?

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Kennedy, health chief, says there is not enough data to show Tylenol causes autism

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says Tylenol should be used with caution during pregnancy, but solid data linking it to autism is lacking.

www.usatoday.com

Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 12h

JFC.

Where will they be tested? Chicago? LA? New York?

"Oops. Terrible tragedy. Went astray. Thoughts and prayers to all who were vaporized."

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13h

JUST IN: Trump says he has instructed the Department of Defense to start testing our nuclear weapons

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h

Posted by Mike Pence’s former Chief of Staff.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Sep 3

“Look out for your communities and your neighbors. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America.”
Governor JB Pritzker

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 2

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

New in PN: The triumph of bullshit

"We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."

The triumph of bullshit

Internet conspiracy theories are now official government policy.

www.publicnotice.co

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 17h

This made me feel sick because it is such a real possibility.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17h

Frighteningly plausible

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17h

"If not stopped, Helen Andrews warns, women represent a 'threat to civilization.' Sound familiar? It should. Some lefty feminists used to pathologize men in similar ways. That didn’t work out too well." www.thebulwark.com/p/toxic-femi...

Toxic Femininity

Helen Andrews’s simplistic and reductionist views of gender.

www.thebulwark.com

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 18h

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ICE violently detained a Virginia mother driving her daughter to school because she couldn’t recite her Social Security number from memory. “When she stumbled, the agent just lunged at her,” said her 16 yo. She showed her work permit, SS card, license, registration:ICE arrested her anyway.

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 17h

"ICE in Durango, CO steals a elderly women’s phone, grabs her by the hair and throws her down a hill during a peaceful protest over ICE abducting a father and 2 children from a school drop off."

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Joanne @jmgchi.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck this guy.

"Q: What does the VP actually do? We know Kamala Harris did nothing. Vance: [laughing] Sometimes I'm envious of Kamal Harris... I kinda wish I could sleep until one o'clock and hit the bottle after that like the Kamala approach."

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18h

Kinzinger: There is an intense cost to that. You see that cost laid out in this film, and it shows why, when people say, “Why don’t other Republicans speak out?” — this brings home that there is a cost to doing so. And we need to, frankly, elect and hire people who are willing to do tough things

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20h

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h

Ominous

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18h

“Each state will have a quick reaction force unit made up of hundreds of troops ready to deploy by Jan. 1, 2026, according to an official memo.”

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 19h

Leaked memo details National Guard plan for a ‘quick reaction force’ in US cities trib.al/x0X3nmk

Leaked memo details National Guard plan for a 'quick reaction force' in US cities

Each state is standing up a quick reaction force of National Guardsmen trained in civil disturbance and crowd control, a leaked memo shows.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23h

Reup: Yesterday, the judge presiding over Jim Comey and Tish James' motions to DQ Lindsey Halligan asked for the grand jury transcripts in both cases.

Ut oh, Lindsey!

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/28/t...

"The Indictment Signer:" Lindsey Halligan's Time in the Grand Jury - emptywheel

The Judge who'll preside over Jim Comey and Tish James' challenges to Lindsey Halligan's appointment, Judge Cameron McGowen Currie, just ordered that the government provide her with all the grand jury...

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 20h

Jim Himes: "Where does this stop? Do we now start executing drug dealers on the corner of Brooklyn? Where does it stop if all of a sudden the government, without, telling anybody anything, can take this kind of lethal action just because they've decided they've got the right to."

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