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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 14h

An ironic statement coming from someone with catastrophically bad judgement and a political agenda: “It’s imperative that we remove officials with conflicts of interest and catastrophically bad judgment, and political agendas,” - RFK Jr.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/h...

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 13h

The cruelty is always the point with this Administration

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 22h

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 19h

With the NG at the border or the ones in Illinois?

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 20h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 21h

At least 6 vehicles racing through a quiet suburban neighborhood; multiple agents, all of them armed and masked.

the excessive response plus the violence against this 15 year old girl is outrageous.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 22h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 2d

www.brooklynvegan.com/is-bob-mould...

Is Bob Mould reforming Sugar?

There's been no official word, but the Sugar instagram account is followed by the band's Bob Mould, David Barbe, and Malcolm Travis.

www.brooklynvegan.com

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 2d

That the winner is a woman who is also the Venezuelan opposition leader is 🧑‍🍳 😘

a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with her hands folded in front of her .

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone do a wellness check on Trump? Has he melted down on Truth Social?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump doesn't have 'growing' senility the only thing that's 'growing' about his senility is the media's coverage of it as such

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker: "If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful.”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 2d

Umm, folks 👀

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d

Grand juries being the piece of the judicial system that holds up is lol

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 2d

Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 2d

After Pritzker and Newsom threatened to leave the NGA, the Republican Chair breaks with Trump. Pressure works. Keep it up!

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 3d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 3d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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sooner930.bsky.social @sooner930.bsky.social · 2d

Like…this is bog standard Catholic social teaching. Literally what I was raised to believe. And yet suddenly people I personally know who have been Catholic for decades are very offended by it. Wonder what changed?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2d

Weird how offended Christians get about the teachings of Christ.

Department of Shoe @shoe.bsky.social · 2d

Lol

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 2d

One conception of the Devil is that his only actual power is deception—lies, illusions, obfuscation, trickery.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 2d

News: I have obtained full transcripts of Peter Thiel's Secret Antichrist Lectures (as have multiple other journalists).

They were supposed to be embargoed until 9 a.m. tomorrow, but Reuters has a story up. (They may have gotten them from a different source)

www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

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Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 3d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

"THEY WERE EVENTUALLY LET GO AFTER SHOWING THIER DOCUMENTS". In other words, they were pulled out of their cars for looking "Mexican".

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 2d

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

It’s fun to imagine how little his and his allies’ rhetoric would change if the prize Trump was so desperate for wasn’t the Nobel Peace Prize but “Sexiest Man Alive.”

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 2d

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 4d

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

Alex Burness @burness.bsky.social · 5d

Dispatch from Pennsylvania on a highly unusual state Supreme Court election—one of the few most consequential matters on the ballot anywhere in the country next month. New from me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

boltsmag.org

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