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💙 Happysnarkygal 💙 @happysnarkygal.bsky.social · 4h

Oh goody. 😒 Yet another virus to be on the lookout for has made its way to the US.
But never fear! We have RFK Jr. to save us! 😱 apnews.com/article/chik...

New York health officials confirm state's first locally acquired case of chikungunya virus

New York health officials have confirmed the state’s first locally acquired case of chikungunya virus and the first such case in the country in six years.

apnews.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Parnas: A lot of people are saying this idea that, well, Graham Platner hasn’t won statewide, and Janet Mills has.

Platner: We have a number of excellent senators who had never run for office or won a statewide race before.

That’s an argument the establishment makes to protect itself

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

NO. It's fundamentally inappropriate for the @dscc.bsky.social to form a fundraising committee with Janet Mills. What happened to staying OUT of the primaries?

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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karenwootton.bsky.social @karenwootton.bsky.social · 12h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ42...

Diane Keaton's Charmingly Chaotic Interview On "The Colbert Report"

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

www.youtube.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 16h

🚨Breaking (last couple of hours) News out of East Chicago: *ICE, for whatever reason, spread like ants and began detaining people without cause, warrants, or crimes having been committed. 1/2

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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karenwootton.bsky.social @karenwootton.bsky.social · 13h

They pulled her pants down?! I hadn't yet read that detail.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Somebody tell Trump there's an Argentinian banker in one of these houses.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 14h

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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realGuyFawkes. @realguyfawkes.bsky.social · 13h

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 15h

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h

Trump’s administration laid off thousands of federal workers, gutting critical departments: Treasury, HHS, and Education.

What we’re seeing now isn’t new. The shutdown is the new excuse. Create chaos, starve the government, and leave folks struggling while Trump’s billionaire buddies get richer.

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Dale Ryder @kryton3298.bsky.social · 1d

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karenwootton.bsky.social @karenwootton.bsky.social · 14h

So Nevada's reducing Musk's fines for violating a settlement agreement because there are so many violations, because reducing them will be better deterrence than larger penalties?!?

www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15h

Just when you thought it was impossible for American corporate media to fail any harder than it already has for a decade now, it went and called a peace deal worthy of celebration something that was neither a peace deal nor even actually a deal nor really anything that meant anything lasting at all

'It's Not A Peace Deal': BBC Expert Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Donald Trump Over Gaza

Jeremy Bowen said the accord signed by the president was "almost devoid of content".

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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karenwootton.bsky.social @karenwootton.bsky.social · 15h

Young Republican leadership is sociopathic.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 16h

The President’s authorities under Article II are limited to responding to an armed attack/the threat of one and do not apply here.

These continued strikes — 27 killed to date — risk getting the U.S. into a full fledged war.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Politico @politico.com · 19h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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