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Kate @katastrophe98.bsky.social · 4h

@kim.senate.gov this is the wrong move and I think you should listen to impacted communities and reconsider

Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 2d

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Ah, locals mention the federal court order here, which also requires agents to wear some identification.

Also, quite an image in here: masked, fully-geared-out DHS agents getting screamed at in a residential neighborhood by some dude who is barefoot and in pajama pants.

armando l sanchez @mandophotos.bsky.social · 1d

More from the scene

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 8h

For Trump “escalator/teleprompter day” is as important as Washington crossing the Delaware, Lincoln During the Civil War, Eisenhower commanding the D-Day invasion, and other pivotal moments when American leaders overcame adversity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump in Malaysia: "United Nation should be doing this but they don't do it. They turned off my teleprompter when I made a speech. They're good at that. The escalator wasn't working."

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

It’s fun to look at this ai slop nazi propaganda and then remember what these guys actually look like. This isn’t what they (or america) looks like and far from loving america, this is an expression of severe self loathing bsky.app/profile/geof...

Geoff Bowser @geoffbowser.bsky.social · 20h

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

This ICE removal operated by Omni Air International is now making its second stop, in Sri Lanka. So far, migrants onboard have spent 34 hours in handcuffs, leg irons and a waist chain. There may be more stops.

Omni and its parent company were purchased in April by private equity firm Stonepeak.

An ADSBx map of South Asia showing the flight path of Omni aircraft N819AX. It flew east, landed in New Delhi, then flew south and is approacing Colombo, Sir Lanka.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

The Plot to Enslave America

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Kate @katastrophe98.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck this guy

Anti-trans Cell phone text add from pathetic Jack Cittiarelli that says “who will keep men out of women’s sports?”

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

It cannot get lost in the shuffle, even with so much else going on, that the world's most wealthy people have had their minds absolutely rotted out, just saturated to the dripping point with black mold down to the studs and frame, by the all encompassing unhumanity of their wealth.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Why did Indiana University attack and cut its own student newspaper?

Well, in a twist of irony any English professor would call clichéd, it turns out IU did it because they were angry about the students' reporting on a FIRE report naming IU as the worst public university for free speech in the US.

Indiana University banned its student newspaper from printing just days before homecoming weekend — after firing the paper’s advisor when he refused to censor critical coverage.

That would be bad enough on its own, but FIRE is taking this one personally, as the Indiana Daily Student reported this hostile campaign was due in part to its coverage of FIRE’s ranking Indiana University as the worst public university for free speech.

You read that right. The school’s response to the news that they are bad at free speech … is to censor the news. It’s ironic — and not just in the Alanis Morissette sense — that these actions will likely push its overall ranking even lower next year. At least we can’t fault them for consistency.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

A 14-word replacement for most op-eds, substacks, etc about this moment.

The GOP could stop ALL of this, right now—if a handful of Sens or Reps could step outside the cult.

It would take four in the Senate, four (maybe five) in the House, to change history.

Until then, they're all to blame.

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d

Degenerate art (German: Entartete Kunst) was a term adopted in the 1920s by the Nazi Party in Germany to describe modern art. During the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, German modernist art, including many

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Kate @katastrophe98.bsky.social · 1d

The people running the country…

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 1d

Sources detail how Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff, and others brokered a call between SF Mayor Daniel Lurie and Trump to stop National Guard deployment (Wall Street Journal)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

The company brought Junior in right after the election as part owner. They just won the largest drone motor contract awarded by the Pentagon.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d

This is insanely illegal and incredibly fucking dangerous.

Adam Cancryn @adamcancryn.bsky.social · 2d

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics

The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...

www.cnn.com

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Kate @katastrophe98.bsky.social · 2d

What the fuck are we doing here? This is insane

Adam Cancryn @adamcancryn.bsky.social · 2d

New: The Pentagon confirms to CNN it will funnel $130M from an anonymous Trump “friend” toward military pay.

Asked about the donor’s identity and any foreign or domestic entanglements, the WH referred questions to DoD. DoD then referred questions back to the WH
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members | CNN Politics

The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Dep...

www.cnn.com

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Kate @katastrophe98.bsky.social · 2d

RIP irony

USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 2d

The White House's East Wing construction rubble was taken to East Potomac Golf Course. It was reported that the rubble will be used to create mounds on the golf course.

Read more: bit.ly/4oa2tXA

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump Administration is an assembly of koolaid drinking trolls who can’t see how insane they are. Problem is the press corps actively covers this up and Democrats are too cowardly to beat on it like a drum.

Maureen Johnson @maureenjohnsonbooks.com · 2d

These are screenshots from the ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE PAGE on the timeline of the East Wing. You may not believe what you re seeing. Go and check for yourself. This...I don't even know what to say about this.

Timeline:
Reconstruction of east wing
Addition of Briefing Room
Bill Clinton Scandal
Muslim Brotherhood visits

Cocaine Discovered
Trans Day of Visibility
North and South flagpole
Rose Garden renovations

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Baltimore high school student Taki Allen was swarmed by police after an artificial intelligence system apparently mistook his bag of Doritos for a gun www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

a photo of Taki Allen and a bag of doritos

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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 2d

They are monitoring Passaic County, NJ, which has the highest percentage Latino population in the state.

In CA, they are monitoring LA County, Kern, Riverside, Fresno and Orange. Aside from Kern, these are among the counties with the highest Latino pop in the state.

Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg 🇵🇸 @elizabethweill.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: The Department of Justice announced it will "monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions [in New Jersey and California] ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot security, and compliance with federal law." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Justice Department to Monitor Polling Sites in California, New Jersey

WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Justice announced that it will monitor polling sites in six jurisdictions ahead of the upcoming November 4, 2025, general election to ensure transparency, ballot ...

www.justice.gov

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

A Jewish-American journalist was attacked by Israeli settlers nearly a week ago, and Senate Democrats Chuck Schumer (party leader) and Kirsten Gillibrand (DSCC leader), and Rep. Dan Goldman have apparently completely ignored him:

Jasper Nathaniel tweets:

jasper nathaniel
@infinite_jaz
Look I really don’t care anymore but just want to say that after I was attacked by Israeli settlers, I made multiple attempts to speak with my representatives—
@SenSchumer
,
@SenGillibrand
and
@RepDanGoldman
—and have been completely stonewalled. I am quite literally still in harm’s way and they don’t seem interested in so much as a convo. They’ve even ignored my (MSNBC) mom.
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I’ll have much more to say about what’s happening in Turmus’ayya soon. For now, a question to my reps: @SenSchumer @SenGillibrand @danielsgoldman — is your unconditional support for Israel worth more to you than the life of your own constituent? x.com/infinite_jaz/s…

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

Mamdani: "I thought that if I could build a campaign of universality ... if I behaved well enough or bit my tongue enough ... it would allow me to be more than just my faith. I was wrong."

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Kate @katastrophe98.bsky.social · 2d

Mamdani’s clarity and courage really is strikingly different than almost any other politician at the moment.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 2d

Mamdani: "I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of NYC. I want to speak to the memory of my aunt, who stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in a hijab. I want to speak for the Muslims who work for our city ... only to see their leaders spit in their face."

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.

Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators

DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators

The agency denied making

gizmodo.com

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