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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 4h

How quickly they forget.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 4h

Or: Gee, thanks, Dad.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 4h

From @mattbelloni.bsky.social’s newsletter tonight. Don’t know who this person is but I am very entertained by this take.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 7h

seems the correct spelling was too much to expect.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 7h

newrepublic.com/post/201721/...

Would CBS News Have Run This Story a Week Ago?

Bari Weiss’s fingerprints can already be seen.

newrepublic.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 13h

When they keep emailing you that the VIP tickets for a band you’ve never heard of are going fast

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 13h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 12h

Rearview.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 12h

That lie is so far back in the review that it’s not even a speck.

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 13h

The government’s own data and detentions like the ones we reported on in Chicago raise serious doubt about whether the Trump administration’s mission is to target “the worst of the worst” at all. New reporting from @msnbc.com. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 15h

Two monsters preserving themselves and each other.

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 15h

@maxboot.bsky.social is a pessimist on peace and Palestinian self-determination: "To convert this ceasefire into a lasting peace will require sacrifices that neither Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya show any indication of making." Gift link 🎁 wapo.st/48Lo43V

Opinion | Why the Gaza ceasefire won’t lead to lasting peace

“A new Middle East” will require sacrifices that Israelis and Palestinians show no sign of making.

wapo.st

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 15h

😳

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 15h

Annoying. And I have been putting used teabags in the green bin thinking they were all biodegradable.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 15h

I get the cups but a tea bag?!

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 16h

Authoritarian respect.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 1d

ICE goons have detained the parents of a Marine serving his country as they tried to visit their pregnant daughter on the Camp Pendleton base.

ICE Barbie’s Goons Detain and Deport Dad of Marine

Family says stop at Camp Pendleton gate led to their father’s deportation.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 16h

The most embarrassing peacocking in US history.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

Thugs. And we're paying for them.

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 21h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 19h

Standup comic John O'Donnell does a better job explaining NSPM-7 than basically all of major media:

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 16h

I think he forgot his “friend’s” name.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

"Authoritarianism, it's a cancer. The symptoms are here, today... We thought it couldn't happen here... and now the disease is growing, metastasizing in America. But there is a cure—it requires you. On October 18, Americans will stand up, peacefully, for what makes America, America." nokings.org

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 16h

An embarrassment wherever he goes.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve never seen him look more excited.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 16h

Wait. Tea bags have plastic in their lining??

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Microplastics are everywhere. You can do one simple thing to avoid them.

The biggest sources of microplastics have one thing in common: Heat.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 20h

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 20h

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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Kim Masters @kimmasters.bsky.social · 19h

A vivid reminder not to get nostalgic about W.

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