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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

“$350,000,000”

And surely all those *investors* will get itemized receipts to make sure he didn’t just pocket most of it too right?

No wonder taxpayers aren’t paying — less transparency/criming this way

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h

How long is Mike Johnson willing to keep the House in recess to cover up the Epstein gang‘s rape of children?

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Jmtdiva she/her @jmtdiva.bsky.social · 1d

BISHTOONS @bishtoons.bsky.social · 1d

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them.

That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

I can’t think of what to say.
The Speaker of the House will say he hasn’t heard anything about it.
No one will ask John Thune anything.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."

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valebodi.bsky.social @valebodi.bsky.social · 6h

Fresh of publication
Sex-related cardiometabolic differences in #ME/CFS patients

Francisco Westermeier et al.

Highlights

In ME/CFS patients, cardiovascular differences are more pronounced during standing in both sexes.

Male ME/CFS patients show higher levels of AOPP, a marker of oxidative

Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a chronic, debilitating, and multisystem disease that affects more females than males. …

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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 4h

#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1850: The first National Women’s Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Mass. The two-day conference attracted more than 1,000 delegates from 11 states to promote women’s suffrage and greater political, legal, social and economic equality. /1

Some of the attendees of the National Women’s Rights Convention in 1850: Top: Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis; Bottom: Lucretia Mott, Harriot Kezia Hunt. Harriet Martineau (bottom right) did not attend, but her receipt of the convention transcripts led to her to encourage a similar movement in England. Image credits: Library of Congress, National Portrait Gallery, Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons, National Portrait Gallery.

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SeldomKate @seldomkate.bsky.social · 5h

Destroying public lands.

Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 9h

BREAKING: Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum opened all 1.56 million acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain to oil and gas leasing. These lands are sacred to the Gwich’in Nation, home to irreplaceable wildlife and wilderness, and have never seen industrialization.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 6h

This is a take-one-for-the-team moment.

Our country is dying, and Jack Smith knows it.

He’s asking to testify publicly, so you know he’s got receipts.

Doing this paints an even larger target on his back, and he's saying, "Fuck it."

Go Jack!

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 6h

To AAPIs who think they can ride the racist MAGA wave and not drown in the undertow, a cautionary tale from a very weak mind.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 6h

Preventing health care costs from exploding?
Reopening the government?
Lowering the cost of groceries?

Nope. Building himself a new $300 million ballroom.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 6h

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 6h

Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a letter to Chairman Jim Jordan calling on him to accept former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s offer to testify publicly before Congress regarding his investigations into President Donald Trump’s criminal wrongdoing.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

If republicans are fine with this, is there any reason why he couldn't just... knock down the lincoln memorial? or the vietnam wall?

What else might he want to do to arlington cemetary besides putting his big weird french arch with gold dingleberries in front of it?

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

It’s not just the facade: Team Trump has wrecked much of the White House’s East Wing

By Tuesday afternoon, it appeared obvious that a significant portion of the East Wing has been demolished, the president's earlier vows notwithstanding.

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 12h

"Federal immigration agents arrested Scott Sakiyama outside his child’s Oak Park elementary school this week after he followed them and honked his horn to warn others of their presence."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/23/o...

Oak Park attorney arrested near school says federal agents pointed gun at him, had ‘Chiraq Team 2’ group chat

Federal immigration agents arrested Scott Sakiyama outside his child’s Oak Park elementary school this week after he followed them and honked his horn to warn others of their presence.

www.chicagotribune.com

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National Democratic Redistricting Committee @democraticredistricting.com · 13h

Nothing says “small government” or “states’ rights” like the president’s allies intimidating state lawmakers into rigging an election.

Trump has made the GOP burn down everything it once claimed to stand for.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to his Supreme Court, Trump more or less has legal carte blanche in the U.S.

But he’s not immune from international prosecution for war crimes in Argentina.

Nor is Secretary WarriorBro™️.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h

Update: The Chicago clergy letter decrying ICE's actions and voicing a willingness on the part of clergy to put their "bodies on the line" to protest ICE has reached 250 signatures — and now includes multiple evangelical pastors/leaders of evangelical institutions in the area.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social · 12h

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 12h

NEWS: Video shot by a resident outside the Little Village mall shows what appears to be another tear gassing by immigration agents in Chicago’s streets. Rapid responders afterward collected the agents’ materials.

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Kristin K 🌻 @kjkrathwohl.bsky.social · 12h

Isn’t this a national security issue?

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14h

In the midst of a federal government shutdown, the U.S. government’s gross national debt surpassed $38 trillion Wednesday, a record number that highlights the accelerating accumulation of debt on America’s balance sheet. https://to.pbs.org/3Wksib6

U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic

This rapid debt accumulation is the fastest outside of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the debt having reached $37 trillion in August.

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FreeLinkophant sHELLey B Woke - Living Saint of Purity🏳️‍⚧️🖤💜🤍 💛 @shelleybwoke.bsky.social · 12h

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"How exactly the bear entered the zoo remains a mystery"

I'm pretty sure it walked in.

Wild bear 'looking for a friend' breaks into California zoo, meets 3 captive bears

How exactly the bear entered the zoo remains a mystery.

www.yahoo.com

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 13h

Trump got paid. And in exchange, he is rewarding a criminal who will use his new freedom to make every single American less safe. Get furious. I sure as hell am, and wish we had a single Republican who was willing to support ANY oversight. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Exclusive | Trump Pardons Convicted Binance Founder

The pardon follows months of efforts by Changpeng Zhao to boost the Trump crypto company.

www.wsj.com

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 13h

Total transparency from the Trump administration...

on Epstein? No
boat strikes? No
White House demolitions? No
Most everything? No

Contrails? Yes

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 1d

How do mRNA vaccines help fight cancer?
A @nature.com paper today tells the story, one with big implications, as reviewed here
erictopol.substack.com/p/how-mrna-v...

How mRNA Vaccines Can Help Fight Cancer

Turning "cold" tumors "hot"

erictopol.substack.com

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