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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 2h

Has there ever been a Speaker who claims to know as little about the government as Mike Johnson?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 57m

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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media

Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 57m

Really good reason to support Alaska’s public radio stations, which were hugely reliant on the CPB funding Trump and the GOP cut

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 1h

I would not have known about this had it not been for local indigenous folk there posting here.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1h

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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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 58m

How reactionary centrist of them to throw in the sentence “always an epithet”

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 1h

NPR/Alaska Public Media: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

AP: apnews.com/article/alas...

CNN: www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/w...

Fox Weather: www.foxweather.com/weather-news...

ABC: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

CBS: www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-...

The Weather Channel: weather.com/news/weather...

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1h

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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Futurism @futurism.com · 14h

"No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden — heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2h

Among the reasons Americans risked it all to get rid of a tyrannical king:
“He has obstructed the Admin of Justice…made Judges dependent on his Will…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…kept among us Standing Armies w/o legislatures’ Consent” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...

What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose

Reflecting on a president's obligations and what history tells us about rejecting tyranny and injustice

www.americaamerica.news

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 12h

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13h

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 13h

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 15h

While important coverage, this also has not kept up with the pace of what has happened even over this weekend. Agents are swarming across the city, brandishing guns at people, detaining them for filming, etc. Dramatic and violent escalations.

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 14h

Curious: Would that make a difference to you?

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 9d

Keeping America safe from [checks notes...] ... nope, nobody, not at all.

Actually terrorizing Americans instead & violating our rights.

Arrest them.
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9d

Thugs.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15h

The idea that world events and life-or-death political decisions should turn on what one elderly US citizen sees on a TV sounds like the premise for a 1970s dystopian satire written by the most hysterical Marxist novelist seeking to magnify the moral rot and decadence of a declining American empire…

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 15h

“One former senior Trump administration official from the first term tells Zeteo that…when Trump was publicly dangling the idea of attacking Iranian cultural sites…the president indeed… asked…aides what they thought of striking the specific targets offered up by the likes of Hegseth &…Sean Hannity.”

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 21h

For my piece today at @zeteo.com i wanted to truly underscore how punishingly stupid american fascism is now. Like, my original proposed headline for this was:

Our Democracy Is Imperiled Because One Old Man Won’t Stop ‘Yelling’ At His TV. zeteo.com/p/trump-addi...

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 17h

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 14h

Citi Fraud Dept Calling

April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 14h

“I’ll just post myself”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 14h

Purchase of $9,782 approved

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 14h

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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Scott Imberman @imbernomics.bsky.social · 17h

HE…IS…THIRTEEN

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 19h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14h

Family separation 2025

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 19h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 17h

Why doesn't Donald Trump remember that he was President on January 6th, 2021?

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17h

Reverend David Black, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying at the armed agents above him before being shot in the head with a pepper ball at least twice and falling to his knees.

Black said he could hear ICE laughing. trib.al/9Nstfnp

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Assaad Razzouk @assaadrazzouk.bsky.social · 1d

Good climate news this week
1 Global: Renewables generation surpasses coal for 1st time
2 Global: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries
3 Global: Solar and wind generation grew in 1st half by more than overall demand increased in the same period

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

This isn’t about politics; it’s about ownership of the scoreboard. When the scoreboard changes owners, the game changes. The sale no one voted on...and why you should care.🔥👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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