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Saint Terrificus @stterrificus.bsky.social · 1h

"DON'T CALL US FASCISTS!" say the dipshits who admire Hitler...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.politico.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Hochul: "They promised to extract revenge on their political enemies & apparently any state that has a D gov. Tell me how Florida & Texas could receive these same funds w/o having to go to court? They're playing politics, but more than that, they're playing with people's lives. And that's abhorrent"

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The Good Kraken @thekrakensays.bsky.social · 9h

So big. It’s so big and get bigger every day.

A children’s book cover says “How big is this shitshow?” with a child holding her arms open wide.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

😕🇺🇸

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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 1h

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 5h

In other words, Trump didn’t secure the peace like he claims

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

Oh look ... see you can make Russia pay a price for war crimes.🤷‍♀️

Can someone please show this to Trump?

Silicon Curtain podcast @siliconcurtain.bsky.social · 1h

London takes a hard swing at Russia: with sanctions on Rosneft, Lukoil and the “shadow fleet”. The UK just unveiled one of its most sweeping packages yet: new sanctions listings hitting the cornerstones of Russia’s war machine revenues, the oil industry. youtu.be/G_voYXwv5eM

Day 1,341 - Breaking: UK Oil Sanctions to Hit Russia War Revenues Hard

YouTube video by Silicon Curtain

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 Charles Pierce on the GOP gutting the VRA: “It dies at the hands of people who profane 🇺🇸’s best instincts by seeking to return to its worst impulses.”

Ensuring minorities having voice is only seen as a threat by those who want to silence it. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Thune: "If I were a woman I'd be talking to my doctor and not taking advice from RFK"

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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 1h

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

I was born in 1972. The replacement rate he's panicked about has been below 2.1% for almost every year of my life.

If you're really worried about the population falling, giving immigrants a path to citizenship is an obvious and easy solution.

Unless there's ... something about them you don't like?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 4h

Bring your frog costumes. Be silly. No violence. Make fun of him. Make everyone laugh at him. Remind him and the world that he's small, petty, and stupid.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 1h

If the Commander of Southern Command is stepping down less than a year into his tenure, I’m guessing we’re about to find out the intelligence picture on these “narco-terrorist” vessels that we’re blowing out of the water isn’t as solid as it’s being portrayed.

Blue Freedom Quest 💙🌊💙🌊 @bluefreedomquest.bsky.social · 2h

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

Damn, talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Republicans are trying to kill a program their own voters depend on. 77% of ACA marketplace enrollees live in Trump states. This shutdown is a healthcare hit job on their own base.
#TrumpShutdownBadForUS

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Margie @paeznyc.bsky.social · 1h

WATCH: Massachusetts community demands release of 13-year-old boy detained by ICE abcnews.go.com/US/video/mas...

Video Massachusetts community demands release of 13-year-old boy detained by ICE

A Massachusetts community is calling for the release of a 13-year-old boy being held by ICE in Virginia after his arrest by local law enforcement for allegedly threatening a student at his school.

abcnews.go.com

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Joe "Damn Right I'm Antifa" Bacon @josephebacon.bsky.social · 2h

How many wild oats have you sowed, Killer Kennedy?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

RFK Jr: "When my uncle was president, the fertility rate in this country was 3.5%. Today it is 1.6%. The replacement rate -- in other words the amount of fertility you need to keep your population even -- is 2.1%. We are below replacement. That is a national security threat to our country."

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Politico @politico.com · 1h

BREAKING: John Bolton is indicted for allegedly keeping and sharing classified information.

John Bolton is indicted for allegedly keeping and sharing classified information

The charges against Trump's former national security adviser come as the president has pressured DOJ to pursue criminal indictments of his political foes.

www.politico.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

Abbott not only “tolerates” political violence, he encourages it by pardoning the perpetrators when they kill people he doesn’t like www.expressnews.com/news/politic...

Violence and destruction will never be tolerated in Texas," Abbott said in a statement announcing the deployment. “Texas will deter criminal mischief and work with local law enforcement to arrest anyone engaging in acts of violence or damaging property."

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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 1h

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1h

The flip side of Callais: Blue states may soon be compelled to "unpack" their majority-minority districts drawn to comply with the Voting Rights Act.

That could net 12+ House seats for Dems if they're ruthless enough.

But at the very real cost of congressional diversity. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Republicans’ near-permanent House majority, however, is not inevitable—even if SCOTUS does deliver a death blow to minority voting rights. That’s because the court’s decision would also allow blue states to draw more efficient Democratic gerrymanders, redrawing current majority-minority districts to maximize the party’s electoral advantage. Freed from the VRA’s constraints, states like New York, New Jersey, and Illinois could move more Democratic voters out of deep-blue districts into red and purple districts, eliminating more than a dozen Republican seats in the House.

Such a strategy would require painful trade-offs: Congress could become even less diverse, since racial minorities in blue states would have fewer opportunities to elect the representatives of their choice. And the number of truly competitive House elections would shrink even more, further eroding democratic accountability. The net effect, though, would be a substantial boost for the Democratic Party that could offset many of the gains that Republicans are poised to reap. The result may not be a Republican-dominated House so much as a Congress with far fewer members of color—an outcome that the justices bent on destroying the Voting Rights Act blithely dismissed on Wednesday.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1h

Good. Never, ever cut a deal with fascists.

Daniel Miller @danielnmiller.bsky.social · 2h

Breaking: USC has rejected President Trump's education compact. The university's interim president Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer, which has been presented to nine schools. www.latimes.com/california/s...

USC rejects Trump education compact

The University of Southern California had rejected the controversial education compact the Trump administration offered it and eight other schools.

www.latimes.com

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💙🫡LittleMissEmmet🫡💙 @littlemissemmet.bsky.social · 1h

7. DON'T SIGN, Say or Agree to Anything, without a lawyer present.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

ACLU

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💙🫡LittleMissEmmet🫡💙 @littlemissemmet.bsky.social · 1h

🇺🇸KNOW YOUR PROTEST RIGHTS🇺🇸

🦋Stay Safe Out there, Watch Each Other's Backs!🦋

Remember when Protesting, They WILL Provoke you to go Violent.

DO NOT FALL FOR THAT OLD SCHEME!!

🤬PROTEST
🤬RESIST
🤬NEVER OBEY IN ADVANCE

✨7 Points to Memorize, in comments.✨

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1h

That Trump got away with his mishandling (theft?) of classified documents is bad enough but that he then uses classified documents as an excuse to go after his opponents is just… no words. We live in the worst timeline.

Politico @politico.com · 1h

BREAKING: John Bolton is indicted for allegedly keeping and sharing classified information.

John Bolton is indicted for allegedly keeping and sharing classified information

The charges against Trump's former national security adviser come as the president has pressured DOJ to pursue criminal indictments of his political foes.

www.politico.com

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Margiem @margiem.bsky.social · 1h

I really don’t want to live in a country where scary men with covered faces break into family homes and zip tie 2 year olds ‼️