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MB @mblaber.bsky.social · 12h

Agree, and this article focuses way too much on the horse race and fails to name that Democrats pushed a funding measure to pay the troops, which is likely what pressured Trump to make this announcement yesterday, but if you’re gonna complain, tag them! @jacobbogage.bsky.social @rbeggin.bsky.social

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 13h

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MB @mblaber.bsky.social · 20h

They’re not real Catholics, and I assume they think immigrants aren’t real Catholics

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 22h

“Worshippers fled in fear as immigration agents appeared outside St. Jerome’s — part of Trump’s new campaign against Catholic parishes nationwide.”

www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/in-anti-ca...

In Anti-Catholic Crusade, Trump's ICE Targets Holy Mass in Chicago

Worshippers fled in fear as immigration agents appeared outside St. Jerome’s — part of Trump’s new campaign against Catholic parishes nationwide.

www.thelettersfromleo.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"Why doesn't Chicago want us to zip-tie more naked children in the middle of the night and shove them, screaming, into vans? So ungrateful for refusing our kind, helpful offer to help!"

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 1d

Insurance rates up $2000.

Food benefits cut off.

Farmers unable to sell their crops.

Skyrocketing national debt.

$40 billion to Argentina.

America First!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Land of the free, home of the brave

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 1d

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

This Supreme Court will do anything it can to ensure the end of our representative democracy.

This is a naked effort to save a racist, nihilistic, principle-free far-right minoritarian movement from disappearing from American politics by instead giving it hegemony over the United States... forever.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

If the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South. Here's how.

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.

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MB @mblaber.bsky.social · 1d

One person like, say, the sitting U.S. senator from Utah?
(He is of course, lying: Political violence is statistically much more common on the right)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Vance: "Political violence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left. If you had, god forbid, somebody on the left who was assassinated, I'm sure you could find one person who would maybe celebrate it, but the fact that it became mainstream to celebrate Charlie's death..."

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

This Supreme Court case in Louisiana is about one thing, and one thing only: reinstituting Jim Crow by way of ensuring that Black Americans are taxed without receiving representation in Congress.

Everything else is noise and bluster.

This stolen Supreme Court is going to send us back to the 1860s.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Here's how differently-abled and disabled folks can join No Kings 2: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS for Differently-Abled and Disabled Friends · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

www.mobilize.us

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has declared a sort of war on half of us.

NYT:

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1d

What the fuck are we doing?

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

Brown rejected the compact!

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

The more GOP officials and right-wing hacks try to spin and pivot from their Young Republican leaders praising Hitler and racism and gas chambers for their enemies, the more it puts the story in the spotlight.

Keep at it!

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing to see here but a Trump official conflicting interesting all over the place by aiming at one company which deigns to lightly bring up safety issues around AI.

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.

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Barbra Streisand @barbrastreisand.bsky.social · 2d

Solar energy is one of the least costly and environmentally sound way to produce electricity. Donald Trump is deliberately sabotaging our energy future and raising costs for everyone.

An Immense Solar Project Just Got Canceled Under Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2d

Four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park.

Forest Park cemetery workers recount traumatic clash with ICE; mayor calls for crackdown to end

‘If this is happening to me, a U.S. citizen, what are they doing to the other individuals?’

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4d

I am going to re-up this a third time:

Please read this excellent piece by Lincoln Caplan about why John Roberts—more than Mitch McConnell, more than Stephen Miller or Russell Vought, more than anyone else—owns the destruction of Constitutional order.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5d

Re-upping:

Excellent assessment of John "Roger Taney" Roberts.

In @harvardmagazine.bsky.social , by Lincoln Caplan.

As careful, legally informed, judicious-minded writer as you're going to find. With an unsparing judgment.

www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...

What Trump Means for John Roberts's Legacy | Harvard Magazine

Executive power is on the docket at the Supreme Court.

www.harvardmagazine.com

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