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Jason Copland @mingalabardreaming.bsky.social · 4h

Farce. Not farce.

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 8h

for those keeping track at home: YouTube and Snapchat say they doesn't qualify, TikTok is reportedly trying to get around the ban by fiddling with its features.

With <2 months to go, 3 out of 5 companies /named/ by the government either don't accept they're in the ban or want to circumvent it

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 4h

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK? Reynolds is a monster. Utterly ghastly person.

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 5h

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 10h

Victoria Police will slim down its executive team and divert more officers to the front line under reforms aimed at reducing crime in the state.

Victoria Police to slim down executive, divert more officers to front line

Victoria Police will slim down its executive team and divert more officers to the front line under reforms aimed at reducing crime in the state.

www.abc.net.au

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Jason Copland @mingalabardreaming.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you.

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Jason Copland @mingalabardreaming.bsky.social · 12h

So I guess Albo will be giving away the country’s rare earth minerals too, without gain. Disgraceful.

It is what Australian governments do. 🙄

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 15h

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 14h

Watch with sound (if you can)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 16h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 19h

Gov. Pritzker on Adelita Grijalva: "Mike Johnson won't swear her in. Why is that? … She'll be the 218th signature forcing a vote to release the Jeffrey Epstein files."

"Trump and Mike Johnson are working awfully damn hard to keep a sexual predator's files from being released. Makes you wonder why."

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 23h

here's today's post: "Republicans are losing, and they know it" — they’ve MAGA’d themselves into a corner.
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —

Republicans are losing, and they know it

they’ve MAGA’d themselves into a corner

bit.ly

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 16h

my father (a retired white engineer who has been in oklahoma for 40 years) is my weathervane for what normal people who just watch the news periodically think, and he was like “so, they want to call the guard out on a bunch of kids wearing frog suits? is that true?”, the admin is losing the PR war

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h

Also lying:
- your own eyes
- every bit of video evidence
- the fabric of reality itself

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

No Kings Day is almost here.

The Trump regime believes that if it can overwhelm us with atrocities and threats, we'll surrender our rights without fighting for them.

But the people won’t bow down. We will rise. Join us at a peaceful protest on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 21h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18h

Former Presidents consistently talk about the difficulty of getting good information as President, how everyone has an agenda, is telling them what they want to hear, etc.

Most Presidents make some effort to mitigate that well-known problem, but Trump's like "moar bubble, I want only bubble."

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 19h

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...

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 21h

“With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in order to rule by dividing,” he said. “You can be a bulwark of civility against the quicksand of approximation and post-truth...”

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Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia.

Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

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Jenny Lecoat @jennylecoat.bsky.social · 1d

Great interview on LBC this morning with @matthew-wright.bsky.social with @peterjukes.bsky.social exposing the Russian links to cuddly old NiGel's party. More of this!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

There's a decent chance that the Supremes will strike down Trump’s extra special brand new 100% China tariff, as unconstitutional. And so it's doubly notable how much markets panicked, given the (roughly) 50% chance it won’t happen. The market drop understates the damage Trump's trying to inflict.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois.

We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

Abbott activates emergency resources ahead of growing wildfire threat, flood risk in Texas

With expected growing wildfire danger across Texas and the potential for a flood risk this weekend, Gov. Greg Abbott is activating more state emergency response resources Friday.

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