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VC 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇩🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇵🇱 @minilover04.bsky.social · 4m

Yes, as figureheads with no actual power. None of them are trying to become hitler2.0.

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VC 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇩🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇵🇱 @minilover04.bsky.social · 7m

Excellent

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VC 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇩🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇵🇱 @minilover04.bsky.social · 12m

Nah…

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2h

Has Trump dispatched National Guard units to Alaska to help with flooding and recovery?

VC 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇩🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇵🇱 @minilover04.bsky.social · 1h

I’m so sick of the old guard. And I’m 69, been a democrat all my life. We have got to move forward with younger voices.

THE MAINE THING
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THE MAINE THING

Why do Democrats seem intent on picking yet another old, run-of-the-Mills candidate when they can have something better?

open.substack.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10h

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10h

Mockler: We saw this Nazi group chat which I’m sure you condemn right?

Kolvet: We can talk about it

Mockler: Do you condemn it?

Kolvet: I want to talk about it

Mockler: So, you’re like JD Vance? You won’t condemn this?

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 10h

October 15, 2025

Today the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Louisiana v.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 4h

As @lutzfernandez.bsky.social writes here, the MAGA obsession with the Epstein files was never about justice for his victims, it was only about their revenge fantasies about liberal elites, and now that's been laid bare:

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 5h

In my latest piece for The Unpopulist, I wrote about the convolutions of the Epstein story and how the throughline is MAGA using children to achieve their political ends.

For MAGA, what's supposed to be about the children is never about the children.

MAGA’s Epstein Fixation Isn’t About Justice, It’s About Revenge

House Republicans care less about delivering justice to this sexual predator's underage victims and more about punishing their political enemies

www.theunpopulist.net

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The Opinionated Ogre @opinionatedogre.bsky.social · 4h

Even Fox said no. That's how onerous the demands were.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 13h

Solidarity is the only way

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

What's the popularist answer to this point?

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

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Nick Varga @karaoke-god.bsky.social · 3h

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Kodiak149 @kodiak149.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 14h

Republicans aren’t even pretending to govern…
PROTECT OUR HEALTHCARE. NEGOTIATE WITH DEMOCRATS.
@whipkclark.bsky.social
youtu.be/MnudTshs5l8

BEHIND the SCENES of the GOV SHUTDOWN!

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h

EXCLUSIVE: Governor Gavin Newsom’s office confirmed to MeidasTouch he is working with local partners to minimize what would be “a massive disruption, and reckless disregard for California’s infrastructure and communities.”

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 14h

The racist-ass Supreme Court says race can't be a factor for college admissions or redistricting but racial profiling is perfectly fine for ICE to bash brown and Black skulls.

F this corrupt institution.

Expand the Court.

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VC 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇩🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇵🇱 @minilover04.bsky.social · 14h

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 19h

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...

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VC 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇩🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇵🇱 @minilover04.bsky.social · 15h

Republicans claim we can't afford Social Security and Medicare.

They're giving a $40,000,000,000 bailout to Argentina.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 17h

How many Republicans have to out themselves as nazis before you believe them?

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VC 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇩🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇵🇱 @minilover04.bsky.social · 15h

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16h

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump may launch missiles from warships into California this Friday and Saturday as part of what is being described as a “vanity parade” and shut down portions of the I-5 during the No Kings protests meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 20h

Now that Trump has delegated his preposterous politicking for a Nobel Peace Prize to sycophants, he can finally get around to declaring unilateral war on Venezuela, a war crime, as he murders Colombian civilians at sea, another war crime, and endorses collective punishment in Gaza, another war crime

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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