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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 22m

He’s already saving the city money and he hasn’t even been elected.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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bunnicula @eboldy.bsky.social · 39m

I feel like “most americans want cheap goods” may primarily come down to “most americans can’t afford well-made things” and then you get into a circular firing squad

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2h

But after not getting enough orders, the company closed. Managing partner Kenneth Ragland said: “Lots of people talk about Made in the USA as being so necessary, but when the rubber meets the road, most Americans want cheap goods, which do not make it easy for US firms to survive.”

Excerpt reads: Garland Apparel Group is working to find the next occupant for the town’s long-standing Garland Shirt Company after a lack of orders to meet basic costs necessitate furloughs — and ultimately the closure — of the factory.

“The factory was placed on furlough in November. It was our intention to return to work, however, orders needed to keep the factory open and functional, did not materialize,” Kenneth Ragland, managing partner for Garland Apparel Group, told The Independent. “The factory required a minimum number of orders to meet basic costs and wages. The aggregate total of orders we had were simply far too low to support day-to day operations.”

During the period of November through today, company leaders have been working with several parties “who have a desire to acquire the factory,” Ragland noted.

“One transaction is now close to completion. I cannot opine on the buyer nor their plans, but I know they are North Carolina based and they have need for factory capacity, which Garland can provide,” Ragland stated.

Excerpt reads: Despite bringing back a majority of the workforce, and enjoying success for a couple years, the factory was fighting an uphill battle in the long run.

“The factory suffered from Brooks Brothers owning it too long, from Brooks not investing in basic upkeep or in better systems, and ultimately, the lack of interest in Made in the USA,” Ragland stated bluntly. “Lots of people talk about Made in the USA as being so necessary, but when the rubber meets the road, most Americans want cheap goods which does not make it easy for U.S. firms to survive.”

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 58m

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

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 · 9h

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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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 32m

I asked my spinach about you and it said you were

Spinach package that says thoroughly washed

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Wineless Cat Mom @nicoleoking.bsky.social · 1h

Oh seeing Dule Hill on my TV again would’ve been fantastic

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TheValuesVoter @thevaluesvoter.bsky.social · 2h

This man holds office because Republican Senators (almost all of them) voted to confirm him earlier this year.

If that bothers you, let them know and remember it when they come up for re-election.

Kat 🕊️💙🦋🇺🇦🌻🌊🟧🟦🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎭💖 @smith83k.bsky.social · 2h

'CDC is over': RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre
Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data. By Brandy Zadrozny #Pinks

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 1h

Psst:

A reminder for American writers: High tea is not fancier tea, it’s supper. It’s a more substantial meal with a main dish, rather than tea, biscuits, scones, little snack foods. And it’s high because it’s served on a high table — dining table height — not a low, tea or coffee table.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 21h

BUSTER KEATON

priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 22h

Diane Keaton in her Manhattan apartment with Buster, an Abyssinian, photographed by Jill Krementz in 1977

black & white photograph of young Diane Keaton smiling and standing next to a white refrigerator in a barren-looking kitchen. her cat Buster is crouched on top of the fridge playing with/swatting her hair in the upper right hand corner. she's wearing a long skinny white scarf with a dot-grid pattern, a high-neck white blouse with an ascot/kerchief around the neck, and a black blazer/skirt or blazer dress over what looks like a vest

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NPR @npr.org · 1h

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

n.pr

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Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 5h

"We're actually expected to do our jobs with due diligence?" has become a pretty boilerplate defense on the right and people who interview them need to respond with, "If you cannot manage to do the job you should probably quit and apologize to the American people for taking it in the 1st place"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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bfitzinAR @bfitzinar.bsky.social · 6h

~$25,800 TO GO FOOD/MEDS/HYGIENE, BILLS, & RENT FOR THE YEAR URGENT!

When the research grants were all cut, there went Sydette's income. Any combo ppl x $$ = $25,800 keeps them safe.

Pls RS/QS. Pls do what you can. #HelpFolksLive2025

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I really need help with this . I’m gonna go hyperventilate into a bag but this has gone bad quickly

🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welp it’s gotten real real if you can please help. If you can’t it’s really hard out here so share

gofund.me/a5ee0064

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 3h

It is incredibly clear that Stephen Miller has decided this guy must be tortured, and nothing else will suffice, otherwise the Trump administration looks weak.

Dude is a literal war criminal.

Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 3h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

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

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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Bayly Hoehne @baylyhoehne.bsky.social · 2d

I started volunteering in politics as a fired-up 12 year old, and have spent every day since working to turn out my generation.

I'm now 18, and I just voted for the first time! 🎉

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WS @wsmrc.bsky.social · 2h

This building is just over a mile from the White House on 16th Street. This sale took place almost 5 years ago.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Uproar over sale of iconic Carnegie institution headquarters to Qatar exposes deeper tensions

Some scientists decry planned reorganization of famous research institution

www.science.org

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EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 3h

@melisandra01.bsky.social www.thefp.com/p/how-qatar-...

Check this out

How Qatar Bought America

The tiny Gulf nation has spent almost $100 billion to establish its influence in Congress, universities, newsrooms, think tanks, and corporations. What does it want in return?

www.thefp.com

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 3h

I know that when I like a piece of journalism, I have to preemptively yell at the readers so they appreciate how good it is.

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 2h

The Killdozer Test has low specificity but high sensitivity. Not everyone who hates Marvin Heemeyer is trustworthy, but everyone who idolizes him is a piece-of-shit edgelord who doesn't read.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2h

the killdozer guy became this only semi-ironic epic hero for the average man who will be oppressed no longer, which is funny, because if you read anything about the background it becomes like 100% clear that he was in the wrong. Which makes sense! His actions are not those of a reasonable person!

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rj-t2 @arrjayteatoo.bsky.social · 2h

WHY IS THE GRAVY CLEAR?!

🧛🏿‍♂️Count Niggula 🦇🇳🇬🇨🇩 @theigbobear.blacksky.app · 6d

Y’all eating this?

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 2h

God you gotta love Ulysses Grant

As for provisions, Grant remembered what he had learned after Van Dorn’s destruction of his supply base the previous December. This time he intended to cut loose from his base, travel light, and live off the country. Although civilians were going hungry in Mississippi, Grant was confident that his soldiers would not. A powerful army on the move could seize supplies that penniless women and children could not afford to buy. For the next two weeks the Yankee soldiers lived well on hams, poultry, vegetables, milk, and honey as they stripped bare the plantations in their path. Some of these midwestern farm boys proved to be expert foragers. When an irate planter rode up on a mile and complained to a division commander that plundering troops had robbed him of everything he owned, the general looked him in the eye and said “Well those men didn’t belong to my division at all, because if they were my men they wouldn’t have left you that mule”

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 2h

There are so many valid reasons to criticize Israel, "they stole Arab food, the native home cooking of somewhat more than half of its Jewish population" is not one.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 7h

“Alito has the opinion”

Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 7h

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

New library catalogue website.

🏰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.