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Paul Adams @pauladams29.bsky.social · 2h

Correct

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 3h

I dont think enough Americans realize Republicans are gearing up for permanent rule. I dont know if we will get to midterm elections. Even if we do, with gerrymandering, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act, and violent intimidation, they'll rig the elections for minority rule.

All hands on deck.

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 4h

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4h

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
Bernie Sanders
200000
Number of Donations
150000
100000
50000
Elizabeth Warren
60000
40000
20000
01
25
50
Donor Age
75

Hakeem Jeffries
40000
30000
20000
10000
Nancy Pelosi
100000
Number of
Donations
75000
50000
25000
Suzan DelBene
2000
1500
1000
500
25
50
75
Donor Age

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Newsom: This president appears unhinged… seems listless… he seems, dare I say, in decline—cognitively, and… physically. These are just the rantings of someone who needs an intervention, needs some help, needs to be stabilized.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?”

@aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

Here's more evidence that ICE raids/kidnappings are resonating in the cultural spaces that Dems have been shut out of, giving them an opportunity to go into them and make a new case (see thread below):

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 8h

1) Very good and alarming story.

2) Need to keep using the term "Kavanaugh stop." That's what these are, and it is lastingly on him.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Paul Adams @pauladams29.bsky.social · 6h

No Kings

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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 23h

Global EV sales hit a record 2.1 M in Sept 2025 — first time ever crossing 2 M in a single month! YTD: China 9.0 M (+24%), Europe 3.0 M (+32%), N. America 1.5 M (+11%), RoW 1.2 M (+48%) = 14.7 M (+26%). The electric transition keeps surging despite anti-clean-tech rhetoric from the White House. #EVs

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Gary Delaney Comedian @garydelaney.bsky.social · 10h

A story in three parts

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12h

NEWS: CBS News head of standards Claudia Milne has quit. It was announced in the network’s 9 am editorial meeting. Bari Weiss was not on the call. According to a source, Milne gave thanks but did not say why she’s leaving the network.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 7h

And we're four months into the "Harvard is about to cave" narrative in MSM/NYT.

GOOD FOR PENN, BROWN, and MIT.

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 7h

PENN IS OUT! That means both institutions that signed prior agreements with the administration have said no. We're at 3 rejections.

I told y'all once the second one hit yesterday, the clock started for the rest.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

www.thedp.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h

Thanks to everyone for always keeping those cameras rolling and sharing the videos online. Federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will now be required to wear body cameras, following a ruling by U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 7h

PENN IS OUT! That means both institutions that signed prior agreements with the administration have said no. We're at 3 rejections.

I told y'all once the second one hit yesterday, the clock started for the rest.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

www.thedp.com

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Ted Bun @tedbun.bsky.social · 13h

People on bikes wearing plastic raincoats v masked men with guns in SUVs?
I know which is stopping me visiting the USA

Go Naked New Zealand @gonakednz.bsky.social · 14h

We prefer avoiding US politics on this page, but when house speaker Mike Johnson calls the portland naked bike ride the most threatening thing he's seen, we have to call out the absurdity youtube.com/shorts/YT27_...

House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Portland naked bike ride ‘most threatening thing I’ve seen yet’

YouTube video by The Oregonian

youtube.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7h

Ohio Statehouse, Ohio Book Prize for "On Freedom," very proud

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 8h

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported

About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.

www.pewresearch.org

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 8h

We’re making fun of her, but it really is beyond the pale at the White House press secretary would say this in public and it would not be a scandal.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11h

Where we stand, in long arc of history:

-Story on left, adding race as a factor when that favors white people.

-Story on right, banning race as a factor when that favors non-whites.

I often complain about NYT headlines and story-play. But these are strong. Including "If Court Guts 1965 Law."

Two headlines on front page of NYT.

First is "Trump Weighs Transforming Refugee Policy. White People Would be Given Preference."

Second is "Justices May Ban Race as a Factor in District Maps. Nation's Political Balance Could Shift If Court Guts 1964 Law."

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Paul Adams @pauladams29.bsky.social · 14h

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

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

You have to understand that there is NO accountability for ICE even in theory. You can't sue an ICE agent. They won't be criminally prosecuted for violating your rights. They won't be fired. THE ONLY WAY TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM ICE IS TO RUN FROM ICE.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 1d

Here's another Kavanaugh stop in action. Agent says: "Why are you running?" Admitting that he had no cause to stop and tackle this boy.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

This is a complete outrage www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Indiana University orders student paper to stop printing. Editors say it's censorship

In recent weeks, university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student have fought over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

www.indystar.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

A bar chart from the Economist titled "The ideologies behind political violence in America" showing that most years, most criminal cases involving political violence are instigated by the right, not the left, Islamists, or "other."

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 1d

Narrator: It is not a statistical fact.

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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