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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy.bsky.social · 1d

Starting Oct. 21! Putting The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls into action to defy, disobey, and disrupt patriarchy. www.eventbrite.com/e/feminist-g...

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 1d

Captures the moment well - well done!

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 1d

Also: George H. W. Bush was pro-choice, and declined to recant that position (remaining silent) all the way through the 8 years he was Vice President. It was only when he ran for President in 1988 that he publicly re-canted it, to win the Evangelical votes which had been essential to Regan.

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 2d

ICE killed their father. Now they’re in foster care.

Silverio Villegas, a single father, was fatally shot by fed agents after he allegedly tried to flee a traffic stop in Franklin Park.

His family spoke to the Tribune of their grieve and their fight.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/12/s...

Family of Chicago-area man killed by ICE seeks to reunite with his children who are now in foster care in Idaho

The state of Idaho took custody of the children a few weeks after Silverio Villegas Gonzalez was killed by ICE agents in Franklin Park on Sept. 12.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 2d

Wait, is there like a polymarket or something on this?

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 2d

I’m only there because the majority of Congressional reporters aren’t here yet.

So I’m there mostly to throw verbal rocks at public officials who are failing the country.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 3d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 3d

This is the weirdest illegal thing, ever.

If Speaker Johnson called the House back into session, majorities of Democrats and Republicans would vote to pay the troops. And Trump wouldn't be making illegal use of Congressionally allocated funds.

Johnson refuses to do it.

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 3d

CASSANDRA WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 3d

It's amazing what people will do for a little more money.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

Marc Benihoff, who has barely been in San Francisco since the pandemic, is just a red-pilled asshole like the rest of them. What a fucking disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 3d

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 3d

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 3d

I spent six years at each.

As far as the institutions go - I would never ascribe anger to them. They can be presented with a challenge. They think about it, fully. The make a decision. Act on it. And then move on.

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 4d

I’m especially proud to be an MIT graduate, today.

Course 8 (physics) PhD ‘96

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 4d

Young people (and I am not young) can't be naive about the impact of that network, and have to figure out strategies to win out over it.

Again, RCV helps.

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 4d

Hear, hear.

Or even risking slowing down, in office.

As you know they keep winning because expectations are low - because requirements are also low. And they are supported by the enormous network they built. It's hard to fight that. Diane Feinstein. Strom Thurmond.

RCV can help.

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 4d

I do know that.

At the end of the election, it's about votes. Politics interferes, politics supports. It's political.

I still think running in both candidates in the primary and the general is the winning strategy for all. Long term, Dems should support multiple candidates on an RCV ballot.

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 4d

I agree DNC backing and resources can make a difference.

I want progressive victories. If Platner can't beat Mills in a primary, I don't see him winning in Nov.

But I think he should still try - it's the advantage of RCV. & It's better for Dems if both Platner and Mills are on the Nov ballot.

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 4d

Have you considered that all Maine races are Ranked Choice Voting (Single Transferrable Vote), and so there is no "spoiler" effect.

If Planter is more popular than Mills, having both on the November ballot is a strategy helping a Planter win.

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 4d

Right, although doesn't this approach also broadcast "I have a fragile ego - spar with it, and you will receive punishments galore", thus putting the employee in a fear position?

Which, for her, is probably what she wants.

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 5d

Also, some sweet classic asics.

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 5d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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