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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 12h

⁨The blatantly political videos being forced on airports across the country are not only an abuse of taxpayer dollars, but they violate the law.

I'm joining @SenBlumenthal and @SenJackReed to demand DHS take down these videos immediately.⁩

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11h

We can’t pay air traffic controllers during the shutdown, making us less safe, but we can send $40 billion to bail out Argentina.

Make it make sense.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 10h

Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.”

*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*

Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”

This Congressman’s office:

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 16h

I appreciate transparency — FB has had this since 2018 — and am curious how this will be done. Also curious how they’ll handle potential privacy concerns for some anon users, since the use cases are a bit different than FB page management.

Wonder what they’ll use to determine country.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

Weird story: Around 6 am PT today residents of a Eugene, OR apartment complex were awoken by several unmarked cars with flashing lights and two flash bangs. A witness said agents were speaking in Spanish and demanded people come out of an apartment with their hands up. Turns out the agents were FBI.

FBI conducts raid at the Woodland Creek Apartments in Eugene

The FBI confirmed agents conducted a "court-authorized law enforcement activity" in the 1300 block of Quaker Street on Oct. 15.

www.registerguard.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 16h

Centrists : “Karl, Stop calling the Republican Party the American Nazi party it’s not accurate”

The republican party :

The Rooster
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A friend in DC had a Zoom call with Congressman Dave Taylor's office today...
Taylor's legislative correspondent, Angelo Elia, had what can only be described as an American swastika flag prominently displayed in his background.
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The Rooster @rooster.info · 19h

Politico ganked my scoop 😭😭😭😭

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Pat Flickner 🐉 @patflickner.bsky.social · 16h

Stop saying she was tortured. You are the only one saying it. She was mistreated and abused. That does not meet the legal definition. Just stop spreading lies

Did Israeli authorities mistreat Greta Thunberg after flotilla arrest? Here's what we know

Israeli authorities arrested Thunberg and more than 400 other activists who were part of the Global Sumud Flotilla in early October 2025.

www.snopes.com

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 16h

Mom can you come pick me up, they invented “technically it’s ephebophilia” for torture

Pat Flickner 🐉 @patflickner.bsky.social · 16h

Stop saying she was tortured. You are the only one saying it. She was mistreated and abused. That does not meet the legal definition. Just stop spreading lies

Did Israeli authorities mistreat Greta Thunberg after flotilla arrest? Here's what we know

Israeli authorities arrested Thunberg and more than 400 other activists who were part of the Global Sumud Flotilla in early October 2025.

www.snopes.com

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 1d

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

Masked ICE agents throwing bags of brown leaves in unmarked van

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The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 16h

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home, a district judge ruled.
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/4oo9fZv

Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and t...

lawrenceks.news

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 16h

Even Men’s Health knows what’s up: “A study published in Brain Communications earlier this month pinpoints the 1st biological evidence to explain long COVID brain fog… The study identified changes in a receptor in the brain called AMPA, which help brain cells communicate” archive.ph/2025.10.14-0...

archive.ph

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17h

One of the people whose visas Marco Rubio canceled was snitched by right wing South Africans.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/s...

He Tweeted Charlie Kirk “Won’t Be Remembered as a Hero.” The State Dept. Revoked His Visa

Nota Baloyi is one of several people who lost a visa to visit the U.S. because he spoke ill of Charlie Kirk on social media.

theintercept.com

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

“We may be witnessing the emergence of a population-level acquired immune deficiency — not sexually transmitted, but airborne.”

That line isn’t from a tweet. It’s from a peer-reviewed paper in AJPM Focus (2025).

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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 16h

Just today I told students how a Reagan covert action to remove Noriega was leaked—b/c Congress feared it there wouldn’t be plausible deniability since we had already failed a few times—just 2 hours after being briefed to Congress.

This is worse.The signer of the presidential finding is the leaker.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING

“The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.”

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Fred Vultee @fredvultee.bsky.social · 16h

Support local journalism

The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 16h

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home, a district judge ruled.
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/4oo9fZv

Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and t...

lawrenceks.news

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 1d

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 16h

Digital education in Chiapas: A lever for a better future for young girls

The future of these girls depends on creating a space where women can fulfill their dreams, share their knowledge, and shape the future of Mexico.

globalvoices.org

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Mark Hennessy-Barrett @markhb.bsky.social · 16h

docs.google.com/document/u/1...

Today the documented list of right wing child predators has 1,472 entries.

#RightWingSexualPredators

docs.google.com

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 16h

Man, they know the marches this weekend are going to be huge and full of everyday folks and create terrible optics for them and they are just going all-out with the dumb "soros-funded" stuff to try to limit the exposure their fox-bubble base gets to any of it

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 17h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 20h

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025."

"I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well."

- She was 16

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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