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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 11m

Our government is in the hands of idiot children

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3h

This is what the Department of Transportation is tweeting out today.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 1h

Sure why not have a religious war while we're at it

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1h

Trump authorizes his secret police to attack Catholic parish churches in the midst of Holy Communion.

In Anti-Catholic Crusade, Trump's ICE Targets Holy Mass in Chicago

Worshippers fled in fear as immigration agents appeared outside St. Jerome’s — part of Trump’s new campaign against Catholic parishes nationwide.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 4h

Most of the time when you're mayor, people are falling over each other to be your best friend. Sometimes I think Jacob Frey's handful of PACs are the only friends he has.

Getting Gophery @gettinggophery.bsky.social · 5h

I don't think people appreciate how hard it is for a two term mayor to not get endorsed by any legislators or county commissioners. They normally love to endorse each other.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 7h

Lying is a crucial political tactic of Republicans. But StarTribune & @mprnews.org will never tell you this because one Republican billionaire family owns both outlets and runs them as Republican protection rackets

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h

Kristi Noem has a policy of disseminating knowing lies to the effect that her forces are being assaulted by the public. An analysis shows just how systematic this policy of conscious deceit runs.

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged.

As the official Trump administration line about the shooting of a Chicago woman crumbles, Senator Chris Murphy is asking pointed questions about what really happened here. Will we ever get answers?

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 8h

'we should try 5 community grocery stores as a pilot program' enrages the usual suspects more than 'donald trump just took a 10% stake in a giant multinational'

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 8h

Yes primarily Photoshop.

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Tom Sullivan @tmsullivan.bsky.social · 8h

You mean a few Republicans can still be shamed?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Vermont Legislator Resigns Over Racist Texts in Republican Group Chat

www.nytimes.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 16h

So the Dallas ICE shooter was an unemployed, online, loner, gamer dude with no friends who was politically unaligned with any particular ideology except the white male internet brain rot.

NPR @npr.org · 17h

A newly released police report states that Joshua Jahn lived with his family and didn't have a job. n.pr/3Jj982m

Shooter at Dallas ICE facility was motivated by notoriety over ideology

A newly released police report states that Joshua Jahn lived with his family and didn't have a job.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 9h

Because billionaires run monopolies they'll find a way to make you pay for AI even though nobody wants it

pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...

Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it

Venture capitalists Menlo Ventures have released what purports to be a survey: “2025: The State of Consumer AI”. That is, chatbots. [Menlo Ventures] The subtitle is: “AI’s Consumer Tipping Po…

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 9h

I would totally switch if only Adobe would port its products

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 9h

MPR will use your money to give three quarters of a million dollars every year to the billionaire Republican daughter of the pseudo fascist Republican billionaire who owns the StarTribune www.edhivemn.com/personprofil...

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Person profile: Jean Taylor

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 9h

If you want to support media I cannot emphasize enough NOT to give it to the plutocrats at MPR -give instead to the Reformer minnesotareformer.com/donate/?oa_r...

Donate • Minnesota Reformer

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 9h

While @minnesotareformer.com calls out Emmer for calling Dems terrorists, @mprnews.org wondered if it was a problem that the Authoritarian Leader liar doesn't get along with Gov Walz. minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/15/t...

Tom Emmer talks tough, reveals weakness • Minnesota Reformer

“The Democrats,” Emmer said this week, “would rather cater to the pro-terrorist wing of their party than to reopen the government." Like my mother-in-law?

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 9h

Windows 11 is Windows 8 all over again

www.theregister.com/2025/10/16/w...

Microsoft update breaks localhost in Windows 11

Updated: Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again

www.theregister.com

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 10h

The "Republican moral collapse" can be uttered anywhere but in @startribune.com or @mprnews.org - because both are owned by one revanchist Republican billionaire family, who run both as Republican protection rackets www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Depth of MAGA’s Moral Collapse

How we got to “I love Hitler.”

www.theatlantic.com

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 20h

In any other time federal government accounts showing uo to do nazi trolling and threats like this would be a massive scandal
But it's the new norm because America is being remade as an opbeky fascist country and the population is unwilling to actually do what is needed to these weird little freaks.

Department of State @state-department.bsky.social • 2h
Give us a follow so we can update you on how the Democrats' partisan shutdown is harming America's national security.
(we also heard this is a great place to research visa revocations to)
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 1d

EVERY cable net is now doing full time rear guard action for Israel. Amazing that there isn't a market for honest broadcast news.

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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 8d

When it's not working to require patriotism indoctrination, target trans students, and destroy any programs that benefit minorities, Trump's Dept. of Education is committed to uprooting public education in favor of private, religious schooling. Horrifying update from ProPublica: tinyurl.com/bddekpjz

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to Kali Akuno of @coopjax.bsky.social for joining me on @blackagendareport.bsky.social radio. We discussed the dangers of data centers and A.I.

www.blackagendareport.com/data-centers...

Data Centers, A.I., and State Repression | Black Agenda Report

We speak with Kali Akuno, co-founder and Director of Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi. He joins us from Jackson to discuss the construction of an Amazon web services data center and the neg...

www.blackagendareport.com

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, I could not be more thrilled to be joining @jenrubin.bsky.social, @normeisen.bsky.social, and the wildly talented crew of The Contrarian.

Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

we’ve hired Tim Dickinson from Rolling Stone as sr politics writer and editor. He begins 10/18 leading “No Kings" coverage from Portland.Me:”Tim's journalistic excellence over decades and his track record in covering authoritarianism and threats to democracy make him an ideal fit for The Contrarian

Status @status.news · 1d

In her farewell note, CBS News’ standards chief alluded to the reason for her departure—but in private, she was more blunt about the motive behind her exit.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-c...

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 1d

Just one deet: www.momsforliberty.org/reading/

Reading - Moms for Liberty

WHY READING? A student who fails to read adequately in first grade has a 90% probability of reading poorly in fourth grade, and a 75% probability of reading poorly in […]

www.momsforliberty.org

Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that Moms 4 Liberty are huge fans of "Science of Reading" hoax & pushers of @ehanford.bsky.social

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s Department of Education actively collaborates w/ Moms for Liberty. Asked “what % of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward,” Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice told ProPublica: “‘I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.’” 1/ www.propublica.org/article/educ...

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Rob Levine @roblevine82.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Free Speech Extremists! at work

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Arrested for singing Rod Stewart songs in Portland. Apparently, it was a revolutionary act in the view of the Trump secret police.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

He sang Rod Stewart, danced — and then ICE grabbed him.

@timmiller.bsky.social talks with @roadsteamer.bsky.social about his detention in Portland

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