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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 2h

After months of needless delay, the Trump administration has finally agreed to follow the law and forgive student loan debt for borrowers who have been waiting decades for relief.

This will be life changing for millions of working class Americans.

Trump administration agrees to deliver more student loan forgiveness

The Trump administration has agreed to forgive student debt under income-driven repayment programs it had partially blocked.

www.cnbc.com

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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 2h

Turns out the internet isn’t as forever as we thought

The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 3h

Did you know that, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible?

When Online Content Disappears

A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

f.mtr.cool

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 11h

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La Catedral wasn’t a crime scene. It was a bilingual community gathering — families celebrating culture and connection. What happened was a militarized show of force against Latino families. It was meant to intimidate, to remind them: even your joy is suspect.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 11h

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Three small children ran through dust and gunfire, dodging rubber bullets to escape armed agents from ICE, FBI, DEA, and ATF. “I didn’t get caught,” one boy said. “Nobody got handcuffs on me.” No child should have to run from men with guns in America. But in Idaho, they did.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 11h

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Federal agents raided Family Night at La Catedral Arena in Wilder, Idaho. A community racetrack packed with families, food, and music. They came under the guise of “illegal betting.” What they unleashed was terror: children zip-tied, parents separated, and chaos erupting across a crowd of 1,000.

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Bluesky mods aid genocide by banning Palestinians @pastures.myatproto.social · 2h

Open nazis vs nazi lite is really the US two-party system in a nutshell though

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Raskin details how he tried to get unanimous consent today to force Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva, but the Acting Speaker Haridopolos "scurried out of the room"

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sammiejoe @sammiejoe.bsky.social · 3h

see also: a literal genocide

Matt Farrow @mattfatmarrow.bsky.social · 4h

We are so rarely gifted with moral choices that are black and white, and we should not squander them.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4h

Walking through life assuming that everyone is a liar actually really sucks.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

Federal agents from ICE and HSI—some in military fatigues and masks—descended on Chinatown today in an aggressive and reckless raid on immigrant street vendors.

Once again, the Trump administration chooses authoritarian theatrics that create fear, not safety. It must stop.

Federal agents descend on Chinatown in apparent raid

The raid follows recent federal arrests at a Midtown migrant shelter, part of what officials call a broader push to “restore law and order” in New York City.

gothamist.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h

Elon Musk was the face of DOGE, but records show that Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, played a key role in guiding DOGE behind the scenes.

Tomorrow at 6 p.m. ET, head to Reddit to ask our reporter @andykroll.bsky.social about Vought’s influence over the Trump presidency:

From the fednews community on Reddit: I’m Andy Kroll, a ProPublica reporter. I just published a deep dive about how Trump’s “shadow president” Russ Vought is using his OMB chief role to dismantle...

Explore this post and more from the fednews community

www.reddit.com

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Rubber Fairy Bea @rubberfairybea.bsky.social · 6d

Ah, but the media depiction of the modern nazi is also trying it's best to make them seem dignified and competent.

The historical nazis were pedophiles on meth, propped up by the parts of the military older than the country.

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Moonlight Breeze @moonbreeze.bsky.social · 6d

Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator in the 40s, early comic books, political posters of the time, Hogan's Heroes in the 60s, even some manga and anime in the 90s, and so much more did depict Nazis as bungling, predatory cowards.

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Jordí @theonlyjordan.bsky.social · 9h

The French new wave director who got himself kicked out of new wave, Jean Melville Pierre hated how Nazis were depicted in movies saying that's not how the Nazis he fought looked like and everyone was reproducing Nazi propaganda

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 6d

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 4d

This has been updated with strange new details. I spoke to one person who was arrested but then released, who described being taken to a subterranean parking garage and questioned by agents who said they were with ICE and told them they were looking for Venezuelans..

www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/17/r...

Federal Raid Outside Row Hotel Migrant Shelter Rattles Residents

In what appears to be a first under the current Trump administration, federal agents targeted migrants just outside a shelter.

www.thecity.nyc

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snackerü @snackeru.bsky.social · 12h

Your yearly reminder that "sugar maple tree" in the Dakota language is ćaŋ-ha’-saŋ or "chanhassen."

A beautiful maple tree at the University of Minnesota with orangey, red leaves.

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Dr Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 8h

Adrian Sykes (British, b. 1970). Forest Bathing (oil and mixed media on board).

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sammiejoe @sammiejoe.bsky.social · 7h

So gorgeous and gives all the perfect autumn vibes 🍂

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Senator Chris Larson @senchrislarson.bsky.social · 11h

ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.

The President is building an army to attack his own country.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9h

If you are on ICE watch in the Rogers Park vicinity please have a buddy and exercise extreme caution. ICE has assaulted verifiers today and arrested at least one of our people. If you are vulnerable to ICE in this area, I recommend staying inside if possible.

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sammiejoe @sammiejoe.bsky.social · 7h

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Bart Leib @metafrantic.bsky.social · 9h

Repost with alt text:

Tumblr(?) post from existennialmemes:

Listen, if a Bad President can come in and take away our rights and we’re dependent on a Good President replacing them in four years to give us back our rights, then we do not have any rights.

If politicians can take or distribute them, then they’re not “inalienable” and they’re not “rights”.

We don’t have inalienable rights we have conditional privileges, divvied out according to the whims of whoever currently holds the reins.

And if we want to have actual rights, then we must build a system in which no one has the power to take them away to begin with.

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sammiejoe @sammiejoe.bsky.social · 7h

This is not counting the over half a million users who have the account blocked via a list

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 8h

“Hamas’s chief negotiator and political leader, Khalil al-Hayya, gave a really interesting interview on Egyptian TV yesterday,” Jeremy Scahill said, adding that “Hamas is going out of its way to be conciliatory.”...

@jeremyscahill.com | Saager Enjeti (@esaagar on X) | @ryangrim.bsky.social

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“Hamas’s chief negotiator and political leader, Khalil al-Hayya, gave a really interesting interview on Egyptian TV yesterday,” Jeremy Scahill said, adding that “Hamas is going out of its way to be conciliatory.”

He noted that the group’s leaders “have heaped praise on Donald Trump,” pledged full commitment to the ceasefire, and “responded to Israeli claims without belligerent language.” By contrast, he said, Israel “has continued its pattern of violating the ceasefire… killing 100 or more Palestinians and blocking life essentials.”

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sammiejoe @sammiejoe.bsky.social · 7h

Hopefully Israel doesn’t “accidentally“ bomb the meeting place

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8h

BREAKING: The Red Cross is currently driving to a meeting point in southern Gaza to retrieve two Israeli captives’ remains, say the Israeli army and internal intelligence agency Shin Bet.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/fsasq7