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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 39m

The clock is ticking on Pete Hegseth’s tenuous tenure as Pentagon chief, the Daily Beast’s Washington bureau chief predicted Wednesday.

Pentagon Pete Will Be First Big Scalp of Trump 2.0

The Daily Beast’s Washington bureau chief issued a fearless forecast for the ever-embattled defense secretary.

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 43m

www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/more...

More measles in South Carolina as US nears 1,600 confirmed cases

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2h

Australia has passed a Bill that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires like Elon Musk to Just $50,000

This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections in Australia.

Should be global ..for that matter who needs billionaires 🧐

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 1h

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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 39m

Shorter Mike Johnson:

Beating up a woman isn’t “really serious.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 4h

U.S. AG Pam Bondi has basically said anyone visiting the US is subject to arrest and incarceration at any point, if law officials deem the individual a “threat”.

Bang goes the rest of the international tourism trade!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 37m

Scott Bessent says the "world will decouple from China" if that's what Trump demands. But the world decoupling from a Trump-ruled US is a far more likely prospect.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 8h

Well-known internet personality Robby Roadsteamer makes fun of ICE and calls them Nazis. They prove his point & come out to arrest him for trespassing after shoving him over the property line.

Just like Russia, if you protest the regime, men with guns come to take you away.
youtu.be/HHTuJ7P8YiM?...

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 38m

Every authoritarian uses the tax administrations to bankrupt political enemies. Putin did it. Erdugan did it. Orban did it. Now Trump is doing it.
I'm writing about it.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 47m

"The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter."

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 53m

The propaganda spewing from Trump's departments and agencies blaming Democrats for the government shutdown is blatantly illegal. We have the Hatch Act for a reason. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-regime-is-wildly-violating

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 3h

"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."

Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 47m

"The Trump administration is preparing sweeping changes at the Internal Revenue Service that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily, according to people familiar with the matter."

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

www.wsj.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 54m

Oh my. Who let this slip out, and how soon will they be fired for it?

ABC News
@ABC
The U.S. Labor Department is warning of a potential food crisis linked to the Trump administration’s immigration raids due to a resulting worker shortage.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 7h

New photo reveals a swastika American flag has been found hanging in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor's congressional office.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1h

Trump is in no small part the result
of failing to staff up the IRS and send it after white-collar crime, so of course now that he has a second presidency he's planning to use it as a weapon against his political enemies.

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Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 5h

@governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom just called for a Congressional investigation into the matter!

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 4h

If the Republicans want to stop being called Nazis, maybe they should stop hiring people who put Nazi paraphernalia in the background of their conference calls. Just a thought.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4h

The New York Times has reported—and the president seemed to confirm—that Trump has signed what’s called a “presidential finding,” or a classified directive authorizing covert action, against the regime of Venezuelan ruler Nicolás Maduro. trib.al/hucd1q1

America First? Trump Authorizes “Covert” CIA Action in Venezuela

The CIA now has greater authority in leading lethal operations in Venezuela.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 4h

🧵 This reporting confirms my suspicion on why, based on reporting last week, the CIA's Deputy Director, Michael Ellis, installed himself as the agency's general counsel. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 8h

He gives $20 Billion of OUR dollars to bailout Argentina without consulting Congress or the American people. Does that seem like the actions of a KING to you?

Join us & let him know just what you think about that this Saturday, 10/18

#NoThronesNoCrownsNO_KINGS 👑

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 4h

Another $20 billion? How are the farmers going to feel about that?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

Another $20 billion. That is the face you make when you heist the US taxpayers for $40 billion two weeks before your midterm elections from the most corrupt America Last regime in history.

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Eugene McParland 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.bsky.social · 4h

#Trump: India will stop buying russian oil
Indian Modi "assured me today that they will not be buying oil from russia," the president said.

“[Modi] can’t do it immediately, it’s a little bit of a process, but the process will be over with soon,” the president added later in the news conference

Trump: India will stop buying Russian oil

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi "assured me today that they will not be buying oil from Russia," the president said.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 5h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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