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suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 4m

wait was there another memorial for the dead guy today if so let’s definitely remember who he was www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn’t a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division.

www.thenation.com

suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 6m

The truly sad (SAD!) thing about Trump is that he‘s actually quite funny. He should have just been a comic.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 5h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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That Mack @thatmc.bsky.social · 25m

The worst bus of all is the bus that never comes. BEB are firmly in that category here.

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That Mack @thatmc.bsky.social · 5h

The Muni battery bus fleet, on Sunday. The stickers on the windshields indicate they are not available for revenue.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2h

There is no statute of limitations for murder, including under UCMJ.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 3h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 3h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 1h

Altman looked at Beta and VHS and realized that he needed to be the latter

suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 1h

Override it @scottwiener.bsky.social

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 6h

4. The bill, SB 418, passed with huge majorities, with 60 votes for it and 18 against in the California assembly, and 29 votes for it and 10 against in the California Senate. The bill would mandate that insurers and pharmacists dispense 12 months of hormone therapy for those prescribed.

California SB418 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session

Vote History (2025-10-13) Health care coverage: prescription hormone therapy and nondiscrimination. [In Senate. Consideration of Governor's veto pending.]

legiscan.com

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suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 1h

remember leaded gasoline?

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2h

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2h

Hate to be a 'ruin the kicker' guy but here's the amazing kicker:

“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr.”

Politico @politico.com · 5h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Californians for Electric Rail @calelectricrail.org · 3h

CA High Speed Rail will bring tremendous benefits to Southern California beyond the high-speed train. Once this EIR is complete, Metrolink could choose to implement these projects - and electrification - long before CAHSR reaches LA.

CA High-Speed Rail 🚄💨 @cahsra.bsky.social · 5h

As we prepare to release our draft EIR/EIS for the Los Angeles to Anaheim section, we want to highlight how this section will improve transit for everybody in Southern California.

See the video for more info! (1/2)

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suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 3h

I see that Altman finally figured out that he would rather be VHS than Beta

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 21h

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Senator Scott Wiener @scottwiener.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: The Governor signed our legislation to authorize a Bay Area regional funding ballot measure for transit.

SB 63 is critical to avoid massive service cuts at Muni, BART, Caltrain & other systems. We need to stabilize & modernize these systems for the Bay Area’s future.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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suldrew 🏳️‍🌈 @suldrew.bsky.social · 1d

The fascist shaves his head with it

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16d

Occam's Razor always rules. Always.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 1d

San Francisco needs to rename Columbus Ave as Ferlinghetti Ave

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

Pretty sure I say this every Columbus Day, but getting hauled back to Spain for excessive brutality in 1500, just as the Inquisition was really getting fired up, is some genuinely Evil Guys Hall of Infamy material

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

Love that we all wrote about this ad.

Go read Parker’s newsletter on it as well.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Today's newsletter is all about this brilliant ad www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

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ᴡᴇ ʙᴜɪʟᴛ ᴛʜɪꜱ ᴄɪᴛʏ @webuiltthiscity.bsky.social · 1d

The first-ever U.S. appearance of the endangered Waved Albatross recently happened off Marin County! #birds #birdwatching #SanFrancisco www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/10/08/e...

Endangered albatross native to Galapagos Islands spotted off Marin County coast in first documented sighting north of Costa Rica

A seabird tour off the coast of Sonoma and Marin counties over the weekend included the sighting of a species of albatross that normally lives near the Galapagos Islands.

www.pressdemocrat.com

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1d

As a broader point, there are certain professions that entirely walled off to anyone whose parents were not in the top 10% of American income earners and journalism is now one of those professions. Reporters, especially for national outlets, look at those in the bottom 90% like they're foreigners.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

There’s also another aspect of this: reporters are cosmopolitan, urbane people that live in cities. Many of them have internalized the fact that people like them are not “real Americans”. So they attempt to correct for this perceived inauthenticity

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

The psychology that twists coverage in Trump’s favor is transparent, once you accept that psychology plays a role. They want to be perceived as neutral by their peers, and they know their peers suspect them of anti-Trump bias. So they demonstrate independence by scrutinizing Dems and praising Trump.

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