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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3h

Oklahoma's new public schools superintendent is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students.

New Oklahoma schools superintendent rescinds mandate for Bible instruction in schools

Oklahoma's new public schools superintendent is rescinding a mandate from his predecessor that forced schools to incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students.

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 3h

This isn’t just unethical. It’s authoritarian. Trump is institutionalizing corruption to consolidate power. He’s rewarding loyalty, profiting from public office, and turning the state into a personal fiefdom.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘This is the looting of America’: Trump and Co’s extraordinary conflicts of interest in his second term

Bitcoin, internet, EVs, private dinners for hire – the list of pay-for-play and quid quo pro goes on, and on … and on

www.theguardian.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

"If you follow the link to the Politico story and look at the pictures of the men involved, they, uh—how do I say this charitably? They are not Übermenschen. We’re talking about a group of doughy, incel weirdos." www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-pr...

All the Pretty Little Nazis

The shape of things to come.

www.thebulwark.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

A 3,000-pound ice sculpture spelling out the word “DEMOCRACY” was seen melting on the National Mall within view of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 2h

It honestly blows my mind how this is all in plain sight

on.ft.com/4hxfyrD

FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto

[FREE TO READ] The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

Note blindspot Mike Schmidt creates here.

He argues that Don McGahn (left 10/17/18) and John Kelly (fired 1/2/19) kept Trump in bounds.

He LITERALLY appears ignorant of anything that happened after that, including Impeachment 1, Barr's side channel that framed Joe Biden, & Durham investigation.

PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 10h

To Mike Schmidt @nytimes.com
Why won’t you fucking people call out Trump for what he is. He’s a fascist who is burning down every institution and must be removed from office. Guardrails? You did enough to put him in office by sanewashing him.
#DV1 #ProudBlue www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

When the Trump Guardrails Fall

www.nytimes.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Finally, some common sense from Oklahoma education.

Ryan Walters turned classrooms into culture war battlegrounds. Reversing his Bible mandate isn’t “anti-religion,” it’s accepting the fact that the Bible is not a history book!

Schools should teach, not preach.

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Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 1d

Surveillance Secrets breaks the story of a European-led phone tracking firm whose hidden history rewrites what we thought we knew, spilling all over the world from the Vatican to Silicon Valley, led by @lighthousereports.com & @papertrailmedia.de

Surveillance Secrets

Trove of surveillance data challenges what we thought we knew about location tracking tools, who they target and how far they have spread

www.lighthousereports.com

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 1h

So, @jamiedupree.bsky.social is one of the most down-the-middle Hill reporters there is. If he’s warning about what Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat Rep-elect Grijalva portends for our democracy, it’s worth taking very seriously.

open.substack.com/pub/jamiedup...

Shutdown likely to extend into next week

Most reporters out as Pentagon confiscates press badges

open.substack.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19h

maybe reporters should take another look at some of the people the vice president of the united states follows on twitter and the things they say in public

just saying

Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 19h

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 7h

When Big Balls got beat up by 15-year-olds they said DC should prosecute 14-year-olds as adults.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

Hitlergate wasn't "kids"—it was 20- and 30-something GOP flacks.

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 54m

“.. As far as anyone knows, no security breach by any Pentagon journalists brought about the new restrictions. Indeed, the biggest violation of national-security norms since Hegseth entered the building 10 months ago was by Hegseth himself ..”

@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 11h

For one thing, these protests have been happening in every state from small towns to suburbs to big cities.

Pundudes like Brooks can't let go of their lifelong prejudices even when they see it's an emergency. He'd turn down a lifeboat in a flood if it was piloted by someone registered Democratic.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 13h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 14h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 13h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 14h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now

Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

www.theatlantic.com

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 14h

Because Nobel Peace Prize winners bomb other countries they aren’t even at war with

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump says he's now "looking at land" strikes on Venezuela

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 14h

Here is the Coast Guard announcing *yesterday* the results of its interdictions since August.

www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 14h

Brown joins MIT -- and @steadystatevets.bsky.social applauds -- see substack.com/@steadystate...

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14h

Calling for gas chambers. Expressing love for Hitler. Endorsing rape. Using racist slurs.

I'm demanding Rep. James Comer open a House Oversight Committee investigation into these shocking, deeply offensive messages that were exchanged by Young Republican leaders from across the country.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

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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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 15h

Congratulations to Brown University. An institution dedicated to timeless principles must not yield to temporary improper pressures.

Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact

In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...

www.brown.edu

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Vance: Young Republicans must be allowed to praise Hitler in private, nothing bad will come of it

Trump: Finally, we're making Stephen Miller's white nationalist fantasies from his college days come true!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 14h

Republicans slashed Medicaid and allowed healthcare tax credits to expire for working families. All while funding tax breaks for billionaires.

While that may be great for those who have money. It's going to make life harder and more expensive for everyone else. - Heather Brauth, RN

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

Trump has frozen or canceled $28B in funding for infrastructure projects in Democratic congressional districts.

Meanwhile, representatives of those districts are fighting to extend ACA subsidies — more than half of which go to people in GOP-held districts.

Remember this.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

Trump appears to be in mental decline, and his days of marshaling a winning electoral coalition may be waning - not to mention that he won't be around forever. What happens when there's no Trump to rally MAGA?

@hcrichardson.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social in today's Bulwark Podcast:

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 15h

So Nazis. They want to give refugee status to Nazis.

OK, maybe not JUST Nazis. Also certain other white people who hate non-white immigration. But Nazis can definitely come.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD.

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