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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 6h

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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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 1h

Compliant Congress and no expectation of reprisals.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 2h

Welp, there it is.

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Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 3h

Folks from the villages need our support right now. I can't imagine what it's like, I can't imagine losing a harvest, can't imagine being uprooted and having to resettle somewhere away from the community for a whole winter or more. Fragmentation.

Linked are the official ACF fund and others to help:

PaTrick-or-Treat 👻🎃 @pat.alaskarobotics.com · 1d

How to help...

How to help residents and communities after catastrophic Western Alaska storm

Several organizations are asking for donations or contributing fundraiser proceeds to help residents affected by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

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The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 2h

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home, a district judge ruled.
Via @kansasreflector.com:
lawrenceks.news/4oo9fZv

Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and t...

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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 2h

Another victory for Xbox messaging.
“Everything is an Xbox!*”

* - May not play Xbox console games.

Chuck Zimmerheld @chucktowski.com · 3h

a very @giantbomb.bsky.social tech review of the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X

this bears repeating: the Xbox Ally *does not* play Xbox Console games. It plays PC Xbox games. This surprised many people during the stream.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6cn...

We Got an Asus ROG Xbox Ally X

YouTube video by Giant Bomb

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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 4h

That will definitely improve schools. 🙄

The Columbian @columbian.com · 5h

Microsoft will supply its artificial intelligence technology to every public school district and community college in Washington next year, part of a nationwide campaign to spread AI training and usage.

Microsoft to bring AI to WA classrooms amid urban, rural tech divide

Microsoft will supply its artificial intelligence technology to every public school district and community college in Washington next year, part of a nationwide campaign to spread AI training and usag

www.columbian.com

The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 5h

WTF, @nbcnews.com

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 17h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 17h

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 16h

That kitty looks so sad!

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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 17h

Slide whistle?

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Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social · 27d

Somehow I missed the sad news that wonderful Dame Stephanie ‘Steve’ Shirley left us last month.
10 yrs ago, she told me how, aged 5, she had slept on cardboard in the corridors of her Kindertransport train. Vowing to make hers ‘a life worth saving’…. 🧵🪡 1/3

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

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

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 22h

Heh.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Aubrey Hirsch @aubreyhirsch.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 23h

What? That’s shocking! This is my shocked face.

HuffPost @huffpost.com · 23h

Democrats have also accused Johnson of delaying the move to head off a vote related to the Epstein files.

Arizona Attorney General Threatens To Sue Mike Johnson Over Failure To Swear In New Member

Democrats have also accused Johnson of delaying the move to head off a vote related to the Epstein files.

www.huffpost.com

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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 1d

Protein supplements have lead in them? Hmm. Hmmmmmm.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 1d

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 1d

When you’ve pissed off WeRateDogs so much they’re calling you “fucking losers” on Main you have absolutely lost all merit in the court of public opinion

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BORDER PATROC
ICE AGENTS KILL DOG
DURING UNLAWFUL SEARCH, REFUSE TO RENDER AID, AND LEAVE WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES

weratedogs This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE.
Unsurprisingly, they did not care enough to help the family as they tried to save him. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov

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Will Kerslake @wkerslake.bsky.social · 1d

After 40 years of broadcasting MTV is shutting down most of it's channels.

Thanks for 20 years of music MTV.

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The Ones Who Walk Away From the Torment Nexus @thechrispaduan.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie is smiling and looking at something

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is smiling and looking at something

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Celeste Pewter @celestepewter.bsky.social · 1d

I literally just turned in a round of edits to my editor at Bloomsbury for my book about the founding of JPL and the Suicide Squad, and this is painful to see.

JPL has been responsible for some of our most incredible achievements in science, and this is going to set us back.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

NASA unit JPL to lay off about 550 workers, citing restructure

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a research and development lab funded by NASA — the federal space agency — and managed by the Caltech.

cnb.cx

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