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Trenton Sperry @trentonsperry.bsky.social · 14h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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Sarah Longwell @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social · 20h

Your tax dollars and mine are being used to thank President Trump. That’s right, the biggest political ad spender of 2025 is DHS using your money.
www.axios.com/2025/10/15/t...

U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign

The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

www.axios.com

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Trenton Sperry @trentonsperry.bsky.social · 19h

Something that genuinely boggles the mind is how little work goes into pothole repair at shopping centers.

These groups make beaucoup money!

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

honestly....explains a lot.

City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

!!!!!! — 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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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

President Donald Trump will honor influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the White House can bestow on a civilian. https://to.pbs.org/3J8JYDA

WATCH LIVE: Trump awards Charlie Kirk posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump will honor influential conservative activist Charlie Kirk on Tuesday with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor the White House can bestow on a civilian.

www.pbs.org

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 1d

old enough to remember when these same people made a WHOLE HUGE THING about government censoring social media

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a res publica, not a democracy, say people who support the wealthy demagogue ruling without the senate or popular assembly and suggesting paying the army from private funds.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Kristin Sparkle @therealksparkle.bsky.social · 1d

This happened to Maria Greeley bc she’s a latina adoptee. Having a yt name and presumably yt adoptive parents did not protect her from racial profiling and ICE detainment. Her legal citizen documents weren’t good enough bc she didn’t look the part. This will happen to many more transracial adoptees

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Trenton Sperry @trentonsperry.bsky.social · 1d

30-second flag wave from a train, three-minute stump speech, three-hour debate

Trenton Sperry @trentonsperry.bsky.social · 1d

(this has always been the case, just with different media)

elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d

this is extremely smart and should be the checkbox all future D candidates have to clear to be taken seriously

Ritchie Torres, the Bronx Democrat and frequent critic of progressives, said Mamdani is “a once-in-a-generation communicator” who has mastered what he called the “three threes”: A candidate in today’s day and age needs to be able to explain ideas in a 30-second vertical social media video, a three-minute television hit and a three-hour long-form podcast.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"If they're going to be sending us stupid policies, Communist policies, which has proven for thousands of years doesn't work..."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Jesse Aaron Paul @jesseapaul.bsky.social · 1d

Former state senator agrees to pay nearly $3K to settle campaign finance violations surfaced by Colorado Sun coloradosun.com/2025/10/14/s... #copolitics #coleg

Former state senator agrees to pay nearly $3K to settle campaign finance violations surfaced by Colorado Sun

Former state Sen. Sonya Jaquez Lewis, a Longmont Democrat, admitted to failing to report spending and to spending campaign funds in an unauthorized way. She also faces a separate felony criminal charg...

coloradosun.com

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Aftersight @aftersightco.bsky.social · 4d

Aftersight attends the 2025 Greeley Vision Symposium where the Colorado Lieutenant Governor, Diane Primavera reads the proclamation to make October, Blindness Awareness Month for Colorado.

Photograph is of a woman speaking at a pedestal

Group of people with white canes and guide dogs looking at the camera

Small group of people with white canes and a guy dog

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 5d

JUST IN: Judge moves up hearing (Thursday to Wednesday) on union suit over Trump shutdown RIFs plan. Also wants update by Tuesday on RIF details. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

AFSCMEShutdownRIFsOrd101025

www.documentcloud.org

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Next with Kyle Clark @nexton9news.bsky.social · 5d

Dominion Voting Systems was sold to a company called Liberty Vote, run by a former Republican election director from Missouri.

Colorado county clerks have conference call with new owner of Dominion voting machines

Dominion Voting Systems was sold to a company called Liberty Vote, run by a former Republican election director from Missouri.

www.9news.com

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 5d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Reuters @reuters.com · 5d

US threatens visa restrictions, sanctions against UN members that back IMO emissions plan reut.rs/43gAAob

US threatens visa restrictions, sanctions against UN members that back IMO emissions plan

The United States on Friday threatened to use visa restrictions and sanctions to retaliate against nations that vote in favor of a plan put forward by a United Nations agency to reduce planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from ocean shipping.

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Trenton Sperry @trentonsperry.bsky.social · 5d

I rode through the ocean on a nor’easter with no name. It felt good to be out in the rain.

apnews.com/article/trop...

Nor'easter without a name to bring ocean flooding and high winds to US East Coast

Tropical weather in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is causing dangerous conditions in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean.

apnews.com

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6d

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

www.reuters.com

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 6d

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

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Trenton Sperry @trentonsperry.bsky.social · 6d

Good thing Republicans just gave rich people a huge tax cut and then did basically nothing to curb spending.

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