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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 2h

tl;dr this is, as I've been screaming into the wind about for a week now, not just illegal as shit but fundamentally means the Constitution as written is no longer in effect

That said if you want an even deeper dive on the subject than I've done, this is a very good thread

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

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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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: A judge has given the two teenagers that beat up Big Balls probation

TRUMP: It's incredible. Jeanine Pirro is doing a fantastic job and she's beside herself

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump on No Kings: "They have their day coming up. I hear very few people are gonna be there, by the way. But they have their day coming up and they want to have their day in the sun."

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2h

The Alaska Native village of Kipnuk was due to receive a $20M grant from the EPA that they were going to use for flood protection.

It was labelled “wasteful DEI spending” and canceled.

The recent storm destroyed homes & flooded Kipnuk: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

The plan to force taxpayers to cover emergency medical costs for non-citizens is a law called EMTALA: signed into law by the infamous democrat Ronald Reagan.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Lisa McClain: "Democrats' plan forces taxpayers to cover the majority of emergency medical costs for all non-citizens. Another $28 billion tab for who? You guessed it, the American people."

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 2h

"It's important that none of us grow numb to it.... or accept this as normal"

A sobering warning from Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA)

youtu.be/uW27-2_57XM

PA Gov. Josh Shapiro warns: "It's important none of us grow numb to it, or accept this as normal"

YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane CBS

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trythisagain.bsky.social @trythisagain.bsky.social · 1h

So they have more balls then the white house press do.

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Ellen Chang @ellenychang.bsky.social · 2h

apnews.com/article/pent... turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules

Journalists at the Pentagon turned in access badges and cleaned out their workspaces on Wednesday, the price for refusing to agree to new restrictions on their jobs being removal from being at the sea...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 7h

If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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trythisagain.bsky.social @trythisagain.bsky.social · 1h

Reminder to all other countries, making a concession to Trump is a fucking complete waste of time because he’ll just be back for more.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious:

- Super Bowl halftime entertainer
- getting a Nobel Prize for Trump
- terrifying naked bike riders

Topics he thinks are not serious:

- Epstein Files
- domestic violence
- being able to keep the govt open
- the neutering of Congress

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

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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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 4h

who among us hasn't talked about loving Hitler or worked tirelessly on behalf of a person we called "America's Hitler" or talked about sending our political opponents to gas chambers or incited a wave of hatred of immigrants with vicious lies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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trythisagain.bsky.social @trythisagain.bsky.social · 3h

Well, they are both dead so there is that one point of equivalence. What a fucking nutbag.

trythisagain.bsky.social @trythisagain.bsky.social · 3h

Awe, Pete must have been drunk flying.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h

these people are insane

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Brooke Rollins: "Charlie Kirk is in a way the modern day Thomas Jefferson."

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NPR @npr.org · 3h

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the layoffs have brought a human cost that cannot be tolerated.

Judge pauses shutdown layoffs at more than 30 federal agencies

In a hearing on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the layoffs have brought a human cost that cannot be tolerated.

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 9h

Gaza: Freed Palestinian prisoner comes home to find family alive

Shadi Abu Sido told the BBC an Israeli prison officer said his family had been killed.

www.bbc.com

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trythisagain.bsky.social @trythisagain.bsky.social · 8h

Tylenol did it.

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A significant gap in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska, caused by Trump admin cuts to NOAA/NWS, may have hurt the forecast accuracy for the deadly storm there over the weekend. www.cnn.com/2025/10/14/w...

Predictions for deadly Alaska storm may have suffered due to DOGE cuts | CNN

The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was likely made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the Trump administration’...

www.cnn.com

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 9h

Again, I will mention, for no reason, that my high school bully went on to work for ICE.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 9h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Denver Area Man @burleyzack.bsky.social · 8h

Chuck Schumer praising Trump for the ceasefire deal which has already been breached, this man is such a hapless sop, a sniveling weasel. An inanimate block of wood would be a better leader

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 8h

Alito says that we can figure this out with math. Nelson agrees, gives Alito the math that defeats his point.

Alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh jumps in to essentially ask if Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act even still needs to be a thing.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · 8h

Because our vice president is a fucking Nazi, that’s why.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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