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Katie Surma @katiesurma.bsky.social · 1h

The Ecuadorian government has arrested, detained or frozen the bank accounts of 61 Indigenous and environmental leaders, who together do work that protects large swaths of the Amazon rainforest.

insideclimatenews.org/news/1610202...

The Death Toll Is Rising from Ecuador’s Crackdown on Protesters - Inside Climate News

The unrest has been triggered, in part, by the targeting of environmental leaders whose work protects large swaths of the Amazon rainforest.

insideclimatenews.org

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 3h

We are united against kings. Trump has already indicated that he’s aiming for at least a 3rd term. But #WeThePeople don’t put up with kings. Together, we will mobilize in huge numbers to reject this corruption & abuse of power.

#NoKingsDayOct18th

"In America, the law is king".
Thomas Paine, 1776

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3h

lol Johnson backs out of debate with Jeffries. Says govt has to reopen first. thehill.com/homenews/hou...

thehill.com

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Tucker Drake @tuckerdrake.bsky.social · 1h

Alternatively, he knows that he can avoid answering the question by failing down because that’s far less damaging to his career than answering the question.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3h

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
80000
60000
40000
20000
0
Bernie Sanders
200000
Number of Donations
150000
100000
50000
Elizabeth Warren
60000
40000
20000
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25
50
Donor Age
75

Hakeem Jeffries
40000
30000
20000
10000
Nancy Pelosi
100000
Number of
Donations
75000
50000
25000
Suzan DelBene
2000
1500
1000
500
25
50
75
Donor Age

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1h

Andrew Cuomo acts tough on TV. But when Donald Trump came after our Attorney General, Cuomo couldn't even name him. That's cowardice.

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Tucker Drake @tuckerdrake.bsky.social · 3h

@iwriteok.bsky.social why VW might have been interested in cattle ranching. www.jalopnik.com/1873432/volk...

Volkswagen Will Now Let You Gobble Its Sausage Any Time You Want - Jalopnik

Volkswagen still sells a lot of cars, but it also makes a whole lot of something else that you might not expect — sausage.

www.jalopnik.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Pritzker: Illinois is not a place you can conquer and our people are not your subjects

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 7h

imagine laying off a politics reporter based in portland oregon in the year 2025

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 6h

Trump just pissed away $40 BILLION of your money to prop up a South American clown’s clown car economy

For context, the US has given $140B total to Ukraine, most of which stayed in our country to buy weapons from US manufacturers

$40B. Pissed away. Gone. For nothing

Btw, release Epstein files

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Tucker Drake @tuckerdrake.bsky.social · 6h

My mother is 93 and gets around better than he does.

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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 8h

A US citizen in Chicago was kidnapped by Border Patrol and dumped on the streets half a mile away. EVEN THOUGH HE WAS FILMING IT. They do not care about getting caught. They have no fear of accountability.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

we should all go out on October 18 and it's good that so many of us are planning to. but we should all start talking to each other about what we're going to do next, too - what we will withhold together if the abuses continue. we can go on offense, too!

time.com/collections/...

Why Protests Should Be Promises

Modern movements that aim to advance racial equity should withhold and promise, rather than perform, writes Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

time.com

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 6h

2017: Ted Cruz (R-TX) blames the porn on his personal twitter on a rogue staffer.

2025: Dave Taylor (R-OH) blames the Nazi flag on a (presumably, not rogue?) staffer's desk on an unnamed vandal.

Personal responsibility for thee, never for me.

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Boy5 @boy-5.bsky.social · 1d

The bailout for Argentina has gone up to $40 Billion with no strings attached, while American farm foreclosures surge 70%

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Tucker Drake @tuckerdrake.bsky.social · 6h

Really? I’d think that a machine that kills billionaires would be popular with women.

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Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social · 7h

Never fool yourself into thinking that the Supreme Court is a democratic institution or that the rule of law will save you. Any law? We must rule the law.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10h

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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 8h

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

www.theguardian.com

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 7h

Turns out not just Soros but even Fidelity Investments is secretly run by an evil cabal! (Those with a little history will hear the pattern Beck's laying out--or, as he might put it in a private chat with young Republicans, the "protocols." )

Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 11h

Glenn Beck says that after he aired a show on Antifa, FBI agents acting on the behest of Kash Patel came to get tips. Here's who the segment targeted, largely through strained connections and guilt by association: www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/g...

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 7h

Day 16 without the National Flood Insurance Program. That's about 20,000 home closings delayed or canceled for lack of insurance

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A Government Shutdown Will Fuel the Flood-Insurance Crisis

The idiom “kicking the can down the road” has been used so many times about the National Flood Insurance Program that the NFIP itself could probably replace the cliche as an analogy for procrastinatio...

www.bloomberg.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Sean Duffy: "We are gonna save billions of dollars by getting rid of the fuel economy standards that are set way too high, that no combustion engine can meet, costing each car to the tune of thousands of dollars for the end consumer. We're in the process of getting rid of those rules."

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Tucker Drake @tuckerdrake.bsky.social · 8h

Good.

Axios @axios.com · 13h

SCOOP: Top Democrats in Pennsylvania are maneuvering to run against Sen. John Fetterman in a 2028 primary, threatening to tear the party apart in the biggest battleground state in the nation.

Scoop: Dems plot Fetterman ouster

www.axios.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 8h

These guys are all Be A Man and RETVRN and tradwife life and four kids in your late 20s and early 30s like a Boss till someone asks them to take an ounce of responsibility for their hundreds of pro-Hitler shitposts, at which point the Vice President pops up in their defense crying uwu smol nazi bean

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 8h

I really need Democrats to announce, daily, that there will be consequences when they are back in charge. And then for them to actually follow through.

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Talia "AFAB" Bhatt ♀︎♀︎ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 9h

Today for @theverge.com, I talk about transfem narratives: the epistemic lockout from mainstream publishing, the advantages and pitfalls of the self-pub model, and what a global transmisogynistic panic implies for our ability to make our voices heard and represent our own lives and worlds.

Trans women are building their own publishing world, and it’s under threat

Online communities are stepping in where traditional publishing stops.

www.theverge.com

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