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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 17h

You know who hates America

The guys who took healthcare away from millions of Americans

The ones who CUT billions of dollars for programs like cancer research and FEMA

Who sit and watch the president use military troops to attack our cities

That’s Mike Johnson

HE hates America

NO KINGS
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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 3h

What Adam said. 👇🏽

My son just had surgery, and for the first time ever, we had to depend on a GFM for his medical care.
Because Mike Johnson, Trump and maga MOC hate America and her citizens.
This is untenable and no way to live.

#NoKings Oct 18

THE REFORMERS

This is not a sitcom, it's real life...
REPUBLICANS HAVE
NO HEALTHCARE FOR YOU and they're laughing at our pain

Young man in a Superman tee holds hands with his mom; both are wearing hospital bands

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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy @profciara.bsky.social · 2h

This statement from the former head of the CFPB haunts me especially with an #ai #bubble looming to burst. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qhj...

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Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost @frost.house.gov · 2h

It’s week two of the Republican shutdown.

House Democrats are here in D.C. to protect your healthcare and fight for federal workers.

Where are House Republicans?

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 2h

NEW: We obtained Secret Service records showing that the agency spent nearly $100,000 in taxpayer money at Trump properties in the first months of President Trump's second term.

Secret Service has spent nearly $100k at Trump properties - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

The Secret Service spent nearly $100,000 in taxpayer money at Trump properties in the first months of his second term.

www.citizensforethics.org

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404 Media @404media.co · 2h

A publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trump administration.

🔗 www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs

More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.

www.404media.co

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"Rassismus tötet!" @rassismus-toetet.bsky.social · 2h

Nur raus aus den #USA

Erste ExilantInnen aus den USA sind in Europa eingetroffen. Bekanntester Geflüchteter nach dem Verbot „der Antifa“ ist derzeit wohl Professor Mark Bray von der Rutgers University in New Jersey.

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Nur raus aus den USA - Autonome Antifa Freiburg

Erste ExilantInnen aus den USA sind in Europa eingetroffen. Bekanntester Geflüchteter nach dem Verbot „der Antifa“ ist derzeit wohl Professor Mark (…)

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 2h

A coup just took place in Madagascar. I wrote about it--and why it's the most interesting island you probably know nothing about.

The yogurt kingpin, the radio DJ coup, and the most interesting island on Earth

Madagascar is a fascinating island home to 30+ million people. It's also home to bizarre, volatile politics that virtually nobody knows about. And the president just escaped on a helicopter.

www.forkingpaths.co

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 2h

Senate Republicans have tried over and over to cajole Democratic holdouts to vote for a stopgap bill to reopen the government, but Democrats have refused as they hold out for a firm commitment to extend health care benefits.

White House Fires Federal Workers to Pressure Dems on Shutdown

The White House budget office said Friday that mass firings of federal workers have begun as the government shutdown continues.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

"I wouldn't say it makes me change and reflect on my service. I still love this country and I 100 percent love the Army....I know that what's happening right now doesn't define America."

Veteran and American citizen George Retes, wrongly detained by ICE, joins @timmiller.bsky.social:

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The Verge @theverge.com · 3h

"Every essay, every tweet, every moment of vulnerability I shared in the name of progress. Did I paint a target on my own back?"

Read more from @parkermolloy.com in the first of our special series, The Future of Being Trans on the Internet: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

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Elizabeth Little @liz-shrikestudio.bsky.social · 10h

gamefound.com/en/projects/...

Oh, right, this goes live today. I should probably say something.

You Will Die In This Place by Shrike Studio - Gamefound

You Will Die In This Place is a nihilistic survival-horror dungeon crawl TTRPG about exile, decay, and the inevitability of death.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2h

At least 19 Palestinian doctors are still being held in Israeli detention without charge.

Free Dr. Abu Safiya: Calls Grow for Israel to Release Imprisoned Gaza Healthcare Workers

Pressure is mounting for Israel to release many more detainees as part of the U.S.-backed Gaza ceasefire deal, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, who has been he...

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Vi🧛‍♀️cia @vivacia.bsky.social · 2h

That was in March

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NPR @npr.org · 7h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3h

New York Attorney General Letitia James delivers an impassioned speech in support of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani in her first public appearance since her federal indictment last week.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3h

As the government shutdown stretches into its second week, experts warn that women and children reliant on federal food assistance funding are vulnerable to losing their grocery benefits.

In the midst of it all, the USDA has stripped away the infrastructure needed to remedy rising hunger in the US.

The shutdown will worsen hunger—which the Trump administration just stopped tracking

Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits.

www.motherjones.com

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404 Media @404media.co · 3h

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network

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Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets

A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.

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New Hampshire Bulletin @newhampshirebulletin.com · 3h

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is infusing $300 million into a key federal nutrition program to keep it running through October, while a government shutdown continues without an apparent end point. From Shauneen Miranda

Nutrition program for women, infants and children to stay afloat through end of month • New Hampshire Bulletin

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is infusing $300 million into a key federal nutrition program to keep it running through October, while a government shutdown continues without an apparent end…

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 3h

What NO Public Service ANNOUNCEMENT? How do you spell HYPOCRITE? D-O-N-A-L-D-J-T-R-U-M-P

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump gets Covid vaccine and flu shot during second checkup of the year

The visit, which the White House described Wednesday as a "yearly check-up," was his second examination at Walter Reed in six months.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3h

NEW: Statement from Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, on ICE activities in the city.

Implicitly refers to tactics used by ICE/DHS as “unnecessarily aggressive” and “seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement.”

Here's Cardinal Cupich's statement:
In this moment it is important to state clearly that keeping the nation safe and respecting human dignity are not mutually exclusive. In fact one cannot exist without the other. The safety of a nation cannot come at the expense of violations of human dignity and surely the dignity of the undocumented can never be violated by unnecessarily aggressive tactics that go far beyond the task of apprehending people and which seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement. No one working in this noble calling should be put in the position of acting this way. Not only do they risk violating the dignity of others but such activity is beneath their own dignity.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 3h

Video shows the devastation left behind after deadly floods hit central and eastern Mexico following days of heavy rain.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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