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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6m

BREAKING: President Obama comes out in favor of Prop 50 in California.

California, help protect democracy and return your ballots today!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

ICYMI — with electricity rates already skyrocketing, Trump just canceled the largest solar project in North America.

Utah’s Republican governor seems to understand this is probably not the best idea: “This is how we lose the AI/energy race with China” 👇🏽

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

Late last month, a local CBS reporter said a masked ICE agent fired a pepper ball at her car, causing her to vomit for hours. The reporter, Asal Rezaei, said there was no protest happening at the time. Police are now investigating.

www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of ...

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U.S. Representative Al Green @algreen.house.gov · 5m

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:

The Jerusalem Post article below, titled “Israel, Hamas not to participate in Gaza deal signing ceremony - report,” speaks for itself.

You can access the article by clicking the link here: www.jpost.com/israel-news/...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1h

"The Pentagon is not merely tightening a policy. It is attempting to redefine journalism as a narrow privilege granted on condition of obedience: The government decides what reporters may seek before they seek it, and punishes them for seeking anything else." www.thebulwark.com/p/locking-do...

Locking Down the Pentagon Press Is Dangerous

Pete Hegseth’s proposed restrictions would harm the people whom both the military and the press are meant to serve.

www.thebulwark.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1h

I’m sure House Republicans will be as energized by this as they were about conversations Joe Biden had after he’d left the Obama administration.

World Leader Caught Asking Trump for a Family Favor on Hot Mic

The godfather of MAGA shared a not-so-discreet moment with his Indonesian counterpart at the Gaza summit in Egypt.

www.thedailybeast.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

UPDATE: Only OANN signed Secretary of War (on Journalism) Hegseth’s new rules for the media.

Essentially signing a propaganda confession

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 21h

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 1h

In a public meeting at 9 a.m. today, the Mississippi Environmental Quality Permit Board could raise the threshold for toxic emissions authorized at Drax's biomass plant, which Gloster residents have long blamed for worsening air quality and widespread health problems.

Gloster Biomass Plant Continues Push to Increase Emissions

Mississippi regulators are revisiting an earlier decision to deny new permits for Drax’s Gloster, Mississippi, facility at an Oct. 14 public meeting.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 1h

The questions remain. Why did White House border czar Tom Homan accept a bag with $50,000 cash? Who was it from? What was promised in exchange? Why did the DOJ close the investigation? How does bribery and corruption make America great? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Pressed on Tom Homan controversy, JD Vance and Pam Bondi struggle to answer

The attorney general and the vice president confronted straightforward questions about the scandal surrounding the border czar. Both Republicans struggled.

www.msnbc.com

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 9h

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1h

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Montana Free Press @montanafreepress.org · 11h

A second proposed ballot initiative mandating nonpartisan judicial elections has received the OK of Montana’s attorney general, but with the same language that triggered a lawsuit against the AG last week.

Montana AG's edit of ballot issue angers petitioners

Proponents of nonpartisan elections argue that Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s edits to ballot initiatives imply that judicial candidates have a political affiliation that’s being hidden.

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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 1h

In the Comey case, the govt asks for a filter protocol to review evidence obtained from a search of an atty's electronic devices. Comey wants to challenge the validity of the search warrant first. Unclear who the atty is. (Filter protocol is to protect atty-client privilege.)

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 19h

The thing that Republicans worked themselves into a lather claiming, without proof, the Biden family did

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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reneedodson.bsky.social @reneedodson.bsky.social · 17h

Trump Resort Indonesia is no doubt coming.
Trump wants to hold an international tournament with LIV.
Vietnam caved on tariffs for a Trump Resort. We literally paying for his resort in Argentina. Trump will build on the ruins of Gaza.

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loveisphere @loveisphere.bsky.social · 15h

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 19h

When Aaron Fucking Rupar is doing more reporting than CBS News and The NYT

I think this was a plotline on the second season of The Newsroom

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

"Most Americans probably don’t have a detailed grasp of what’s happening with ACA subsidies right now, but once people start getting letters notifying them of how much their premiums are going up, it will become a much bigger issue."

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 18h

There's so many out there who still don't realize how hard this is going to hit them... some of them don't remember what it was like before the ACA.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

"Most Americans probably don’t have a detailed grasp of what’s happening with ACA subsidies right now, but once people start getting letters notifying them of how much their premiums are going up, it will become a much bigger issue."

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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