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Wes Platt (Officially Official)
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Neighborhood news guy! Storyteller. Designer of worlds in spare time. Creator of OtherSpace MUSH. Editor and Publisher of Southpoint Access in Durham, NC! https://soduwelikelocal.news Member of SFWA, Tiny News Collective, and LION Publishers.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 4h
They 👏 are 👏 breaking 👏 the 👏 law.

Two judges have just ordered that the Trump Administration must release funds for SNAP benefits. The GOP and Admin trying to use hungry kids as political leverage is beyond morally reprehensible. And it’s against the law.
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 5h
BREAKING: Yesterday Grand Theft Auto VI maker Rockstar Games fired dozens of people, all of whom were involved in union efforts. A British union calls it "blatant and ruthless" union-busting. Take-Two Interactive says it was due to misconduct.

Here's the scoop: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Studio Accused of Union Busting After Firings
Union says 30 and 40 people were terminated. Rockstar Games’ parent company cites ‘gross misconduct’
www.bloomberg.com
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Wes Platt (Officially Official) @wesplatt.bsky.social · 1d
Narrator: Also Clay Higgins?
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d
Nearly two years ago, the company that owns Trump's Truth Social sued the Guardian, Forbes, Reuters and more than a dozen other news orgs for defamation, over supposedly misrepresenting their financials.

Yesterday, Trump's company dropped their case altogether
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR SARASOTA COUNTY, FLORIDA TRUMP MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY CASE NO.: 2023-CA-008180 NC GROUP CORP, Division: Civil Plaintiff, v. GUARDIAN NEWS AND MEDIA, LLC, et al., Defendants. / NOTICE OF VOLUNTARY DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE Plaintiff TRUMP MEDIA & TECHNOLOGY GROUP CORP. (“Plaintiff”), by and through their undersigned counsel and pursuant to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.420(a)(1), files this Notice of Voluntary Dismiss Without Prejudice of all claims against all remaining Defendants1 (“Defendants”)
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 1d
Want to make sure this letter arrives at the right place.
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Wes Platt (Officially Official) @wesplatt.bsky.social · 1d
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Wes Platt (Officially Official) @wesplatt.bsky.social · 2d
Oh, wow, DHS social media jackals didn’t read Tolkien, did they?
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d
DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE
DHS on Twitter: “The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last, the great battle of our time.” Image over a hobbit that reads: There won't be a shire, pippin. Join.ice.gov
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2d
Could not be prouder of the Elias Law Group team!💪🗳️⚖️

"The fight over who gets to draw Virginia's political lines spilled from the state Capitol into the courtroom this week, and Democrats just claimed the first win." www.axios.com/local/richmo...
Virginia judge lets Democrats' redistricting plan move forward
From online trolling to lawsuits, the redistricting fight is getting messy.
www.axios.com
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 2d
BREAKING: Democrats just tried to pass a standalone bill to fund WIC & SNAP to make sure families don't go hungry during the Republican shutdown.

Republicans BLOCKED it. So Trump won't use emergency funds to keep SNAP running, and Republicans won't let any bills pass. Shameful.
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David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d
WOW! The Washington Post obtained the rest of the body cam footage showing that the drunk-driving ICE agent promised to check if the arresting officer's partner was Haitian. "I’m going to run some checks when I get back." He added that he would have him deported if "not legit."
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Aaaaaaaaah!nna Megill @annamegill.com · 2d
Narrative Designers, do you want to work on "a multiplayer game set in The Witcher universe"? And with one of the kindest, friendliest teams I've ever met? Then this job's for you #games #gamedev #CDPR www.cdprojektred.com/en/jobs/2064...
CD PROJEKT RED — Award-Winning Creator of Story-Driven RPGs
As the team behind The Witcher 4, Cyberpunk 2077, and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, we create revolutionary RPGs with memorable stories that inspire gamers.
www.cdprojektred.com
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d
Federal conspiracy charges because an ICE goon had to drive a little slower.

What an absolute joke.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d
HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.
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NPR @npr.org · 3d
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest. n.pr/3X0UZtS
'Washington Post' editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Three times in the past two weeks, editorials at the 'Washington Post' failed to disclose that they focused on matters in which owner Jeff Bezos had a material interest.
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Wes Platt (Officially Official) @wesplatt.bsky.social · 3d
In the timeline uncorrupted by a weasel exploding in a supercollider, President Kamala Harris is interrupting the season premiere of Celebrity Apprentice with Eric Trump to express support for the people of Jamaica as Cat 5 Hurricane Melvin bears down on the country.
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Wes Platt (Officially Official) @wesplatt.bsky.social · 4d
Brutal. Approved.
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Wes Platt (Officially Official) @wesplatt.bsky.social · 4d
With co-workers.
kierongillen.bsky.social Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 4d
The Power Fantasy of Superman is you still have a staff job on a newspaper.
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Wes Platt (Officially Official) @wesplatt.bsky.social · 6d
He’s always been untrustworthy. Now he’s just absolutely unhinged and thinks he’s a modern-day pharaoh. Expect him to demand that all his ankle-hugging sycophants be buried with him in that big ballroom one day.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d
Angus: This is a guy who showed an AI video of himself dumping diarrhea on his own citizens. So the fact that he’s freaking out because we showed a video that just had Ronald Reagan speaking shows he’s not trustworthy.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6d
Breaking News: Timothy Mellon, a banking heir, is said to be the anonymous donor who gave $130 million to the U.S. government to help pay troops during the shutdown.
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
Timothy Mellon is a billionaire and a major financial backer of President Trump.
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Wes Platt (Officially Official) @wesplatt.bsky.social · 6d
It’s Ernst Blofeld. Or someone Blofeld-adjacent.
andrewjweinstein.com Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 6d
If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 6d
Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.
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Wes Platt (Officially Official) @wesplatt.bsky.social · 8d
They can use records from the Epstein Files, bordered in gold, for the wallpaper.
kenwhite.bsky.social Stone Cold “Crazy” Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 8d
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
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Michael Bitzer @bowtiepolitics.bsky.social · 8d
Virginia Democrats Plan to Redraw House Maps in Redistricting Push www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
Virginia Democrats Plan to Redraw House Maps in Redistricting Push
www.nytimes.com
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Wes Platt (Officially Official) @wesplatt.bsky.social · 8d
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