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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 6d

Most hopeful scenario for Bari at CBS is she gets excited about her access and resources and wastes it all doing interviews with formerly powerful people that nobody gaf about anymore

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 4d

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 4d

Jon Farina is absolutely everywhere. Sometimes I think there are a dozen of him.

He also captured some of the most important 1/6 footage (which YouTube outrageously deleted, much of it lost to history, because it was violent or something)

Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 4d

Status Coup's videojournalist @JonFarinaPhoto had a leg day on the clock capturing this epic chase between two ICE agents and a nonviolent, middle-age activist who was standing outside the gates of the Broadview processing center on September 27, 2025.

#iceprotest #chicagoprotest #broadview

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois police attack & arrest ICE protesters outside Broadview Detention Center near Chicago. This occurred after a protest curfew imposed by city of Broadview passed. LIVE LINK ⬇️

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4d

When the bailout for Argentina…is actually a bailout for the Treasury Secretary’s hedge fund billionaires.

They get richer…and it just gets harder for you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible journalism here, documenting a scorched earth withdrawal by the Israeli military after the ceasefire announcement.

A last effort to render Gaza uninhabitable—including torching a key sewage treatment plant

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: The Free Press Called Out "Incomplete" Reporting on Gaza's Starving Children. Here's the Complete Story.

Drop Site spoke to the actual families.

✍️By Maha Hussaini & @ryangrim.bsky.social

www.dropsitenews.com/p/bari-weiss...

The Free Press Called Out "Incomplete" Reporting on Gaza's Starving Children. Here's the Complete Story.

CBS's Bari Weiss touted Free Press article as the "ground truth." Drop Site spoke to the actual families.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 2d

Finally got a statement on the destruction of a critical sewage plant in Gaza and widespread arson amid the withdrawal this week: “The IDF is aware of the incident and it is being reviewed.”

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible journalism here, documenting a scorched earth withdrawal by the Israeli military after the ceasefire announcement.

A last effort to render Gaza uninhabitable—including torching a key sewage treatment plant

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 3d

⚡️NEW from @dropsitenews.com: The Free Press Called Out "Incomplete" Reporting on Gaza's Starving Children. Here's the Complete Story.

Drop Site spoke to the actual families.

✍️By Maha Hussaini & @ryangrim.bsky.social

www.dropsitenews.com/p/bari-weiss...

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 2d

Noa Avishag Schnall -- @noavi on IG -- a photojournalist who reported from the Conscience for @dropsitenews.com, has been released from Israeli detention.

Here she is just before her illegal abduction in international waters, and here she is after she was treated viciously in detention.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

⚡️Drop Site Daily | October 14, 2025

Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement

www.dropsitenews.com/p/drop-site-...

Israel kills five Palestinians in Gaza and announces it will not abide by the terms of facilitating humanitarian aid, despite ceasefire agreement

Drop Site Daily: October 14, 2025

www.dropsitenews.com

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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social · 6h

It should be in the foyer of every damn hospital...

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leftgrrl75 @leftgrrl75.bsky.social · 8h

🌱 Today my garden friend seemed quite happy to pose 🤳

Golden Fritillary -
Agraulis incarnata

bugguide.net/node/view/58...

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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social · 6h

This this this.

Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 6h

@hanfrancis.bsky.social I thought you might appreciate the title gag of my latest article: www.panaccindex.info/p/wakefielde...

Wakefielders All the Way Down

"The Doctor Who Fooled the World" by Brian Deer

www.panaccindex.info

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 7h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 17h

This piece from @deanobeidallah.bsky.social is a frightening must-read: Donald Trump and the GOP are hell-bent on securing de facto one party-rule, similar to Mussolini, Hitler, and Castro.

deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...

Trump is now working to secure one party rule--just like Mussolini and Hitler did

History is screaming at us!

deanobeidallah.substack.com

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J Keen @jkeen1213.bsky.social · 7h

🤣🤣🤣

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 7h

What is conservativism?
Is it freedom or tyranny?

Let's take Trump's "Compact" that he's pressed Universities to accept or face investigation — it
requires all employees to abstain in their official capacity from actions or speech related to politics.

Sounds like fascism to me!
It's not freedom.

DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 12h

"Law school deans could no longer come together, as they did in 2021, to condemn the Jan. 6 riots as a threat to the rule of law."

Trump, Rufo and the rest are trying to full scale tilt us into authoritarianism.

Universities need to say no to this cancerous compact.

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Jersey Craig @jerseycraig.bsky.social · 6h

U.S. Capitol Police were called about an American flag altered to include a swastika and displayed inside the office of Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio) www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Mad_as_hell (Maddie) @maddie-says.bsky.social · 10h

Bessent's wealth insulates him from understanding the struggles of ordinary citizens. American history should be required for anyone working in the government, especially those who are wealthy.

#DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Jacquie @jmteo.bsky.social · 9h

It is very concerning to me that the Vice President is basically a Neo-Nazi.

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 9h

Americans, you deserve so much better than this.

Let’s make sure Saturday is just the beginning.

We will overwhelm this regime with dignity and a fierce, non-violent “NO!”

#NoKings ✋🏼

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

A day after Newsom kills AI kid safety bill, Altman announces ChatGPT erotica

sfstandard.com/2025/10/14/o...

ChatGPT will create ‘erotica,’ Sam Altman announces

OpenAI is ready to tackle adult content, its CEO says.

sfstandard.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 7h

Go to a No Kings March on Saturday & take tons of friends.

Register Voters. Ask those there if they're registered & if not register them(where allowed).

Ask folks to volunteer, particularly for Prop 50 which is essential to saving democracy.

Put the website on your sign. stopelectionrigging.com

Yes on 50 – The Election Rigging Response Act

Trump and Texas Republicans are moving to rig the 2026 election — and other GOP states are joining in. If Californians don’t act now, they could seize Congress no matter how we vote.

stopelectionrigging.com

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AL Kennedy @writereralk.bsky.social · 6h

As far as the techbros are concerned you are indeed a research mouse. As are we all...

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