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Caro 🇺🇲🇨🇷 @carogonza.bsky.social · 7h

I am sure @jaketapper.bsky.social has a book coming out soon. 😑😑

Robin @trumpsatwit.bsky.social · 23h

Trump’s ‘growing inability to form thoughts’ on full display during presser: journalist

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Trump’s ‘growing inability to form thoughts’ on full display during presser: journalist

President Donald Trump proudly touted a new deal Friday his administration had reached with a British drugmaker to lower drug costs, and as high as “1,000%” in some cases, a claim that journalist Jaso...

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Eric Badofsky @ebadofsky.bsky.social · 12h

“𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘥𝘪𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘐𝘊𝘌 𝘪𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘪𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺. 𝘔𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦, 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘵.” – @aricohn.com

Cartoon by @anntelnaes.bsky.social

10/11/25 editorial cartoon by artist Ann Telnaes depicting three figures with the letters "I", "C", and "E" on their uniforms, standing on the roof of a building. Beneath them on the pavement, the Statue of Liberty is shown on her knees, her torch and tablet on the ground, holding her wounded head.

The image reflects an incident on 10/9 outside an ICE detention center in Broadview, Illinois, where ICE agents on the roof of the facility inexplicably opened fire with pepper ball rounds on Pastor David Black, striking Black in the head. Video of the assault shows Pastor Black, of the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago immediately falling to the ground; just before the attack, he was praying.

More reading on the shooting:

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/9/headlines/pastor_shot_in_head_by_less_lethal_round_at_chicago_area_ice_protest_joins_lawsuit

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

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Along Came Trisha @alongcametrisha.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 20h

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 14h

The Trump ceasefire deal is the Biden ceasefire deal Trump begged Bibi not to accept in 2024 because it would've hurt Trump's chances of winning the election and I wish this was the first time a GOP candidate for president won by meddling in American foreign policy.

See: Nixon '68 and Reagan '80.

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Liberal Librarian, Emotional Support Cuban 📚 🌿🕓 @liberallibrarian.bsky.social · 14h

And stupid wins out every single fucking time.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 13h

And yet he falls apart when someone calls him "Governor Hot Wheels"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Greg Abbott tells Pritzker to "stop complaining and do some pushups"

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 11h

Fascinating. Does this mean he will no longer be the guy who sends out most of Trump’s tweets?

Since 2015 there’s probably nobody who’s witnessed Trump break laws as much as Scavino has. This is mob-like; he’s the loyalty enforcer.

Reuters @reuters.com · 12h

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Trump names Dan Scavino to lead White House personnel office

U.S. President Donald Trump has appointed Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino to head the White House Presidential Personnel Office, Trump posted on Truth Social early on Sunday.

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Anne Laurie @annelaurie.bsky.social · 16h

Not to insult your birthplace, but the 'buzz saw failing to cut through sheet metal to murder an angry duck' Okie accent remains undefeated, in my experience.

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Anne Laurie @annelaurie.bsky.social · 17h

The aging king no longer trusts his adult heirs. But the sheltered child of his last wife might not, he hopes, be quite as likely to mistreat his increasingly dementia-ridden daddy the way Donald cheated his *own* father (& siblings) back in the day. (Watch Barron mysteriously disappear...)

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 21h

Qanon was a brilliant op because they got millions of conspiracy-brained reactionaries from Alex Jones to that guy who yells about fluoride at every town hall to become PRO Black Van.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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Anne Laurie @annelaurie.bsky.social · 17h

"Barron’s potential role was pitched by Jake Advent, Donald Trump’s former social media manager."

Not that Trump wouldn't *try* to appoint the only spawn he doesn't yet suspect of wanting to cheat him to whatever role would make him richest, but this is the media equivalent of FOAF.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 18h

WELL OILED MACHINE! WORKING HARD, THANK YOU!

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 19h

lmao oh shit

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 18h

Halligan brought the cases against Tish without approval from any of the higher ups at DOJ.

She's basically gone completely rogue, or knew they would say no.

spacenacho.bsky.social @spacenacho.bsky.social · 18h

What's it say?

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 21h

Gonna be kinda shocked if this doesn't come back to haunt them in the midterms.

They gave 20b to Argentina while your farm went bankrupt is, uh, not a hard line to land.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 22h

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 1d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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Chief Joe @chiefjoer.bsky.social · 1d

I can only imagine what Fox would say if Obama opened a Muslim air base in our country. @jvl.bsky.social @radiofreetom.bsky.social

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d

Hegseth: I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 1d

Both corporate media and a significant segment of the pessimist left are committed to the mantra that this sign is morally indistinguishable from a 'In this house, we believe...' sign.

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 1d

one thing that’s definitely new over the past decade or so is the number of bumper stickers and signs threatening to kill you

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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 1d

it will be wnba players and nwsl players, the men are chickenshit. blackballing kaepernick achieved its intended outcome.

Greenb3ar @greenb3ar.bsky.social · 1d

I'm very, very fucking disappointed in American athletes, especially right now

So much social justice in America was gained by famous athletes being on the front lines of those fights. We are getting absolutely nothing right now.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

The reason the ICE videos aren’t producing a backlash of that scale (yet) is that our institutional elites are deeply committed to ignoring them, which both reduces their spread and reduces the sense that this is something important we SHOULD be freaking out about.

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 1d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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💀 Crypt Jones 💀 @cjones47.bsky.social · 1d

"Several judges singled out the justices’ criticism of Judge Young, an 85-year-old appointee of President Ronald Reagan and an Army veteran who has sat for more than 40 years, as a particularly demoralizing breach of decorum."

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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