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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 1h

Because the median vote of the Supreme Court is Republican

Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1h

It's been a fact of my entire working life, but I can't for the life of me understand why open, explicitly partisan gerrymandering is legal in the first place

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Bluegal Fran Langum #NoKings @bluegal.bsky.social · 42m

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 16m

Our Communist Allies in WWII were part of an alliance of Anti-Fascist nations, and they were our enemies in the Cold War, proving conclusively that to be Anti-Fascist is to be equivalent to America's Enemies in the Cold War.

Why, look at these anti-American scumbags
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Yalta Conference - Wikipedia

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 52m

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

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Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Disney’s Mark Griffiths @finalwhistle.bsky.social · 2h

Good Lord, it's the @miarobbo.bsky.social derby! #WrexhamAFCWomen v Llandudno in the Adran Trophy! Better not give her any inside info before November 9th! #wxmafc #askwxm

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4h

When Brazil adopted quotas for higher ed, the percentage of Afro Brazilians in higher ed shot up 400 percent and all of them did as well as non-affirmative action students.

The idea that affirmative action is stigmatizing and elevates unqualified people is a BS argument.

Screw SCOTUS. Higher Education Needs Racial Quotas. (Updated)

If the United States leaned into racial quotas instead of running screaming from them, we might have seen results like Brazil's.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, they hit him deliberately.

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 4h

Here’s how/why Republicans jack up your electric rates: stall/kill clean energy projects, so expensive fossil fuel plants have to come online to pick up slack.

Polluting plants, otherwise idle, now get paid; your money goes to corrupt payday for big Trump donors.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/trump-officials-drop-major-solar-power-project-in-another-renewable-energy-attack"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

The Supreme Court simultaneously holds that:
*it is impossible for them to do anything about blatant gerrymandering
*they are entitled to dismantle, bit by bit, the landmark civil rights law of the last century
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Supreme Court Appears Poised to Upend Key Provision of Voting Rights Act

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d

"While your proposal to increase the bed availability in your shelter from 80 to 140 by purchasing accessory dwelling units was a surprisingly resourceful plan, the budget and governance committees have identified pickleball as the issue that voters care about most."

Thank You for Submitting Your Homeless Shelter Application, but We’ve Decided to Use City Funds for Thirty-Five New Pickleball Courts Instead

Thank you for submitting your grant application for a homelessness shelter expansion. We received many competitive proposals, including yours. With...

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The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 3h

“While fare collection does come at a cost for Metro, ditching the farebox could cut off a substantial income stream for Metro, which faces systemic revenue problems over the long-term.”

The Urbanist @theurbanist.org · 4h

The idea of a fare-free pilot on several Metro routes came about as fares have shrunk as a percentage of Metro's overall sources of revenue. But data suggests dropping fares wouldn't be as big of a boon as continuing to focus on expanding transit service.

Story: www.theurbanist.org/2025/10/15/d...

Dembowski Pushes Fare-Free Pilot at King County Metro » The Urbanist

# The idea of a fare-free pilot on several Metro routes, to be implemented in 2027, came about as fares have shrunk as a percentage of Metro's overall sources of revenue. But the data suggests that dr...

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h

i hope this guy is ok but also this imagery is perfect to undermine the fascists

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 2h

The only similarity to 9/11 is a Republican administration determined to use it as a pretext to attack those who were not involved.

Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 3h

NSPM-7 watch: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday that Charlie Kirk's death was a "domestic 9/11" and that he's undertaking a commensurate response at home. Treasury is "compiling lists" and looking at funding streams, he said.

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Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...

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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 3h

NSPM-7 watch: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said yesterday that Charlie Kirk's death was a "domestic 9/11" and that he's undertaking a commensurate response at home. Treasury is "compiling lists" and looking at funding streams, he said.

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Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics.

You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!

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Bruce R McF (etc.) @brucermcf.bsky.social · 2h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Jus kidz having fun being a lil edgy bsky.app/profile/suga...

MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 2h

Here are the grown “kids”. That one guy looks late 40’s. These are the Hitler lovers.

Vermont state senator Sam Douglass. Bland white guy with glasses and beard. Brown hair.

Man in poorly fitting dark suit with glasses and dark hair. Yes he’s white. William Hendrix who is the communications assistant to vile Kris Kobach, Kansas AG.

Bobby Walker, dark hair and dressed exactly like trump. Not a kid at all. He’s vice chair of New York State young republicans. I guess young means under 50.

Peter Giunta looks like he’s in his 40’s. I don’t know his age. Also dressed like trump in an ill-fitting suit. He has one of the worst combovers I’ve ever seen. Beard and mustache. He’s the chair of the NY state young republicans. He looks like the type of guy that looks through your windows at night.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

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

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Transportation Alternatives @transalt.org · 4h

Great news: another planned highway expansion is now on pause!

No new highways — from the South Bronx to the Hudson Valley.

Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 7h

For years, multiple governors pushed for the expansion, even though the DOT noted that spending $1.3 billion to add a third lane would save drivers six minutes during peak travel times by the far off year of 2050.

State Pauses Billion-Dollar Route 17 Expansion in Hudson Valley - Streetsblog New York City

One of the biggest highway boondoggles in the state may finally die a merciful death, thanks to Gov. Hochul.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 2h

raise your hand if you were a young man who never declared "I love Hitler"

Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 2h

1.) One of those „kids“ is a state senator in Vermont. (They’re not kids)
2.) kids are bigots is a weird stance
3.) going full boys will be boys about the „I love Hitler“ chat is quite a choice
4.) What else to expect from a guy who still follows Bronze Age Pervert on X? (Rhetorical question)

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 2h

3 weeks after her overwhelming victory, Speaker Mike Johnson still refuses to swear in Rep. Adelita Grijalva and give 800k Arizonans the representation they deserve.

Why? To deny the 218th signature on the Epstein discharge petition.

The GOP is choosing to protect pedophiles over accountability.

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Samara @samaaraa.bsky.social · 4h

„We’re going to gas you.“
It was standard for them to say that. They held up a gas cylinder and threatened to press it against us.

Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

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Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 18h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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