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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 11h

This is stupid, they're out of control

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Breaking News: RIFs in reverse. Some CDC workers have been brought back, in latest whiplash.

This is breaking news.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16h

First Wives Club “You Don’t Own Me” is circling in my brain always. youtu.be/dRLdtDYoVX8?...

RIP, to a legend and style icon.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16h

I can't emphasize how important it is for people to understand that unless something FAR BIGGER than an election win happens, this is a pipe dream.

It would take quite a bit to get past qualified immunity.

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 16h

I can't emphasize enough how important it is that the next attorney general set a team to go through ICE records with a fine tooth comb and prosecute individual agents.

It's the only way to stop this from happening again.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 20h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 16h

In 2026, "Trump could wreak all kinds of electoral havoc, Hasen said, such as 'Sending troops to block voting in some areas, seizing voting machines, pressuring election officials to illegally count or not count valid ballots, or change the vote count.... I don’t think anything is off the table.'”

MSN

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

This is an embarrassingly bad article and @thenation.com should feel bad for publishing it. If you're going to publish something about Section 230, could you maybe not misrepresent how it works?

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

With Larry Ellison in control of TikTok, we now have right-wingers or looney far-right wingers in control of most of the major social media platforms.

Right-Wing Moguls Dominate Social Media. One Legal Fix Can Help Stem the Tide.

Revising Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act would make outlets more accountable for the content they platform.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

/2 BTW this not an incompetent paralegal or legal secretary. Not one of them is this incompetent. This is one of the shitty Trump lawyers writing shitty un-American things on a weird schedule and trying to format the document themselves and being both incompetent and too lazy to proofread.

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 15h

In this admin, they'll be made Secretary of Def...urh...War

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

The best and the brightest

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h

"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 15h

The Seventh Circuit REFUSES to allow Trump to immediately deploy the National Guard in Chicago, but allows them to be federalized pending appeal.

Same initial ruling as the Ninth Circuit, before oral arguments.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 15h

Do Congressional Republicans realize that Trump is making fools out of all of them?

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 15h

They're getting as bad as SCOTUS

Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 15h

I'm OK with this, but are Congressional Republicans ever going to get their thumbs out of their mouths to actually speak up?

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump authorizes troop pay amid government shutdown

The president said he would direct Defense Department officials to pay military members on Oct. 15.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 16h

I just screamed NOOOOOOO at my phone. Didn’t realize I felt so strongly about this lady.

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79, PEOPLE can confirm exclusively. The actress was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 16h

What a moron: lay off disease experts in the midst of disease outbreaks. Is there anyone in the US more stupid than Trump?

#giftarticle

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 17h

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Competing for Crumbs

While adding funding for historically Black colleges and universities, Trump’s Education Department is simultaneously cutting funding to colleges that primarily serve minorities.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 20h

There are a number of accounts on Tiktok and IG that do extremely important work walking viewers through AI-generated slop videos like this and help them think critically about what they are seeing, how to spot it, etc. It’s a new era of critical media literacy instruction and I am happy to see it

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
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Silver Spring Progressive Action @sspaction1.bsky.social · 21h

The Nov election’s near! Help flip the VA Governor seat & grow the House of Delegates. Join our phone bank on 10/13 at 6:30pm ET to call VA voters & support @abigailspanberger.com & @staceycarrollva.bsky.social. Let’s make VA bluer! Sign up:

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 19h

Three (presumably white) dudes pulled up to a restaurant in Woodstock in a black SUV and the town freaked out.

Woodstock residents mistook 3 seeking to celebrate birthday for ICE, supervisor says

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Residents and activists “jumped the gun” in response to now-dispelled rumors that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers visited a Tinker Street re…

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 19h

None of this is because of the shutdown. This is Trump's determination to destroy the federal government, aided and abetted by weak Congressional Republicans and a complicit SCOTUS

www.axios.com/2025/10/10/t...

These are the agencies Trump is purging during the shutdown

Thousands are being let go from agencies overseeing health care, the environment and education.

www.axios.com

Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 19h

No city should welcome national guard patrolling with the police. Disappointed in Memphis.

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National Guard troops seen patrolling in Memphis alongside local police

At least nine National Guard troops began their patrol at the Bass Pro Shops located at the Pyramid, an iconic landmark in Memphis. They were being escorted by a Memphis police officer and posed for p...

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 22h

#giftarticle

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 22h

#giftarticle

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 22h

Good piece in NY Times.

#giftarticle

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Shelley Powers @burningbird.net · 23h

And as usual: released without charge, because their actions were unjustified and she had not done anything wrong.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

Journalism is not a crime. Free Debbie Brockman!

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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