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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, brainwashing works.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1h

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 1h

Saw you last time - it really meant a lot that you were there! Glad another lucky city will get to hear you.

Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 1h

Just say no to bullshit!

Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 1d

Brandolini’s Law (also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle):

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

H/t @unbiasedscipod.bsky.social

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Glenn Storm @glennstorm.bsky.social · 1d

To add to your vocabulary: "Super Voter"

Political campaigns refer to constituents who consistently vote in every election, and vote in a consistent manner, "Super Voters".

These voters form a reliable foundation to build a campaign upon, and often become a source of voter momentum and volunteers.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4h

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

To Be or Not to Be (Lubitsch, 1942)

TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social
LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
October 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM © Replies disabled

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Caryn Hunt @carynhunt.bsky.social · 4h

We also didn't realize how far fossil fuel interests would go to protect themselves, at the expense of people and planet and the truth. They've used their money over decades to systematically corrupt our democracy. All these interests are aligned against the success of this country.

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Michael Ekstra Scary @md.ekstrandom.net · 4h

This is… not good. At the same time these models are being sold as universal answer machines, they’re being tuned for both-sides-ism instead of factuality.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 5h

This is a terrific point. Public schools exist for students, not their parents.

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 5h

9 out of 10 US students -- roughly 50 million children -- attend public schools.

Despite RW efforts to frame their efforts as for parents ("parents' rights," "choice"), efforts to defund, deform. amd debilitate public schools is a broadscale attack on children and future generations.

Five Ways the Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to kn...

www.propublica.org

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Indivisible ❌👑 @handle.invalid · 4h

One week from right now, millions of Americans will gather in every state for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history. Join your local No Kings Day event to make it clear that We The People won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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Glenn Storm @glennstorm.bsky.social · 4h

This weekend, we check the scoreboard:

. Qatar Air Force gets a new base in IDAHO
. Argentina gets $20 BILLION bailout so they can sell soybeans to China easier now (instead of U.S. farmers)
. Wealthiest 1% of U.S. citizens hit a new record $52 TRILLION collectively

... and on the losing side,

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 4h

12. Indeed, during a presser Friday, Hakeem Jeffries was asked: “If Republicans were to commit to putting forward a vote on extending the ACA subsidies, would that bring Democrats to the negotiating table?”

His reply: “Republicans have zero credibility, zero.”

thehill.com/video-clips/...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 19h

They’re still offering new ICE recruits a $50,000 signing bonus, yet active duty military were seen today lining up at food banks.

Defend your country and you can’t afford to eat.

Terrorize your country and you become rich.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 22h

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 23h

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15h

Finally! Judge Paula Xinis of the U.S. District Court in Maryland has signaled she is inclined to release Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man wrongfully deported and later brought back by the Trump administration.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15h

Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Rob Wittman, R-Va., and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, all voted for cuts to the CFPB.

Yet collectively, they routed more than 1,000 constituent complaints to the agency, ProPublica found.

(Published August)
By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, lo...

www.propublica.org

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 19h

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈 @dataandpolitics.net · 13h

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 17h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 16h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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