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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6h

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

This story is NUTS

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 7h

Look, I've never skeeted about this before but when I was at NYT I was involved in a sexual harassment thing. I was not the person lodging the complaint (nor was I the harasser). I was a corroborating witness let's say. Anyway, NYT did the right thing and fired the harasser.

BUT

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 7h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 6h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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🕷️🕸️🎃 Skellyton (they/he/any) ♾️🏳️‍⚧️🪐 @kozmikkylekelly.bsky.social · 9h

The smugness on this ad is through the roof, lol.

Reminds me of the DuckTales movie promo/demo tape shading the Ninja Turtles:

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CR! @chadrocco.bsky.social · 8h

Mom'sters '25: Linda+ Alien

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 9h

*decades

Melania Has Been Secretly Working With Putin for Months

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 9h

Kevin Pyles was arrested on felony charges related to violent threats he made towards a Phoenix synagogue. This briefly hit local news following his arrest but, thanks to court record requests and some digging, we were able to confirm Pyles’ affiliation with the neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League.

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 10h

NEW from LCRW: @azrww.bsky.social covers a Phoenix-area neo-Nazi AI slop-poster obsessed with Goyim Defense League agitprop who's facing charges for threatening a local synagogue.

COURT RECORDS: GOYIM DEFENSE LEAGUE FANBOY ARRESTED FOR THREATS ON SYNAGOGUE | Left Coast Right Watch

A Phoenix area neonazi fan of the Goyim Defense League is set for a hearing next month after being arrested for threatening to target a local synagogue

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megasoups.bsky.social @megasoups.bsky.social · 14h

KOSA just got a bunch of new cosponsors so, y'all, kindly tell them to knock it the fuck off.
Make this bill unpassable for the sake of keeping the open internet, enough of this censorship BS and "protect the children" excuses.

#savespeech #KOSA #stopkosa

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 10h

the joy of tik tok

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.bsky.social · 10h

They lied and said they checked on him every thirty mins and let him suffer having a stroke. Justice for Kingsley.

Minnesota Reformer @minnesotareformer.com · 18h

Kingsley Fifi Bimpong died after officers allegedly ignored his stroke symptoms for hours. Robins Kaplan attorney:“The shocking deliberate indifference from local authorities stripped Kingsley of his last safeguard: the right to basic medical care.” minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/10/l...

Lawsuit: Minnesotan died after Eagan, Dakota County law enforcement ignored serious stroke symptoms • Minnesota Reformer

Jensen muted his equipment just as Moseng told him, “Before you got there, I was like, ‘Is this dude having a stro—’”

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 12h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 12h

Andy Ngo and his milkshake

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

"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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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 14h

The "ultraviolence" Andy is talking about, when "Antifa nearly killed him", is when he got part of a drink poured on him and he pretended it gave him such severe brain damage that he dropped some fruit once and had therefore been "robbed of the confidence in holding my own food."

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 14h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

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Withkindereyes @withkindereyes.bsky.social · 16h

Sharing around my kofi again

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Jonathan C. Allen @circuscartoons.bsky.social · 13d

Here's my attempt at a run cycle.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15h

"The King was surprised when his guard rid him of the meddlesome priest."

Alt text: Screenshot of a CNN Politics article. The text states that Attorney General Pam Bondi was caught off guard when President Donald Trump’s handpicked U.S. attorney, Lindsey Halligan, secured an indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James from a grand jury, according to sources. It continues that Halligan, recently appointed to run the Eastern District of Virginia, did not coordinate with Bondi or Justice Department leaders in Washington, D.C., or inform them about the timing before presenting the case.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 16h

all things considered, he’s just a really stupid guy with really stupid beliefs

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 17h

“In years when Americans weren't hearing about war [in Gaza], not only were there attacks all the time, but there was this structural violence...”

Pam Bailey, co-founder of ‘We Are Not Numbers,’ explains how Israel has always been opposed to Palestinian resistance.

🔗 zeteo.com/p/israel-kil...

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 18h

If you have Twitch Prime, they're giving away XCOM 2 for free this week. It's a code for GOG.

If you already have XCOM 2, grab the code and give it to someone else who doesn't. It's a super great game and people need happy-making things now.

SHARE THE THINGS.

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Zappit @zappit.bsky.social · 1d

Link requested this be boosted so we can help Dr. Divya raise money for Palestinian families in need.

It is also a good day to reinstate Link’s account.

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