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👻SAAAAAAAAHHHHHHvik Ford 🎃 @saavikford.bsky.social · 1h

THIS!!!

No, ACA isn’t perfect, but just straight up repealing it would kill a LOT of people.

THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 4h

I like to remind people about lifetime limits and the refusal of insurers to sell coverage to people with preexisting conditions.

The ACA has issues. But those 2 things alone make it worth saving and fixing.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 10h

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 13h

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 1h

Newsmax refusing to put up with this shit, even if they cave later on, is a remarkable thing.

Hegseth has found something grossly offensive even to a lot of right-wing agitprop media.

Rentanyl Pace @rentanylpace.bsky.social · 2h

Context
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New York Times, AP, Newsmax among news outlets who say they won't sign new Pentagon rules

The New York Times, The AP and the conservative television network Newsmax are among the outlets who say they won't sign a new DOD document about press rules.

www.wkyc.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2h

Solidarity is the only way

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2h

Arguably, Trump 2.0 is all about stochastic authoritarianism.

He lacks the ability to punish multiple cities with an iron fist. He can't even really punish all of ONE with an iron fist. ICE and associated unnamed Fed LEOs roam Chicago, but only strike a limited number of places at a time.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2h

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 2h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 11d

finally realized what bugs me about “gifted kid” discourse. everyone online acts like everyone who was ever in a “gifted” program is a stuck up rich asshole, but my experience was that every other child dehumanized me before and after my experience in the program bc i was hyperlexic and autistic.

ai liker @avengingfemme.bsky.social · 11d

no we don’t. i got used to being treated like a person instead of a weird freak you could poke for answers, like a walking encyclopedia. only briefly though, before returning to weird freak status until i got out of high school.

don’t fucking generalize.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

...one of the calls i made before the inauguration was that trump II would struggle to get anything done that wasn't immigration. with deportations they *already had* a big federal bureaucracy that really wanted deportations. everything else is a fucking shambles

J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 12h

New coal leases in the Powder River Basin have been paused after the first one had only a bid for 1/10th of a penny. They are trying to blame previous administrations, but the writing is on the wall. We should be supporting coal workers and communities not doing wtf this clown show is doing.

US postpones Wyoming coal lease sale after disappointing Montana auction

The Trump administration has postponed a scheduled sale of coal leases on federal lands in Wyoming two days after a disappointing auction in Montana, an Interior Department spokesperson said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

"Inflatable frogs have been practically omnipresent, especially after a video went viral last week of a law-enforcement official shooting pepper spray into one of the frog costume’s posterior air vents (a sentence I truly never thought I would write)."

Can Democrats Mock Trump Into Defeat?

As the president embraces strongman politics, Democrats are increasingly trying to make him seem little.

www.thebulwark.com

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cpuk (trampoline park connoisseur and occasional comic printer) @comicprintinguk.bsky.social · 1d

I like Stephen King’s short story “The Jaunt” a lot, but I think it ought to be classed as a novella really. It’s longer than you think.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 6h

Abolish ICE.

If you work for ICE, quit right now.

Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 8h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 6h

me, holding a gun to my head, standing in the ashes of my house, gasoline and a torch at my feet: LOOK WHAT THE DEMOCRATS DID apnews.com/article/gove...

Government shutdown could be the longest ever, Speaker Johnson warns

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson predicts the federal government shutdown may become the longest in history.

apnews.com

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 6h

excessive hgh has negative cognitive effects, including upregulation in fear memory formation

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 6h

Breaking: Gavin Newsom VETOES SB 771

www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/u...

OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
OCT 13 2025
To the Members of the California State Senate:
am returning Senate Bill 771 without my signature.
This bill seeks to hold social media platforms 'iable for algorithms that relay
content violating specified California civil rights laws to their users.
support the author's goal of ensuring that our nation-leading civil rights laws
apply equally both online and offline. likewise share the author's concern
about the growth of discriminatory threats, violence, and coercive harassment
online. am concerned, however, that this bill is premature. Our first step should
be to determine if, and to what extent, existing civil rights laws are sufficient to
address violations perpetrafed through algorithms. To the extent our laws prove
inadequate, they should be bolstered at that time.
For this reas
, I cannot sign this bill.
Sinc ely,
Ga
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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 5h

I can't help but notice that some of the people who loudly said it was slander to accuse them of helping Trump to harm Democrats as punishment for how they voted in the 16 primary are some of the strongest proponents of harming Red staters as punishment for how they voted in the 24 general.

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 9h

These types were happy when Trump won last year because it allowed them to say "see, liberals didn't really win in 2020, they just delayed an even worse disaster!" So when liberalism defeats Trump *again*, these guys will feel twice as humiliated, and they're preemptively taking it out on all of us.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 5h

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it (either out of self-preservation or the distractions inherent in our cursed information environment) but man:

It’s humiliating to live in the hegemon that built the current global order as a bunch of illiterate pissbabies smash it to pieces.

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cheyinka @cheyinka.bsky.social · 8h

As an adult - well, teenagers do overreact, and they do complain, but if I was embarrassed for him for complaining "in public", that would explain my antipathy towards it!

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cheyinka @cheyinka.bsky.social · 8h

There's a Sesame Street book about dealing with being angry with your friends that would never have happened if Bert and Ernie had had cell phones: they agree to meet at a park but they meet on opposite sides of it, don't see each other, and both storm home, mad that the other forgot about them!

cheyinka @cheyinka.bsky.social · 8h

I loathed it in high school and I'm wondering if maybe it's because it felt invasive to be reading it, because what I remember of it was Holden overreacting to everything and complaining about everything.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 11h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 8h

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

"To try to win the support of Senate Democrats, Republicans have suggested they’d promise to *hold a vote* on extending the ACA subsidies after the government reopens, which is very different from actually extending them." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Drew Kadel @drewkadel.bsky.social · 8h

Funny thing about this. In the past, this kind of provocation would get the attention of the Speaker & probably some meeting times. Now Johnson just shrugs, because in his reality Trump DOES call the shots and Johnson obeys.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson?

JEFFRIES: No

TUR: Why not?

JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 8h

I think even worse than this is the fact that that like 99% of people who have a 3/5-4.5/5 experience are not moved to review it at all. Maybe a handful who have a 4.5-5 experience will do so, and then like half of everyone whose experience is below 3 will do so. The review based is skewed by nature

Amos Posner @amosposner.bsky.social · 9h

I think businesses asking people to rate every single experience has furthered this damage. We shouldn't have this many opinions about this many things, and we certainly shouldn't expect other busy people to care if we do.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 9h

few ideas have damaged the average psyche more than ‘the customer is always right.’ it should be a little bit humiliating, being a customer. you should walk into any service transaction knowing that the other person, and not you, is in control over whether you get your treats

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