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Birdbrained @chirpitychirp.bsky.social · 38m

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1h

A right-wing press corps is not a press corps — it's a propaganda machine for an authoritarian president.

Grateful for the journalists who refused to bend the knee to this lawless regime. Our democracy depends on them continuing to speak truth to power.

Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout

A new crop of conservative media and influencers signed an agreement with the Pentagon, including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Birdbrained @chirpitychirp.bsky.social · 1h

They will absolutely blame anyone and everyone but the one for whom they voted and the hateful machine behind him.

They’re in a denial so deep, they can’t bear the thought that they were duped and their own suffering could have been prevented.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

You are the losers of this era, the organizations that will — if you remain in existence at all after this is done — forever need to explain why, in the moment when your institutional stature both provided you the most protection and gave you the clearest reasons to push back, you failed to do so.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

As Paul Weiss, Paramount, anyone who has capitulated to Trump has learned — it never ends. You are giving up your principles and (at least in the case of law firms and universities) reason for existence, and you are getting nothing in return other than letting Trump know you will give in.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1h

This is the statement the Department of Justice in the Trump administration released in regards to the University of Virginia's capitulation to authoritarianism.

The United States Department of Justice
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WWW.JUSTICE.GOV/NEWS
October 22, 2025
The Justice Department Announces Agreement with
University of Virginia
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement with the University of Virginia ("UVA") that will protect UVA's students, faculty, and employees from violations of federal civil rights laws, including from discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin.
As part of the agreement, the University of Virginia agrees to be bound by the Department of Justice's "Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination," ensuring that UVA does not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities. UVA will provide relevant information and data to the Department of Justice on a quarterly basis through 2028. The President of UVA will personally certify each quarter that UVA is in compliance with the agreement. The Department will pause its pending investigations into the university's admissions policies and other civil rights concerns. The United States shall treat UVA as eligible for future grants and awards. If UVA completes its planned reforms prohibiting DEI at the university, the Department will close its investigations against UVA.
"This notable agreement with the University of Virginia will protect students and faculty from unlawful discrimination, ensuring that equal opportunity and fairness are restored," said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division. "We appreciate the progress that the university has made in combatting antisemitism and racial bias, and other American universities should be on alert that the Justice Department will ensure that our federal civil rights laws are enforced for every American, without exception."
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1h

Obviously this is an extremely carefully formulated counter narcotics policy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "The ocean drugs and the sea drugs, drugs by sea they call it also, that's almost down to nothing."

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 2h

The 2016 campaign promise that Trump was going to run the country like his businesses (bankruptcy, legally dubious construction, constant lawsuits) really came true!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 5h

Add Cincinnati to the rapidly expanding list of cities where homeless students sleep in parking lots because their families can't afford a place to live.

www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

Headline: "Cincinnati Public Schools' homeless student sleep lot is first in Ohio, says coalition"
By Grace Tucker and Elizabeth B. Kim
Cincinnati Enquirer

"There are now so many families living out of their cars in Cincinnati that the city's school district is opening a parking lot for them to have a safe place to stay overnight."

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Ted Lieu @tedlieu.bsky.social · 2h

I soooo look forward to discovery in this case.

Release the Epstein Files.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

NEWS: Journalist Michael Wolff has filed a lawsuit against Melania Trump in New York seeking a declaratory judgment and damages for defamation.

Wolff is striking back after Melania allegedly threatened to sue him for $1 billion over comments he made about the Trumps and Jeffrey Epstein.

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Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · 2h

All of these companies should be forever associated with destroying the White House.

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 3h

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

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Birdbrained @chirpitychirp.bsky.social · 1h

We’re being robbed blind.

This is a heist

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2h

This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.

Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 7h

U.S. strikes alleged drug vessel, this time on the Pacific side.

In what is the eighth known U.S. attack on a boat since Sept. 2, two to three individuals aboard the vessel were killed.

www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-str...

U.S. strikes 8th alleged drug vessel, this time on the Pacific side

This is the first U.S. strike against an alleged drug vessel on the Pacific side of South America.

www.cbsnews.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

Pretty rich of Ted Cruz to be hauling Google and Meta execs before the Senate to talk about "Joe Biden's jawboning" literally days after Pam Bondi admitted she calls Meta to have them remove groups, and as Trump says the new TikTok should be 100% MAGA www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/10/part...

Part II of Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing titled “Shut Your App: How Uncle Sa...

www.commerce.senate.gov

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Birdbrained @chirpitychirp.bsky.social · 2h

It’s exhausting and ridiculous

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4h

THEN PAY FOR IT YOURSELVES

Amichai Stein
@AmichaiStein1
Netanyahu the start of the meeting with @JDVance: "We are not a protectorate of the United States. Israel is the one that will decide on its security."
4:12 AM • 10/22/25 • 87K Views

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 12h

I think it should be a bigger deal that one of the January 6th rioters Trump pardoned was arrested this week for plotting to kill Hakeem Jeffries. I’m barely seeing anybody talk about it.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

🧵 This scene from Bridgeview was just captured on TikTok from multiple angles—

An Uber driver picked up a passenger & was immediately surrounded by ICE SRT agents. She says they almost rammed her off the road.

One of them approaches with a shield. They point weapons at her and grab her passenger.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

the king blames his subjects for complaining about his policies hurting them

The Cattle Ranchers, who I love, don’t understand that the only reason they are doing so well, for the first time in decades, is because I put Tariffs on cattle coming into the United States, including a 50% Tariff on Brazil. If it weren’t for me, they would be doing just as they’ve done for the past 20 years — Terrible! It would be nice if they would understand that, but they also have to get their prices down, because the consumer is a very big factor in my thinking, also!

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

It looks like the new Pentagon press corps has come together.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3h

You're not gonna believe who is funding the destruction of the White House. Ok, ok, maybe you will...

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 3h

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

He is literally not paying for it.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump notes the sound of construction of his new ballroom at the White House and says, "that's music to my ears. When I hear that sound, it reminds me of money. In this case it reminds me of lack of money because I'm paying for it."

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 3h

Another illegal military strike on a boat — this time in the Pacific — broadening the Administration’s deadly campaign to another ocean.

Once again, there is no detail on who was killed or why.

The urgency increases: Congress must stop America from being dragged into another war.

US military strikes boat in Pacific in apparent expansion of campaign against alleged drug trafficking | CNN Politics

The US military conducted a lethal strike against a boat in the eastern Pacific on Tuesday, killing both people on board, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

www.cnn.com

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Birdbrained @chirpitychirp.bsky.social · 6h

Regularly

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Rick Alexander ⚖️ ⛳️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦 @rickwhist.bsky.social · 8h

Propaganda outlet Newsmax airs stock footage from a riot, NOT from the No Kings protests.

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Birdbrained @chirpitychirp.bsky.social · 6h

“Bloodless”, even

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