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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 4h
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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3h
Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 3h
In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts
Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.
www.bloomberg.com
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 3h
This was the DOJ criminal case. Remember when we had a DOJ 🤦🏼‍♀️ www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h
This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 3h
“Do we really want armed 18-year-olds on ICE raids?” 10/10/25 www.pilotonline.com/2025/10/10/c...
Column: Do we really want armed 18-year-olds on ICE raids?
In its rush to expand, ICE is placing immigrants, citizens and its own agents in harm’s way, immigration attorney Raul A. Reyes writes in an LA Times column.
www.pilotonline.com
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
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)
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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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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 4h
Whaaaaaat?!
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h
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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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6h
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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Kay Grove @kaygrove.bsky.social · 6h
So TikTok is admitting that ICE's behavior is extremely violent and causes psychological harm.
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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social · 2h
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h
To be fair, that's better than what Trump typically does to boatloads of people.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h
No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10h
Where is that $50k ?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.
Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’
Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.
www.foxnews.com
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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social · 7h
Yep...have been for years
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blackskin6.bsky.social @blackskin6.bsky.social · 1d
Both Dump, and Netanyahu are fleeing justice by way of War, and Civil War.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d
Washington Post vs Democracy Docket.

If you value independent, pro-democracy media over the false neutrality of legacy outlets, support Democracy Docket by subscribing today. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social · 7h
Take a look in the mirror...
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7h
"The University of Zurich said the married couple, who currently work at MIT, would join its economics faculty …. [They] will be moving … at a time when experts are warning that Trump's cuts to research funding and attacks on … freedoms could lead to a brain drain …."

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...
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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social · 7h
VOTE for Zohran 💪
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h
SPANBERGER: “She doesn’t think gay couples should be allowed to marry.”

WINSOME EARLE-SEARS: “That’s not discrimination.” 🤔

SPANBERGER: “She thinks you can fire someone for being gay.”

EARLE-SEARS: “That’s not discrimination.” 🤔🤔 #VAGov
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concerned2.bsky.social @concerned2.bsky.social · 7h
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h
WSJ: “.. the portion of subprime auto loans that are 60 days or more overdue on their payments hit a record of more than 6% ..”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/business/aut...
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