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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 38m

Members of Congress are growing concerned over a lack of information from the Trump administration about the intelligence and strategy underlying its strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean, six sources told NBC News. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Members of Congress growing concerned over lack of information from administration about Venezuela strikes, sources say

Republicans and Democrats say the administration is failing to share basic information with Congress about the intelligence, rationale and goals of its war on drug trafficking.

www.nbcnews.com

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1h

Unearthed invitation shows Trump will host a lavish $1 million per person fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago this Friday.

This will take place on the 17th day of his government shutdown.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 17m

The “age verification” and the “human identification” problem are the same problem. It upsets me to be around people who think they’re working on the first, but don’t understand they’re actually working on the second.

a woman in a purple sweater says they are the same picture

ALT: a woman in a purple sweater says they are the same picture

media.tenor.com

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 8m

Aguinaga can't use "Democrat" as the adjective "Democratic" which reveals again he thinks this is a political battle, not a constitutional one

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 21m

I am so proud of myself for peer-pressuring Ben into writing this follow-up piece.

Highly recommended.

Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 24m

Ok @davekarpf.bsky.social wins, I wrote about OpenAI and Enron again, with a nod to Lehman Brothers as well. The fire burns as AI bubbles.

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/dont-stop-...

Don't Stop Believin' in OpenAI

Or it all may collapse

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 1h

ICE arrested my good friend @roadsteamer.bsky.social for fucking singing!!!
www.youtube.com/@robbyroadst...

Robby Roadsteamer

Robby Roadsteamer is the voice of the New Generation at Protests and stuff.

www.youtube.com

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 16m

So how do we do this? Presumably by tightly binding physical identity to your device and then proving possession (with some other bells and whistles). Not coincidentally that’s exactly what age verification is. Weird how corporate and gov’t priorities suddenly align, right?

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 15m

Again, there is a logical end to race-based redistricting: when racial voting is no longer present. Indeed, in some places *today* there is no VRA Section 2 claim because there isn't racially polarized voting

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 18m

Thank you Kagan for raising the 15th Amendment!

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 23m

10:59 AM ET: Kagan points out to a lawyer for Louisiana that the "government mandated racial balancing" he says violates the 15th Amendment is being done in response to a "specific, proven incident of racial discrimination" by the state.

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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.bsky.social · 38m

MAGA's violent coup January 6 led to the deaths of several police officers

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 28m

Kagan is stating in the 1982 reauthorization of the VRA Congress specifically rejected intentional discrimination as a VRA standard in response to a prior Supreme Court case (City of Mobile v. Bolden, 1980)

Keep in mind Roberts wrote a DOJ brief opposing the 1982 reauthorization

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 50m

Same with journalism, everyone just fucking cooked themselves to the point of not understanding actual people with jobs. The Washington Post is going to be like “why do subscriptions keep falling even when Catturd2 is writing about the economy?”

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 53m

I know the whole “every accusation is a confession” thing but it’s pretty clear this is the most elitist government that’s existed in decades. It’s just 12 billionaires in a group chat sharing banned Reddit memes

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 36m

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 38m

My memory is quite the opposite. “No kings” has actually worked out really well for the American economy for centuries.

It’s the arrival of a would-be king that has shut everything down.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 35m

Oof, relatable disclosure in Illinois's/Chicago's National Guard case: One of Judge Perry's law clerks tried to text a fellow clerk to complain about DOJ, accidentally texted a friend who worked for the opposing party (IL AG's office)

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 15m
U.S. District Judge April Perry just took the bench for this morning's status hearing in Illinois v. Trump, over deployment of the National Guard.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 10m
Perry called everyone in to make a disclosure. After listening to 9th Circuit oral arguments on Nat Guard over the weekend, Perry says one of her clerks realized the government had taken a position there
"inconsistent" with what had been said in Perry's courtroom.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 8m
That frustrated law clerk texted someone they "believed" to be another law clerk, but who turned out to be a "friend of theirs who works at the Illinois attorney general's office."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social • 7m
That clerk realized what they'd done within about 90 seconds, deleted/edited the message and asked the friend if they'd read it. The friend said they'd "seen enough to know it was not meant for them."

Jon Seidel
@jonseidel.bsky.social
Bottom line: Perry says that clerk will no longer be working on this case, going forward.
Neither side made a motion based on this disclosure, but I didn't hear anyone rule it out, either.
Either way, hearing adjourned.
October 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 35m

Dems please clip this and run it hourly.

'We don't care if he hits women, we care that he votes to keep the Epstein Files locked away'

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 39m

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

New York health officials have confirmed the first locally transmitted case of the chikungunya virus which causes high fever, joint pain and fatigue.

It’s usually a tropical virus, but there are now infected mosquitoes spreading in New York. (NYT)

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 31m

For what? To create chaos and fear. To create conflict where there is none, then claim it’s necessary to crack down. Disgraceful thuggery.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 14h

Two dozen masked ICE Federal Secret Police, who are kitted out like they are going to war, kidnap a local and brutalize the community.

Toward the end of the video, they throw a gas cannister that almost hits a baby. 😟

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

🚨NEW: Louisiana v. Callais Oral Argument LIVE BLOG🚨

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