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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 55m

Kavanaugh looking to find the "end point" when the Court no longer has to worry about the intentional use of race to create black districts.
I'd say "WHEN WHITE FOLKS STOP INTENTIONALLY USING RACE TO DECREASE BLACK VOTING POWER" but he thinks white people doing that is cool.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h

Locking in for oral arguments on the big voting rights case at the Supreme Court.

The next two hours or so will be... incredibly bad.

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Diana Hunt (she/her) @dkathunt.bsky.social · 13h

What on earth? Did someone park too close to the corner?

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Diana Hunt (she/her) @dkathunt.bsky.social · 13h

Beautiful!

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h

This is not morally or legally different than lining up two dozen men and shooting them in the face.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 19h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 18h

These chats are from the *leaders* of Young Republican groups in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.

"Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h

Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 20h

Donald Trump is giving $20 billion of taxpayer money to Argentina – to help his political ally stay in power and bail out Wall Street hedge funds – while Americans at home can't afford health care or groceries.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 19h

If you’re a man in the room and a public official says this about your female colleague, you don’t continue as if nothing happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Daniel Larison @daniellarison.bsky.social · 1d

"Trump has civilians murdered on his orders, and he enjoys doing it. The deaths of these civilians please him." daniellarison.substack.com/p/trump-the-...

Trump, the Murderer-in-Chief

The far more accurate description of what he does with U.S. power in the world is murderer-in-chief.

daniellarison.substack.com

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 22h

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 23h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 23h

Remember when Republicans got mad that the federal government might be CENSORING political content on social media? Remember when they spent three years holding hearings trying to prove it happened? And threatened to jail anyone involved?

How times change!

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22h

good LORD

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 22h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 1d

the hardback book is a relic which I appreciate as an aesthetic but most books should be printed in softcover, it is very possible to create a robust and flexible book without heavy boards, china has been doing it for a millennia

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d

Janet Mills is 77 and Democrats need to knock it off with the gerontocracy.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Breaking News: Janet Mills, the Democratic governor of Maine, is running for Senate, aiming to unseat Senator Susan Collins, a Republican.

Gov. Janet Mills of Maine to Run for Senate, Aiming at Senator Susan Collins

A two-term Democratic governor, Ms. Mills called herself “battle tested” in an interview. But she faces a Democratic primary before she can challenge the Republican incumbent.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Taking a swipe at the white gamer bros who support the Republican party is an interesting choice.

But, while we're here, Medicaid is intened for people who CAN'T AFFORD PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE. What you do, or don't do, SHOULDN'T MATTER when it comes to getting health care.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson says Medicaid is "intended for vulnerable populations, the elderly, disabled, and young pregnant women, and not young able-bodied men without dependents who are playing video games."

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Toast Conger @toastchanges.com · 2d

This feels like a good time to remind people what GenX used to call people who used the rhythm method.

Parents.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/t...

The new online war against birth control

Today from The Detail: The contraceptive pill is under fire on social media. Why birth control is being called "poison" online - and what doctors say.

newsroom.co.nz

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2d

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Jim Manley @jamespmanley.bsky.social · 2d

Good line

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2d

Truly can’t believe they took this quote
www.thebulwark.com/p/the-other-...

"They keep saying as loudly as possible, we're going to do more illegal partisan impoundments, and I think Democrats are seeing this and it just reinforces their sense they can't negotiate with these guys," Bobby Kogan, senior director of federal budget policy at the Center for American Progress, told me. "It's Darth Vader saying 'I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further'—again and again and again."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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