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🇺🇸Boston Brian🇺🇦 @bostonbrian.com · 19m

For today’s lesson:

This is ANTIFA legend Audie Murphy..

Seen by many as the “1st ambassador of Anti-Fascists”

He was the most decorated soldier EVER to fight in WW2, he earned 33 medals, the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star & 3 Purple Hearts.

Today, he’d be a terrorist..

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9m

NEW: Cutting federal funding. Weakening civil rights protections. Injecting God into the classroom.

Here are some of the ways Trump’s Department of Education could upend public schools.

How Trump’s Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to know.

www.propublica.org

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 20m

He’s always been a traitor

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Rob @robaussieresistor2.bsky.social · 23m

It has always been about racism & WS.
They are doing what Hitler did, deporting as many as they can, and the rest, you know what happened.
He was already building camps.
😡😡

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h

UPDATE: DOJ filed a notice that it is appealing the 14-day TRO, an order that is not generally appealable. This will go to the Seventh Circuit. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
STATE OF ILLINOIS and the CITY OF CHICAGO,
Plaintiffs,
Case No. 1:25-cv-12174
v.
DONALD J. TRUMP, et al., in their official capacities,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF APPEAL
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that all Defendants in the above-captioned case hereby appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from this Court's October 9, 2025, Order Granting Plaintiffs' Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction. ECF No.
67.

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 44m

Maga Math 🤪🤓

Stephen Miller wants to spend $27 billion to deport 1 million immigrants who currently contribute $89 billion in taxes each year.
Do the math: that’s $106 billion net loss for America…Tell us again how it’s not about racism & xenophobia

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AJ Mack 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪 🌻💙🌊 @gaspatient.bsky.social · 1h

Guten Morgen euch allen.
Better living thru tacos, my wonderful friends! 🌞😀😊🤗

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a small white dog is laying on a blanket on a bed and looking at the camera .

ALT: a small white dog is laying on a blanket on a bed and looking at the camera .

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 47m

Good Morning AJ ☕️☀️😎
Happy Friday! 🥳🥳
Have a wonderful day 🤗🥰

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 49m

This skank will never rid herself of his stench 💩

Pam Bondi has become the crud that U.S. taxpayers scrape off the bottom of our shoes

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

B of A: The top 20% of wealthholders own > 10x the amount of equities vs the next 20%.

@mikezaccardi.bsky.social

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

BREAKING: Philippine seismologists report a new offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 in same southern region as 7.4-magnitude earthquake earlier Friday.

7.6-magnitude earthquake strikes offshore from southern Philippines

An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 hit off a southern Philippine province Friday morning, seismologists said.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

PRITZKER: "I genuinely think there is something wrong with him. I wish that his family would intervene, because I do think he needs mental health help."

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 1h

Todays upcoming results from
Walter Reed…

trump at the dr looking at a scan…the tests are conclusive, you’re a colossal piece of shit

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1h

Argentina has defaulted on its debt nine times — bonds, loans, currency swaps, you name it. The 2001 collapse was the largest in history, tanking their peso and the economy. Then came 2014 and 2020. Trump’s going to make it ten defaults with our $20 billion.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

“The defense secretary underwent a round of cosmetic injections last month.” One insider: “He’s always been full of himself, but lately his ego has been off the charts.”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1h

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Tim Hannan @timhannan.bsky.social · 1h

The craziest thing about the Leticia James indictment is that it was ordered by Donald Trump who needed 1000 FBI agents to redact his name from the Epstein files.

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 1h

Never take medical advice from an
ex-heroine addict who is not a doctor even if he is the Secretary of Health & Human Services who thinks that a fetus is inside the placenta

#MagaIsADeathCult

Top half of pic is a numbered list of diseases decimated by science. Chickenpox, diphtheria, measles, pertussis, pnemonia, typhoid, yellow fever, smallpox.
Bottom half is a numbered list of diseases decimated by RFK jr…nothing listed

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1h

The South Carolina GOP is pushing for one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans. If passed, the bill would:
✅Make abortion a felony equivalent to homicide
✅Narrow the legal definition of contraceptives
✅Criminalize sharing information about abortion
https://bit.ly/47ipe5t

New Attack on Free Speech: South Carolina GOP Wants to Criminalize Sharing Abortion Info

Read more here.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 19h

Hegseth texts war plans on Signal and includes a journalist. Trump DMs Bondi on Truth Social ordering her to prosecute Comey.

These clowns don't give a rat's arse about your or the country's safety – and even if, in some alternative universe, they did, they're too damn dumb to communicate securely.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy.

A copy of the arrangement with Eswatini that Mother Jones reviewed shows that the US has agreed to pay the monarchy $5.1 million to take in up to 160 ICE detainees.

ICE is sending people to a prison in Africa’s only absolute monarchy

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

www.motherjones.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14h

The US may be going backward on clean energy, but the world moves forward.

"Clean sources grew more than demand and therefore they displaced some fossil fuels," Ember's Senior Electricity Analyst Małgorzata Wiatros-Motyka told Newsweek.

www.newsweek.com/world-nearin...

World nearing 'crucial turning point' as clean energy outpaces power demand

Energy research group Ember said the global surge in clean energy more than met demand for electricity and led to the first fall in fossil fuel use this year.

www.newsweek.com

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 3h

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Elizabeth Pennysworth @epennysworth.bsky.social · 1h

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

“We’re physically seeing the impacts of a changing climate on these communities. … And the fact that we don’t have a government framework for dealing with these issues is not just an Alaska problem, it’s a national problem.”

(Published May with KYUK)

Newtok, Alaska, Was Supposed to Be a Model for Climate Relocation. Here’s How It Went Wrong.

The project’s challenges highlight how ill-prepared the U.S. is to respond to the way climate change is making some places uninhabitable.

www.propublica.org

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