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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1h

uh, if it's no longer protecting consumers, it's because Russell Vought decimated it

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3h

Everything is retribution

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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andi @andil.bsky.social · 1h

Trvmp trying to buy another election - with $20 billion of our tax money. Every R who continues to give the Convicted Felon unlimited powers needs to reimburse US tax payers for this, the US Gestapo/🧊, and all the lost exports & taxes his vindictive pettiness causes. apnews.com/article/trum...

US is working on doubling aid to Argentina to $40 billion by tapping private funding sources

The Trump administration is looking to provide an additional $20 billion in financing for Argentina.

apnews.com

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Isabel Santos @isabelsantos.bsky.social · 1h

Good advice for this halloween. Do not go as Dora the Explorer…

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Greg Campbell @gregcampbell.bsky.social · 1h

Fuck ICE.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 9h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 9h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 5h

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 6h

Meet the Master Race!
Insane GOP Telegram Chat Rips Off The Mask

open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Meet The Master Race

Insane GOP Telegram Chat Rips Off The Mask

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Paula- The Blue Warrior @resist61.bsky.social · 6h

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Paula- The Blue Warrior @resist61.bsky.social · 6h

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Wild Hornets 🐝 @wildhornets.bsky.social · 6h

Huge thanks to @toonietuesday.bsky.social and their amazing volunteers 💛

In just one day, they raised $9,252 for our Orthodox Toonie Tuesday fundraiser!

We’re getting close to our $36,000 goal — keep supporting the cause 💪

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7h

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 20h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

If you can’t sell your soybeans because of Trump’s tariffs after Argentina stepped in and took your customers, you can take solace that the guy you voted for also just gave $20 billion of your tax dollars to the country that is bankrupting you.

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Banana Rocket Launcher @alochmar.bsky.social · 20h

#NoKings. This is ridiculous.

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Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 23h

Trump playing up his bullet dodging skills at the Charlie Kirk memorial is really beyond parody.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 1d

The gun-worshipping “patriots” are silent now that the boots are on the street.

They swore they’d rise if tyranny came, yet here they aren’t.

It’s an inflatable frog out there proving courage doesn’t need bullets, just backbone. Freedom’s not flags or rifles, it’s who dares to face power unarmed.

A man in a large inflatable frog costume stands defiantly facing a line of heavily armed riot police at night. Behind the officers, journalists and onlookers record the standoff. The image is overlaid with a quote from Tom Morello that reads: “Fascinating that all those ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ posers and their AR-15s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit.”

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GoBlue @blu2b4u.bsky.social · 1d

🚨In other words, they want complete control over what the media reports.
Just like Russia and North Korea. 👇

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

www.theguardian.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h

Remember how MAGA told us Javier Milei would fix Argentina's economy with his right-wing policies?

And now we are bailing out Argentina with billions.

Remember how MAGA told us Donald Trump would save US farmers with his right-wing policies?

And now we are bailing them out with billions also.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 22h

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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