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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 25m

I joined @merkley.senate.gov during his historic marathon floor speech to call out Trump's assault on Congress's power of the purse.

It's a gross abuse of power and it's corruption, plain and simple.

I'll keep sounding the alarm on Trump's unconstitutional power grab.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 7m

It’s hard to sound like a professional observer of events if you were to go back to last year during and election season and say “well he could bulldoze the White House.”

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25m

out: Mamdani will establish Sharia law, and that's bad

in: Mamdani will not establish Sharia law, and that's bad

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 55m

Also the video seems to be making the argument that Cuomo will adhere closer to certain aspects of Islamic law than Mamdani.

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Politico @politico.com · 2h

Curtis Sliwa says he would rather be fatally tortured than drop out of the NYC mayoral race and work for Andrew Cuomo.

Give me candidacy or give me death: GOP nominee holds firm in NYC mayoral race

Curtis Sliwa said he would rather be fatally tortured than drop out and work for one of his rivals.

www.politico.com

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Ess Dub @swilkes.bsky.social · 1h

Genuinely the moment in US (and to a significant extent, world) history in my own lifetime where shit went deeply, deeply wrong. If you believe, as I do, that a Gore admin would’ve likely prevented 9/11, then even more so.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

[kicks in door, screaming] BUSH V GORE

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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 7h

A billboard in Chicago reads: “Army National Guard. You joined to serve your community. So what are you doing in Chicago?”

It also leads to a website at notwhatyousignedupfor.org, which leads to resources for service members

via: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

Not What You Signed Up For?

Not What You Signed Up For? You saw the billboard. You have questions. You’re not alone. But first, here are proactive steps you can take to reduce risk: Be sure to access resources from a personal de...

notwhatyousignedupfor.org

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

Trump isn’t going to stop with the East Wing. The West Wing is a goner, and probably lots of other stuff. He will physically destroy our national symbols and heritage.

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Hamstrosity @hamstrosity.bsky.social · 1h

Nazis easily lie about things in service of acquiring power, is the thing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

one of the interesting thing i have seen in the platner discourse is a refusal to confront a thing on its own terms. to his pundit supporters, platner isn’t a novice candidate with perhaps questionable judgment to be evaluated on his ability to win, but a symbol to wield against rivals

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

when you repeat things, it keeps hitting people -- even when theyre not paying close attention. eventually the thing you repeat just becomes something everyone knows and understands. and those same people, smart people, can never tell you where they heard it from. "i dunno, i just know..."

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

i know it sounds simple. but thats literally how all this works. you can sit around and academically study it forever but all you really have to do is say stuff and repeat it.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

people seriously underplay the strength of elected leaders, influential people and the like just saying a thing.

just... like... say a thing and repeat it. its the core of politics and communications. you say a thing and say it over and over and it becomes the story. it works.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1h

sic semper imperia

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2h

ripping up the white house on a whim to build a grand ballroom during a shutdown in which you are illegally firing thousands of workers, with stagflation setting in thanks in large part to your tariffs and willful destruction of the dollar. versailles shit. fiddling while rome burns shit. classic

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 1h

"upon further evaluation" — evaluation of what, the gaping hole in the roof? The rubble pile where the offices were?

Zach Goldberg @zgoldberg.bsky.social · 2h

NYT White House desk not beating the Stenography charges.

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Δ8 THC Crepes @dadscrepes.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit flight 93 hit after all these years

Deirdre Assenza @deirdreassenza.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t have words

A whole side of the white house has been trashed as if by a hurricane

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Bulldog @harpua.bsky.social · 3h

Ursula Le Guin's 1999 letter to Michael Powell, the owner of Powell's Books in Portland. Powell's workers unionized in 2000 and have faced some union-busting measures since, but were the first contract in ILWU Local 5.

Ursula Le Guin letter to the owner of Powell's Books in 1999 where she says it would be an honor to know that it's a union shop.

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

So let me get this right. ICE got a bajillion dollars in the OBBBA to hire hundreds of thousands of agents, which they're behind on actually doing, but they're too poor to afford a couple of bodycams. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

ICE would need more money to expand use of bodycams in Chicago crackdown, official says

ICE's deputy field office director said ICE agents have worn no cameras working at a facility in Broadview that has been the site of protests.

www.nbcnews.com

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 9h

Notice how it’s always, “the Bible must inform our laws!” until it comes to the +2,000 verses in the Bible that discuss the generous use of wealth and possessions in a way that prioritizes the needs of the poor, this sick, the stranger, the vulnerable, and the oppressed.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1h

Oh wow

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2h

Breaking News: President Trump is having the White House’s entire East Wing demolished to make way for his $200 million ballroom. The project is far more extensive than he initially let on.

Trump Will Demolish Entire White House East Wing for Ballroom: Live Updates

nyti.ms

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Sarahbeth Maney @sbmaneyphoto.bsky.social · 2h

Leonardo Garcia Venegas, 25, was working at a construction site in coastal Alabama when ICE agents tried to take him to the ground as he yelled, “I’m a citizen!” They held him handcuffed for more than an hour and dismissed his REAL ID as fake. Two weeks later, he wrongfully held by ICE agents again.

Leo stands at the front porch of a newly built home, with his hands in his pockets of his jeans, while looking toward the camera. There is bright orange soil on the ground to prepare for grass to be laid around the new development. Leo has a serious expression on his face.

Leo sits inside a newly built home. He has a reflective expression on his face while glancing out of a window. Fresh green grass and bright orange dirt is seen outside of the window with new homes in the background.

Leo holds his brown leather wallet containing his gov. issued real ID. His ID photograph is visible, in which he has a smile on his face, but the wallet is folded to conceal the portion of his personal information.

Leo sits on wooden steps of his home’s front porch in rural Alabama surrounded by lush green trees and grass. He looks off into the distance with a serious expression and wears slip on shoes with a pair of work shoes on the step in front of him before leaving for work in the morning.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Threads post from julieceye

At my local Home Depot today in Evanston, IL. They abducted 5 people in my immediate area.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18h

Like, I was aggressively wrong here. Loved the video. Thought he looked like a fucking champ. People who know him like him and are loud about it.

But now there’s new information and you adapt to it. Getting all pot committed to a guy you had never heard of three months ago is unhinged.

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18h

it’s ok to be wrong! the primary isn’t even soon!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

did we not learn this lesson with MeToo

"oh well he just drunkenly harassed a woman one time, surely it was a unique circumstance" was always inevitably followed up by 47 other such incidents

it's never just the one thing

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h

Okay but the guy who got a Nazi tattoo surely only has the one bad thing waiting to come out about him, and we’ve already had it so that means he’s perfect, smooooth sailing from now on

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 3h

Wild story.

The US Federal Reserve has long used additional data from payroll-processing company ADP to buttress official jobs numbers.

During the shutdown this third party data is extra important for filling the gap.

And ADP has stopped sharing the data.

www.wsj.com/economy/cent...

ADP stopped providing its data to the Fed shortly after a speech by Fed governor Christopher Waller in late August drew attention to the central bank's longstanding use of its weekly payroll data, according to a person familiar with the matter.

It couldn't be learned what prompted the change. The Fed's use of ADP data wasn't a new revelation.

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 3h

i’m sorry but “getting exposed for having a nazi tattoo and covering it up and then showing off that coverup only for people to notice your other nazi tattoo” is the stuff of comedy and i cannot help but laugh

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