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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6h

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 I do not know when or where, but it doesn’t matter. This is depravity. This is a child. Those are state employed monsters. There is nothing normal about being “okay” with doing this job. 1/2

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@Peg33 @peg33.bsky.social · 12h

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hopefulforsummer.bsky.social @hopefulforsummer.bsky.social · 2h

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 22h

Daughter: “Mother, can a woman get pregnant from anal sex?”
Mother: “Why of course dear. Where do you think Republicans come from?”

Mother and daughter discuss Republican assholes.

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Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 9h

Please help me get the true story of the flight, life and death of #Felicette - not the white-washed, Dixneyfied 'happy ending' version of it - better known "out there". Most people now know Laika's story. Felicette's deserves to be known too.

Stuart Atkinson @stuartatkinson.bsky.social · 16h

Tomorrow's the 62nd anniversary of the flight of Felicette, the only cat ever to go into space. After returning safely to Earth she was killed so scientists could study her brain. Her full story, an honest account with nothing glorified, is in my book. www.amazon.co.uk/FELICETTE-Sp...

FELICETTE: The Space Cat

Buy FELICETTE: The Space Cat by Atkinson, Stuart (ISBN: 9798859884452) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4h

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 12h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Andrew Cuomo: taxpayers should pay for $60 million in legal bills for my sexual harassment allegations

Also Andrew Cuomo: $60 million is too much money to spend on a pilot program to deliver cheaper groceries

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

Jeffries: “ And then you got Karoline Leavitt, who's sick. She's out of control. And I'm not sure whether she's just demented, ignorant, a stone-cold liar, or all of the above"

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 23h

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 23h

In the richest city in America, we cannot simply accept that 500,000 kids go to bed hungry every night.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 8h

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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

It is sick

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 20h

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Annette @resistnow2024.bsky.social · 2d

This. Said. It. All. ⬇️⬇️

Please. Share. So. Everyone. Knows. The. Truth.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23h

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 2d

Governor Newsom's press office for the win.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

'Startled' judge orders agents in Chicago area to wear body cameras after violent clashes

A judge says federal immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other aggressive steps against protesters.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 2d

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

www.statnews.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

We can’t pay air traffic controllers during the shutdown, making us less safe, but we can send $40 billion to bail out Argentina.

Make it make sense.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Sanders: Saturday, millions of people are going to come out on a No Kings day. Speaker Johnson said this is a hate America rally because people are coming out expressing their concerns.. It’s not a hate America rally, it's a love America rally.

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 1d

I am less offended at the money to Argentina to bail out their terrible, corrupt government than by the fact that there’s no public argument about sending money to Argentina, the pros and cons of it, and what exactly it’s supposed to do for US interests. Congress exists for a goddamn reason!

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

“Kids”

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 1d

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance
* Guam is also a member of the alliance
Updated October 15, 2025
Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

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