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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 6h

“We’re playing 2-D chess while Beijing is playing 4-D chess”
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump wanted a trade deal. Xi opened a new front instead.

Beijing’s rare earth crackdown lays bare the fusion of economic rivalry and national security risk.

www.politico.com

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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 4h

What a joke! Put aside Ukraine and the Middle East, just contemplate the potentially devastating implications of China's latest move on rare minerals to counter Trump's tariff war.

David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 4h

On NYT Home Page there's a Douthat column w/the headline "Trump's Foreign Policy is Succeeding. He Should Apply It's Lessons at Home." On what planet? Betraying our allies. Blowing up the global trading system. Embracing autocrats. Pulling back support for Ukraine. Helping to support Gaza slaughter.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 15h

The prosecution of Tish James is the product of a broken system that allows lawless billionaires to rule alongside corrupt politicians.

It’s as much a story of New York City as Washington, D.C.

But it's here in New York where a new era of politics will be born.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 15h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 47m

Nice! 🪷

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 7h

magine trying to put a woman in jail
bc she had proven to a jury
that you’re a crook.

Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 1d

NYC earlier today: Following yesterday's political-motivated indictment of Attorney General Letitia James by the fascist Trump regime, protesters in New York City rallied and chanted "Hands off Tish!" in support of her.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

"Forty-two judges went so far as to say that the Supreme Court’s emergency orders had caused 'some' or 'major' harm to the public’s perception of the judiciary[,] [including] nearly half of the Republican-nominated judges."

gift link 👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 3h

This is not Switzerland, not Canada - this is Ukraine, where every season paints the mountains anew.

Autumn ignites the Ukrainian Carpathians. Golden ridges, fiery-red forests, and misty valleys reveal a beauty unlike anywhere else.

Photo: @utah_names

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Nate Corddry @natecorddry.bsky.social · 11h

Find me someone who didn’t adore Diane Keaton and I’ll show you a liar.
Pitch perfect every single time, with serious versatility. Hilarious, heartbreaking, but with strength and guile. There will never be another.
RIP

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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 3h

Mash up bands:

The Beach Beatles

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 9h

Mash up bands:

Van Fighters

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 9h

Mash up bands:

Guns 'N Oates

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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 3h

The Beach Beatles

Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 4h

Share a cartoon you will always love...

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 11h

Another avenue of investigation and counter-attack into Trump’s corrupt political prosecutions. Put Pulte on the stand.

apnews.com/article/trum...

How Bill Pulte learned the art of the attack, from his own family to Letitia James

Bill Pulte has become a significant player in the Trump administration. Known for his aggressive online persona and bitter public fights with several family members, Pulte currently serves as director...

apnews.com

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 8h

Make sure everyone knows: these mass firings are NOT because of the shutdown.

Trump doesn’t have to fire any of these people—he’s choosing to do it as an intimidation tactic.

Difficult to overstate how stupid and reckless this is.

Mass CDC cuts hit staff dealing with measles, Ebola and disease forecasting

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 4h

I loved Baby Boom! RIP, Diane Keaton.

Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 4h

And worse, we sink further into Constitutional crisis.
bsky.app/profile/kjep...

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 9h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 4h

I miss him. 💔

Zac McCrary @zacmccrary.bsky.social · 6h

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 4h

When the concentration camps become forced labor camps the circle will be closed

Reason Magazine @reason.com · 2d

The Trump administration said Americans would fill farm jobs vacated by undocumented workers.

That's not happening, the Department of Labor now admits.

Trump's Labor Department admits that Trump's immigration crackdown is causing a shortage of farm workers

With fewer immigrant workers available on American farms, there is a risk of "supply shock-induced food shortages," the Labor Department says.

reason.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4h

Here's me talking about media (and The Post) on teevee last night (and re-airing at 11).

MAGA media: Bari Weiss takes over at CBS News

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 4h

Trump going over their heads, declaring that he will find a way to pay the troops. Taking away Johnson & Thune's political leverage. Making them look like fools.
An increasingly twisted way to try to make the public think that Trump and the GOP have no power to change the rules and end the shutdown.

Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 19h

Stiffing the miitary.
Determined to make healthcare unaffordable.
Showing us who they are.
Showing us what (and who) they value.
The kicker: They could end the shutdown anytime.
They want to blame Democrats, both now for the shutdown and later if Democrats cave in with no material concessions.

CNN @cnn.com · 19h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 4h

Cut the ass-kissing.
Look homeward.
The worst president that the United States has ever seen is making war on his own citizens.

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Jude Nagurney Camwell (Iddybud) @iddybud.bsky.social · 4h

a bald man is saying `` i 'm sorry come again '' while standing in a living room .

Alt: A man is saying "I'm sorry, come again?!?!"

media.tenor.com

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 12h

I was given to understand that the president's son getting a job with a company doing business before the government was an impeachable offense

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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