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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1m

Always love to be reminded of one of my favorite tweets

Maybe if you tell me the bad news in a good way, it wouldn’t sound so bad.

Okay, here goes.

Image: Hello Kitty on a unicorn in front of a rainbow

Text: we are fucked

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 28m

Odds of insider trading going on? 100%?

www.cnbc.com/2025/10/11/t...

Market sell-off: Trump post lops off $2 trillion from stocks in a single day

The unraveling shows the sway the president's one-man trade policy still has over the fate of the global economy.

www.cnbc.com

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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2h

Concerning that they are already parroting Trump’s rhetoric.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics

Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.

www.cnn.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

There is a whole category of Milkshake Duck Nobel Prize winners

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 5h

The Nobel *Peace* Prize winner is cool with murdering civilians on boats

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 6h

Oh what’s that? They will depreciate at roughly 3 times the rate previously touted and require constant replacement and 2-3x the revenue to match initial expenditure?

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @votealzubi.com · 7d

Proud to stand in solidarity with Starbucks workers alongside my DSA comrade @votejivan.bsky.social!

Today was a practice picket… we're just getting started. For now, take the "No Contract, No Coffee" pledge at sbworkersunited.org/take-action / follow @sbworkersunited.org + @bostondsa.org for news!

Ayah outside the Harvard Square Starbucks, holding a sign saying "No Contract? No Coffee!" She is standing with Cambridge City Councilor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler holding a sign saying "Just Practicing for a Just Contract!" In the background others can be seen holding similar signs.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 6h

And I think that is a fundamental and fatal flaw to the award that makes it different from the others!

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Andrew in 🇺🇦 @wouldeye.bsky.social · 6h

Obama also-the only Nobel Peace Laureate to later bomb a different Nobel Peace Laureate.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 9h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 8h

If SCOTUS were not also simply an organ of Trumpist rule, Voughts entire vast papertail of "I hate the government and will break laws to destroy it" would make these layoffs illegal & the workers could rightfully expect court to rule in their favor. Unfortunately, SCOTUS

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 7h

The Nobel Peace Prize, in my opinion, should only ever be given posthumously.

Given that so many people who champion peace or even achieve temporary peace can also champion war in other circumstances, it should be based on a totality of work.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 1d

Read @adriandaub.bsky.social on Thiel and the antichrist

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

Overall, the picture of Thiel that emerges in these lectures is someone desperately trying to disidentify from their own power. “You realize,” he tells his audience when interpreting a particular Japanese manga, “in my interpretation … who runs the world is something like the antichrist.” Here’s a man who, together with a couple of fellow Silicon Valley freaks, helped return a sundowning caudillo to a presidency he is obviously unsuited for, and who uses the awesome might of the US government to remake society and the world. A man who funds the companies that harness your data and determine who gets doxxed, deported, drone struck. Who funds far-right movements that seek to remake the very face of liberal democracy.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 8h

Posts like this should specify it is tariff revenue from last year, because otherwise it seems like this is money from Trump's new tariffs

The Trump administration has used $300 million in tariff revenue to fund WIC and ease funding concerns amid the government shutdown.
http://www.wcvb.com/article/wic-funding-trump-shutdown-tariff-relief/69003737

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15h

Was next to her all night collecting signatures for rent control and she never responded once. Must be a slumlord.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 22h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 22h

Furious that I don’t know French, their memes must be INCROYABLE right now

NYT Breaking News
President Emmanuel Macron of France reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister days after Lecornu resigned.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17h

A 65-year-old chain smoker maybe

Reuters @reuters.com · 17h

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 18h

Single issue voter who’s issue is the aggressive criminal prosecution of crimes done by Trump admin officials from 2025-2028

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 17h

Hopelessness of the intellect, vengefulness of the will

Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 1d

Some folks can't see the fascism, and so they have false optimism that causes them not to act against it.

Other folks see the fascism, and they feel so hopeless that they don't act against it.

What we need is a combination of the ability to see things honestly as well as to be empowered.

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