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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 4h

How to keep troops loyal: make them beg for food from the people you want them to oppress

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 1m

Same. Has anyone so terrible—at his job and as a person—and so universally disliked ever been forced on the public?

Wait don’t answer that.

Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 1m

A universally disliked actor who is also bad at his job and apparently a terrible person. Why does he keep showing up in things?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26m

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2h

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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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 33m

They. Don’t. Have. The. Cards.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1h

The ease with which officials lie in 2025 is honestly terrifying

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BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 37m

I have not and will asap!
With this Beefheart reference I’m even more excited.

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 2h

“More than three dozen federal judges have told The New York Times that the Supreme Court’s flurry of brief, opaque emergency orders in cases related to the Trump administration have left them confused about how to proceed in those matters and are hurting the judiciary’s image with the public.”

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 52m

Flea Bag GIF

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 56m

I feel Olympic-level with this shit. They keep getting sneakier too.

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Leonid Baezhnev @rev-avocado.bsky.social · 3h

This is good, actually. This is the kind of thing we need to build a pro-court expansion majority.

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 6h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

a russ vought special

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 1h

If this were a dystopian film, this would be too on the nose. INSANE.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1h

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 1h

Just realized she’s married to the Safdie co-writer. Hope they become the world’s most macabre power couple!

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 18h

Every A.I. CEO is like “We invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!”

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 1h

Especially the fucking NYT, which is the one institution left that can actually afford to “go outside“ (to Portland) here. A colossal failure.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2h

Hard to find a more obvious example of the journalism adage “If someone says it’s raining outside and someone else says it isn’t, your job is not to quote them both, your job is to go outside.”

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 1h

i am feeling, i am seeing, i am hearing, i am getting the vibes, that students this sem are better than they've been in years because learning offers a rare haven from authoritarianism, a place to convene, commune, think together, refuel for the fight

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.

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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social · 1h

She’s officially a laughingstock Her legacy a Chamberlain-level failure. Hope she enjoys retirement.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Susan Collins is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which means she has considerable power to influence the administration but she prefers to mumble weak protestations to the media

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 2h

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 23h

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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