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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 5h

It’s never ok for law enforcement to treat ppl as they’ve been treating immigrants & citizens. Nothing to do w/ their status or the law. The law is just the floor ICE has sunk below. It is an ethics Q why outsized groups of masked men intimidate ppl & violate property/privacy/bodies/constitution.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

i have about two million followers across three platforms. statistically, about 20,000 of you are in the top 1% in terms of wealth. if any of you feel like leaving me your home in a walkable neighborhood when you die, that would make for a very heartwarming social media story.

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Terrance, No Howard @thunter86.me · 5h

There's something the Democratic party should learn here but they won't. They'll continue to hire consultants to that tell them to work on converting moderates and conservatives instead of going out and talking to their potential voter base.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

"Black organizers had noticed gaps in the campaign’s strategy for reaching Black voters. To address them, they led canvasses in working-class Black neighborhoods...By early October, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead over Cuomo among Black voters"

hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

Will Zohran Mamdani Win Over Black New Yorkers?

Five people talk about their experience of the Mamdani campaign — from the inside and the outside.

hammerandhope.org

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Senator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · 6h

Trump is tearing up the country, the Constitution, and the East Wing.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 7h

Not lowering costs for the American people?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 8h

So if you take this at face value, and you shouldn’t, was the staffer fired? Why would the campaign hire someone who would even suggest something like that? This excuse has a million holes and issues no matter how you look at it.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 9h

The AI video attacking @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is very detailed - huge range of scenes, headline overlays, captioned voiceovers and background music - but Andrew Cuomo's team wants us to believe the problem was that a "junior staffer" posted it too soon

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In a statement Thursday, Azzopardi said the video was uploaded by mistake.

“The video was a draft proposal that was neither finished nor approved, did not go through the normal legal process, and was inadvertently posted by a junior staffer — which is why it was taken down five minutes later,” he said.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 6h

I love that this is literally just

we realized we weren't connecting with Black people so we tried talking to more Black people and Black people like us much better now

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

"Black organizers had noticed gaps in the campaign’s strategy for reaching Black voters. To address them, they led canvasses in working-class Black neighborhoods...By early October, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead over Cuomo among Black voters"

hammerandhope.org/article/zohr...

Will Zohran Mamdani Win Over Black New Yorkers?

Five people talk about their experience of the Mamdani campaign — from the inside and the outside.

hammerandhope.org

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 7h

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 4h

Crimer-In-Chief Donald Trump wants to steal $230 million dollars from American taxpayers, claiming he’s owed money because of his investigations and prosecutions.

His claims are absurd & we should all sue him for the pain and suffering he’s put us through over the years.

youtu.be/rTMK2SZKW8U?...

Trump SPIRALS With SCHEME To STEAL MILLIONS From DOJ

YouTube video by Katie Phang

youtu.be

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 6h

Get in, nerds. The records of Truman's Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion (1949-1952) have been digitized.
www.trumanlibrary.gov/library/fede...

Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions and Boards: Records of the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion (Record Group 220) | Harry S. Truman

The records of the Commission on Renovation of the Executive Mansion include meeting minutes and correspondence about the renovation of the White House during the administration of President Harry S. ...

www.trumanlibrary.gov

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 15h

Current discourse not capturing level of GOP disarray on the 2026 budget:
- It did not pass on Sept 30, as required by law
- They failed to pass a "CR" to buy more time
- Few appropriations bills are done, House AWOL
- Convos now are on CR/punt, not budget itself 👇
www.politico.com/live-updates...

GOP leaders eye a spending punt into 2026

With a Nov. 21 stopgap getting stale, lawmakers are now eyeing a longer-term patch to end the shutdown.

www.politico.com

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 1d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 7h

"The ballroom is really the president's main priority."

Not your health care.
Not rising prices.
Not the dragging economy.
Not ending the shutdown.

Trump's "main priority" is wrecking the White House so he can build a fancy new ballroom.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.

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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: New suit seeks TRO blocking Trump's White House ballroom project and further destruction of East Wing. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 7h

And wait... how much money did Trump just promise Argentina?

How much is Trump spending on his new ballroom?

🙄😡

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Fired but Fighting (National Public Health Coalition) @firedbutfighting.bsky.social · 12h

Federal workers across the country are not getting paychecks this week. Food banks are feeling the strain of federal employees who need help feeding their families.

Federal workers line up for food donations three weeks into shutdown

YouTube video by CNN

youtube.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 7h

The architects have used the grand ballroom of the Romanovs' winter palace in St Petersburg as a model. Nothing explodes with "autocrat with unchecked power" quite like this. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Dictator-for-life vibes’: our architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling

He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholi...

www.theguardian.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7h

White House platforming a guy who films people w/o consent & has 14 felony charges for identity theft (his own unhoused “clients”) and fraud, described as “targeting & victimizing” vulnerable people.

In addition to lying about harm reduction, he pushes the false fentanyl “door knobbing” conspiracy.

Karoline Leavitt:
Highly recommend following independent journalist@kevinvdahlgren, whose reporting on the ground in Portland really showcases the horrors taking place in the city every day. Portland clearly needs help.
It's a shame their Democrat elected officials are resisting it, simply because it's being offered by President Trump.

Quote tweet of Kevin Dahlgren:
This is right out of a twilight zone episode. Three people completely motionless, and one of them is standing. All three are nodded out on fentanyl. This was filmed in Delta Park Portland.

Kevin Dahlgren @kevinvdahlgren

"Door knobbing" is when you put fentanyl powder on a door knob of a business that an unsuspecting customer will touch and potentially consume" A fentanyl user describing the behaviors of certain
"mean" addicts and what a "nice dealer" is.
Fentanyl has flooded the market and

Kevin Dahlgren @kevinvdahlgren

user. Other severe addicts are aware of this and has seen them starting to lick the doorknobs of grocery stores in hopes of consuming the powder.
I don't know how widespread this is but I think door handles should be cleaned regularly in concentrated areas of drug activity.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7h

“Homeless advocate” is an insane way to describe someone who stole thousands of dollars from homeless people while he was also being paid a salary specifically to get that money to them. katu.com/news/local/h...

Homeless advocate Kevin Dalhgren jailed after pleading guilty to three charges

Kevin Dahlgren is back in Multnomah County Jail after pleading guilty Monday to various charges.

katu.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8h

He doesn’t plan on leaving. We will kick him out.

A tweet from Mehdi Hasan reads: “This is his code for saying ‘We can’t have a free and fair election which we lose in 2028.’” It quotes Aaron Rupar’s post showing Donald Trump speaking at a desk with U.S. flags behind him, saying: “We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again… I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it… We can’t let that happen again to our country.”

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 1d

The optics of Trump building a ballroom that 99.9% of Americans will never set foot in while millions line up for food banks are worth more than any policy paper or economic proposal. This image is a visceral punch in the mouth that needs no words. It should haunt the GOP for a generation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 14h

The DC ACLU is suing on behalf of a man who was arrested by a National Guardsman and MPD officers for playing the Imperial March (from Star Wars) as an act of protest. www.acludc.org/app/uploads/...

Ohio National Guard member Sgt. Devon Beck was not amused by this satire. On
September 11, 2025, Mr. O’Hara saw Sgt. Beck, along with several other Guard members, walking
in uniform in the Logan Circle neighborhood, near the intersection of 14th and R Streets NW. Mr.
O’Hara calmly walked behind the Guard members, began playing The Imperial March aloud on
his phone, and started recording. In less than two minutes, Sgt. Beck turned around and threatened
to call D.C. police officers to “handle” Mr. O’Hara if he persisted. Mr. O’Hara continued recording
and playing the music. Sgt. Beck contacted the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD). Defendant
MPD Officers Brown, Campbell, Reyes-Benigno, and Lopez Martinez came to the scene and, in
essence, did what Sgt. Beck had threatened, putting Mr. O’Hara in handcuffs and preventing him
from continuing his peaceful protest.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 11h

A big strong guy, who was crying, told me that Trump is doing things that no president has ever done before

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Enten: "Trump is doing absolutely awful in the minds of the American people. We're talking about new lows. CNBC, -13 net approval on the economy. It's -19 among Quinnipiac ... He's not just beating himself with record lows -- this is the lowest for any president ever."

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 12h

Tapping the sign

Why Underachievers Dominate Secret Police Organizations: Evidence from Autocratic Argentina
Adam Scharpf and Christian Gläßel

Autocrats depend on a capable secret police. Anecdotal evidence, however, often characterizes agents as surprisingly mediocre in skill and intellect. To explain this puzzle, this article focuses on the career incentives underachieving individuals face in the regular security apparatus. Low-performing officials in hierarchical organizations have little chance of being promoted or filling lucrative positions. To salvage their careers, these officials are willing to undertake burdensome secret police work. Using data on all 4,287 officers who served in autocratic Argentina (1975-83), we study biographic differences between secret police agents and the entire recruitment pool. We find that low-achieving officers were stuck within the regime hierarchy, threatened with discharge, and thus more likely to join the secret police for future benefits. The study demonstrates how state bureaucracies breed mundane career concerns that produce willing enforcers and cement violent regimes. This has implications for the understanding of autocratic consolidation and democratic breakdown.

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