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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6m

Trump take everything.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

Silverio Villegas Gonzalez

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Chicago ICE crackdown's first casualty, a father of two, had built a quiet life in the US

An agent shot Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, father of two, during a massive immigration sweep.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 7h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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LiL'Silver @officiallilsilver.bsky.social · 2d

Cori Bush Announces Campaign for U.S. Congress in Missouri's First | Launch Video

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Cori Bush Announces Campaign for U.S. Congress in Missouri's First | Launch Video

YouTube video by Cori Bush

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 12h

Are you fucking kidding me.

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 17h

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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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 14h

objectively factual

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 15h

Chinese Premier Li Qiang, the country’s No. 2 official, & Russia’s ruling-party chief & former president, Dmitry Medvedev, were among the dignitaries to join Kim at the event, reuniting a loose anti-Western axis of nations. Top officials from Vietnam & Laos also attended.
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North Korea’s Kim Flaunts New ICBM Able to Reach U.S.

The country’s leader challenged the West with an unapologetic military parade, including the unveiling of the “Hwasong-20” long-range missile, alongside guests from China and Russia.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 15h

Trump’s chaos will punish students.

It’s not the billionaires’ kids who will suffer.

It's working families' kids who will fall further behind.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15h

They are building a Propaganda State.

They are cooking the books on job creation.

Now they are rigging death numbers so no one knows how many people die because of their attacks on vaccines and science.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 15h

The leadership of the measles outbreak response was fired in the RIF spree while RFK JR attempts to completely dismantle measles vaccine access for children.

Measles (Rubeola)
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As of October 7, 2025, a total of 1,563 confirmed* measles cases were reported in the United States. Among these, 1,542
measles cases were reported by 42 jurisdictions: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. A total of 21 measles cases were reported among international visitors to the U.S.
There have been 44 outbreaks** reported in 2025, and 87% of confirmed cases (1,355 of 1,563) are outbreak-associated. For comparison, 16 outbreaks were reported during 2024 and 69% of cases (198 of 285) were outbreak-associated.

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Kristy Rawson @kristyrawson.bsky.social · 15h

Pope Leo saying this from the streets of his native Chicago would make for a satisfying news cycle.

NPR @npr.org · 18h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 18h

Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.

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Eric Christiansen @erichristiansen.bsky.social · 17h

1/2 "A second Repub gov, Phil Scott of Vermont, opposed the admin’s deployment of federalized National Guard troops to Chicago & Portland. 'I don’t think our guard should be used against our own people....

October 10, 2025

All of President Donald J.

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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 20h

If Trump orders the US military to crack down on Americans who oppose his policies, will it resist? @kschake.bsky.social provides some answers, not all of them reassuring

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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Politics Podcast · Updated twice weekly · Join The New Yorker’s writers and editors for reporting, insight, and analysis of the most pressing political issues of our time. On Mondays, David Remnick, t...

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16h

Thanks to Republicans in Congress, some Americans will have to pay more than $22,000 every year to keep their health insurance coverage.

$22,000.

That could be a matter of keeping health care coverage or just giving up—and for some people, life and death.

Thanks to Republicans, some Americans will pay $22,000/year to keep their health insurance.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 1d

But you shouldn't be too surprised when they say stuff like this:

"You were better off being a Black person in Charleston, S.C., in 1850, when they had an operating slave market than being conceived as a Black baby in New York City or Baltimore today."