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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 16h

RFK Jr. just gutted America’s disease defense—firing over 1,000 CDC staff overnight. Outbreak tracking, data collection, and response teams—gone. This isn’t reform, it’s sabotage. The next pandemic won’t need to start abroad—it’ll start right here, thanks to him.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

Today I took questions from more than a dozen South Asian news outlets and spoke about our agenda to make this city affordable for each and every New Yorker.

Zohran sits at a long conference table, back to the camera, with more than a dozen journalists, some with cameras, facing him.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

California is going to “stick it to Trump” this November— Vote YES on Prop 50.

This ad 🔥😂

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 15h

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 1d

More than half of ALL government shut down days in the history of America have come under just one president.

Simply put, the man is a terrible leader.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

Trump just used the shutdown to wipe out the special ed department. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

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Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · 11h

He was still the President that day.
So it was his own FBI. 😂

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 23h

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: President Obama issues a stark warning—authoritarianism isn’t creeping anymore, it’s sprinting.

Around the world, leaders are silencing dissent, controlling media, and twisting justice into a political weapon. His message is clear: democracy won’t survive if we stay silent.

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Dr René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 14h

Guess who was "President" on January 6?

I'll tell you cos you don't have 2 brain cells to rub together. Hope the "advanced imagery" was a Brain MRI.

It was YOU, DJT. Pffft 🖕

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 14h

Seen in Chicago

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

$47. And that’s if the government isn’t lying about the interest rate. Plus, they will have to prove she intentionally schemed to swindle $47 from the bank - as opposed to just not knowing the difference between a second home and an investment property. Good luck, Lindsay.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

The grand jury indictment against New York AG Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased.

James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, the indictment alleges.
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Letitia James saved only about $50 a month with lower interest rate, indictment alleges

The grand jury indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James accuses her of receiving a lower-cost loan on a home she purchased in Norfolk, Virgini

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 1d

🚨This could immediately hurt families whose kids have special needs—like, Monday🚨

In case you need any brand new evidence that GOP education plans are full of crap.

(Via @zachschermele.bsky.social )

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kshap @kshap.bsky.social · 13h

“…you’ve got a news division composed exclusively of ambitious piranhas below you - not your handpicked cronies…These people have decades in TV & you have a newsletter & a history of throwing your colleagues under the bus

Via @lopatto.bsky.social
@theverge.com

www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19h

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):

She Was Denied an Abortion After Roe Fell. This Is a Year in Her Family’s Life.

Tennessee law prohibits women from having abortions in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. We followed one family as they struggled to make it.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21h

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22h

I saw myself as maybe all in for J.B. Pritzker

But I am losing faith, rapidly.

Police state fascism in America is bigger than Trump. It's backed by Democrats just like Republicans. And it's not going anywhere

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

Note: it's not even curfew yet.

State police just started pushing people off the business park corner. Here in the road, a brave group of demonstrators are attempting to hold their line.

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DemCast USA @demcast.com · 1d

Senator Bernie Sanders has a message for Speaker Johnson.

The No Kings Rally on October 18 is not a "hate America" rally.
It's a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom.

Go to nokings.org and find a location near you to join the movement, 10/18.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

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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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h

We’ve reported extensively on how the FDA allowed foreign drugmakers to send generic medications to the U.S. from factories with filthy labs and contaminated equipment.

This month, we’re digging deeper and could use your help. THREAD/

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1d

Uh you think so?
And the indicting GJ never heard her testimony.

“Ms. Thompson’s testimony that she has lived in the house rent-free —Ms. James pays even for basic upkeep, — cd make it difficult for prosecutors to convince a jury that the house was meant to be used as a rental investment property.”

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George Wallace @mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 17h

Remember self-care. Sprinkle some joy in with the doom scrollin' and whatnot. I love you and there's absolutely nothin' you can do about it.

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 14h

Stephen Miller's smug invocation of "plenary authority" on CNN reeks of unchecked presidential diktat, peddling absolute power to trample rights under the guise of security, per WUSA9. #Trumpism

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 16h

China signaled that it would not back down in the face of a 100% tariff threat from President Donald Trump, urging the U.S. to resolve differences through negotiations instead of threats.

China vows to stand firm against Trump's 100% tariff threat

China is signaling that it won't back down in the face of the latest tariff threat from U.S. President Donald Trump.

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