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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5h

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books

A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

www.pilsencommunitybooks.com

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 4h

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 21h

Oh noooooo!

After a jury found Greg Bovino to be full of shit in LA, a judge found him to be full of shitshow in Chicago.

[This is Judge April Perry's opinion on her TRO.]

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This indicates to the Court both bias and lack of objectivity. The lens through which we view the
world changes our perception of the events around us. Law enforcement officers who go into an
event expecting “a shitshow” are much more likely to experience one than those who go into the
event prepared to de-escalate it. Ultimately, this Court must conclude that Defendants’
declarants’ perceptions are not reliable.6

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

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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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17h

One of Trump’s most avid supporters and donors from Oregon is a militant anti-vaxxer. His wife (a doctor) refused to get the vaccine and then died of Covid. Instead of changing his mind about the vaccine, he instead blames the Chinese Communist Party for murdering his wife with Covid.

Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 18h

President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.

www.cnn.com

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

New interview! On the fiction of antifa and how it's weaponized against innocent people: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtTW...

Sarah Kendzior: The Fiction of Antifa, Plus, Answering the Epstein “Files” Question

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

www.youtube.com

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 1d

Law enforcement in Chicagoland "seem to feel they can just willy-nilly shoot tear gas canisters at people and shoot them with foam rounds that can permanently maim people,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told @dwallacewells.bsky.social.

“They’ve done this over and over.”

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

Counterpoint: Protest is patriotic

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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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 1d

Senators are demanding answers from Deloitte and other companies about errors in eligibility systems for Medicaid, following a KFF Health News investigation exposing problems that resulted in people losing health benefits.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Senators Press Deloitte, Other Contractors on Errors in Medicaid Eligibility Systems - KFF Health News

As contractors position themselves to cash in on a gush of new business managing Medicaid work requirements, a cadre of senators has launched an inquiry into the companies paid billions to build eligi...

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 1d

Some background on the "Qatari Emiri Air Force facility" planned in the western U.S. --> sofrep.com/news/qatari-...

Qatari Fighter Jets Over Idaho?

Folks in Idaho will be seeing F-15Q fighters with Qatari air force markings and no, they are not lost.

sofrep.com

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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 1d

MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart

orgchart.mit.edu

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 3d

Ask Mike Benz and Michael Shellenberger about all the lies they told to help accomplish this. Ask Joe Rogan about how he nodded along mutely while hosting Benz on his show while he spouted bullshit about “CIA fronts”.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 3d

Naumovski first got involved in American political content around 2016, when North Macedonian teenagers churned out pro-Trump content, and a former Fox News executive hired him to help with social media.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 3d

Half a dozen Republican lawmakers share Naumovski's content about American politics that he runs with a Florida company from his home in Macedonia. He explained this year that he's never been to the US on a tourist visa, because he refused to show Covid vaccination./

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

Who was president in 2020?

Senate Rs spent hours Wed insisting a Biden Censorship Regime was in power.

It’s ridiculous on its face—but dangerous in its purpose.

If you can convince people of that lie, you can justify what Trump is doing now. It’s “just payback”.

open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

Who was president in 2020?

On pressure, coercion, and confrontations with reality

open.substack.com

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 1d

I want to highlight this excellent piece by @noupside.bsky.social and @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social on the rapidly shifting information & media landscape. Domain experts and the institutions that support them must rapidly change tactics to meet the moment.

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies

To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

carnegieendowment.org

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 7d

"Beyond social media scams, women journalists have also increasingly been the target of pornographic deepfakes used to harass and blackmail them, and deepfakes created to fuel disinformation campaigns and push political narratives."

Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 7d

Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them? www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/scam...

Scammers are using video deepfakes of journalists to peddle products online

Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them?

www.niemanlab.org

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 5d

Today, MSNBC (newly independent from NBC News) and CBS News (now led by Bari Weiss) shared their new journalistic principles. A close reading shows some striking differences. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...

Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different

CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.

www.niemanlab.org

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 2d

The United States contains about 660 million acres of public lands and waters. Re:Public (the name is a play on words; it will publish stories regarding the public lands of this republic) plans to find stories on as much of that land as possible. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/repu...

Re:Public is reporting stories about the lands that belong to all of us

The new publication, from former Outside Magazine EIC Chris Keyes, will focus on longform stories about the 660 million acres of public lands and waters in the U.S.

www.niemanlab.org

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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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