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Dana Rubinstein @danarubinsteinbsky.bsky.social · 11m

“I’m ready to watch people burn now,” Annie Kaykaty, New York’s national committeewoman, said. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 4m

From the unofficial militia to the official

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 17h

gene kelly is antifa

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 17h

Because potatoes were a novel food recently brought back from America, aka the New Worl

Sorry if your question was rhetorical

Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 18h

So sad and so outrageous

Dr. Shannon Cofield 🪨🗺️🌊 @geoshanz.bsky.social · 18h

Absolutely heartbroken for my NASA-JPL colleagues. Tomorrow is going to be a challenging day 💔

[JPL Peeps- y’all know how to directly reach me. PLEASE reach out if you need anything. Love you Guys!!!]

Reuters @reuters.com · 21h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 18h

Our public money to support research at our universities is mandated by our Congress.

It is not the personal slush fund of the president, to withhold at will or dole out as largesse, rewarding those who please him.

Those who seek reform of universities can use laws, not arbitrary extortion.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 19h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 18h

ABT

Always be trolling

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 18h

What do they mean by papers? Citizenship documents? Like I have to carry my birth certificate or naturalization papers around?

Seems nuts

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 21h

The gist from the Court here is that because the grand jury refused to indict them over the entirely fabricated claims, the criminal process did not get far enough to constitute a deprivation of liberty. Just deprivation of their future football careers, educations, and reputations.

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 20h

Johnson in particular never seems to know anything

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

If you live in Everett, Mass. and have any information about the 13-year-old boy abducted by ICE, please message me on Signal at marisakabas.04

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 1d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22h

Elon Musk is doing Enron the right way.

by Ezra Klein

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 1d

Has there ever been a Speaker who claims to know as little about the government as Mike Johnson?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 1d

adoptastation.org

Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media

Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

adoptastation.org

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 1d

Really good reason to support Alaska’s public radio stations, which were hugely reliant on the CPB funding Trump and the GOP cut

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 1d

I would not have known about this had it not been for local indigenous folk there posting here.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 1d

How reactionary centrist of them to throw in the sentence “always an epithet”

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stacy-marie ishmael @smi.bsky.social · 1d

NPR/Alaska Public Media: alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

AP: apnews.com/article/alas...

CNN: www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/w...

Fox Weather: www.foxweather.com/weather-news...

ABC: abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

CBS: www.cbsnews.com/news/alaska-...

The Weather Channel: weather.com/news/weather...

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Futurism @futurism.com · 1d

"No wonder my new contacts in the industry shoulder a heavy burden — heavier than I could ever imagine. They know the truth."

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 1d

Among the reasons Americans risked it all to get rid of a tyrannical king:
“He has obstructed the Admin of Justice…made Judges dependent on his Will…sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people…kept among us Standing Armies w/o legislatures’ Consent” www.americaamerica.news/p/what-we-sh...

What We Should Demand, What We Should Oppose

Reflecting on a president's obligations and what history tells us about rejecting tyranny and injustice

www.americaamerica.news

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Leslie Ehrlich @leslieehrlich.bsky.social · 1d

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Daniel Comeaux @danielcomeaux.bsky.social · 1d

While important coverage, this also has not kept up with the pace of what has happened even over this weekend. Agents are swarming across the city, brandishing guns at people, detaining them for filming, etc. Dramatic and violent escalations.

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