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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 5h

The longest federal government shutdown so far came during Trump’s first term - lasting 35 days.

As the Republicans continue to blame Democrats for the shutdown, remember that.

Shutting down the federal government is one of the Trump Party’s favorite moves.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Shutdown 'barreling toward' one of the longest ever, GOP leader says

Lawmakers on both sides braced for a longer shutdown as the Senate prepares for another vote Tuesday to reopen the government.

www.usatoday.com

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 9h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings. One by one, the Opus Dei justices crash through the ethics guardrails that govern the conduct of those who serve on the Supreme Court.

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 6h

Congrats to University of California professors & alumni for being awarded 5 Nobel Prizes!

California’s scientists are leading the world in crucial breakthroughs.

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week

The UC system made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

www.sfchronicle.com

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 6h

I know I could get into trouble for posting the Antifa battle flag, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

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Arizona Mirror @azmirror.com · 6h

Phoenix-Mesa Gateway, home to ICE Air hub, and Sky Harbor both refuse to display Democratic blame message

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Arizona airports refuse to play Noem video blaming Democrats for shutdown | Arizona Mirror

Airports refuse Noem shutdown video blaming Democrats, citing policies that ban political advertising content

azmirror.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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marjtroyer.bsky.social @marjtroyer.bsky.social · 1d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7h

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 6h

The GOP budget is going to be the single most unpopular and destructive budget in modern American history - tariffs/higher prices, exploding deficits, gutting health care, slashing clean energy/higher electricity costs, huge ICE expansion.

Going to be a parade of horrors and they are scared of it.

Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 7h

Where is the Republican budget? By law it was required to be passed and in place by Sept 30th. Anyone seen it? Got any idea what might be in it? Why the f-ck is the House taking a month long vacation without getting their work done?

Dems ready to negotiate. Rs remain on vacation.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 8h

Did people all get hit in the head with the a hammer at the same time? What is going on?

Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 8h

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

Even top generals are looking to AI chatbots for answers

Some military leaders are turning to AI chatbots for help with decision-making, seeing this tech as a way to get the advantage.

www.businessinsider.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 7h

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Guitarcoyote108 @coyote108.bsky.social · 8h

What he really wants is a resort build on the bones of the dead.

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meta @metatheory.bsky.social · 6h

Every single last thing from him has to be self-aggrandizing. It's the only measure he's able to take. It's a real low-life existence especially since it always comes at the extreme cost of someone else.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 7h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 12h

oh. right.

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 8h

Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

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

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 9h

Resisting arrest has long been used as a “cover charge” by police (in Chicago and elsewhere) after they use force against someone, as I reported back in 2018: www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-poli...

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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 7h

"Vought is an extremist; a tool of creepy billionaires in the corporate takeover of the U.S. government; and he seems to get unhealthy pleasure from depriving Americans of the government services their tax dollars are supposed to fund."

Read Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's latest.
@whitehouse.senate.gov

Russell Vought is the tool of a dangerous elite

He wields his budget hammer not in service to the people or the Constitution, but for the billionaire class.

contrarian.substack.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander