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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 33m

This is good. America First my ass.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 12h

It looks like he tried to tattoo something over it or is that just ink bleed?

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 17h

It looks like orange shades has a swastika on his chest.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17h

Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 21h

It really sucks that the biggest losers are given free reign to sow discord on a global scale. The first country to ban most use cases for AI will be the country I move to next year. Brazil’s proposed regulatory framework for AI looks promising…

Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 22h

"One of the reasons we release technology like this is we see something coming and know that in some number of months or years it's gonna be widely available through open source models." - Sam Altman when asked about Sora being used to make realistic deepfakes and people removing its watermarks.

Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 21h

I hate this asshole.

Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 21h

Asian mayor = intelligent
Black mayor = low IQ

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 22h

Made it a Feel Good Fall night and watched Abbott Elementary and Practical Magic 🍃🖤🍂🧡🍁

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Paul Ziliak @ziliak.bsky.social · 1d

The electoral college: the original DEI

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Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 1d

Death cult!

Montana Free Press @montanafreepress.org · 1d

The order allows the Department of Environmental Quality to return to “narrative” standards for nitrogen and phosphorus.

EPA clears Montana’s environmental regulator to loosen water quality standards

The order allows the Department of Environmental Quality to return to “narrative” standards for nitrogen and phosphorus.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 1d

I think allowing online gambling was one of the worst mistakes of the last couple decades

Misandrosaurus Hex @bexone.bsky.social · 1d

My bff is a high school teacher and can verify that the (freshman) children are absolutely mobile gambling in high numbers, an activity that *already* has laws defining it as an adult-only activity requiring age verification

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1d

Censoring social media? Well I declare I thought the administration stood for free speech.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 1d

Good. Now all we need is an opposition party.

Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t wanna know how he died. I will say that a few weeks ago I was watching YouTube late at night on my TV and arguably heard the most beautiful demo ever recorded and it was by D’Angelo. RIP.

youtu.be/_RLP0xAjdJU?...

D'Angelo - Africa (Demo)

YouTube video by Music For Listening

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 1d

NO!!!!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

SEN. BOOKER: “I don’t take corporate PAC money.”

@mizzwelch.bsky.social : “What about AIPAC money?🤔 — There was a photo shoot with you with Netanyahu, and I was like: what in the actual fuck? We want credible messengers.”

Full @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social ep: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc?...

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Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 1d

Was that even 24 hours?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

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Israel-Gaza live updates: 5 Palestinians killed in Gaza City for alleged ceasefire violation, IDF says

Israel on Tuesday identified two of the people whose remains were returned.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 2d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 2d

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 1d

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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Phillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s go Liberty! 🗽

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

"I refuse to accept a world where people are punished for seeking safety or silenced for speaking the truth. I refuse a system that values profit over people and power over love." - Natasha Cloud