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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10h

Appreciate you letting me know...

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10h

Definitely a scam. Definitely not me. I'll share with people at discord

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 11h

Ok. I owe the kids an apology. Flight turned out to be fine. Didn't notice them at all.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17h

That sinking feeling as you realize the entire back half of the plane you just boarded is a high school group who are all traveling together

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 12h

SB 771, currently on Gavin Newsom's desk, is a combination of unconstitutional goals, an incomplete understanding of technology, and drafting that makes it even worse.

This week I wrote to Newsom urging him to veto the bill.

I explain the basics here: platformpolemics.aricohn.com/p/california...

California wants to coerce platforms into hosting less offensive speech with algorithmic liability law

First Amendment and Section 230 shocked to learn they no longer exist

platformpolemics.aricohn.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 11h

Perhaps you shouldn't have put an insurance lawyer with no useful experience into this role? abcnews.go.com/US/pam-bondi...

Pam Bondi, DOJ officials caught off guard by Tish James indictment: Sources

Sources said that Tish James' indictment for alleged fraud came as a surprise.

abcnews.go.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12h

Be careful out there.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

This is AI.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12h

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 12h

It's a two-fer, you get your antisemitic conspiracy theory AND the insistence that there is no such thing as sincere progressive opinion, it couldn't possibly be that people are genuinely pissed off so they must have been paid to protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 14h

there's really just zero motivation for Ds to negotiate when they're saying things like this. if they're just going to rule by recissision anyway, might as well make them admit they're gutting the fillibuster in order to destroy healthcare.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13h

And also, this headline? Inadequate

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 12h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h

This really captures the nexus of cruelty and corruption at the core of MAGA:

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 15h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13h

Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement

Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

www.theguardian.com

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Monica Potts @monicapotts.bsky.social · 12h

It's actually useful that he keeps providing evidence of his wrongdoing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12h

So not for cause, or to address fraud, waste & abuse.

For partisan political pain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 13h

Behold an extremely timely Techdirt post...

(just went up)

www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/i...

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 12h

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 13h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

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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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12h

I was at Union Station earlier today and didn't see anything this cool. But also didn't see the supposed war zone. Ah well.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Presented without comment, the current scene outside Union Station in DC as I got off the train.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

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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