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Laurel Davila @laureldavilacpa.bsky.social · 8h

Join us as we get out the vote for YES on Prop 50! Ballots are here and time is ticking. It's time to talk to voters across California about why voting YES on Prop 50 is so important for working families. Are you in?

#YesOn50
#YesOnProp50

Sign up for a volunteer shift: bit.ly/WFPyes50

Volunteer Opportunities, Events, and Petitions Near Me · California Working Families Party on Mobilize

Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with California Working Families Party.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 4h

Does it count as "covert" when it gets announced in the New York Times?

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING

“The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.”

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

www.nytimes.com

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 4h

Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them. www.eff.org/tools

Tools from EFF's Tech Team

EFF’s team of technologists and computer scientists engineers solutions to the problems of sneaky tracking, inconsistent encryption, and more. Where users face threats to their privacy and security

www.eff.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 6h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 6h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Goof @goofbator.bsky.social · Aug 28

If you’ve been using chatGPT for horny convos, highly recommend considering not doing that

Headline: OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
Byline: They're watching.

With an image of pixelated police officer art

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 11h

J.D. Vance says it's OK to joke about gas chambers, rape, and "watermelon people", but if you quote Charlie Kirk you'll get your VISA revoked

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Pamela in California @pamica.bsky.social · 4h

Ran out of alcohol.

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Freddie Mercury's Cat Chauffeur @libbityboo.bsky.social · 6h

we could be carving pumpkins & swapping fall drink recipes secure in the knowledge that our President & VP are competent & sane & don't want us dying from the plague or rounded up by roving kidnap vans but nooo white ppl will burn shit to the ground for the privilege of staying stupid, poor & racist

a man standing in front of a door with #schitts creek written on the bottom

ALT: a man standing in front of a door with #schitts creek written on the bottom

media.tenor.com

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 4h

oh no the botox ran out

Aussies3 @aussies3.bsky.social · 4h

Well darn
www.themirror.com/news/politic...

Military plane carrying Pete Hegseth declares emergency while over the Atlantic

Pete Hegseth's military plane declared an emergency while over the Atlantic Ocean following his visit to Belgium

www.themirror.com

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 13h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 14h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 5h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 5h

Because of fucking course it did.

MeteorBlades @meteorblades.bsky.social · 11h

The racist, sexist, Jew-hating private chat of some Young Republicans exposed by Politico also included 251 instances of the word “retarded.“

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CatCmdr1 @catcmdr1.bsky.social · 5h

youtu.be/ER3vhXC6KY4?...

ICE in PDX blocks an ambulance, threatens to shoot a medic. Are these war crimes?

YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 5h

Freedom of speech.

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5h

Statement released by the Pentagon Press Association.

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 5h

Thread.

Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitches.net · 5h

Okay, so,

If you want to know more about the Deep Lore of "The US Republican party has always been in with organised white supremacists / Antisemites, i.e. the KKK & neoNazis", follow Seth Cotlar, bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 5h

Reminder: Republicans control all three branches of government.

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

You won’t believe Mike Johnson’s latest shutdown lies

During his daily press conference Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked whether Capitol Police should be included in the funding designated for military ...

www.dailykos.com

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 6h

Next time Mike Johnson et al get up there to call Democrats Marxists and Socialists, I’d love to be there to ask them what they think that means and be immediately disavowed by the outlet that sent me.

Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 6h

Today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that the US govt. would set “price floors” across a range of industries.

The reporter doing the interview didn’t follow up on that comment, so we don’t know anything more about what he meant.

Bessent Says U.S. Government Will ‘Set Price Floors’ Across Industries

The treasury secretary made the eyebrow-raising comment during a conversation about trade and industrial policy with CNBC.

www.notus.org

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 6h

Every time you see Mike Davis do Mike Davis things, think about Gorsuch reportedly helping land Davis a job at DOJ, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the 10th Circuit, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the Supreme Court.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 7h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 5h

welp here we go

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 6h

The ongoing government shutdown has delayed the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living increase.

Social Security cost-of-living increase announcement delayed by government shutdown

The ongoing government shutdown has delayed the announcement of the annual Social Security cost-of-living increase.

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 6h

Oh come on it cant be - the fuck did I just read

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 7h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 6h

wow the hoods are off I guess

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 7h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 6h

I like how I had to grow up and get responsible the moment I graduated high school but these guys get to be stupid young boys until they're 50

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Moody Loner @moodyloner.bsky.social · 6h

It's almost as if they want to label their political opponents as "domestic terrorists" and make dissent illegal.

But that's just crazy-talk.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

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