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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

“Kids”

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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 22h

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Bill Amend @billamend.bsky.social · 8h

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 7h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 7h

This has been bothering me all day because the obvious point of No Kings is to show we have the power to do a color revolution if they don‘t honor the results of future elections.

The other point is to radicalize fence-sitters by having people who are *clearly doing nothing wrong* be tear gassed

Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 18h

This is exactly backwards, the no kings protests are a mass movement of regular people that have every republican politician in the country raging about "hate America rallies," and the online protest industry weirdos who say shit like "radlib" to each other are the ones skimming off the top of them

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Sanders: They have refused to negotiate. And anyone thinks that tomorrow they'll suddenly start negotiating. I think, is smoking what is illegal in many states

AOC: And should be legal in more.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 17h

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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Ferris Jabr @ferrisjabr.bsky.social · 6h

The world’s first Cactarium and one of its resident tortoises, Tank. Palm Springs, CA.

A greenhouse packed with gorgeous and unusual cacti and succulents, ranging from from the towering and torsioned to the wooly and white to the pendulous and tentacular

Tank, an African spurred tortoise, eating a prickly pear. He has robust, thickly scaled gray legs and a tan shell with a grid of adjacent, almost conical peaks made of stacked concentric rings. A creature that exudes an air of the primordial, seemingly plucked from the time of dinosaurs.

A large green coral cactus with rounded, undulating, rippled branches. If Van Gogh painted a cactus it would look like this.

A stapelia bloom, aka starfish flower. Star shaped. Maroon around the edges, pink in the middle, with many fine zigzagging yellow lines. Rafflesia vibes. A fly rests on one petal.

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 8h

You wanna follow some cool trans writers? I gotcha.

go.bsky.app/VaypaqC

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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 17h

My neighbors have filled the Little Free Libraries with whistles so we can warn each other about ICE. Chicago is not afraid.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 6h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Halloween Born, Halloween Raised @nerdishnerd.bsky.social · 6h

The Rescuers

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 12h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11h

Politico has now confirmed this.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 10h

NBC Out has had some of the best coverage of LGBTQ+ news in the last few years. In a time when the Trump administration takes historic assaults on transgender people's rights, this feels short-sighted. Good journalism is good business.
www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

This exchange lends a ton of support to this New York Times story from January that the White House previously denied. Trump reportedly joked in 2024 that Stephen Miller wants to purge the country of anyone who doesn't look like him — and Trump fully supports what he is doing.

“He has the president’s complete trust,” said Mr. McCarthy. “Trump’s complained about everyone. Never him.”
Mr. Trump may not complain about Mr. Miller, but he does occasionally poke at his obsession with immigrants — a hostility that goes far beyond Mr. Trump’s. In one meeting during the 2024 campaign, Mr. Trump said that if it was up to Mr. Miller there would be only 100 million people in this country, and they would all look like Mr. Miller, according to a person with knowledge of the comment. Karoline Leavitt, Mr. Trump’s spokeswoman, denied the account.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10h

This guy is truly Senator Jon Moxley (complementary)

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 10h

We are fighting for true freedom. The freedom to live a life of dignity and joy.

A life of 80 hour work weeks, of constantly struggling to get by, being trapped in a shitty job by your health insurance — this is not freedom, and we are not free. But we could be. If we fight.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rally👇🏽

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13h

They are not children. These men are adults. If you care about children release the Epstein files.

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Halloween Born, Halloween Raised @nerdishnerd.bsky.social · 14h

It is always a rarity.

Like getting through college without switching majors. From what I remember it was close to 1 in 20 who didn't. And I don't know if that was people who graduated in what they started or if it was only "never switched" majors.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 15h

well this makes the Daily Show's edit a lot easier

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15h

Trump’s power depends on maintaining the illusion that he’s all-powerful, and that Americans adore him.

But that illusion is harder to maintain if millions of people are in the streets protesting.

This is why Republicans are trying to discredit No Kings Day rallies before they've even happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Francesca Fiorentini @franifio.bsky.social · 15h

The leaked chats of GOP staffers should be unsurprising to anyone who's followed the online ecosystem of MAGA. They are very Groyper, very 'irony coded' and very dangerous. My latest deep dive into The Most Brain Rotted Presidency Ever is out here: youtu.be/np0ztYFxaHk

Most Brain Rotted Presidency Ever

YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)

youtu.be

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes threatened legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva.

"Arizona's right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate."

Arizona attorney general threatens legal action against Mike Johnson for failing to seat Adelita Grijalva

The Democrat accused Johnson of playing “political games” by delaying the swearing-in ceremony.

www.politico.com

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Halloween Born, Halloween Raised @nerdishnerd.bsky.social · 15h

The federal reserve banks all have an payment process system that is, unfortunately, under utilized.

www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsyste...

Payment Systems

The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

www.federalreserve.gov