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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 3h

In my book, I argue that this kind of elite disagreement is an important constraint in democracies. And up til now these concerns would make the president think twice, so the “stepping down” would not ever happen. Now it’s happening, but there’s nobody else to pay attention to the fire alarm.

Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 3h

"One current and one former U.S. official, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters, said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats" near Venezuela

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Electrek @electrek.co · 8h

Tesla brings back ‘Mad Max’ ‘Full Self-Driving’ mode that ignores speed limits

Tesla has brought back its ‘Mad Max’ mode for its ‘Full Self-Driving (Supervised) that ignores speed limits amid several regulatory investigations into Tesla’s system being dangerous. more…

electrek.co

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

open.substack.com

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 8h

PENN IS OUT! That means both institutions that signed prior agreements with the administration have said no. We're at 3 rejections.

I told y'all once the second one hit yesterday, the clock started for the rest.

www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

www.thedp.com

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Things on television different from what's happening @oakwtf.bsky.social · 9h

My 2024 election analysis remains: "I dislike Biden because [thing Trump did], and I miss Trump because [thing Biden did]. I voted for Trump again because I want [thing Harris promised], but I'm also worried, and I hope Trump doesn't do [core Trump campaign promise]."

Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 10h

Excellent article here. Every day as I travel around my MAGA-heavy county (Trump by 46 pp), I hear people saying "I didn't vote for this." It was all abstract until January 20. They liked what they heard but they never thought he'd follow through with it the way he has. They were wrong.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Things on television different from what's happening @oakwtf.bsky.social · 10h

A quake right before we do our annual earthquake drill!

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Christopher Moore @theauthorguy.bsky.social · 12h

NO KINGS? Just show up. No frog costume, OKAY! No sign, OKAY! The most effective message we can send is that we are here, our numbers are vast, and we are not going to continue to take it.

JUST SHOW UP. You'll feel better. I promise.

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Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 1d

"Virginia Giuffre died by suicide on 25 April 2025."

"I’d show up, perform whatever sex acts Epstein wanted, then hang out beside his vast swimming pool while he got some work done. If Maxwell was there, I was often told to attend to her sexually as well."

- She was 16

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the King’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 1d

That would really be the end of majoritarian democracy in the United States.

It would represent the effective death of the republic. Horrifying to think they would leave people no political recourse to address their concerns or be heard.

Truly frightening place we’re headed in America.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

If the Supreme Court strikes down Section 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which has been interpreted to require the creation of majority-minority districts, Republicans could eliminate upward of a dozen Democratic-held districts across the South. Here's how.

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

Democrats would be in danger of losing around a dozen majority-minority districts across the South if the court struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.

nyti.ms

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 1d

Every time something like the GOP chat leak occurs I hear smart people arguing that shame could be a useful tactic. But shame only works if the bad actors think their actions are bad. Hypocrisy, shame, these Victorian-ish norms are just that, norms, guardrails, and they don't work against fascism.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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Things on television different from what's happening @oakwtf.bsky.social · 1d

My non-expert opinion is that video hits the dopamine button in a way that audio can’t.

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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 1d

These are some of the leaked messages Young Republicans were sending in group chats.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Things on television different from what's happening @oakwtf.bsky.social · 1d

I fear that we're taking the next step from "I ain't reading all that" to "I ain't listening to all that."

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS:

During Yom Kippur, all the members of the High Energy Physics Advisory Committee (HEPAP), myself included, received a letter thanking us for our service and telling us essentially that the almost 40 yo standing federal advisory committee was no more. ⚛️🧪🔭

Why that matters 🧵

DOE Consolidates Office of Science Advisory Committees

Six long-standing committees advising the Department of Energy’s Office of Science have been rolled into one.

www.aip.org

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 1d

4) What’s happening now is an attempt to render those sentiments acceptable in polite company & to make people feel guilty for having negative judgments about people who express their racism and anti-semitism.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 1d

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2d

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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

‘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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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 1d

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

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Things on television different from what's happening @oakwtf.bsky.social · 1d

It's for all the folks who missed out on buying in Mountain House c. 2006.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 2d

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 2d

it's getting rapidly memory-holed that in 2012 kennedy claimed to a divorce judge that the brainworm affected his brain function and therefore future earning potential
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

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Warren Wells, AICP @warrenjwells.bsky.social · 2d

Shout-out to the guy on BART who is 15 pages into Cormac McCarthy's "The Road."

Like, I guess as bad as it is, things could always get much worse!

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