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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 1h

If you need to make yourself throw up because you accidentally ingested something toxic this should do the trick.

Axios @axios.com · 6h

Former Presidents Biden and Clinton praised President Trump today for the Gaza peace deal.

Biden, Clinton praise Trump for Gaza peace deal

Biden said he commends Trump and his team, and Clinton said they "deserve great credit."

www.axios.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12h

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

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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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15h

Bari Weiss's takeover mirrors a "parallel" strategy venture capitalists have been bragging about for years.

The goal: Copy what Elon Musk did to Twitter.

“Getting a parallel media was a key piece, and it wasn’t through voting,” says Garry Tan.

newrepublic.com/article/1786...

The Tech Plutocrats Dreaming of a Right-Wing San Francisco

A rogue’s gallery of big tech edgelords and their reactionary hangers-on have a plan to remake the city by the bay in their own weirdo image.

newrepublic.com

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15h

The creation of ‘parallel’ institutions—media outlets, universities, political parties, etc—is key.

That's how billionaires turn their money into institutional capture and ideological weaponization.

Weiss already has a “university” and a “Free Press.”
Now she gets CBS...

From Gil Duran's New Republic piece: So, there’s no debate about whether this ideology exists. The question is what to call it, and how to describe its political orientation. For clarity, it helps to briefly examine some of the intertwined characters trying to circle-jerk this parallel world into being.

Let’s start with Bowles. Her celebrated article echoed the arguments in Michael Shellenberger’s “San Fransicko: How Progressives Ruin Cities” book and even featured the exact same anti-S.F. critics. Shellenberger, a former leftist P.R. expert who worked for socialist Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez before pivoting to right-wing causes, now serves as chair of politics, censorship and free speech at the newly formed University of Austin. This effort at a parallel academic institution was co-founded by The New York Times’ former conservative columnist Bari Weiss, Bowles’s wife. In 2022, after Musk put Weiss in charge of writing “The Twitter Files,” she recruited Shellenberger to help.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 15h

Bari Weiss is building a right-wing CBS knockoff—mimicking the format, harvesting the credibility, but serving pure partisanship.

This is the Venture Capital fascism playbook: clone trusted institutions, staff them with right-wing ideological warriors, and call it ‘balance.’

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 16h

Update: After Bari Weiss was made Editor-in-Chief, CBS News is now uplifting stories from Weiss’s The Free Press.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15h

We should have ended it all when he started openly monetizing the presidency at his DC hotel & sending his kids to represent the 🇺🇸 government at official international events. But he is One Special Boy and we appear to no longer be a serious country interested in the rule of law or the Constitution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Elizabeth Warren @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social · 14h

Without ACA subsidies, a couple in Watertown, MA earning $85,000 a year could see their health care premium increase from $1,394 to $3,194 per month.

This is what Democrats are fighting to prevent—and what Republicans shut down the government over.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 14h

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 16h

Standup comic John O'Donnell does a better job explaining NSPM-7 than basically all of major media:

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy"

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV, writes Zeteo's @swin24.bsky.social:

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Far-right parties in Belgium call for "antifa" bans.

The UK's Reform Party is adopting policy positions that are a “copy and paste” of Trump’s.

The American flag is a symbol for Brazil's far-right.

As Trump tears apart the US, experts worry that other countries may dismantle themselves too.

Is America contagious?

Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

www.motherjones.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

🏥 Dr. Munir Al-Barsh, Director General of Gaza’s Ministry of Health, outlined several urgently needed steps to support the medical needs in Gaza.

“We demand justice, not pity,” he said. “The health sector is devastated and suffering severely after two years of extermination. The world must stand...

▪️ Field hospitals must be established in the north, center, and south to relieve pressure. Over 17,000 patients need urgent treatment already approved by WHO.

▪️ “Children with cancer and deformities, women with chronic diseases — this is their right.”

▪️ Water and sewage networks must be repaired to prevent epidemics such as cholera, diarrhea, and skin diseases.

▪️ A program is needed to employ health graduates, technicians, and administrators to sustain operations.

▪️ Support is required for prosthetics, assistive devices, and rehabilitation programs to reintegrate people with disabilities into work, education, and society.

Dr.Muneer Alboursh د.منيرالبرش via X (@Dr_Muneer1):
We are facing major challenges in the health sector and thousands of wounded are still in hospitals, while saving patients and restoring hospitals requires a long time… The occupation destroyed Gaza City’s hospitals including Al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital, Sheikh Radwan Clinic, large parts of Hamad Hospital and the Psychiatric Hospital… Thirty-eight hospitals were destroyed and only around twelve remain partially functioning with operating rooms, intensive care units and laboratories destroyed and severe shortages of beds, blood units and ventilators… There are power and water cuts and even clean water is almost unavailable in hospitals… More than 1700 health workers were martyred and over 360 were arrested… Medical teams are physically and mentally exhausted after two years of continuous work… Diseases have spread amid overcrowding and displacement with rising cases of skin infections and diarrhea and disruption of supply chains… More than 17000 wounded must be evacuated immediately and their names are approved by the United Nations… We have estimated our health sector needs at over 7 billion dollars… What is urgently required is to rescue the system by rehabilitating and reopening hospitals or establishing field hospitals, dispatching surgical missions, and supplying medicines, emergency and intensive care materials, chronic disease treatments, vaccines and antibiotics, and opening safe and permanent medical corridors… The

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

🔴 At least 125 bodies were discovered and brought to hospitals across the Gaza Strip today, most recovered from beneath the rubble. One person was shot and killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis, Dr. Khalil al-Daqran, spokesperson for Gaza’s Ministry of Health, told NBC News.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

Thousands of Palestinians returned to Gaza City after ceasefire took hold Friday—returning to a wasteland of rubble. Abdel Qader Sabbah (@AbdelSabbah91) captured the devastation as survivors searched for what was left of their homes - full report (www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-...) + video below

Sharif Kouddous شريف عبد القدوس via X (@sharifkouddous): "The Israeli military destroyed as much of Gaza City as it could before being forced into a ceasefire agreement which took effect yesterday. Watch the video from the ground (2nd one) by the indefatigable @AbdSabbah91 embedded in this piece: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/displaced-palestinians-return-gaza-city-ceasefire-destroyed-wasteland-rubble?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web"

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Joshua Reed Eakle via X (@JoshEakle)

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

Video below ⬇️

Joshua Reed Eakle via X (@JoshEakle): In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 1d

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 1d

NYC - Mayoral Polling Among Jewish Voters:

🟢 Cuomo: 60%
🔵 Mamdani: 29%
🔴 Sliwa: 8%

Quinnipiac / Oct 7, 2025

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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 1d

NYC - Mayoral Poll:

Bronx:
🔵 Mamdani: 39%
🟢 Cuomo: 36%
🔴 Sliwa: 19%

Queens:
🔵 Mamdani: 40%
🟢 Cuomo: 31%
🔴 Sliwa: 20%

Brooklyn:
🔵 Mamdani: 54%
🟢 Cuomo: 33%
🔴 Sliwa: 9%

Manhattan:
🔵 Mamdani: 51%
🟢 Cuomo: 31%
🔴 Sliwa: 9%

S. Island:
🟢 Cuomo: 40%
🔴 Sliwa: 34%
🔵 Mamdani: 21%

Quinnipiac / Oct 7, 2025

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2d

Florida state Rep Hillary Cassel—who used to be a Democrat but flipped to the MAGA Republican Party—has intro'd HB 119 to "ban Shariah law in America."

Florida has already banned 1600 books, including the Diary of Anne Frank, so it doesn't surprise me that they're antisemitic AND Islamophobic.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

RESULT: New Orleans has a new mayor. Helena Moreno, a Democrat known as a progressive member of the city council, easily won today’s mayoral race and cleared the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff. She’ll replace the retiring Democratic Mayor, Cantrell.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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