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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 16h

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

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Auld Black Jack @freejack.bsky.social · 15h

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 17h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 12h

Nevada deserves a governor who is not in office to serve Trump and his oligarch friends.

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Aaron D. Ford @aarondfordnv.bsky.social · 14h

Not surprising considering this is the same Governor who said we should all be “excited” about Trump’s tax bill that gives tax breaks to billionaires while ripping health care away from tens of thousands of Nevadans.

Lombardo will always choose Trump’s agenda over Nevadans.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

If State Farm is truly interested in being a good neighbor, it should be transparent and let the numbers speak for themselves.

Other insurance companies work with us on this, but State Farm has refused.

Without the data, homeowners have no assurance.

Illinois sues State Farm for not releasing homeowners’ insurance data

State Farm responds to lawsuit filed by the Illinois Attorney General's Office

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

Among the Education Department’s new appointees is Lindsey Burke, the lead author of Project 2025’s education section.

She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 12h

Because no one but billionaires can afford to have children anymore?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14h

Solidarity is the only way

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Portland has fallen!

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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 14h

Wish I was there.

"The forthcoming David Gilmour live album and film entitled THE LUCK AND STRANGE CONCERTS and LIVE AT THE CIRCUS MAXIMUS, ROME, beautifully capture the 2024 Luck and Strange tour."

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David Gilmour - Wish You Were Here (Live at the Circus Maximus)

YouTube video by David Gilmour

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 1d

I laughed way too hard at this 🤣🤣🤣

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

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Data darkness in US spreads a global shadow

The U.S. government shutdown that has turned off the official flow of data could begin clouding the view for policymakers in Japan and other countries where insight into the fortunes of the world's biggest economy informs the outlook for their own currencies, trade performance and inflation.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "If Donald Trump can find $20b to bail out his right-wing dictator friend in Argentina, it's extraordinary to me that Republicans are unwilling to even have a discussion about how we address the healthcare crisis that they've created."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "I remind all of these corrupt individuals, these sycophants -- the statute of limitations is five years. The American people want accountability, deserve accountability, and will get accountability."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"To the extent Trump has the power to federalize troops, it stems from a law Congress passed. In other words, Congress could, were it not currently controlled by sniveling sycophants, just pass a new law that took away that power. So, by its very nature, that’s not a plenary power."

Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"

This is not how the Constitution works.

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Secular Jen 🫘 @secularjen.bsky.social · 1d

🎁 GIFT 🎁

"Platforms have been especially flooded by racist comments about Indians, after Indian news outlets reported on the Chinese visa as a possible alternative to the highly popular H1-B visa in the United States, which now comes with a $100,000 fee."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/w...

China Wants Foreign Scientists. The Public Says No, Thanks.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 1d

New: Both parties brace for a 'long conflict' as government shutdown hits two-week mark

5th longest shutdown in US history; neither side is showing any signs of moving off their position.

Here's why: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Both parties brace for a 'long conflict' as government shutdown hits two-week mark

The Senate is set to vote for the eighth time on a House-passed stopgap funding bill amid the fifth-longest shutdown in U.S. history.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

A 38-year-old man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and arson for setting fires inside the official residence of Gov. Josh Shapiro.

What to know about the arson fire and attempted murder at the Pennsylvania governor's mansion

A 38-year-old man has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and arson for setting fires inside the official residence of Gov. Josh Shapiro.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Former government officials rarely write good books. Tomorrow Is Yesterday, a new book by veteran peace negotiators Robert Malley and Hussein Agha, is an exception.

It tells the story of how the two-state solution in Israel and Palestine failed, despite its authors trying to make it a reality.

How the two-state solution became a “big, expedient lie”

In a new book, Robert Malley, a veteran US peace negotiator, argues it is well past time to think beyond an idea he spent much of his career pursuing.

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 1d

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday at the White House that his administration planned to produce a list on Friday of "Democrat programs" that will be closed as a result of the ongoing federal government shutdown.

Trump says he will unveil list on Friday of 'Democrat programs' to be shut

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday at the White House that his administration planned to produce a list on Friday of "Democrat programs" that will be closed as a result of the ongoing federal government shutdown.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

The Portland ICE protest camp literally has a rack full of inflatable costumes for demonstrators who want to try one on...

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