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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 6h

Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts | #ksleg via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/10/15/j...

Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts • Kansas Reflector

Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on a newspaper office and t...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 8h

Brown rejected the compact!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Jeffries: "The effort to mischaracterize the rallies that are gonna take place all across the country is part of the continued right-wing disinformation machine that is failing to persuade the American people."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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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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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

No notes

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 1d

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9h

Less than 24 hours after federal agents intentionally plowed into an SUV and tear-gassed a crowd in a residential neighborhood on the Southeast Side, community organizers presented a clear message.

Southeast Side organizers after feds ram SUV and tear-gas crowd: 'Leave our city, you are not welcome here'

Federal agents rammed an SUV, then used pepper balls, smoke grenades and deployed several rounds of tear gas in Tuesday's incident.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Bart Simpson @skiingmike.bsky.social · 10h

Well then NY stops funding the federal government and saves money.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

ICE is recklessly throwing tear gas into our neighborhoods and busy streets, including near children at school and CPD officers.

The Trump Administration must stop their deployment of dangerous chemical weapons into the air of peaceful American communities.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses on.ft.com/3L8Y0Wi

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses

President suggests $20bn swap line is contingent on libertarian’s victory in midterm elections

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Uh... so he's openly trying to rig a foreign election for a friend of his and a friend of his top donor—Musk—by saying that Argentinians will only get $20 billion dollars in American aid if they vote for Milei?

So this money Trump is stealing from US taxpayers is not to help Argentina, but his pal?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 1d

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses on.ft.com/3L8Y0Wi

Trump says US support for Argentina is ‘gone’ if Milei suffers election losses

President suggests $20bn swap line is contingent on libertarian’s victory in midterm elections

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

For the Epsteinth time, swear her in

Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16h

Can AI make the troops leave Chicago and ice stop arresting people who are just trying to get to their jobs?

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

Jack Smith, the special counsel who twice secured indictments of Donald Trump, said it was "ludicrous" to suggest he was motivated by partisan politics, and condemned the Trump Justice Department.

Jack Smith Calls Idea That Politics Infected Trump Prosecutions ‘Ludicrous’

The former special counsel’s first extended remarks since resigning in January were released the same day House Republicans summoned him to testify.

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grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 13h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

Amanda Marcotte has blocked me on Bluesky so I'll just repost what Ta-Nehisi Coates said to Ezra Klein:

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

In other words, prospective appointees in a future Vance Administration.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 12h

The operation used imprisoned laborers to trick unsuspecting people into making investments in phony funds, often after spending months faking romantic relationships with the victims.

Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”

Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

> @governor.ca.gov

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