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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Universities are finally learning frogs together strong.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

That’s seven.

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 10h

So much flooding every zone that I forgot about this from back in March.

To be fair, it was easy to forget because it was a lot of sturm trying to create drang.

No Chinese farmers in Arkansas, just the inconvenience that Taiwan is not China.

But BE SCARED all y'all.

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China, be warned: The great state of Arkansas is coming for you - Arkansas Times

Will a prohibition on Chinese-made swag at Arkansas state parks hold the line against Communist espionage in the U.S.?

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 10h

< demure snort >

SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 10h

Screen shot of a 20 October 2025 post to Tom Cotton's FB campaign page. There is text, and an embedded video of a FOX NEWS interview of Cotton. The text reads:

"I can tell you that almost every Chinese national who gets a visa to come here to go to a school or university is affiliated with the CCP in some way.

They aren’t coming here to study The Federalist Papers.

They’re coming here to spy on Arkansans and Americans — and there needs to be a crackdown."

As for the person creating this post, clearly they are an unAmerican operative, given how they entered the date stamp for the post. Day / Month / Year. Only Commies and Euro trash write dates that way, amirite?

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 10h

Always timely.

Also extra pertinent given the chum tossed today seems to be going after Chinese students. Cf Tom Cotton, top chum tosser, is suggesting the bulk of Chinese nationals who come to the US to study are *really* here "to spy on Arkansans and Americans."

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 10h

Minit-thread: Bears repeating daily at this point: There were no immigration laws at all until white people on the West Coat began to fear the dreaded Yellow Peril of Chinese immigration in the 1880s. That's right. While these people were building railroads across mountain and plain...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11h

Shockingly substandard stuff from @nytimes.com

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 13h

I'm also frankly pretty floored that, in the sections of this editorial that deal with why Dems lost in 2024, there is no mention at all of inflation. According to the Times, Dems lost because of a bad favorability rating. But their favs weren't bad until after they lost!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 12h

Trump let George Santos out of jail just to make it clear that if you're loyal to him, you can get away with anything. This isn't a democracy if one man decides what's a crime and what isn't.

Time for everyone to wake up. This moment is more serious than many want to believe.

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 10h

#DailyDose

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Study finds COVID-19 mRNA vaccine sparks immune response to fight cancer - UF Health

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived…

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 12h

I will say, Trump is destroying the wing FDR built—which is a perfect symbol for how the oligarch-fueled conservative movement has destroyed so much of the progress made during the New Deal Era and made us weaker for it.

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 14h

Second of a diptych started with the AI of Trump in a fighter plane.

SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 15h

Sharing with a reminder that early on the Trump regime cut domestic terrorism staff at the FBI.

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 16h

20 Oct 2025
#DailyDose

Canada's engineers saying all the parts out loud.

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Policy Win: Health Canada Releases New IAQ Guidance

Health Canada announces new IAQ guidance, providing essential insights for improving indoor air quality and safety in buildings.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement.

Check out how tiny the crowds were:

Philly: 200
DC: "several hundred"
Boston: 500
Austin: 1,000
Houston: 2,000

Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 17h

The Trump administration is engaging in an unprecedented strategy to undermine elections. From rolling back the federal role in protecting the electoral process to threatening local election officials, our new interactive timeline is tracking it all: bit.ly/3IZMSdG

Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections

Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

www.brennancenter.org

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 19h

Medical professionals have been begging people to pay more attention to preventative care for years. Once again, Republicans play the “nah, just cross your fingers and hope your health holds up after ignoring it for decades” line.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 22h

DeSantis said “Most people, particularly under 50, what they really need is a catastrophic plan that’s affordable, where then they can pay whatever they’re doing out of a health savings account.”
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Ron DeSantis says people under 50 don’t have much use for comprehensive health insurance

'Catastrophic care' should be enough for them.

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Despite being restricted by many police departments, the military outfitted but beyond Geneva Convention rules paramilitary ICE operation is starting to demonstrating the tactic as a feature, not a bug.

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Feds ‘ram’ SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Paramilitary goons.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Trump says if he invokes the Insurrection Act, ”there is no more court cases, there is no more anything.”
By “no more anything” he means no more democracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Screen shot of a page from the Zazzle website. The item available for $25.08 is titled "Russia Flag necktie." It is a match for the tie Hegseth is wearing to the meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump two days ago, as shown in the photo in the previous comment.

SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Screenshot of tweet posted 3:46PM on Oct 17, 2025 by Jake Broe @RealJakeBroe on Xitter. Text above a photo of Pete Hegseth; text reads "Pete Hegseth showed up to the White House meeting today with President Zelensky wearing a Russian tricolor flag tie. These people love Putin and Russia."

Photo itself is a front view of Hegseth sitting at a table, visible waist up. He is wearing a lightly saturated medium blue suit jacket, white shirt, American flag pocket square visible in his left handkerchief pocket, his tie a diagonal tri-color pattern of white, dark blue, and red.

As will be shown in a following comment, the tie can be found online marketed as a Russian flag tie. The blue in the tie is a different shade from the blue of the American flag...as is evident in the difference between the blues of the pocket square and the tie.

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Presenting this with Pete Hegseth's tie.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier"
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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia

US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

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Strider @reluctantranger.bsky.social · 1d

Which is *exactly* what some of us have saying he would do.

Oh, and he’s funneling NATO intelligence to Russia.

Trump is a Russian asset and a traitor.

Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

"The US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier"
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Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia

US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

on.ft.com

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Well well.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking

www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

Chicago Mayor Issues Defiant Call For A General Strike

It was an audacious proposal, given that the U.S. has never held a true, nationwide general strike.

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SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 1d

Marco Rubio is a craven, tiny man. Perhaps kompromat eased the door open, but ugh, the level of this.

SLFerguson @slferguson.bsky.social · 1d

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"One other thought on this: the Bukele visit (and these events) were months ago and have faded from headlines but this was step 1 of a lawless campaign that connects to the boat strikes. Rubio apparently the driving force behind taking the GWOT playbook to Latin America."

Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 1d

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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