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Lorri Mitchell
@sweetilla.bsky.social
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Wife, mom, grandma, retired educator, fly fishing, biking, tree planting, walk abouts in the woods, river monitoring and lots more outside stuff. Yah, love my naughty Golden Retriever.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h
This photo.

@sfstandard.com #SFO
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h
Not the WSJ having the only even moderately acceptable push alert here.

NYT and NBC with basic journalism fails here.
NYT Breaking News President Trump pardoned the billionaire founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao. 6m ago Notification enter i 24 NBC NEWS Breaking news 27m ago Trump pardons crypto executive Changpeng Zhao, who served four months in prison after pleading guilty to enabling money laundering at Binance 12 WSJ Breaking News 1h ago Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, whose crypto exchange has been boosting the Trump family's own crypto venture
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h
It’s on his To Do list.
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 1d
34 people killed in 50 days. Their guilt or innocence unknown, for an alleged crime that doesn't carry a death sentence. That's a lot of death.

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Known Lethal U.S. Attacks on Civilian Vessels in the Caribbean Total reported killed: 34 people Notification Date Number Reported Killed Approximate Location Notification URL September 2, 2025 11 “in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” (later revealed as between Sucre, Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) View September 15, 2025 3 “in International Waters… in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility”; Colombian president claimed it was a fishing boat in Colombian waters View September 19, 2025 3 “in international waters… in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” near the Dominican Republic View October 3, 2025 4 “in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela” View October 14, 2025 6 “in International Waters… just off the Coast of Venezuela” View October 16, 2025 2; 2 reported survivors “in the Caribbean” View October 17, 2025 3 “in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility” View October 21, 2025 2 “in the Eastern Pacific” View
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 1d
UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified
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Erica Weintraub Austin @ericawaustin.bsky.social · 1d
Prof journos analyzed AI results from ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, & Perplexity for 22 public service media organizations in 18 countries, in 14 languages:

45% of all AI answers had 1 or more issue
31% had missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions
20% had major accuracy issues

#medialiteracy
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d
He lost the 2020 election. He knew it. He lied about it. And now he’s demanding your money because knowingly lying didn’t make him President.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
Trump: "It's awfully strange to make a decision where I'm paying myself. But I was damaged very greatly and any money I would get I would give to charity."
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Trudy Gonzales @trudygonzales.bsky.social · 2d
The legal investigation into Russia's interference with the 2016 presidential election which was proven

The legal investigation into the retrieval of classified documents that Trump took illegally when he left office which had to be retrieved by the FBI
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Fight For A Union @fightforaunion.bsky.social · 2d
He may be demolishing one of the most iconic structures in American history…

But on the bright side, the billionaires he gave massive tax cuts to will have a nice ballroom to dance in.

You’re not invited, though. 🫤

And your healthcare premiums are going to skyrocket. 🤷‍♂️
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d
We need to remove the cancer in the Oval Office to restore funding to children’s cancer research.
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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d
3 small children run to escape ICE raid in Idaho—manage to find family.

"I didn’t get caught," boy says. "Nobody got some handcuffs on me."

Dozens of minors were among 100's detained—zip tied and separated from parents.

Agents chose to raid on "Family Night" at La Catedral Arena in Wilder, Idaho.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d
Congratulations to every Democratic House and Senate candidate for the next two years for this photograph.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 4d
Washington Post editorial board, 2 days ago: "The idea that Trump is easily swayed by Putin, let alone manipulated or controlled by him, does not hold water."
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d
Shouting match. Cursing.

And this ⤵️

Trump "adopted many of Putin’s talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own statements about Russia’s weaknesses..

"Trump told Zelenskyy that Putin had told him the conflict was a 'special operation, not even a war.'”

www.ft.com/content/7960...
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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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5d
John Bolton was charged this week with 18 counts of mishandling classified information by either illegally transmitting or retaining national defense secrets, because he emailed 2 family members from personal accounts and used a messaging app.

Not John Bolton’s bathroom👇
Trumps bathroom piled high with boxes of classified docs
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Lorri Mitchell @sweetilla.bsky.social · 5d
A tiny flavoring of signs in Duluth, MN. Crowd Estimated in thousands at the civic center.
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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 5d
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
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Purple Teacher @peaceandteachin.bsky.social · 5d
In Guiffre’s book, Epstein threatened to harm her brother if she ever told anyone about the abuse.
This is what they did to Katie Johnson when she filed her rape charges against Trump & Epstein; threatened her & her family leading her to drop the charges.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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Further Details of Epstein Abuse Emerge in Memoir Extract — TIME
The posthumous memoir of late victim of Jeffrey Epstein, Virginia Giuffre, will be published October 21.
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Lorri Mitchell @sweetilla.bsky.social · 6d
This doesn’t seem like we’re being encouraged to cheer for chaos. 🧐
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 7d
a) this story is horrifying
b) Trump's push to divert FBI agents onto immigration enforcement has moved resources away from continuing investigations of 764
‘It broke me’: Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die
The suicide of a 13-year-old from Washington state set off a years-long global investigation to find an elusive online user called “White Tiger.”
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 7d
deploying the editor's note like solid snake with the chokeout
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 8d
UPDATE: Hours after saying they were pausing all payments, Medicare says they’re NOT pausing all payments.

More ➡️ www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...
Medicare backs off plan to pause doctor payments amid shutdown
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services backed off a plan to pause Medicare payments to doctors amid the government shutdown.
www.statnews.com
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 8d
Great explainer by Reps @repstansbury.bsky.social and @repangiecraig.bsky.social 💥

❌ Trump’s $40B bailout to Argentina (with self-serving by caveats)

❌ Trump interferes with Argentina’s elections (next week)

❌ Trump’s USDA told states to hold back on SNAP/WIC benefit payouts after Nov 1st.

🧵…
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Nik Streng @nikstreng.bsky.social · 8d
Very sad to see what’s happening at Indiana. The school has decided it wanted to muzzle its student newspaper to only print fluffy campus life stories in special sections. When they pushed back, the school cut all print funding and fired their staff director
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS
Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.
www.idsnews.com
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 7d
It’s weird how the “young” Republicans are actually full-grown men and JD Vance treats them as children who shouldn’t face consequences for their racism, misogyny, or xenophobia.

But pregnant 12-year-old little girls are treated as adults and must literally bear the consequences of rape and incest.
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