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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 8h

What's important here is that it's the ICE raids that are capturing their attention.

This is why the reliance on focus groups and polls and the inevitable claim that voters only care about "kitchen table" issues misses the mark.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/why-trump-...

Why Trump Lost the Podcast Bros

It's cool to support the Rebellion. It's not cool to support the Empire.

paulwaldman.substack.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 15h

can you imagine just sitting down to plan this and not feeling any shame or hesitation. seeing jane goodall on the tv as you’re doing it and how her thing was gorillas and yours is getting ready to deport a guy who’s been wrongly imprisoned since reagan’s first term

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 18h

They like Trump and want to help him and reporting on this would not help him so they do not do that

Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 20h

People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 22h

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 1d

Before this is over, Jesus and the anti-Christ are going to team up, political realignment is funny like that.

Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 1d

NGL the anti-Christ sounds based as hell. Where do I get my mark of the beast?

Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 1d

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Caitlin Flanagan
@CaitlinPacific
I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.

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@bariweiss
⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 2d

Every article in The Bulwark is like:

You were as shocked as I was yesterday to learn that the United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 states and a federal capital district.

Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 2d

Two anti-Cornyn candidates means that Cornyn is twice as likely to lose! Am I doing this right?

The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 2d

"So if it’s me or if it’s Ken [Paxton], I’m fine with that," Hunt told Texas Monthly. "Let’s battle that out. But I can tell you it’s not going to be John Cornyn."

The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 2d

Polls disagree whether Rep. Wesley Hunt’s recent entry into the GOP’s Senate primary helps or hurts Sen. John Cornyn. Hunt, though, is doing what he can to make sure "establishment hack" Cornyn loses, even if Hunt isn't the Republican who gets to beat him.

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Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 2d

Still mad about this one, lol. It got to me, that's for sure.

Frankly strange to care about the justice system if you are not a defendant or a judge.

Frankly strange to care about health care if you aren't in the hospital or a doctor.

Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 2d

Really don't see the benefit of playing dumb like this. I've been hearing this same sentiment over and over again for the last decade while MAGA slowly takes over the American education system from pre-school to PhD programs.

Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 2d

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 2d

What if I told you that the real "frankly strange" thing is how everyone with authority in the US to the left of Ted Cruz has just kind of ceded education to the far right.

Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 2d

Really don't see the benefit of playing dumb like this. I've been hearing this same sentiment over and over again for the last decade while MAGA slowly takes over the American education system from pre-school to PhD programs.

Laurasaurus @laurasaurus.bsky.social · 2d

It is frankly strange to be this obsessed with college if you no longer attend one and do not work in education. More people in legacy media need to be told that.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 2d

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 2d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Kathryn @kathrynlaughon.bsky.social · 2d

Today the UVA School of Nursing passed, with overwhelming support, a resolution demanding that the rector and interim president reject the compact. bit.ly/3KPRMKV

SON resolution against the compact

The University of Virginia School of Nursing places the ethical principles of our profession at the center of its work. The American Nurses Association's Nursing Code of Ethics affirms nurses' obligat...

bit.ly

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2d

Q: How exactly would you defend Finland?

Trump: Say what?

Q: How would you defend Finland

Trump: Uh... vigorously

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Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 2d

"Coulda sworn we already paid the Danegeld, why is the Dane still being a jerk???"

Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 2d

Lol Columbia

Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 3d

OH they're *all* frying their brains on AI-generated videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

RFK Jr: "Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman at 8 months pregnant -- she's an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School -- and she is saying 'F Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta. The level of Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a pathology."

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Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 3d

Neither the elite media nor social media influencers can fight well against what Everybody Knows.

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Blueskyist (Third-Worldist [Revolutionary Ocasio Thought]) @takemyadvice.bsky.social · 3d

Well, here's another thing everybody knows: Democrats like the government and Republicans hate the government. Everybody knows it!

Trying to get the average swing voter to blame the Dems for a shutdown is like trying to get them to blame the GOP for crime. Very very hard.

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