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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20h

Medicare for All isn't just a healthcare guarantee, it's a small business empowerment program.

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 8h

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 22h

President Trump was just caught on a hot mic talking with the president of Indonesia.

He may have been talking about his business interests in the country–which would be exactly the kind of conflict of interest we’ve been warning about for years. 🧵

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19h

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 8h

This is a foreshadowing of what is to come for the US military.

The Analyst @militaryanalyst.bsky.social · 13h

KREMLIN, INCREASINGLY DESPERATE TO PARTIALLY MOBILISE RESERVES

For the past week the Army has been issuing notices electronically to call up men for the annual conscription, the last time it will be done annually as it moves to a rolling monthly system. That will speed up getting conscripts into

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Kate @knhannah.bsky.social · 11h

I absolutely 💯 decry the attacks on fundamental science but cannot help but be reminded that so many people pissed off now were silent when humanities funding was obliterated & don’t step up for Mātauranga, nor care about the rising misogyny their colleagues have described for a decade.

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Martin Baccardax @mdbaccardax.bsky.social · 1d

OpenAI with another 10 GW deal ...

To remind, 1 GW costs $60 billion to deploy.

OpenAI has made deals for 26 GW over the past two weeks.

So ... that's a $1.6 trillion commit for a company that had H1 revenue of $4.3 billion.

This. Is. A. Bubble.

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 9h

I want to know if he feared for his life due to her "gun"? We may have a different but very obvious problem on our hands. They can't tell what is "pretend" and what is "real" when it comes to threats.

teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 9h

LOL, don't sleep on ID. They are a wild lot but they aren't going to want that air base.

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Dr Walsh @laurelwalsh.bsky.social · 20h

Stupid whiteness disease

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

"Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, "Thus says the Lord, 'Let my people go, that they may serve me. But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs; the [Willamette River] shall swarm with frogs which shall come up into your house...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 7d

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 15h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 10h

Please investigate their intentional abuse of Federal workers with Vought's weaponization of the science of trauma. bsky.app/profile/teab...

teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 22h

In private speeches from 2023–2024, Russell Vought (a lead architect of Project 2025 and now a head of OMB) said a future administration should make career civil servants “miserable” and “put them in trauma.”

teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 10h

He has no idea that stalling Rep Grijalva's swearing is fueling her fire! 🔥

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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 16h

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva announces her election results will be OFFICIALLY certified tomorrow, destroying Mike Johnson’s last excuse to delay her swearing in.

“Mike Johnson needs to do his job so I can do mine.”

No more lies.
No more delays.
Swear her in!

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

1. President Trump received a standing ovation in the Knesset when he acknowledged giving weapons to the Israeli military.

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teabelly @teabelly.bsky.social · 10h

I'm so sorry this has happened to you! I hope we can restore science and get to finding solutions!

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 19h

Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly

Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, I paced in circles like a restless ghost.
The windows were frosted, allowing only a faint suggestion of daylight and nightfall, enough to remind me that time was passing, though I had little sense of how.
The shower water was always cold, and my only amenities were the steel toilet and sink fused together in the corner. It was a miserable existence. Yet, as I soon learned, misery can always be deepened
On September 7th, the warden's office saw fit to move me into something far worse, an even smaller cell, no more than seven by nine feet, coated in filth, reeking of neglect, and utterly devoid of natural light or ventilation.
In that suffocating shoebox, there is no room to walk, no hint of the sun, no trace of humanity. The silence is crushing.
The air feels stale. The walls themselves seem to close in. I keep asking myself: will this barbaric confinement ever end? Is this legal under our Constitution, or have I simply been erased from the protections of due process?
Most haunting of all, will I survive it? With no access to my family, no calls, no emails, and with letters that may never leave this building, I live in total darkness, cut off from the world I once fought to serve.
Let me be blunt: I find Warden Kelly's so-called "protection" not only unpalatable, but cruel and unjustifiable. My time here has opened my eyes to a truth far too many ignore: America desperately needs prison reform.

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Dennis K Jr @dkjrhi.bsky.social · 16h

“This is, simply put, bullshit.” - @chrisgeidner.bsky.social

www.lawdork.com/p/barrett-tu...

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings

Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

www.lawdork.com

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 20h

Michael Madigan, the country's longest-serving state House leader and the longtime head of Illinois' Democratic Party, is in prison.

He surrendered Monday to a federal camp in West Virginia.

@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/madigan-tria...

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan is in prison

Madigan’s surrender caps a massive corruption investigation that hearkens back to an earlier era at Chicago’s federal courthouse. He has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years behind bars.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Rep. James Walkinshaw @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social · 3d

RIFs during a shutdown are 100% illegal.

@oversightdemocrats.house.gov Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia and I called on @USGAO to investigate Russ Vought’s illegal directive ordering agencies to fire federal workers in violation of the Antideficiency Act.

This scheme needs to be investigated.

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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

SWEAR IN ADELITA GRIJALVA TOMORROW!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 23h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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butterflygirl24 @butterflygirl24.bsky.social · 20h

Martin Sheen was a better fake President in West Wing than Taco is as a real one! #arresttrump

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