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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19m

Same day that the US announced a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will benefit Trump's political allies and donors.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 20h

Hi, friends. I'm sad to report that my mom passed away on Sept. 22. She was peaceful and comfortable, which is a blessing, but I'll really miss her. She taught me the most important things--help others; be curious--by example, and I would absolutely not be the person I am without her influence.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 32m

I support legitimate law enforcement.
I do not support masked thugs terrorizing immigrants, tear-gassing protesters and assaulting reporters.
Trump is undermining respect for law enforcement and making us all less safe.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Children that were kidnapped by invading Russian barbarians, not displaced.

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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 2h

Moving quickly to a world where students use AI to complete work, profs use AI to grade it, no one learns anything and we will live in a world of mediocrity and incompetence where only the billionaires benefit.

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 2h

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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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 10h

This Is how I found out Marc Benioff owns Time magazine. Is there any major media property left that isn’t owned by a tech billionaire or Rupert Murdoch?

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 1d

It’s hard to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a guy that maybe brokered a temporary peace deal after he ordered 500 tons of nutrient rich biscuits destroyed instead of saving the lives of desperate, starving babies.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 10h

The people who voted for Trump didn’t think they were driving a truck over a street full of people, but in effect they were. Many, many Americans will die because of the Trump regime’s destruction of our public health system.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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teddi4.bsky.social @teddi4.bsky.social · 11h

The inhumanity of every Republican . This is on all of you. You own this.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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RC deWinter @rcdewinter.bsky.social · 11h

Really makes you wonder what alternate universe he's inhabiting.
Clearly it's one none of us have ever been to.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

"She said to me after that - Samantha, 21 years old - all my life I've prepared for this moment. All my life, my mom, 53 years old, who was just going to get meat for a stew, has told me one day this could come."

@jacobsoboroff.bsky.social talks ICE with @timmiller.bsky.social on The Bulwark Pod

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 18h

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 12h

Decent, patriotic Americans are ANTIFA, Donald.

We are fiercely, steadfastly, unapologetically anti-fascist, and you know why? Because Americans are f*ckin’ supposed to be.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/were-all-a...

We're all ANTIFA, Donald.

Hey Donald,

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah. TikTok is out. It's an arm of the ruling fascist party at this point.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 13h

I’ve met billionaires who are not idiots. I just didn’t realize how rare they are.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

“.. Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has bought up numerous parcels of land. He said that he wasn’t sure how many days he spends each year in San Francisco ..”

@nytimes.com $CRM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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Sarah Szalavitz💡 @dearsarah.bsky.social · 14h

Melania Has Been Secretly Working With Putin for Months
www.thedailybeast.com/melania-has-... Sure Putin, who is still allegedly an enemy of this country, got her husband elected a decade ago—& she speaks fluent Russian—& yet they’ve only been “secretly working” together for months. #SPECTRE

Melania Has Been Secretly Working With Putin for Months

The first lady has been engaged in talks with the Russia leader over the war in Ukraine.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Democrats. They are HANDING YOU GIFTS.

The Attorney General just had a guy we know took Russian money speak to the country. There's a direct link from Russia to Benny. You cannot fuck this up.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 18h

Immigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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