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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · Nov 15

I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · Nov 15

I love how far afield this is from any problem government can address. “Now that Trump won people have to like and agree with me and not tell me I suck anymore.” bsky.app/profile/yash...

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Nov 15

2. “For the last four years, very acutely, and I know it preceded these four years as well, but there's been kind of a pressing down. A pressing down and kind of limiting what people can say.”

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 7h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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𝔉𝔞𝔩𝔞𝔪𝔢𝔢𝔷𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 🐉𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖔𝖓🐉 @falameezer.bsky.social · 17h

For anyone who might need reminding

**Alt text:**
A tweet by John Fugelsang lists 14 pointed questions related to Donald Trump’s history and alleged racist actions, such as:

1. Where was Barack Obama born?
2. Why was Trump fired from The Apprentice?
3. Who are the Central Park 5?
4. What statues were the “very fine people” in Charlottesville marching to protect?
5. How many Haitian migrants were actually found to be “illegals” who were eating pets?
… continuing through questions about Colin Kaepernick, Confederate monuments, “go back where you came from” comments, Judge Curiel, and calling countries “shithole countries.”

He ends with:
“Racism that doesn't bother people who don't mind racism is still racism. Donald Trump is so racist his crosses burned themselves.”

A reply below says:

> “You are blind! I will pray for you! Name one racist thing trump has done! Get over the race bs.”

The tweet shows it was last edited at 9:31 AM, Oct 5, 2025, with 38K views.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 14h

The inflatable is also an aesthetic inverse of the body armor cops are now routinely swaddled in, and their masks. A frog costume hides identity with comic rather than sinister signals. It protects vulnerable areas of the body by misdirection (where IS the frog's throat??), not accentuation.

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

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K9Woof @k9wag.bsky.social · 1d

It absolutely ruins their little individual cosplay fantasy too.

These guys signed up for a toxic masculinity field trip. They thought they were coming to “fuck antifa” not get twerked at by a halloween parade.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13h

Last I checked the GOP controls all branches of our government.

Tweet from MeidasTouch: “Wow that’s crazy. Who’s running the federal government?”
Below, Acyn’s tweet quotes Rep. Mike Johnson: “If you look at polling, people’s faith in the federal government is at an all-time low. Why? Because they don’t see that it’s being done well.”
A C-SPAN screenshot shows Johnson speaking with another man standing beside him.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 13h

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

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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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Save this graph for the next time @MarshaBlackburn @SpeakerJohnson @JDVance try to hold $50 Billion for rural hospitals out as a of win for the 🇺🇸 people

We’re bad at math but $1.1 TRILLION in cuts (for tax cuts for the rich) > $50 BILLION

They think we are all morons

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 13h

At what point will our media ask about Trump’s obvious mental decline? He’s so far gone that he does not remember he was president in January 6, 2021

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Sarah M. - Blerdy Baddie @killianfantasy.bsky.social · 1d

I've been saying Depression for a while. You can't carve this many people from (stable!) federal jobs, not have jobs open in the private sector to absorb them (or anyone else), and have the price of *everything* continuously rise. Something's going to break.

✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 1d

Best case scenario: Great Depression II (which some might say we’re already in if ya wanna be honest about it even though nobody is calling this what it actually is)

Absolutely Worst case scenario: Dark Age II -Techbro Robber Baron Ver.-

There are no good outcomes when you open Pandora’s Box.

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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 1d

These cuts will almost certainly lead to more suicides and school and mass shootings in America. And remember: after every major mass shooting, Republicans emphasize that “mental health” is the solution and that regulating guns is a nonstarter www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Trump slashes mental health agency as shutdown drags on

Sources tell NPR that more than 100 employees have been laid off at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Agency. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had some cuts reversed late Saturday.

www.npr.org

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 1d

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Tiffany @tiffanyrfox.bsky.social · 1d

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 1d

This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in jobs where they would be exposed to lead and chemicals!!!!!

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 1d

This Day in Labor History: October 11, 1979. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined the chemical company American Cyanamid $10,000 for coercing women workers into sterilization if they wanted to work in jobs where they would be exposed to lead and chemicals!!!!!

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gav a nice time this autumn @gavinmit.bsky.social · 1d

there was no ian dunt's even more embarrassing kid brother writing weird, pseudointellectual, childlike scrawl on a white board back in the tough old days. before the konami code for women was discovered you just had to talk to them as if they were normal people and hope for the best

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Eric Feigl-Ding @drericding.bsky.social · 2d

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too.

Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 1d

via @youranonnews.bsky.social

CHICAGO: Trump's lawless goons (ICE) make a U-turn and smash into a woman's car, then proceed to arrest her by dragging her out of the vehicle.

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