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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4h

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 5h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

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Jeffrey Rowland @wigu.org · 19h

Horror movie about two people who can't decide which horror movie to watch UNTIL THEY DIE

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 10h

OTD in 2002 🇺🇦 began decommissioning its nuclear capable Tu-22 strategic bombers & Kh-22 cruise missiles, as per the Budapest memo.

30 bombers & 230 missiles were destroyed over 2 & half years in exchange for promise 🇷🇺 would never invade.

But you can believe our promises now

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 20h

Hello, I'm about to go on parental leave.
Please enjoy this reissued print, now in A3 size, edition of 50.
www.sonnyross.com/shop/shutupa3
#illustration #medieval

An Illustration showing a dragon being slain in a naive medieval style with the caption "SHUT UP". Could be about anyone.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 15h

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 19h

I'm sorry what www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Many of the protesters described excessive use of force by federal agents. The Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, said he was demonstrating outside Broadview when U.S. Customs and Border Protection official Gregory Bovino, who is leading his agency’s enforcement operation in Chicago, showed up. Illinois State Police began to push people back from the curb. He said that at one point a federal agent grabbed his neck and twisted his nipple “as hard as they could.”

“This is while I’m in a clergy collar,” Woolf added.

McLaughlin responded that “officers do not twist people’s nipples or use undue force” and are “well trained in crowd control tactics.”

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 13h

hey so I know this is T&P but DHS doesn't have near the same authorities as DoD has with reprogramming, and also the DoD version of this is still illegal as shit even with those authorities

Whatever dog killer barbie is cooking up is gonna just be an outright money grab

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 19h

Coast Guard may now be paid through Pentagon-style money shifting trib.al/VhtWlMr

Coast Guard may now be paid through Pentagon-style money shifting

Homeland Security is taking similar steps after the Pentagon announced it would move “unobligated” funds to cover Oct. 15 pay.

trib.al

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h

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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Euronews @euronews.com · 13h

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina made his first public comments since the CAPSAT military unit turned against his government amid weekslong protests, saying he fled the country in fear for his life.

Madagascar president flees country following military rebellion

Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina made his first public comments since the CAPSAT military unit turned against his government amid weekslong protests, saying he fled the country in fear for his life.

l.euronews.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 19h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 19h

excessive hgh has negative cognitive effects, including upregulation in fear memory formation

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 12h

lol electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 8h

China has significantly helped Russia gain an edge in fiber-optic drone tech. Beijing sharply increased exports of key components like fiber optics and lithium batteries for FPV drone production. While claiming neutrality, China allowed a surge in parts that now fuel Russia’s domestic drone assembly

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Jake Wittich @jakewittich.bsky.social · 1d

The same ICE agent who handcuffed Ald. Jessie Fuentes has been filmed in at least 3 other violent encounters, including the viral arrest of a woman in Waukegan in front of the mayor.

“He’s obviously a danger to individuals and particularly women," Fuentes said.

Read more at @windycitytimes.com

Ald. Jessie Fuentes to file lawsuit against ICE agent who handcuffed her in Humboldt Park incident - Windy City Times

Ald. Jessie Fuentes (26th Ward) is preparing to file a lawsuit against the ICE agent who handcuffed and threatened to arrest her at Humboldt Park Health earlier this month. In an interview with Windy ...

windycitytimes.com

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CREW @citizensforethics.org · 1d

Russ Vought is now officially using the government shutdown as a pretext for his continued attempts to permanently gut the civil service.

The executive branch cannot unilaterally reduce agency funding that Congress has allocated: This is a serious separation of powers issue.

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Grandma @grandmasweb.bsky.social · 17h

The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million, USA Today reported, and that’s the figure just for the D.C. National Guard, not for the eight states that have sent troops.

A Very, Very Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

The Trump administration’s National Guard deployments are highly inefficient.

www.theatlantic.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

they’re scared fucking shitless of this weekend, or, at the least, are scared fucking shitless of trump seeing it on the television

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct, in part - as the grim, military historian in me feels the need to note - it is psychologically much harder to get soldiers to open fire on people they view as 'respectable.'

And I dread, with grim increasingly certainty, that we are headed to a point where that matters.

WhatSaraSaid @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 1d

protests against this government should include white Boomer grandmothers who meet for pilates class, get a pitcher of mimosas & walk together to the public space

we need people in the street who think everyone can talk their way out of a speeding ticket, they're key to winning

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

Roberts et al aren’t interested in the aim, purpose, or structure of the constitution. They are approaching it with their project foremost in their mind, and are trying to back out whatever isolated, out of context language they can torture to push that project.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

Yes. It gets to Marshall's quip about this being a constitution they are expounding. So much of what the Roberts Court is doing is a legal language game untethered from the aim, purpose and structure of the Constitution.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 16h

Fox News has admitted in court to considering themselves entertainment rather than news so this is deeply embarrassing for Pete

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 16h

Every news outlet is refusing to sign Pete Hegseth's reporting restrictions at the Pentagon, and @status.news has learned that includes his former employer, Fox News. Details and more in tonight's newsletter: www.status.news/p/pentagon-p...

The Safe Space Secretary

Pete Hegseth built his career on Fox News mocking "snowflakes." Now, Status has learned, his former employer and others are rejecting his efforts to build a safe space around the Pentagon.

www.status.news

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17h

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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