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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 11h

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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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 10h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 12h

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

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Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 10h

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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 11h

Nixon’s crimes look like harmless high school pranks compared to the now-daily unprecedented illegal & unconstitutional crimes being committed daily by this president & his staff

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 12h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 16h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 13h

Let them eat “owning the libs”

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Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 14h

Mariners fandom is the haunted house 🏚️ at which you beseech “DONT GO IN THERE!”

And yet, you follow your compatriots to meet your fate within.

Nathan Bishop @nathanhb.bsky.social · 14h

There is no path towards Something New for the Seattle Mariners that is not teeming with agony, pain, and misery beyond imagining. The nation will watch in horror as this team gives painful birth to our beautiful and terrible abomination.

This is how it was always going to be.

Joel Calahan @joelcalahan.com · 15h

In the light of day, the insistence on taking millions of fans into the yawning abyss of hell that is a 15-inning game seems pretty difficult to justify. What were the Mariners thinking?

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 15h

America's collapse in one swath of the NYT homepage

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Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 18h

It's clearer by the day that Columbia making a deal with Trump in July was a catastrophe for higher education as a whole. It gave terrible people a bottomless appetite for extortion. The other eight universities must follow MIT's lead.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 14h

PDX be like

a man with long black hair wearing a top hat and glasses laughs

ALT: a man with long black hair wearing a top hat and glasses laughs

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 4d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 15h

Conservatives: life begins at conception

Mariners: life begins in extras

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Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 15h

Bizarre, but…enjoyable at all?

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 16h

"the American people continue to be reliant on little more than insurers’ promises that they are not taking potential life-and-death decisions away from doctors and giving them to machines.”

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 16h

Top Democrat demands more detail from Medicare insurers about their use of AI www.statnews.com/2025/10/09/b... via @statnews.com

Top Democrat demands more detail from Medicare insurers about their use of AI

A key Democrat is asking top Medicare Advantage insurers about how they use artificial intelligence in decisions about medical care and coverage.

www.statnews.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

The SpEd system in this country is set up in a way that families know they're entitled to certain things but also know they have to fight tooth and nail to get what they deserve.

They're tenacious experienced fighters who'll do anything for their kids. These assholes just sucker punched them all.

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Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 16h

@minakimes.bsky.social be ready to pitch the top of the 22nd inning in game 7

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Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 16h

But I DEMAND that anyone I vote for share all of my beliefs and positions on every single issue!

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 17h

I said this when he was sworn in for this term, but the parents of SpEd children whose funding is at risk of cuts are 100% going to be braying for blood if and when that money disappears. This is literally a matter of life & death for them. This *absolutely* risks political violence.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 17h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 16h

Well said!

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Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 16h

“Should my team try to win games with good players?” is galaxy-brained question

Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 16h

“is expected” possibly doing a lot of work

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Maltose Zaddy🍻 @troubeerdourks.bsky.social · 16h

Great way to test who is loyal.

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