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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 4h

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

www.nytimes.com

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US House Equality @ushouseequality.bsky.social · 3h

The media ignores that Putin started this crusade against Soros long ago.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 7h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 11h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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NPR @npr.org · 10h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

Is it just me, or does it seem the press is actually and completely terrified to report about Donald Trump's physical and mental health the way it would have if anyone else were president?

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Maine Morning Star @mainemorningstar.com · 10h

Gov. Mills to announce Senate bid next week mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/10/g...

Gov. Mills to announce Senate bid next week • Maine Morning Star

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is supposed to announce a run for U.S. Senate next week, in an attempt to unseat Republican Susan Collins.

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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 8h

Regular bruising from what looks to be an IV, another cognitive test, now "advanced imaging", paired with multiple instances of Trump being kept from the public eye for up to a week at a time

It's getting more and more difficult to hide his dementia

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

"Advanced imaging" are the important words here.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15h

The insane accounts of how the IDF rated the flotilla keep coming www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMDBHC4g/

Israeli forces have abducted over 500 peace activists over the past week who were sailing to Gaza in an effort to deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged territory. Jewish American activist David Adl...

TikTok video by Democracy Now!

www.tiktok.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

The World Fantasy Convention will be meeting in Brighton at the end of the month and I hope they’ll be considering Trump’s health report released after his six-monthly annual examination yesterday.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12h

Byline Times has been told by various sources that Farage has maintained a close interest in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia…
But Farage’s ignorance of this particular set of pro-Russian influencers around Nathan Gill is even more questionable….

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/11/s...

'Stunned?' Farage's Admission He Knew Nathan Gill but Not His Kremlin Associates Does Not Stand Up to Scrutiny

Insiders have told Byline Times, it is 'inconceivable' the Reform Leader did not know about his close aide's pro Russian statements

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11h

Trump cites a murderous war criminal to attack the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision. Truly absurd and disturbing. And narcissism of a pathological degree.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 11h

If SCOTUS were not also simply an organ of Trumpist rule, Voughts entire vast papertail of "I hate the government and will break laws to destroy it" would make these layoffs illegal & the workers could rightfully expect court to rule in their favor. Unfortunately, SCOTUS

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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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 10h

Dont make me tap the sign!

God @thegodpodcast.com · 22h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 9h

The Bad Bunny hysteria is so insane that comedian Josh Johnson has added a history lesson to his set: "...in 1898 at
the end of the Spanish American War, America got Puerto Rico...1917, Puerto Ricans gained US citizenship."
youtu.be/QU93N7saW_E?...

MAGA Mega Mad over Bad Bunny Bowl

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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FairVote @fairvote.bsky.social · 9h

We rank things every day – like our favorite movies, drinks, or ice cream flavors! 🎥🍻🍨

Voters are ready to rank candidates, too! Everywhere it's used, voters say they like and understand #RankedChoiceVoting.

Exit Surveys: Voters Love Ranked Choice Voting - FairVote

This short document collects exit poll results from ranked choice voting jurisdictions across the country. Ranked choice voting polls find that voters like and understand RCV.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 9h

Remember the expression "friendly fascism"?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23h

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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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 9h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 9h

Like Bari Weiss being stuffed by a billionaire atop CBS to lie to normies, this is billionaires stuffing rightwing ideas into AI systems to lie to normies.

The whole fascist takeover of the US is built atop an information war.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 8h

Remember, this is how much it has cooked people’s brains after like one year. Think of what 10 years of this will do. Think of the brains of kids who will grow up not only unable to spot AI but unable to understand “real” and “AI generated” as two different concepts.

Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 10h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 21h

The New York Times this week published a (detailed) story about Noem trashing a random country music singer for a song lyric she didn’t like. It has not covered Noem’s unprecedented use of official channels to spread political propaganda/lies.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 20h

This administration definitely would jail the people hiding the little girl in the attic

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22h

Pete Hegseth announced an agreement today to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at a U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho.

Reminder: Earlier this year, the Trump admin accepted a Boeing 747 jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 22h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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