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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 53m

Cuomo just “both sides-ed” the indictment of AG Tish James. Disqualifying on its own, aside from everything else about him

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Kevin Foster @kevinhfoster.bsky.social · 15h

A crowd of right-wing agitators just stormed through chanting “Whose streets? Our streets.” A woman appears to have been shoved to the ground (hear clothes were dirty and hand had a small cut). A right-wing man may have been punched.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3h

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2h

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Russ Frankenstein (no relation) @russ41.bsky.social · 2h

Fuckin' tell 'em, Ashley.

“I think it’s tacky; it’s weird to have something like this in Anaheim,” said Ashley, an Orange County native. “It’s giving big-brother vibes.”

“That’s so fucking lame,” said Xavier, an LA resident, looking at the Border Patrol-branded bullfighter on my phone. “Every person in that arena knows someone affected by the raids.”

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 2h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 3h

their pitch to voters: you’ll have a better spot in the hierarchy than you do now. dems pitch is “we’ll be competent managers and reward various interest groups whose causes may align with your values.” if you ask me, dems could do better. the bar is so low man. we can’t keep losing to these fuckers

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

and this is in turn tied to what they think america is supposed to be: a rigidly hierarchical and patriarchal society dominated by a religious and business elite

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 4h

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-bank-israel-raids-homes-prisoners-be-released-Gaza-ceasefire-deal

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

www.middleeasteye.net

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

So costume character dance parties are being treated as a national emergency, meanwhile, almost every damn day:

4 people were killed and 20 more were injured in a shooting at a bar in South Carolina, sheriff says

A mass shooting at a crowded bar on the idyllic South Carolina island of St. Helena left four people dead and at least 20 injured.

www.newsday.com

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 21h

im rewatching The Shining for the millionth time and while i think the book does some things better (getting us into Jack's head) the book is a story about a good man swallowed by ghosts and Kubrick's story is about a family annihilator, and thus much, much scarier

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h

"Looking through this whole poll, the single number Enten cites in his segment is basically the most pro-Trump number in the poll."

Oof.

G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 5h

52% of Americans say Trump is “doing what he promised.” But not all those people *like* what he’s doing! That is key context for interpreting this number, but was notable missing from a viral CNN segment (that the White House later turned into a press release)
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/is-trump-d...

Is Trump “doing what he promised”? | Weekly roundup for October 12, 2025

And what does that even mean? Also this week: Shutdown polls; Left-wing populism; Low favorability ratings for all U.S. leaders; Judges' concerns about Trump; + more!

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 5h

Niemoller was a Nazi—the poem is about how collaboration won’t save you, let alone neutrality

shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 8h

thinking about the liberal politicians willing to try to compromise with fascists by abandoning minority groups they don't really like - i wish they understood that fascists will come for everyone eventually. even themselves. fascism unopposed is a ruined state with everyone dead

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 1d

SPY put bros:

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 15h

I think bar associations really have a role to play in this revolting state of affairs. The arguments are in such blatant bad faith, the people making them should be shunned by their peers.

Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 16h

The case against Comey is beyond weak. The case against James is worse. It is based on a lie, and they know they're lying because exculpatory evidence that contradicts the indictment had already been presented to a grand jury in another jurisdiction. Everyone involved with this needs to be disbarred

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 7h

They’re restoring monuments to the Confederacy while monuments to freedmen are vandalized.

KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 7h

‘Depressing’: Vandalized Dallas landmark Freedman’s Cemetery now under curfew www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2...

‘Depressing’: Vandalized Dallas landmark Freedman’s Cemetery now under curfew

In light of recent reports of vandalization at the cemetery, the city has enforced a curfew and enhanced security at the site.

www.dallasnews.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7h

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 8h

“The Hague Group's measures are not optional, not radical, not novel. They are legal obligations, binding under the Genocide Convention."

🔗 Read more from Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla, Executive Secretary of The Hague Group, in Middle East Eye.

Over 30 states meet during Netanyahu's UN speech to weigh action against Israel

The Hague Group convenes 34 states on the sidelines of the General Assembly to gather support for eight concrete measures to stop the Gaza genocide

buff.ly

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NH's "Play-by-Play" Guy @egall.bsky.social · 7h

We should prosecute GOP criminality. Add more seats to the Supreme Court, a binding code of ethics, and impeach Alito & Thomas. Merrick Garland moved too slowly and was generally cowardly. Abolish ICE. Stop the GOP anti-trans bills. The Trump regime's moves to criminalize dissent amount to fascism.

Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 1d

i want a "resistance ranking" for dems that grades them on how seriously they're taking this

something like support for:

1. prosecuting gop criminality
2. court reform
3. procedural agressiveness
4. end ICE
5. trans rights
6. calling this fascism

+ points for having taken personal risks

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h

RESULT: New Orleans has a new mayor. Helena Moreno, a Democrat known as a progressive member of the city council, easily won today’s mayoral race and cleared the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff. She’ll replace the retiring Democratic Mayor, Cantrell.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 14h

I keep watching Mamdani's video in disbelief of how good it is... centering BIPOC trans street activism, SOPHIE soundtrack, pivoting to supporting funds for trans housing and healthcare...

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 17h

Mamdani promises to deploy *hundreds* if lawyers to fight for trans rights, create a new office of LGBTQ affairs, and allocate millions of dollars to fund housing and healthcare for trans kids and adults

This is what fighting back looks like--elevating activists to materually support trans people.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 17h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 21h

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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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

B R a I n s

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 14h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1d

"well what are the Democrats supposed to do" I don't know! They're supposed to know! I'm not the one who sought and obtained a political position that would require me to know what to do when the ruling party attempts to install the President as a dictator!

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