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CNN @cnn.com · 6h

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

GOP leaders steadfast in shutdown stance despite rising pressure inside party | CNN Politics

Top Republicans in Congress will take a massive gamble on shutdown politics in the coming days: GOP leaders will not step in to prevent missed paychecks to the military.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 15h

Marc Benihoff, who has barely been in San Francisco since the pandemic, is just a red-pilled asshole like the rest of them. What a fucking disgrace. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 1h

“When you walk through San Francisco next week, there will be cops on every corner,” Benioff continued. “That’s how it used to be.”

He's too young to remember, but back in those good old days, SF cops routinely terrorized LGBTQ people for asserting their rights.

Pretty disappointing, Marc.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 2h

Elected leaders are failing to protect immigrant workers. We must build community power, as only we can keep us safe.

ICE Is Targeting Day Labor Centers in LA That Hold Contracts With the City

Elected leaders are failing to protect immigrant workers. We must build community power, as only we can keep us safe.

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Jameslet @jamesh1977.bsky.social · 3h

There’s not a chance on earth that he didn’t sexually assault that psychologist, lie about it and then cry about it on TV. He’s a sociopathic baby.

a man in a suit and tie is speaking into a microphone while sitting in front of a crowd

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is speaking into a microphone while sitting in front of a crowd

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 2h

Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 16h

FYI, all law enforcement already treats Black Americans this way. Welcome!

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 3d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Trump got the Covid Booster today.

Smartest thing he has ever done.

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 16h

KEEP THIS HANDY WHEN PEOPLE CLAIM THE COVID VACCINATION IS DANGEROUS!

#DemVoice1 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Trump got the Covid Booster today.

Smartest thing he has ever done.

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 2h

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2h

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2h

MIT Becomes First School to Reject Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” for Higher Education

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MIT Becomes First School to Reject Trump’s “Loyalty Oath” for Higher Education

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2h

District court judges, appointed by presidents from Reagan to Biden (including Trump I), seem to understand the assignment more than most law firms. This is curious because the data shows that lawyers as a whole are more liberal on average than federal judges

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Perry asks directly whether the feds started the alleged violence in Chicago.

She asks whether it matters if the inability to execute the law was "caused by the federal agents."

Hamilton: "No, your honor."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, Pritzker says more Dems must sound the alarm, though he notes some exceptions (like Chris Murphy).

"I am surprised that more leaders have not stood up," he says.

He urges people to join No Kings protests to let the country know something's wrong. 5/5

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Get Out The Vote!!! @getoutthevote2028.bsky.social · 5h

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Idle @hatesnicethings.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like ten thousand apps when all you need is a hobby.

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 5h

This administration does the cuntiest things in the cuntiest ways possible.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 13h

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
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Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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NPR @npr.org · 6h

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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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 21h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

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Wayne Fryback @waynefryback.bsky.social · 5h

Goddamn money. 😡

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 23h

Journalists are not stenographers.

Use our easy action center tool to tell the Senate to reject a nominee for the Army’s top lawyer, who told Sen. @warren.senate.gov the government can punish reporters who publish news it doesn’t authorize.