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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

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Matthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 1h

In all seriousness people might want to think about why the 🐸 costumes are proving to be a more effective brand of advocacy than some other things that have been championed in recent years.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 13h

Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement

Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14h

Donald Trump just got a COVID booster at Walter Reed, per the White House physician.

Let’s be clear this is the same guy who downplayed the virus, mocked masks, and turned lifesaving vaccines into a political wedge that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 1d

Frogtifa

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Zeta Cross @zetazc.bsky.social · 14h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...
God Speed, Maria Corina Machado

María Corina Machado, Venezuela Opposition Leader, Is Awarded Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

Zeta Cross @zetazc.bsky.social · 14h

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Blast at a Tennessee explosives plant leaves 19 people missing and feared dead, sheriff says

Officials say an explosion at a Tennessee explosives plant has left 19 people missing and feared dead.

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etdanslesilence.bsky.social @etdanslesilence.bsky.social · 21h

Nobel Prize (4all categories) nominations must be submitted by 31Jan. Submissions received after 31Jan are for the next calendar year.
Trump was inaugurated 20Jan 2025.
Once again mainstream media/alt media are not fact or knowledge based.

Euronews @euronews.com · 22h

The US president's advisor for Africa and Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs Massad Boulos told Euronews that Donald Trump should have won the Nobel Peace Prize and that he is to thank for the Israel-Hamas deal.

US president deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, top Trump advisor says

The US president's advisor for Africa and Arab and Middle Eastern Affairs Massad Boulos told Euronews that Donald Trump should have won the Nobel Peace Prize and that he is to thank for the Israel-Hamas deal.

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 21h

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected... We want to put them in trauma.”

This is what Russ Vought has said about federal workers who do critical jobs for our country, degrading public services we all depend on. 1/2

Politico @politico.com · 22h

The Trump admin has started firing federal workers 10 days into the shutdown, according OMB Director Russ Vought — who called the firings "substantial."

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

Vought sounds layoff siren: 'The RIFs have begun'

At least nine agencies appear to be affected.

www.politico.com

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Anita zx @omi684.bsky.social · 21h

Congratulations 🤭

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d

Taking frogs back from the alt right 🫡

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Zeta Cross @zetazc.bsky.social · 22h

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Gov Pritzker

Trump ICE Raids Take Scarier Turn as Pritzker Issues Bombshell Warning

Podcast Episode · THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent · 10/10/2025 · 26m

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Tony Almquist @tony-almquist.bsky.social · 1d

by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
"58% of American adults think the president should deploy troops only to areas with external threats, while 25% disagree. Eighty-three percent of adults think the military should remain politically neutral. That number includes 93% of Democrats and 78% of Republicans"

October 9, 2025

Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 1d

AMERICA: let’s give $20 billion to Argentina, what is money anyway

ALSO AMERICA: HeaLtHcaRe FoR aLL? wHo iS gOinG to PaY FoR It

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 🚨🔥 Meet Randy Erwin. Randy is the president of the National Federation of Federal Employees — a union representing ~ 150k employees across the country. We need more RANDY ERWIN ENERGY in this country! Sound ⬆️ & Share. 1/2

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Zeta Cross @zetazc.bsky.social · 1d

“You know things are crazy when Israel and Hamas are getting along better than Democrats and Republicans. It’s, like, ‘When are they going to make that deal?’” — JIMMY FALLON

Zeta Cross @zetazc.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/w...

Who Is María Corina Machado, Winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize?

www.nytimes.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s cut childhood cancer research and bail out Argentina

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

I seriously cannot believe Trump is bailing out Argentina while subjecting Americans to tariffs and inflation

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Zeta Cross @zetazc.bsky.social · 1d

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Column | A painting of total focus promises a mystery. Beauty overtakes it.

Bonnard captured both urgency and intimacy in “Young Woman Writing,” a painting at the Barnes Foundation.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Day 159 of photoshopping John Oliver of @lastweektonight.com with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

John (H. sapiens) relaxing with a tooth of Otodus megalodon (PRI111611)
#savePRI #fossilfriday #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed #paleontology #geology ⚒️🧪 #sharks

John Oliver with his feet up on his desk pointing to a large fossil shark tooth in a small amount of matrix rock on his desk

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 1d

Speak Truth......

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1d

Only 10 senators voted for Bernie Sanders's amendment to reduce the Pentagon budget by 10% and instead expand veteran dental care:

Baldwin (D-WI)
Markey (D-MA)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murphy (D-CT)
Sanders (I-VT)
Smith (D-MN)
Van Hollen (D-MD)
Warren (D-MA)
Welch (D-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)

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ZiggyStardust @grancracker.bsky.social · 1d

The swarm of blackhawks over Grant Park in downtown Chicago is not only unnecessary, but menacing AND inflammatory as well. But that is Trump’s whole point isn’t it? Happening right NOW!

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