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sadvil 😎 @sadvil.bsky.social · 3h

A great weekend to share Jeff Bridges making a perfect joke

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Ben Wetzler @voteben.nyc · 4h

The TikTok thing is cartoonishly corrupt. Everyone involved should be in jail.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h

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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A Boo!-zen Eggs (Parody Account) @adozeneggs.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not getting cheaper either

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 4h

And this:
92% of the growth in the entire country this year has been data centers. And some of that is "circular deals" that dont involve actual money

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune

Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 9h

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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Sam Youngman @samyoungman.bsky.social · 4h

Trump went for a Covid shot and then set the CDC on fire.

If that ain’t that asshole in a nutshell.

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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 7h

RFK Jr. and Russell Vought force layoffs at the CDC.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 11h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 4h

Let’s not forget that every single Republican who stands by and enables Donald Trump could stop this recklessness today, tomorrow or any damn day of the week. Their failure—their refusal—to do so makes them complicit in his crimes and the crimes of his corrupt, lawless regime.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

We have the timidity of countless corporate and university GCs to thank for the fact DEI is treated as though it were illegal.

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 8h

lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 5h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h

This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER

Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.

A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 2d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 9h

More than half of ALL government shut down days in the history of America have come under just one president.

Simply put, the man is a terrible leader.

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A Boo!-zen Eggs (Parody Account) @adozeneggs.bsky.social · 4h

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" - Cory Doctorow

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

"The original #NoKings protest was 250 years ago. We've had democracy since then. Now we have a would-be king who wants to take it away—King Donald the First. Fuck that. Stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18."
👉👉 nokings.org

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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 10h

And only in America would people keep voting to put him back into power.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

Cartoon by @dennisgoris.bsky.social.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 10h

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Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

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A Boo!-zen Eggs (Parody Account) @adozeneggs.bsky.social · 10h

"AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" - Cory Doctorow

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 11h

Congrats to the Seattle Mariners! what an epic game last night and series. As a Detroit Tigers fan I am sad we aren't going to next round, but I am grateful for a wonderful season and for them playing meaningful baseball in October. Onward.

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𝙹𝚊𝚢 𝙵 𝙰𝚛𝚗𝚘𝚕𝚍 @jayfarrellarnold.bsky.social · 11h

They are failing.

None of this broke us apart, it’s making us stronger and bringing communities together.

Love wins.

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11h

Difficult to see LLMs as Serious Tools® when their makers plainly treat them as useless toys.

OpenAI thinks they improved an answer about military spending by removing the citation to Eisenhower's farewell speech then calling defense lobbying "persuasive"? Pffft. Silly toy made by ignorant people.

"Biased response"
1. Military-Industrial Complex
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower warned about this in 1961. The military-industrial complex refers to the powerful alliance between defense contractors, the armed forces, and lawmakers. Defense spending brings enormous profits to private companies. Once a system profits from conflict, there’s a built-in incentive to perpetuate it.

"Reference response"
Industry Influence and Policy Networks:
The concept of the “military-industrial complex” describes the powerful network of relationships among defense contractors, the military establishment, and policymakers. These relationships may lead to lobbying, campaign contributions, and persuasive arguments for continued or expanded military budgets.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 11h

"A giant military parade is just a fun, wholesome way to celebrate the birthday of America’s commander in chief. Claim otherwise, and we’ll be forced to send the National Guard to your city until you wise up."

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You

President Trump had another successful week of what is already the greatest presidency of all time, and yet, the woke leftist mob continues to deli...

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