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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 4h

Yeah, you’re not supposed to do that.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4d

It's time to say:

What. An. Idiot.

I am being polite.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 6h

Wife’s out on the town, time to catch up on HBO’s Task starring Mark Ruffalo as Detective John Task.

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 11h

What if...The Bone Farmer actually deserves the Not Stealing People's Skeletons Prize?

Chris Cillizza @chriscillizza.bsky.social · 13h

What if...Donald Trump actually deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 15h

They shouldn't have been allowed to do this imho

Rob Friedman @pitchingninja.com · 19h

All 8 of the Blue Jays Pitchers from Yesterday (overlay)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

The guy who seems to be setting the GOP shutdown position, Russ Vought, promised to put federal employees in trauma, and to use the shutdown to fire them and block their backpay.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Scalise: "When a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish."

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 17h

This is bananas. The republicans ALREADY VOTED to cut health care benefits. Trump ALREADY SIGNED THE BILL. It's the law of the land to ditch ACA subsidies and make the biggest cuts in history to medicaid.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Mike Johnson: "It's about keeping Congress operating so we can get to healthcare. We always were going to. They're lying to you. Okay? The healthcare issues were always gonna be something discussed, deliberated, contemplated, and debated in October and November."

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17h

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 18h

Bass intro to Evil >>>

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Jill Geisler @jillgeisler.bsky.social · 18h

Tragic:
www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

Utterly impossible to argue otherwise.

Even if you laughably believed Trump wasn’t in the files, Johnson is protecting everyone in them!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Jeffries: "Mike Johnson and this group continue to cover up for the pedophiles. That's crazy."

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 1d

On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.”

That, Taher says, “is a lie.”

“I lost my son because of the funding cuts,” he says. “And it is not only me — many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.”

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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a matt @thrillhowse.bsky.social · 2d

this map accurately depicts rochester as being at the contested border of the midwest and northeast. that’s why i’ve always referred to that region of upstate ny as the middle east

William Hazen @williamhazen.bsky.social · 2d

This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.

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Dexter Patterson aka Wisco Birder @wiscobirder.bsky.social · 2d

It’s Publication Day!!!! 🥹 timberpress.com/titles/dexte... 🪶

Birds of the Great Lakes

From the co-founder of Wisconsin's BIPOC Birding Club comes a fun and accessible guide to birding throughout the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes region is teemi...

timberpress.com

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 2d

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

CNN @cnn.com · 3d

"President Donald Trump and his top aides are using the word 'insurrection' more frequently to describe anti-ICE protests in places like Portland," writes Zachary B. Wolf. https://cnn.it/4pWYmzr

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d

We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 3d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

If and when America finds a way out of authoritarianism, not only will ICE have to be abolished: All these people will need to be held accountable in a court of law for the monstrosities they are committing - those who are ordering them as well as those who are carrying them out.

Every single one.

CNN @cnn.com · 6d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly his dumper isn’t even that big

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Maddie @maddiejayy.bsky.social · 4d

FBC is doing a Birdathon again this year! 🪶

charity.pledgeit.org/2025fbcbirda...

Flyer that reads: 2025 Birdathin
a fundraiser for + Birders of Palestine
Saturday, October 18 @ Sandy Creek Park
8:30 am - 10:30 am
attendance not required for participation in Birdathon take part and/or donate 10/17-10/21

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Jocelyn Anderson Photography @jocelynanderson.bsky.social · 4d

A Pileated Woodpecker passing by overhead.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5d

Y'know I'm not supposed to say that word things are correct or incorrect because that's classist and snobby and gatekeeping etc.?

"Woah" is incorrect.

Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 5d

How about doing your copy editing better?

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& Wirecutter
• Do your laundry better: If you're confused about how to launder an item of clothing, just take a photo of a laundry-care label. Then, tap the Info button at the bottom of the screen (or sometimes a washing machine icon with sparkles) and tap Look Up Laundry
Care. Woah.

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Good Bird @goodbirdbirding.bsky.social · 5d

Listened for a lot of these last week and saw a ton of warblers! Hoping to see them again in January!
Join us!
www.birdingforgood.com

Candy McSlashin’ @amcglashen.bsky.social · Sep 4

Here’s my short rec for a simple (and frankly very cute) trick that has helped me (and @kennkaufman.bsky.social!) find more warblers during fall migration. 🪶https://www.audubon.org/magazine/want-find-fall-warblers-listen-chickadees

Want to Find Fall Warblers? Listen for Chickadees

The calls of these resident stalwarts serve as an alarm bell for migrating songbirds—and a helpful beacon for birders.

www.audubon.org

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NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 6d

obligatory sturgeon mention content

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