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Red Lori Bright Eyes Pissed Off American @redloribrighteyes.bsky.social · 5m

it is important to note that the reason argentina is unstable is because they put in a bunch of policies like trump is doing now

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15m

“Stabilizing Argentina is ‘America First’.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 51m

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15m

Important thread:

Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 17m

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 17m

Our latest paper in @jamanetworkopen.com where we asked: Following the #COVID pandemic, has SARSCoV2 circulation been associated with health-related absences from work and labor force exits? @yaleemd.bsky.social @princetonecon.bsky.social @brookings.edu 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market

This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.

jamanetwork.com

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andrear9md.bsky.social @andrear9md.bsky.social · 14m

Okay, where do I sign up?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 35m

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2h

Off to a banging start at CBS.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy.

Some thoughts from my new piece:

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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly

Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 4h

The comparatively tepid media coverage of an objectively worse economy under Trump compared to Biden is as predictable as it is depressing.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Fed Governor Christopher Waller: "Job growth has probably been negative the last few months. it doesn't look like it's doing much better. I don't hear anybody with big hiring plans."

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andrear9md.bsky.social @andrear9md.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, I realized my mistake after I posted.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 6h

I don't think folks realize this, but the Sun-Times is now a nonprofit owned by Chicago Public Media (the parent company of the incredible local NPR station, WBEZ).

They continue to have the most dogged and forceful coverage in the region, thanks in part to that ownership structure.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

Page One in Chicago.

@chicago.suntimes.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

“I’m trying to put this delicately,” Perry said. “There has been evidence submitted that the very presence of federal agents, that the way they’re interacting with the populace, is itself the cause of violence.”

{ gift article } wapo.st/4nJP5sQ

Judge blocks Trump from deploying troops in Illinois for now

Officials in Oregon and Illinois had challenged the Trump administration’s push to dispatch the National Guard in both states.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h

they need to be mocked relentlessly for this

oh did your special little guy not get his little prize? did your wittle boy not get his wittle trophy? is pee paw sad he didnt get his trinket? these people are a fucking joke

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

On the left is how the White House reacted to the Nobel Peace Prize announcement.

On the right is what President Trump posted about Maria Corina Machado back in January, just two weeks before nominations closed for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.

Steven Cheung * B @StevenCheung47
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President Trump will continue making peace deals, ending wars, and saving lives.
He has the heart of a humanitarian, and there will never be anyone like him who can move mountains with the sheer force of his will.
The Nobel Committee proved they place politics over peace.
Donald J. Trump
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Venezuelan democracy activist Maria Corina Machado and President-elect Gonzalez are peacefully expressing the voices and the WILL of the Venezuelan people with hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating against the regime. The great Venezuelan American community in the United States overwhelmingly support a free Venezuela, and strongly supported me. These freedom fighters should not be harmed, and MUST stay SAFE and ALIVE!
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 5h

“A public candidature and campaigning like the one that we have seen this year is highly unusual,” said Nina Graeger, the director of Peace Research Institute Oslo. The peace prize “honors sustainable and lasting peace,” she said.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 5h

Not only did Trump lose, he lost to a (very deserving) Spanish-speaking WOMAN. Gifted article about his shameless campaign:
www.wsj.com/world/trump-...

The 11th-Hour Campaign to Land Trump a Nobel Peace Prize

A bid was mounted to persuade the Nobel committee to make Trump the fifth American president to receive the honor.

www.wsj.com

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14h

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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andrear9md.bsky.social @andrear9md.bsky.social · 5h

oof

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andrear9md.bsky.social @andrear9md.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, I realized after I posted.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Cause the algorithms are increasingly shady and I don’t see much promotion, let me Gift Link this:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson on How America’s Story Should Be Told

www.nytimes.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 5h

“I am just one person…this is an achievement of a whole society.”

María Corina Machado joins a long line of Nobel Peace Prize laureates who were awakened in the middle of the night to learn that the Nobel Committee was just minutes away from announcing their award.

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andrear9md.bsky.social @andrear9md.bsky.social · 14h

Republicans had no qualms ditching the filibuster to confirm a bunch of trumpified judges, might want to ask them why they won't do so to pass his shitty budget.

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andrear9md.bsky.social @andrear9md.bsky.social · 14h

How do we box them in the ears?
[virtually of course]

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andrear9md.bsky.social @andrear9md.bsky.social · 14h

That is just all kind of awesome.

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andrear9md.bsky.social @andrear9md.bsky.social · 14h

Seriously tho, are Americans really buying republicans bullshit re healthcare? I mean, c'mon people, these assholes have been lying about it for years, YEARS. They have no better plan, they want you to suffer and die. How the fuck do you not know this?

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andrear9md.bsky.social @andrear9md.bsky.social · 14h

Will do.

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