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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1h

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1h

Trump really just bragged at a Charlie Kirk memorial event that he’s better at dodging assassin’s bullets than Charlie Kirk.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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The States Project @statesprojectus.bsky.social · 34m

We’re not trying to win elections for winning sake.

We’re fighting for the governing power that allows lawmakers like the MI Senate to support young mothers, families, and to make life better for communities across the country.

www.mlive.com/politics/202...

Program giving new mothers $500 monthly will soon expand with $270M state budget boost

Rx Kids - a program providing prenatal and infant support to expecting and new mothers - received $270 million in funding to expand to more areas across the state.

www.mlive.com

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 3h

Unconstitutional, damaging to our democracy and--last time I checked--murder is a crime. Let's not gussy it up and call it acts of war. This is murder.

Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 3h

This is the FIFTH time Trump has carried out an illegal bombing in the Caribbean.

Using the military to execute alleged criminals with no due process or input from Congress is brazenly unconstitutional and damaging to our democracy.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 6h

I read "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Once it gets into "The Praetorian Guard turned on the Emperor" territory, it doesn't really leave there until the Visigoths come knocking.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 11h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 21h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like I married the one Maryland girl who doesn’t really care about either of those things.

But yes, they’re everywhere.

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 17h

The times that Treinen’s souls?

bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 21h

My office is in Crystal City, VA, which it turns out is really fucking far away from Crystal Hill.

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 23h

Would have sworn it was pizza. Or grit from Skip Schumaker.

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1d

lol the fall

what a little bitch

Hikari @shogun-hikari.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy this video of two ice officers who can’t even catch a protester in a light jog.

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 1d

Probably at least 100 of the views of this are mine.

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 1d

21st movie of 2025: Tron: Ares.

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 1d

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

Coffee Indiana @coffeeindiana.bsky.social · 1d

Also, ceasefires have happened under prior Presidents! The day he gets Palestine their own country he can be told he's the most special boy deserving of a shiny prize.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 1d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is thug trash.

Jonah @anotherjonah.bsky.social · 1d

This morning I was filming ICE abducting sometime in Petworth. One of the agents told me "the last US citizen that did this he put in cuffs all the way to the courtroom".

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 1d

So basically this is Iranian Hostage Crisis 2.0, just with a 9-month delay in the payoff for no particular reason.

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

Then Mr. Trump won the presidency back, and the Biden administration was determined to get a cease-fire in place by January, before it left office. It drafted a peace plan, much of which was quite similar to the “20 point plan” Mr. Trump recently issued. There was slow progress: More than 130 hostages had been released by the time the January cease-fire took place.

“We handed over a cease-fire that silenced the guns, had hostages coming out and aid going in, along with a day-after plan to make it permanent,” Mr. Blinken said. But when the new administration took over, “the moment was squandered,” he added. “Israel and Hamas went back to war for eight months.”

Israeli officials tell a different story. Mr. Biden was a lame duck, they noted, and disengaged. Mr. Trump was a known entity, less likely to lecture Mr. Netanyahu in private or public. They put their money on a new president, and a new negotiating team

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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 2d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure I knew this happened on Columbus Day. Finally something worthy of celebrating!

bcartwright.bsky.social @bcartwright.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t think I can forgive anyone who voted to give them a quarter of a trillion dollars.