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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

This is unforgivable -- innocent, helpless families being tortured and torn apart for the entertainment of a decadent, bloodthirsty domestic audience. I feel sick being part of it.

Portfolio: The Trap at 26 Federal Plaza

Every day in downtown Manhattan immigrants arriving for routine hearings are targeted by ICE agents and taken from their families.

nymag.com

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 12h

Edward and Shari Glazer
Harold Hamm
Benjamin Leon, Jr.
The Lutnick Family
The Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Foundation
Stephen A. Schwarzman
Konstantin Sokolov
Kelly Loeffler and Jeff Sprecher
Paolo Tiramani
Cameron Winklevoss
Tyler Winklevoss
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Exclusive | Trump Hosts Corporate Ballroom Donors at Glitzy White House Dinner

The event included representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon.com and Palantir.

www.wsj.com

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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 12h

Micron Technology Inc.
Microsoft Corp.
NextEra Energy Inc.
Palantir Technologies Inc.
Ripple
Reynolds American Inc.
T-Mobile US Inc.
Tether
Union Pacific Railroad
J. Pepe and Emilia Fanjul
Adelson Family Foundation
Stefan E. Brodie
Betty Wold Johnson Foundation
Charles and Marissa Cascarilla
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Aozora @aozorasf.bsky.social · 12h

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 10h

MAGA, did you stick your dick in a blender?

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.

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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 11h

In all of my life, I have never heard anyone use "Chinaman," except on black and white movies.
The GOP goes for classic racism.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 18h

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.

Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h

Taint

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/20/t...

Taint - emptywheel

Judge Michael Nachmanoff's order denying the loaner prosecutors in the Jim Comey case a quick filter review discloses that the main FBI investigators may have already sneaked a peak into Comey's privi...

www.emptywheel.net

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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 12h

Yes!

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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 13h

I don't want to find out that RFKjr has done his inspection of girls.

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Sister Stone (Unshackled) @stonecircle.bsky.social · 13h

RFK Jr. is erroneously claiming girls are entering puberty six years early. www.readfrontier.org/stories/we-f...

We fact-checked Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claims as part of the ‘Make Oklahoma Healthy Again’ campaign

The U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary made half-true or false statements about fluoride in public drinking water, Alzheimer's disease, autism and puberty during his visit to Oklahoma.

www.readfrontier.org

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Possum Princess Pluto Space Force Queen @possumprincess6.bsky.social · 13h

gimme a hammer and I can do it with hundreds of other people - just like the Berlin Wall ....

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 16h

The next president has to tear the goddamn thing down. I am not kidding. Use private money. It can be found. Make a show of it.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14h

Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Screenshot of a text exchange via Signal between Anna Bower and Lindsay Halligan.

Halligan: By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know.

Bower: I'm sorry, but that's not how this works.
You don't get to say that in retrospect.

Halligan: Yes I do. Off record.

Bower: I am really sorry. I would have been happy to speak with you on an off the record basis had you asked. But you didn't ask, and I still haven't agreed to speak on that basis. Do you have any further comment for the story?

Halligan: It's obvious the whole convo is off record.
There's disappearing messages and it's on signal. What is your story? You never even told me about a story.

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Bix & the Banshees, Fella @bix.bsky.social · 18h

Happy Halloween season from my dogs, Benson and Bun_E.
@warpster.bsky.social @911-blondie.bsky.social @eulimnadia.bsky.social @skellyfilms.bsky.social @beel.bsky.social @governor-slugwell.bsky.social @smokeywisecracker.bsky.social @martywombacher.bsky.social

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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 1d

PSA from a very longtime food writer here: SNAP cutoff in #epsteinshutdown won't just hurt poors. Nonindustrial American farmers are gonna get totally fucked.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 1d

The Midwest Farmer Massacre

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

Hello, 28th precinct, I was just yelling slurs at a bunch of people on a public sidewalk and some little skater kid snatched my transitions lenses and when I tried to chase him I fell flat on my face. Yes I’ll hold

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2d

MAGA man eats pavement after shouting slurs at No Kings protesters

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Dictator stuff. Only those who bow down and kiss the ring get their previously authorized by Congress funding. It's basically extortion, and obviously not legal, but luckily for Trump no one expects him to follow the law.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: You talked about the Hudson River Tunnel in NYC. Is the funding terminated?

TRUMP: Right now there is no funding. Because it's up to me

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Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not saying they’re Nazis. I’m saying being a Nazi isn’t a deal-breaker for them. I’m saying at a minimum they’re Good Germans.

RIDGE @1av8ter.bsky.social · 2d

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 1d

A YouGov poll of Ohio's upcoming Senate race:

Sherrod Brown, the former Democratic senator: 49%
Jon Husted, the appointed GOP senator: 48%.
scholarworks.bgsu.edu/depo/14/

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

There's just no way to exaggerate how cooked your brain has to be to think like this. Trump is an unprecedented, law-breaking, norm-breaking, increasingly demented maniac who is destroying this country's basic institutions. Like, right now! As we speak!

But media elites find that boring.

It’s 2025, and Democrats Are Still Running Against Trump

www.nytimes.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

2/ Link: bylinetimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

what trump brought to the republican party, more than maybe any other thing, was contempt for virtue, and he’s demanded that republicans abandon any virtue they might have once had.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

It is not so long ago that disability policy was bipartisan. I taught at the Bush School, and George H.W. Bush would talk about his pride in signing the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff.
19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...

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Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit.

And now what for 5 Eyes? I’d seen a report (rumour?) that the US was going to quit the alliance…🤷‍♂️

Paul van der Meer @paulvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin.
More European countries will follow.
www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

DPG Media Privacy Gate

www.volkskrant.nl

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