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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

The 100 lowest-paying US corporations spent $644B on stock buybacks from 2019 to 2024.

Buybacks artificially boost share prices and inflate CEO pay.

The typical worker at these companies earned $35k last year.

Meanwhile, the average CEO was paid $17.2M

See the problem?

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

NBC just gutted the very teams that gave marginalized voices a seat at the table—then called it “restructuring.”

The cuts:

📌NBC BLK (Black community coverage)

📌NBC Latino (Latino community coverage)

📌NBC Asian America (Asian American community coverage)

📌NBC Out (LGBTQ+ community coverage)

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 18h

My name is Special Agent Jack Task, and I'm with the FBI's Fragile Masculinity Division. I heard there were some complicated father-son dynamics going on here.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

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AskAubry 🦝 🐆 @askaubry.com · 5h

😂

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7h

We currently have a president who is so childishly crude and grotesque that newspapers consider it indecent to accurately describe the video he recently posted, and TV shows think it is indecent to show it.

But many Americans are OK that the Oval Office is home to the nation's crassest toddler.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 6h

Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.

Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · 14h

I had to go there! 🤭🤭🤭🤭

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't get a picture of the best sign I saw today, but I remember what it said:

Somewhere in America
A little Hispanic girl
Is hiding in an attic
And keeping a diary.

#NoKings

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 4h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

I keep seeing ads for Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on 60 Minutes tonight to discuss the "peace deal." Wonder if they'll update it with the news today that the ceasefire has been broken? "We taped this interview before the entire deal fell apart, but here it is anyhow..."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 1d

Today, Californians joined millions nationwide to say loud and clear:

NO to authoritarianism.
NO to assaulting our democracy.
NO to censorship and fear.
NO to hate and division.
NO to corruption and cruelty.
NO to kings.

YES to a government by and for the people.

time.com/7326801/no-k...

‘No Kings’ Protests Draw Millions Across U.S.

More than 2,600 "No Kings" rallies have been planned across the country Saturday against the Trump Administration.

time.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 19h

Witkoff is an embarrassment to our nation and humanity

🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 1d

🥴🤡Trump envoy Witkoff pressed the Ukrainian delegation on handing over Donetsk region to Russia during a meeting on Friday, - WP.

He used the Kremlin's key argument that the region is predominantly Russian-speaking.

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 18h

This is exactly who he is. Sinister. The Democratic led House will have to investigate the machinations of Stephen Miller.

John Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social · 10d

in 40 years of covering politics and government, i've never encountered anyone as sinister as Stephen Miller

my @zeteo_news column

please read, share and subscribe

zeteo.com/p/who-is-ste...

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

zeteo.com

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 11h

Hundreds of new homes for veterans are coming to California through voter-approved Prop 1 funding.

707 permanent supportive homes — including 231 for veterans — will be built across the state through the Homekey+ program.

California stands with those who’ve served our country.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 9h

We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 8h

FYI congress just got another week of vacation!

Maybe this will encourage more people to run… get paid to never go to work

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 7h

It’s super alpha to get all angry about protests and post AI videos of yourself dropping feces on America because you can’t handle your emotions, oh and wearing an oxygen mask like a douche helmet because you’re a fatso

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 6h

Literally the Republicans are keeping government closed because they are that against making healthcare affordable. That’s jacked up

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 5h

Pennsylvania.
www.axios.com/2025/10/19/p...

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 15h

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts

The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

www.snopes.com

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Patrick @atomicpopwi.bsky.social · 1d

Witnessed in Mesa, AZ: a lone elderly man sitting in a chair outside a memory care facility with a "No Kings" sign. Make your voice heard.

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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 1d

This an awesome music video by scaredketchup. He has produce some of the greatest videos monking the Regime. Please support his work!
youtube.com/watch?v=8w3o...

NO KINGS 2.0 - The Music Video

YouTube video by scaredketchup

youtube.com

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