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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

The consequences of what she did are a year off to write a book (which will be published) and then landing a high prestige job immediately

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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bahvoom @bvm.bsky.social · 2h

I’m reminded of how the right wingers were horrified about the government euthanizing a rabid pet squirrel

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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bahvoom @bvm.bsky.social · 6h

Whether you’re on the left or the right, I think we can all agree that the Dems are to blame for this

bahvoom @bvm.bsky.social · 6h

That’s exactly what I would want to wear for an appearance on the Arsenio Hall show

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 7h

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Tim Marchman @timmarchman.bsky.social · 8h

The boring and obvious take that anti-woke positions have the effect (and in many cases the intent) of making it acceptable in polite circles to be a degenerate racist was and remains correct.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h

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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John Berlinsky @berlinskyjohn.bsky.social · 9h

This is the life-saving work that the Trump Regime is doing its best to destroy.

I have to add: please note that this work is the result of long years of university research, much of it federally funded. And note that the years (decades) of less-successful attempts that have led up to these papers are in the same category: NIH and NCI money are all over this field. This is the very thing that the Trump administration has been working tirelessly to destroy. I am not exaggerating. They have been hitting these funding agencies over and over with layoffs, budget cuts, and whatever obstacles they can dream up, and they are also ripping into the universities where these funds have been granted. The exact phrases that J. D. Vance, Stephen Miller, Russell Vought and their henchmen have used is "universities are the enemy" and federal workers "need to be put into trauma". More specifically, the attitudes of our HHS head (RFK, Jr.) and his own minions toward mRNA research and vaccination are easy to summarize: they hate it and they want it to stop. It seems bizarre and insane and almost impossible to believe, but that is exactly what is happening. Every time you see scientific progress being made from US universities, remember that our elected officials are trying every day to defund it, to cripple it, to kill it outright. They are hitting it again and again in the hopes that it will finally stop moving. Act accordingly.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 8h

Fun fact: Until around 100 years ago "only" 2-3% of people said they were left-handed.

Today it's around 10-12%.

It's not because babies suddenly became 4x more likely to be left handed, it's because TEACHERS STOPPED SMACKING US WITH A HICKORY STICK & FORCING US TO WRITE WITH OUR RIGHT HANDS.

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bahvoom @bvm.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine treating left-handedness as a kind of social contagion

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 10h

Frying brains online

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 9h

He really put a "but I'm different" in his eulogy. What a mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1d

In recent National Security Presidential Memorandum “countering domestic terrorism” the Trump admin said “common threads animating this violent conduct” included “anti-Christianity” …

Meanwhile armed agents of that same admin are causing Christians, trying to worship and pray, to flee from church

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

Damn! Some of you are dangerously susceptible to propaganda when it confirms your priors, and the people who are making the propaganda know and exploit that in bad faith!

Dinosaur Bob @dinosaurbob.bsky.social · 1d

You do not, in fact, have to hand it to Donald Trump.

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 1d

Very cool and awesome that Congress can pass a law which functions as intended but 60 years later an unelected, unaccountable 9-member superlegislature can just say "Nah" and poof the law doesn't exist anymore.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Wednesday is gonna be a rough day:

The Supreme Court will be hearing oral argument in a pair of cases that threaten what little remains of the federal government’s ability to protect voters from racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

Louisiana v Callais: The Republicans Justices Are Getting Ready to Finish Off the Voting Rights Act

In Louisiana v Callais, John Roberts will have the chance to finish his decades-long war on. voting rights.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not exactly sure Elon is the guy I'd want to take advice from regarding "the war on drugs" in San Francisco.

On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Trump to the Israeli parliament today, gloating about U.S. weapons supplied to Israel over the past two years:

"You obviously used them very well."

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Guardian headline: "Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead"

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, maintained by health authorities in the territory. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. Far from comprehensive, the list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings, as well as the war’s many indirect victims"

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Raven Onthill @ravenonthill.bsky.social · 1d

Nixon dragged out 'nam so he could win the presidency at a huge cost. Years later, it was revealed that he did so by making a deal with the enemy—treason. I suppose this isn't that, but how many additional deaths, how much additional destruction?

Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

wow sounds like bibi and trump wanted some more war idk

Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like confirmation

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

they’re scared fucking shitless of this weekend, or, at the least, are scared fucking shitless of trump seeing it on the television

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Not joking, either

1968 - Vietnam (Chennault Affair)
1980 - Iran (hostage crisis resolved 20 minutes after Reagan inaugurated)
2016 - Russia (hacking)
2024 - Israel

zoot car @bookhouse.bsky.social · 1d

Resetting the "years since Republican party coordinates with foreign country to manufacture crisis for incumbent Democrat" sign to zero, for the fourth (?!) time

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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 2d

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

the more things change, the more they stay the same in college football (coaches being showered in cash for not working)

Firings so far this season by Arkansas, Oklahoma State, Oregon State, Penn State, UAB, UCLA and Virginia Tech have those schools committed to buyouts totaling $93.9 million, subject to mitigation and offset, but not including amounts that also will be owed to assistant coaches

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 2d

Just about everyone vulnerable has been told to stay inside. There are literally hundreds of trained emergency response people on the streets of the 1.8 sq mile neighborhood. ICE is driving through alleys looking for anyone who’s brown

This is Fugitive Slave Act stuff + foreign occupation

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 3d

Rogers Park

Northernmost lakefront n’hood in Chicago

Home of Loyola U (RIP Sister Jean)

One of few n’hoods w no racial majority. One of the most densely populated places in America, & one of the most racially/ethnicly/religiously/linguistically diverse

An amazing community

And under attack

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 2d

I think it says a lot about the reality the right *needs* in order to do what they want to do with power. They *need* Portland to be a Mad Maxian hellhole, so it is.

djmcconnell.bsky.social @djmcconnell.bsky.social · 2d

Them trying to paint people in inflatable costumes as menacing is hilarious.

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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