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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1h

“Trump critic and former national security adviser John Bolton to be charged soon, sources say ***
Bolton would be the third critic of the president to face federal charges. New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey were recently indicted.” 10/10/20

Trump critic and former national security adviser John Bolton to be charged soon, sources say

Bolton would be the third critic of the president to face federal charges. New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey were recently indicted.

www.nbcnews.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

I know Trump and his minions all have sneering contempt for kids with special needs, but trust me when I say that their parents will absolutely fucking destroy anyone who messes with the special education supports to which they are entitled by law.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's racism is on full view:

"...a series of firings of Black officials from high-profile positions in an overwhelmingly white administration"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Top Black officials the Trump administration has fired or tried to fire

Mr. Trump and his administration have pushed out a number of Black leaders from positions that typically serve multiple presidential administrations.

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 2d

Trump has repeatedly fired Black government officials and replaced them with white men www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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cassiusmclay.bsky.social @cassiusmclay.bsky.social · 5h

Happy Birthday Eleanor Roosevelt⭐️

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(C)all (M)e "Shirley" or don't, I don't care @realcinematik.bsky.social · 7h

Expansion of participation in our democracy must be a crucial pillar of the platform.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 7h

Republicans openly admit that extending democracy would be terrible for them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 6h

Dorothea Lange died on this day in 1965.

Her photographs captured the brutality of the Great Depression and the inhumanity of the Japanese internment.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 6h

They're literally installing Racism Dial bsky.app/profile/numb...

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Jan 15

vox populi

Altman: thanks a lot for these! some common requests:

AGI (a little patience please)
GPT-5
better voice mode
higher rate limits
better GPTs
better reasoning
control over degree of wokeness/behavior
video
personalization
better browsing
'sign in with openai
open source

Quoting:
what would you like openai to build/fix in 2024?

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 7h

If SCOTUS were not also simply an organ of Trumpist rule, Voughts entire vast papertail of "I hate the government and will break laws to destroy it" would make these layoffs illegal & the workers could rightfully expect court to rule in their favor. Unfortunately, SCOTUS

www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 8h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 16h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17h

These guys have gotten incredibly rich by fleecing the government with subpar tech that was designed for rentseeking rather than performance. A smart Dem agenda item would be to build internal tech capacity. The fact that it would punish these guys is just a silver lining.

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17h

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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DCminx 🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 1d

📣The Freedom Frogs are multiplying‼️

This is the way Portland 🫡❤️🐸
Video @oregonian.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17h

Ross Douthat treats this guy like they're having some deep conversation about the relationship of Christianity and the government, but the dude is a garden-variety dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say, just endless riffs on "God hates everything/everyone I do."

Douthat: So that’s the first purpose of your political project, for America to stop making God angry.

Wilson: Yes. And most people think that when they are confronted with that project, they think that we want to get our tentacles into everything and start controlling everything. I actually think we need limited government. The government should be significantly smaller than it is, and we need to curtail a lot of the busybodyness that we have. That’s why I would call myself a theocratic libertarian. There is a true libertarian element in this, and yet, the transcendent grounding for what we’re talking about means that we acknowledge the authority of God.

We have racked up quite a body count of awful crimes, and I believe the only way out is for us to repent and turn to Christ. This would be things like no more Pride parades, no more drag queen story hours, no more abortion on demand, no more legalized same-sex unions — all of that, done. That’s the repentance part.

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 20h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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cassiusmclay.bsky.social @cassiusmclay.bsky.social · 17h

Mamdani!

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cassiusmclay.bsky.social @cassiusmclay.bsky.social · 17h

👏🏽 Awesome!

a woman in a giraffe print shirt is laughing and saying hercules hercules .

ALT: a woman in a giraffe print shirt is laughing and saying hercules hercules .

media.tenor.com

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone, I’m just <sniffs> I’m just so proud of us all.

We finally did it.

LibsOfTikTok finally targeted me.

<single tear rolls down cheek>

I’ve been waiting for this moment for so long <unfolds acceptance speech> and first I want to thank everyone who made it possible: Harambe, Kony2012, my fa

A post from failed real estate agent and local ghoul Chaya Raichik aka LibsOfTikTok targeting me. Text of the post reads:

“Leftist CA State Assembly candidate Chris Kluwe, who promotes the harassment of ICE online, was ARRESTED at a Huntington Beach City Council meeting earlier this year.

Chris was protesting a proposed library plaque that featured a phrase similar to ‘Make America Great Again’

Chris called MAGA a ‘Nazi movement’ before leaving the podium and approaching the council member, where he was grabbed by police and carried out.

This unhinged lunatic wants to be an elected official…”

Thanks for the free advertising, Chaya!

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cassiusmclay.bsky.social @cassiusmclay.bsky.social · 18h

MAGA is evil.

cassiusmclay.bsky.social @cassiusmclay.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA = American destruction.
#magaisevil

www.mediaite.com/media/news/r...

Russ Vought Announces Firings of Federal Workers: ‘The RIFs Have Begun’

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced on Friday that his office has started firing federal workers, writing on X that "the RIFs [reduction-in-force] have begun."

www.mediaite.com

cassiusmclay.bsky.social @cassiusmclay.bsky.social · 1d

The pathetic ranting of Megyn Kelly. If the Nobel Peace Prize is meaningless, why does MAGA want one so badly? How could the Noble Committee award a vengeful, narcissistic, hateful, warmonger, murderer, and a rapists?
#magaisevil

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dillo (yakubian mamba) @dillo.media · 1d

this song has been stuck in my head for weeks so now I'm cursing (blessing) yall with it

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

From the bad old site, in response to pro-immigration commentary from Cato scholars. I wonder whether there's something dangerous in letting presidents just arbitrarily declare one or another group to be a terrorist organization -- nah, I suppose that's alarmist.

Four tweets from X, text:

[user] Sep 20
The CATO Institute should be labeled as a domestic terrorist organization.

[user] Sep 20
Replying to
@AlexNowrasteh
Trump's next EO needs to be declaring the CATO Institute a terrorist organization.

[user]
·
Sep 19
The next group that
@realDonaldTrump
needs to designate as a terrorist organization is the Cato Institute

[user]
·
Sep 19
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
we are going to designate the CATO Institute as a terrorist organization next.

Tweets from X, text: "

[user]
·
11h
Replying to
@David_J_Bier
The Cato Institute should be declared a terrorist organization.

[user]
·
11h
President Trump needs to declare Cato institute domestic terror organization
Quote
The Alex Nowrasteh
@AlexNowrasteh
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Oct 8
Americans would be slightly more pro-immigration if they knew how hard it is to come here legally."

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

In or about 2017, Jack Posobiec told his followers that he “worked closely” w/ the Oath Keepers. (h/t @michaelehayden.bsky.social) More recently, he’s glorified Francisco Franco, Spain’s deceased murderous dictator. Naturally, Trump included him in his recent anti-“antifa” roundtable. Sound on. 1/

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

The Administration

- raised taxes on clean energy with one big beautiful bill

- is stopping or making clean energy projects harder to be built

- is raising prices on materials with tariffs

- all while AI is spiking electricity demand

They are stopping supply while demand goes up

It’s a crisis

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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