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Mark @gravelguy.bsky.social · 21h

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'Despicable! Shameful!' Ex-GOP congressman sickened as party smears millions of protesters

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'Despicable! Shameful!' Ex-GOP congressman sickened as party smears millions of protesters

Multiple Republican lawmakers on Friday lobbed smears against the upcoming “No Kings” rallies scheduled to take place on October 18 across the US.House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) described the “No Ki...

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'Trump has eroded this system': President hit with blistering editorial from NYT

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'Trump has eroded this system': President hit with blistering editorial from NYT

The New York Times published a blistering editorial on Friday bemoaning that President Donald Trump has "eroded" America's justice system.The editorial board described how the president "is once again...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h

Our nation's federal employees are more than just numbers on a spreadsheet.

They make sure we have clean water.

They protect us from financial fraud.

They provide healthcare to our communities.

They make our government actually work for people.

Do not forget this.

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Democracy Leads To Peace

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Democracy Leads To Peace

And my documentary is premiering in NYC!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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The Sword Turns On The Hand

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The Sword Turns On The Hand

Letitia James’s indictment isn’t about skill, evidence, or brilliance. It’s about a system built to favor the government—and now turning on the very people who once controlled it.

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October 9, 2025

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October 9, 2025

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

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Breaking Afternoon News Updates: Qatar Base in USA, Trump Loses Nobel, Tariff Chaos + More

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Breaking Afternoon News Updates: Qatar Base in USA, Trump Loses Nobel, Tariff Chaos + More

Today has been particularly insane

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Trump’s “Enemy Within”: How Fascist Rhetoric Became U.S. Policy

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Trump’s “Enemy Within”: How Fascist Rhetoric Became U.S. Policy

Behind talk of “vermin” and “enemies,” Trump’s administration is mobilizing the tools of state power against its own citizens.

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What You Need To Know About The Tish James Indictment

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What You Need To Know About The Tish James Indictment

A recording from Joyce Vance and Preet Bharara's live video

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4h

This is the way

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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3h

Breaking News: The White House began informing some federal workers that they would lose their jobs, following through on a threat of more layoffs.

Trump Live Updates: Federal Layoffs, China Tariffs and More

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Exclusive: Dems Fire Back at Trump’s ‘Freaky’ Kid Self-Deportation Plan

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Exclusive: Dems Fire Back at Trump’s ‘Freaky’ Kid Self-Deportation Plan

It is both not as gross AND worse than you think.

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RescueJen @rescuejen.bsky.social · 3h

💙 Love you all! 💙

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3h

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TrueShu💙💙💙 @trueshu.bsky.social · 3h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10... Trump, in a roundabout way, got what he wanted- The Nobel Peace Prize. I really think I am going to be sick.🤮

Venezuelan opposition leader dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump for ‘decisive support’

“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause,” she wrote in a post on X.

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Exclusive: Dems Fire Back at Trump’s ‘Freaky’ Kid Self-Deportation Plan

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Exclusive: Dems Fire Back at Trump’s ‘Freaky’ Kid Self-Deportation Plan

It is both not as gross AND worse than you think.

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Getting Corruption out of our Politics. Rep. Jason Crow, Tiffany Muller, Steve Schmidt

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Getting Corruption out of our Politics. Rep. Jason Crow, Tiffany Muller, Steve Schmidt

A conversation with Jim Acosta

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We’re Losing Our Measles-Free Status in the Cleanest Era of Human History

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We’re Losing Our Measles-Free Status in the Cleanest Era of Human History

Remove plumbing, and you get cholera. Remove vaccines, and you get measles. Both are public health infrastructure that keep us alive.

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Thou Shalt Not Shoot Priests in the Head

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Thou Shalt Not Shoot Priests in the Head

I shouldn’t have to say these things.

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Trump’s Speaker
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Trump’s Speaker

Johnson has an audience of one.

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Howard ✡🟦🎗 @howarda-atlaw.bsky.social · 4h

Donny, who wants out of NATO, signed a faux-NATO agreement deeming an attack on Qatar an attack on USA.

And now a Qatari Airbase in Idaho.

Qatar, whose rep wrote "we are all Hamas".

But America First, right?

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