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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 19h

Donald Trump’s father destroyed Steeplechase Park, the iconic amusement palace of Coney Island. Before demolition, he hosted a party for his rich fuck friends where bikini clad waitresses gave them bricks to throw through Steeplechase’s famous stained glass windows

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 20h

Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.

Trump Used His Dad’s Dirtiest Move on the East Wing

Donald Trump knocked down the White House East Wing without notice and before approvals —a developer move known as ‘anticipatory demolition,’ where you tear down a building before the preservationists can intervene. His dad did it too.

www.curbed.com

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Nick Cohen @nickcohen.bsky.social · 5h

The Conservatives plans to deport hundreds of thousands of legal residents of the UK are far more extreme than anything Donald Trump is proposing
Piece from me on the horror show of the right morphing into the far right

open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

"Respectable" racism and the mass deportation of our neighbours

How the British right out-Trumps Trump

open.substack.com

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Marc N Cunat @marccunat.bsky.social · 3h

On the backs of the American working class. Republicans sold out the majority of Americans, for the benefit of billionaires.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

Mark Zuckerberg's net worth is up over $50 billion since January 1.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

Meta lays off 600 employees within AI unit

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 3h

Amazing that basic, verifiable aspects of officially archived history, within the living memory of many people, have to be introduced by news organizations as: "It wasn't fake."

CNN @cnn.com · 3h

It wasn't fake. It was edited. But Reagan really did spend a five-minute speech – an April 25, 1987, national radio address that the Reagan Library has published on YouTube – to rail against tariffs. It was a full-throated expression of support for free and fair trade.
https://cnn.it/4o5pBGv

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Democrats @democrats.org · 4h

Trump’s tearing down the East Wing to build himself a $350M ballroom while Americans struggle to afford health care.

Senator Ruben Gallego went to the site of the Trump teardown.

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Joshua Libling @jjl.bsky.social · 3h

Me at 20: I love technology so much!

Me at 30: Not every new thing is for me, but I'll always be pro-new.

Me at 40: WHY IS MY TOASTER TALKING? JUST MILDLY BURN THE DAMN BREAD! UGH!

But, I swear, I swear, tech has genuinely gotten worse! It's not me getting old! It's not! <breaks down crying>

T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 4h

The older I get, the more of a neo-Luddite I become

Meme: text reads "GET OFF MY LAWN! YOU DAMN KIDS!" over a photo of a hissing cat sticking its head out of a small cathouse

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 3h

This is exactly how the Turkey's Erdoğan dictatorship succeeded in remaking all mainstream media into regime media.

Not mainly by overt censorship. Mostly by making it clear that media firms clearly communicating the truth about regime actions would be targeted by selective/perverted 'regulation'.

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Another disturbing example of how Trump silences dissent: "the chief content officer for our parent company... stated in a meeting that we should not run articles that could draw the attention of the Trump White House and have them try to shut us down." www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Opinion | I Quit My Job in the Face of Pro-Trump Censorship

A veteran journalist says his bosses were afraid of crossing the administration.

www.politico.com

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 3h

A civil attorney who Trump enthusiast Lindsey Halligan brought in to prosecute the Letitia James case screwed up his initial appearance and the court had to give him step-by-step instructions about how to save a PDF.

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Julie Bykowicz @bykowicz.bsky.social · 22h

It's starting to occur to state lawmakers that utility customers aren't super keen on paying for all these data centers that are straining the grid, via @briaovers.bsky.social @thebaltimorebanner.com
www.thebanner.com/economy/pjm-...

Maryland officials sound alarm on data centers’ $100B power grid suck

The rapid rise of data centers is hitting the region’s power grid. Maryland lawmakers are concerned that utility ratepayers will pay the $100 billion price for them.

www.thebanner.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Update: The Chicago clergy letter decrying ICE's actions and voicing a willingness on the part of clergy to put their "bodies on the line" to protest ICE has reached 250 signatures — and now includes multiple evangelical pastors/leaders of evangelical institutions in the area.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 4h

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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 5h

New AP-NORC poll:

– 25% of Hispanic adults have a favorable view of Trump, down from 44% in January
– It's Trump's lowest favorability with Hispanic voters since 2019.
– "About two-thirds of Hispanic adults under age 45 and Hispanic men now view Trump unfavorably."

apnews.com/article/hisp...

Trump's favorability has fallen among Hispanics since January, a new AP-NORC poll finds

A new poll shows President Donald Trump’s favorability has fallen among Hispanic adults since the beginning of the year, a potential warning sign from a key constituency that helped secure his victory...

apnews.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 6h

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.

Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

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Denise Lee @dadavies.bsky.social · 4h

Can we put him on the naughty step?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5h

“How dare you quote us accurately!”

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 7h

Last month, playing tape of Charlie Kirk's words was enough to get people fired for the new category of anti-Kirkist hate speech.

This month, playing tape of Ronald Reagan's words is enough to spark a presidential tantrum and diplomatic breakdown.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Trump Cuts Off Trade Talks With Canada

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 5h

It's standard operating procedure for TV hosts to thank right-wing guests after they come on their shows and lie. Just once I'd like to see a host turn to the camera and apologize to the audience for letting a right-wing guest lie to them.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis.

Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

DHS posted a disturbing video today featuring a song that’s popular with Nazi creators

DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators

The agency denied making

gizmodo.com

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Denise Lee @dadavies.bsky.social · 4h

I’m confused. If we’re exporting so much beef why do we have to import megatons of beef from Argentina?

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Jon Fasman @jonfasman.bsky.social · 5h

FWIW I’ve found this too — the sorts of people on my beat (arts/culture) who would have cheerfully spoken up in his first term are asking for anonymity or not returning my calls/emails this time around.

James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social · 12h

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 5h

What's happening in the courts

Judge McElroy (Trump appointee):

“Blatant disregard” of court’s order

Judge Gallagher (Trump):

“No attempt to offer any justification for their blatant lack of effort to comply”

Judge Lamberth (Reagan):

“More than support a trial on civil contempt”

ryangoodmanlaw on Instagram: "I spoke with 60 Minutes about our study on all civil lawsuits involving the Trump administration. The full study is here @justsecur…"

I spoke with 60 Minutes about our study on all civil lawsuits involving the Trump administration. The full study is here @justsecurityforum https://www.justsecurity.org/120547/presumption-regularity-trump-administration-litigation/

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Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 16h

Brought to you by the same voters who started losing faith in the government when government forces attacked the Branch Davidian complex in Waco in 1993

....sigh

Hegseth doesn't dispute the existence of a memo planning for the establishment of a "National Guard response force that's gonna be trained in crowd control and civil unrest and deployed in all 50 states by April 2026."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20h

Amen.

There was no one unified and tidy movement, but rather multiple overlapping ones with rival leaders and disparate constituencies, generational and sectional tensions, arguments over strategies and tactics, wildly different attitudes to capitalism and religion, focal points all over the map …

Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 20h

Here’s the thing about the Civil Rights Movement people don’t realize, shit was messy.

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Denise Lee @dadavies.bsky.social · 16h

An aside, but his face is the portrait of Dorian Gray. It’s like he misunderstood the bargain.

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Flix Pope @pontiflix.bsky.social · 1d

Monsters. Ghouls. Inhuman.

brently krueger 🔪🎃 @brentlythomas.bsky.social · 1d

One of her students became so overwhelmed that he had a panic attack. “It’s very scary because this is their normal,”...”You start forming your memories more solidly around 4 or 5 years old, so they have some happy kindergarten memories. But now all of sudden, this is going to take over…”

Teachers Scrambled After ICE Released Tear Gas Outside a Chicago Elementary School

Chicago teachers said they’re dealing with traumatized students in underfunded schools — while Trump spends millions to militarize American cities.

theintercept.com

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