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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1h

EXPOSED: @lighthousereports.com uncovered a vast surveillance empire whose untraceable tech has been used to target people in more than 100 countries, including the US.

It has operated under the radar for decades. Until now.

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

www.motherjones.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5h

Mike Johnson's plan to keep the House closed is backfiring

In recent months, the House speaker has kept the chamber closed to an unprecedented degree.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Opinion | Mike Johnson's plan to keep the House away from D.C. is backfiring

In recent months, the House speaker has kept the chamber closed to an unprecedented degree.

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SeattleSanta @seattlesanta.bsky.social · 3h

Records now reveal that of the latest 10,000 arrests in Chicago by the ICE Gestapo, only 10 people, LESS than 1%, had criminal records.

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 12h

This might accelerate the shutdown politics because a lot of feds are working for free in functions far more critical than the military.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

since there's reports on social media of money hitting accounts worth reiterating that this is illegal and unconstitutional as shit, it's not a close question, and while I don't expect anyone on H/SASC or H/SAC will do anything, anyone performing this 'reprogramming' should face criminal penalties

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

It's also worth reiterating that absent this reprogramming authority being written into law it would be not just illegal but flatly unconstitutional for DoD to expend money in any fashion not explicitly specified (by both type/use and quantity) by Congress in an appropriations bill

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

ICYMI — with electricity rates already skyrocketing, Trump just canceled the largest solar project in North America.

Utah’s Republican governor seems to understand this is probably not the best idea: “This is how we lose the AI/energy race with China” 👇🏽

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

The newsletter from agricultural producer news site WATT Poultry is now a primary source of my anxiety. H5N1 is exploding in North American poultry. Every day, a headline like this.

But no human cases. Either there aren't any or there's no testing. Given CDC's dismantling, I can guess.

Headline: "Avian flu invades flock of nearly 2 million Washington hens"

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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine @papootx.bsky.social · 1d

Kamala May Have Won.
Indications Of Elections Fraud

The missing votes uncovered in Smart Elections’ legal case in Rockland County, New York, are just the tip of the iceberg—an iceberg that extends across the swing states and into Texas.

She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.

How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

thiswillhold.substack.com

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 13h

Beef prices are hitting 50 year highs and the media is dead quiet

George Pearkes @peark.es · 22h

Beef is just crazy expensive rn, especially compared to other commodities

Chart showing beef prices relative to the Bloomberg Commodity Index since 1965

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TheRightIsWrong (TRIW) @therightiswrong100.bsky.social · 4h

He learned English to send Trump a sarcastic Thank You

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 23h

Teapot Dome scandal? Watergate? These are minuscule compared to what's uncovered every week with Trump. And just imagine what we haven't yet learned. Release the Epstein Files. Impeach and remove. Now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 18h

mondoweiss.net/2025/10/pale...

Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace

Palestinians gathered in the West Bank to reunite with loved ones set to be released as part of the prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. But many were devastated to learn that Israel had deport...

mondoweiss.net

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David Pepper @davidpepperoh.bsky.social · 4h

Trump’s “Golden Era” = Americans’ “Go Fund Me Era”

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Jake Lahut @jakelahut.writes.news · 4h

If you wanna get your full Andy Greenberg fix this morning, I highly highly highly recommend checking out this video.

Did you know you can hack a poker card shuffling machine? It's a whole vibe www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ20...

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 4h

This is the EPSTEIN shutdown.
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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 23d

@paulinsc.bsky.social #Discover #📰News #Epstein #Epstein/Trump #EpsteinFiles #Felon #Rapist #Traitor #Psychopath

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daileyink.bsky.social @daileyink.bsky.social · 4h

Plain cruel.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 6h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

FLORIDA now requires public schools to share space with charter schools, and “one charter operator intends to occupy space in more than 100 public schools (!)” 🤔

Privatizing public schools at breakneck speed, filling their pockets with taxpayer funds. www.fox13news.com/news/charter...

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 22h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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OceanSolitudeME @oceansolitudeme.bsky.social · 5h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

“Total destruction”

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 5h

Trump was caught on a hot mic arranging a meeting between a foreign head of state and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing GOP members of Congress used to care about? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

‘Hot mic’ catches Indonesian president asking Trump for a meeting with son Eric

The American president was overheard arranging a meeting between Prabowo Subianto and Eric Trump, who runs the Republican's family business.

www.msnbc.com

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Noel Casler Comedy @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social · 17h

Barron’s upstairs in the White House seeing what stock he can short tomorrow when his old man gets home and posts some more China sh*t. Market manipulation is real.

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it's Candy Love @candylovely.bsky.social · 16h

bsky.app/profile/can...

Immigration Hotline.

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