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DeidShaw @deidshaw.bsky.social · Nov 7

So. Ukraine is fucked. Europe is less safe. Our former allies will never trust us again. They certainly won’t share Intel when the likes of Kash Patel are being floated as CIA director. Women in the US are even less safe than usual and they’ll die in record numbers 1/x

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Reminder: Trump vaccinates himself 👇🏽

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 7h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5h

"It would be powerful if folks from Dallas stand up for Chicago and folks from Chicago stand up for Dallas, so that narratives like 'Texas invades Illinois' can't take hold. Cities are not invading each other. The federal government is attacking Americans."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

Imagine that

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h

Only people interested in weakening the United States would make such a decision. The real “enemies within” are part of this administration.

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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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 3h

More moral and message clarity from another genuine leader within the Democratic Party.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12h

‘Gateway to hell’: young reporter’s harrowing two years in besieged Gaza

Malak A Tantesh’s grim experience of living with perpetual fear and uncertainty amid Israel’s war after 2023 Hamas attack

www.theguardian.com

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 20h

Excellent discussion on the Gaza deal and what comes next.

The DSR Network @thedsrnetwork.bsky.social · 20h

Experts Kim Ghattas and @stelhami.bsky.social join @djrothkopf.bsky.social to explore the long-term implications of the ceasefire in Gaza and why nefarious actors in the region aren’t likely to grow a conscience any time soon.
Listen here:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

youtu.be/2cSEtWELGYI

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 19h

Hey folks:

Tomorrow at about 10:30 AM ET,

Heather Cox Richardson and I will be having our weekly YouTube chat.

If you want to beam in through my channel, it’s here:

m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

Dr. Joanne Freeman

Professor Joanne Freeman is an award-winning historian who studies the politics and culture of America's past to better understand our history as a nation, and the roads and choices that have led us t...

m.youtube.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h

Pete Hegseth announced an agreement today to build a Qatari Emiri Air Force facility at a U.S. Air Force Base in Idaho.

Reminder: Earlier this year, the Trump admin accepted a Boeing 747 jet as a gift from the Qatari royal family.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 20h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 23h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 23h

It’s Hamas
It’s antifa
It’s Soros
It’s terrorism
It’s…
It’s…

It’s Americans who will be peacefully marching with signs and supporting democracy—and don’t want a King.

#WeAreTheMajority
And they know it.

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Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem.bsky.social · 23h

These do not look like police videos. They look like campaign ones." I spoke about DHS's glossy, military like videos. The deportations are for the camera. @cnn.com @zbyronwolf.bsky.social

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

Analysis: DHS leans into propaganda with militaristic action videos | CNN Politics

When helicopters descended on a Chicago apartment building last week with federal agents kitted out in military gear, locals saw a terrifying escalation in the federal government’s incursion into Chic...

www.cnn.com

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

This is a big deal.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 1d

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WKRN now says 19 are unaccounted for at the explosives/Accurate Energetic Systems manufacturing plant in HICKMAN COUNTY…

www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

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DeidShaw @deidshaw.bsky.social · 1d

This, from the book tour a few months back of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's latest, offers with clear-eyes and moral clarity an important message of this time in our country.
Very much worth your time.

Sarah Kendzior | The Last American Roadtrip

YouTube video by Commonwealth Club World Affairs of California

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

Calling No Kings a 'hate America rally' when having no kings was a precondition for having a United States of America

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "