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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 52m

Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of Planned Parenthood patients who've had abortions, officials who oversee clinics in Kansas City and St. Louis said in legal filings.

Abortion Providers Say Missouri's Attorney General Is Trying to Get Patient Records

The fight over subpoenas is playing out in a lawsuit filed last year

www.medpagetoday.com

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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 3h

#kristinoem back at it again. These videos really just write themselves at this point.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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The David Pakman Show @thedavidpakmanshow.bsky.social · 14h

Dick Durbin pressed Pam Bondi on the Epstein files and she fell apart trying to dodge

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now.

We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 2h

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 10h

I want an unprecedented meltdown on the right so I want Greta Thunberg to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 4h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 4h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 4h

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 1h

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 1h

Jesus, smirking Scott Jennings buy a mirror and look at what a smarmy jackass you make of yourself on CNN every night before you go dissing any other human's appearance

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1h

Taiwan’s president has pledged to accelerate the building of a “T-Dome” air defense system in face of the threat from China. Lai Ching-te says his government will establish a rigorous defense system with high-level detection and effective interception.

Taiwan's president pledges to accelerate the building of air defense system in face of China threat

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te has pledged to accelerate the building of a “T-Dome” air defense system in the face of the threat from China.

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Maida ☠️ @emmaidama.bsky.social · 14h

😂🤣 Newsom’s trolling is now at a whole new level 😂🏅
#NobelPeacePrize #Pinks 🌸

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There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 1h

In all honesty, Epstein had gotten off once and could do it again. Dershowitz would defend him again, say that all the girls were sluts who asked for it, and half the country would believe Dershowitz and poor Epstein, and the girls would get death threats and have to change their names

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There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 2h

Perjury Taylor Greene continues to be a horrible person. You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to her

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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 1d

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There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, you'd love to tie people down and brainwash people with imaginary bullshit, clockwork orange style. At least you admit that's your utopia

There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 2h

The UK & France signed treaties to defend Poland AND. DID. THAT.

USSR signed Riga to guarantee Poland's borders, then didn't do it. They signed treaties with Hitler to give half of Poland to Hitler. THEN. DID. THAT.

Who declared war on Hitler first? *Before* he attacked their country? Answer that!

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There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 2h

You're not dumb I guess, you know the UK & France signed treaties to defend Poland while the USSR signed treaties to give it to Hitler. You're just morally deranged

You can't "what about UK & France" when they signed treaties to defend Poland AND. DID. THAT.

USSR signed Riga, then betrayed Poland.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 5h

NYT adds to @juddlegum.bsky.social's reporting about the billionaires that Scott Bessent is bailing out by propping up Javier Milei.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Those efforts have been complicated by the fact that major hedge funds, including those led by friends of Mr. Bessent, stand to benefit financially from an Argentina economic lifeline. Funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent when he was an investor for George Soros.

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There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 2h

And then you just give a pass to Katyn, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bessarabia, Bokuvina, the long list of Soviet atrocities unleashed within a year after Poland. Imagine trying to portray the Munich Agreement as worse than Poland, Finland etc

If you know about that, you're playing dumb.

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There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 2h

*If* you don't know anything about this history you're dumb, or if you do know, then you're *playing* dumb. I'm not defending Munich signed by a conservative

You ARE defending Molotov, invasion, annexation, putting Poles in labor camps & murdering 10,000s

If it's so great, why'd they lie about it?

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Jen Wang @jenwang.com · 5h

I just took a deep breath and deleted a skeet where I cussed out @padlet.com, but honestly, maybe I should have kept it. This was a great resource, and the folks behind this decision should be ashamed of themselves for what they have chosen to enable.

Padlet removes ‘People over Papers,’ a mapping tool tracking ICE raids

The crowdsourced site was taken down without warning, days after political figures called for its removal. Its creators quickly launched a replacement.

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