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Dennis M Taylor @dmt4mt.bsky.social · 8h

History Shows the Perils of Troops Policing American Cities - TIME apple.news/A1EDk2XcrToe...

History Shows the Perils of Troops Policing American Cities — TIME

Sending Redcoats to American cities worked in the short term. But over time, it alienated even the colonists most loyal to the British.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

What on earth??

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Adams Administration Quietly Renames the Tombs for Disgraced Criminal Bernard Kerik

The Lower Manhattan jail facility briefly bore Kerik's name once before, until he was convicted of corruption.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

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💙Ctnative Michelle A.S.🌻🌻 @ctnative.bsky.social · 1d

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

As expected Soros is not guilty!

All the money and time
wasted in OUR names for
all of these trumped up charges is enraging!

Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism

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NPR @npr.org · 8h

Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion.

A new James Baldwin biography explores how his lovers influenced his work

Baldwin: A Love Story, a book by Nicholas Boggs, has a singular focus on the redemptive power of devotion.

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 13h

We have $20B to bail out Argentina, but we can’t afford to extend the ACA subsidies so Americans don’t lose their healthcare?

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ACLU @aclu.org · 14h

President Trump's attempt to exclude some immigrant families from participating in Head Start is unlawful — and a federal judge has blocked it.

Federal Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar Some Immigrant Families From Head Start

A federal court stopped the administration’s attempt to exclude some immigrant children from the nation’s largest early childhood education program, protecting millions of families while the case continues.

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Dennis M Taylor @dmt4mt.bsky.social · 8h

Eating the seed corn.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 8h

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 11h

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

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Dennis M Taylor @dmt4mt.bsky.social · 8h

Check out this article from The Register Guard:

'We didn't have our fastball today' | Oregon football reacts to loss to Indiana

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'We didn't have our fastball today' | Oregon football reacts to loss to Indiana

The winning streaks are over for Oregon football, as is its undefeated season and potentially a chance to defend its Big Ten Championship game title.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 8h

The House speaker claims this has nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Then why delay the swearing in of Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, who handily won a special election in Arizona *two weeks* ago?

He can easily prove it. trib.al/yUJZ0OT

Mike Johnson Struggles to Explain Delay in Swearing In Democratic Rep

The House speaker claims the delay in swearing in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva has nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein. He can easily prove it.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

Three years after Joe Biden became the first president to formally commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, more than a dozen states and many cities recognize some version of the day either alongside or instead of the federal holiday Columbus Day. Here is what to know.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Explained

Many cities and states are observing the day. President Trump has declared himself a supporter of Columbus Day.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 12h

Extinguishing MLK's Eternal Flame is both outrageous and a hell of a metaphor for right now www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

Eternal flame at Martin Luther King Jr.’s Atlanta burial site destroyed

Police say the man also urinated in the reflective pool.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 12h

We’re in a health care crisis.

Hospitals and clinics will close from Trump’s cuts.

15 million people will lose their health care.

Now Trump’s CDC layoffs are making it even WORSE by gutting our ability to stop emerging health threats.

Democrats are fighting to stop this.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 21h

Let's be clear on who Christopher Columbus was, a conquerer who spread disease & slavery who was so sadistic in the ways he treated natives he appalled the architects of the Spanish Inquisition. That's the fact of him there is to reclaim.

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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 11h

MSNBC host Chris Hayes challenged the White House's official explanation for Donald Trump's recent trip to Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

MSNBC host questions White House story on Trump's health visit

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Blue Woman Voting 📎 @bluewomanvoting123.bsky.social · 1d

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Why aren't Dems suing to get the AZ rep sworn in?

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 22h

Pope Leo says Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions.

"Someone who says I'm against abortion but is in favor of the death penalty...or agrees with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the US,
is not really pro-life."
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 20h

Call them propagandists, not provocateurs: @gregsargent.bsky.social on the difference between "plucky showmanship" and "industrial-strength" MAGA agitprop meant to help Trump invent emergencies so he can expand presidential power. Starring Noem and Miller, of course. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 11h

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Even though nobody wears bike helmets in the Netherlands, the fatality rate there is significantly smaller than that of the United States. What have they figured out that we haven't?

How I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman

In the bike-friendly Netherlands, cyclists speed down the road without fearing cars. For an American, the prospect is thrilling—and terrifying.

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Dennis M Taylor @dmt4mt.bsky.social · 9h

Got a chance if they keep getting hurt. #RCJH

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

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Dennis M Taylor @dmt4mt.bsky.social · 9h

Ex-Biden Security Official Says U.S. Troop Deployment Near Venezuela 'Looks, Walks and Talks Like Regime Change Preparation'
Source: Latin Times

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Ex-Biden Security Official Says U.S. Troop Deployment Near Venezuela 'Looks, Walks and Talks Like Regime Change Preparation' - NewsBreak

As the United States steps up pressure on Venezuela and the Nicolás Maduro regime with a strong naval presence in the Caribbean, a former Biden administrat

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BlueScotty Will Not Obey @bluescottyp.bsky.social · 11h

But send in troops to “war ravaged and deadly” Portland…

#TrumpsRetribution
#ProudBlue

Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 12h

Mississippi school homecoming celebrations turn deadly as 6 people are killed in separate shootings

High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended in gunfire, with two separate shootings on opposite sides of the state Friday night that left at least six people dead and many more injured, a...

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