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JW Robison @jwrobison.bsky.social · 2h

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2h

$20 billion for a trump fan. But we are stripping our own people of health care, food stamps and cancer research.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h

Historians argue that Trump indicting his enemies one-by-one rather than having them murdered in a single night proves he’s not a fascist.

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 3h

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 4h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2h

Marc Thiessen is so fucking stupid, willfully or not, that he argued waterboarding couldn’t be torture because Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded to find out how bad it was for a iirc Vanity Fair article and video, even tho Hitchens was all: it’s torture I felt like I was being tortured…

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4h

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 8h

I think the farmer thing is still not sinking in for a lot of people that didn't grow up around it.

Farming is already an extremely hard market to break into. Most new equipment, which you must sign away your rights to maintain on your own, cost upwards of 1.5 to 2 million dollars. Each.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

farmers are probably generationally fucked. medicaid recipients are fucked barring some fix in the next budget round. rural health care systems are toast. employment is looking *very* wobbly.

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Joe Bauer @joebauernotsure.bsky.social · 7h

They traded democracy for cheap stuff, and they shall have neither.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

consumer sentiment dropping month over month, podcast hosts saying they didn’t vote for any of this, majority disapproval on literally every issue and strong disapprovals rising, and the real pain is only starting to creep in

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 9d

"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them."

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5h

"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 2d

Just got pitched on going to this event and I would rather attend the Riyadh Comedy Festival

An event featuring "AI-powered comedy by Laugh GPT"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

www.youtube.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 8h

Could not be more clear the president wishes he had unilateral power to imprison people, like in an absolute monarchy

He doesn’t so instead he’s forcing the govt to bring charges against his enemies because he wants vengeance

Nakedly corrupt, the sort of thing that necessitates removal from office

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6h

#BREAKING Federal judge in Chicago temporarily blocks the Trump administration from "ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6h

Perry says the order will say defendants are "temporarily enjoined from ordering the federalization and deployment of the National Guard of the United States within Illinois."

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 7h

I'm sorry but it's just wild we are in the middle of a government shutdown and the House Republicans are REFUSING TO SHOW UP FOR WORK so they can protect billionaire pedophiles and billionaire tax breaks.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 9h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

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Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h

…I think a lot more of us need to get on board with realizing that this particular White House could write on a napkin in crayon for the justice dept to do something illegal, and the gop elite on Capitol Hill wouldn’t push back and main Justice would be more likely to start doing it than not. We…

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 4h

…are way past the point of not taking these “national security” directives seriously, even if trump and Stephen miller don’t get Everything they want ultimately. He got the doj to turn on a dime and start indicting enemies who his former handpicked prosecutor apparently couldn’t build a case for. &…

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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