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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15h

"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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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 19h

This is really useful if you want to understand how trumped up the charges against Tish James are

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23h

The federal investigation into the death of Jeffrey Epstein was designed to obscure what led to his death, not find the truth, other experts have now concluded. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Epstein’s death in jail failed multiple basic procedures, expert says

Photographs taken of Epstein’s cell hours after he was found have some inconsistencies

www.the-independent.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Did you flunk out of high school but have a criminal record full of violence but only petty crimes? ICE wants you to be one of its agents.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

I complained earlier that WaPo's story on Trump inviting PizzaGate guy to the White House was insane. Not so this Independent story.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Not to be outdone, in came Jack Posobiec, one of the right’s weirdest hangers-on, who is perhaps most famous for the time he spread the “Pizzagate” theory and then got removed from the pizzeria in question by police for filming a child’s birthday party. Running with the major theme of the hour — that Antifa is definitely, certainly, really real despite all evidence to the contrary, and that everybody needs to stop saying it’s not real — Posobiec made a startling claim: Antifa is so clearly real that it “has been going on for almost 100 years ... going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.”

And look, yes, it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis. But it’s sort of difficult to position yourself as the good guys if you’re aligning yourself with the Nazis in your historical analogy. I’m just saying that, if I was Posobiec’s publicity guy, I might ask him to drop that soundbite from future public appearances.

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

How Mark Bray, author of the book on antifa, was targeted with death threats:

— Trump signs EO designating antifa as terrorists
— DHS memo warns about "antifa-aligned" individuals
— Far-right trolls target Bray on X
— TPUSA treasurer launches petition against Bray

www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 1d

"Jack Posobiec, a far-right influencer and conspiracy theorist... called Bray a 'domestic terrorist professor.' 'The day after the Posobiec tweet, I received a very direct death threat saying that someone was going to kill me in front of my students,' says Bray." Jack was at the White House on Wed.

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 1d

To understand the Trump administration’s vision for American education, @megomatz.bsky.social and I studied dozens of hours of political appointees’ speeches and podcasts and essays. What emerged is a desire to dismantle the nation’s system of public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 1d

Casual reminder that this video is AI-generated.

Media literacy is going to have to start including ways to recognize artificial intelligence, as well as ways to identify & source factual material.

I know that feels hopelessly aspirational given the current state of things, but a girl can dream.

Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 2d

Porch bandit

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

Never forget.

Musk: We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.

Could gone to some great parties.

Did that instead

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

Ask Mike Benz and Michael Shellenberger about all the lies they told to help accomplish this. Ask Joe Rogan about how he nodded along mutely while hosting Benz on his show while he spouted bullshit about “CIA fronts”.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

just putting this in my back pocket in case there turn out to be criminal penalties for violating security clearance protocols. looking into it

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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eyesoredwn.bsky.social @eyesoredwn.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been saying this for a while. This is the correct way to frame things.

Anonymous @spartazc.bsky.social · 2d

For example, ICE is raiding immigrants, the vast majority of these people are Catholic or some other denomination, call them Christian immigrants, suddenly Trump is now prosecuting Christians and locking them up in cages. Lean into it, voice it that way, create and amplify the narrative.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Slate @slate.com · 2d

Hint: It has everything to do with pornography. slate.trib.al/GAvmePW

How the Cuck Did “Cuck” Become a Widespread Online Insult?

From World War II pilots to pornography, the evolution of the cuck is surprising and twisty.

slate.trib.al

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 2d

Here’s video of the incident

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 3d

Going back to that raid on the South Shore apartment building. It hasn't gotten much focus that the goons reportedly traveled the same way Patriot Front does: in UHauls.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/30/a...

A Budget truck with about five armed men seen inside. It's dark out and the taillights are lit. The photo is attributed to KT O'Loughin.

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☕️ Jeremy Diamond @dmnd.me · 2d

Did we not go over this last month with Sam Altman's Dyson sphere fantasies

www.geekwire.com/2025/jeff-be...

Jeff Bezos says orbital data centers will be the ‘next step’ for space ventures that make Earth better

What's the next killer app for the final frontier? According to Jeff Bezos, it's a future fleet of orbital data centers.

www.geekwire.com

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Rep. Dave Min @congressmin.bsky.social · 3d

It's been two weeks since Adelita Grijalva was elected and Mike Johnson has still refused to seat her, unlike in past cases where he swore in new members within 24 hours.

There cannot be one set of rules for Rs and another for Ds.

Also, release the damn Epstein files already.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4d

Finally saw the new Superman, my first superhero movie since Black Panther iirc. And I actually liked it! Best Superman since the original

Nicholas Hoult was a good Luthor but imo the people who say he was the best are nuts. Gene Hackman still owns that role the way Heath Ledger owns the Joker.

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eyesoredwn.bsky.social @eyesoredwn.bsky.social · 4d

She was the best. We are all so fortunate to have been on the planet at the same time as Jane Goodall. 💜

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

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Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 4d

She’s still out here ✌️

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5d

It's a Nazi platform. No such thing as good use of a Nazi platform

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 5d

absolutely brutal

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