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Heather McCoy
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Heather McCoy @heathermccoy.bsky.social · 30m
I love the knuckleball!
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 10h
The nation’s biggest private prison company — accused of human trafficking — is asking the Supreme Court to make it immune from lawsuits.

Their argument? Corporations should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 10h
The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.
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Meg Tirrell @megtirrell.bsky.social · 5h
President Trump got an updated Covid vaccine & flu shot at Walter Reed today www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...
Trump received Covid vaccine and flu shot during second physical of the year | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump received a Covid vaccine and flu shot during his visit to Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, his physician said in a memo released by the White House.
www.cnn.com
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d
"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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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d
Solidarity!
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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 2d
This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d
Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 13h
"The administration is doing dumb things, this proves they will fail."

1. They are not as dumb as you think in the areas that matter to them: grabbing power.

2. Being dumb is a feature, not a bug, of authoritarianism. Hiring based on loyalty does that.

3. This thinking is what leads to inaction.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 7h
Republicans are lying about the peaceful No Kings Day protests because they’re desperate — the GOP is losing the shutdown fight while Americans reject Trump’s authoritarian takeover in huge numbers.

“These are the threats of a regime that is not secure in their power.“ - @ezralevin.bsky.social
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 18h
Troubled by how many imagine Machado is a great hero because she's not Trump. She's a hard right former coup sympathizer who calls for military intervention & destruction of socialism. Her opponent, Maduro, is an awful dictator. That doesn't make her a dream, anymore than not being named "Trump."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 17h
I am proud to say that MIT has rejected Trump's poison compact. MIT President Sally Kornbluth: "Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education."
@aaup.org @aft.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org
links.mit.edu/nl3/N5Jy2cKq...
Regarding the Compact
links.mit.edu
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onion person @junlper.beer · 14h
all things considered, he’s just a really stupid guy with really stupid beliefs
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h
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...
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 10h
"Republicans blocked paying the troops during the shutdown but found $20 billion to bail out Argentina's bad crypto investments" should be the sort of thing that leads every local newscast, but...
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 15h
A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week
House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period. Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes. Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.
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Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 10h
We were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE facility in Illinois.

WHAT is the Trump Administration hiding?
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esqueer.net
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d
VA Gov debate:

Spanberger: my opponent has previously said that she does not think that gay couples should be allowed to marry

​Earle-Sears: That's not discrimination

​Spanberger: she thinks it's okay for someone to be fired from their job for being gay

​​Earle-Sears: that's not discrimination
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18h
This is now the blueprint for men to control trans women. Have sex with them and then threaten to go to police unless they do what he wants. It's ripe for abuse from men who will weaponize their shame. It also builds their narrative of trans women being sexual predators even when the victim.
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 19h
This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually
Post Dallas Steele @Cherrykickstart Follow This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing Quote tweeting Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated Follow | Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key. Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits 9:17 AM 08 Oct 25 758K Views 13:01 09 Oct 25 32.6K Views 88 Reposts 11 Quotes 1,049 Likes
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h
I don't think there's any better example of leopards eating faces than the Lebanese immigrant who opened a Trump-themed burger restaurant and then got arrested by ICE.
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Chron.com @chron.com · 10h
🍔 Houston’s Trump Burger appears to have shut its doors after a brief run on Chimney Rock: bit.ly/46LpQAx
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h
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President Donald Trump with a very droopy face attends a September 11th observance event in the courtyard of the Pentagon September 11, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia. © Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h
"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h
This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 5h
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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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 8h
This is dedicated to those who believed DJT and legacy media coverage that Project 2025 was nothing to be concerned about.

Also, this isn’t legal.
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Heather McCoy @heathermccoy.bsky.social · 4h
Aj’a or Becky should be the first to hold the trophy…. Not the fat fuck failson owner.
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