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Common Cause @commoncause.org · 18h

VP Vance is back in Indiana — pushing the White House’s mid-decade redistricting scheme.

Rather than ending the shutdown, he’s focused on winning the next election.

Hoosiers deserve fair maps and Americans deserve leaders who put people over politics.

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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 16h

I can't say what I'm thinking. 🤬

Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 16h

Wall Street’s calm shatters, and Dow drops 456 after Trump threatens more tariffs on China

apnews.com/article/stoc...

Wall Street's calm breaks, and US stocks fall after Trump threatens more tariffs on China

A monthslong calm on Wall Street is breaking, and U.S. stocks are falling after President Donald Trump threatened to crank tariffs even higher on China.

apnews.com

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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe we're here...

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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 1d

"Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize"

"US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says"

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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 1d

Recent Republican breaks with MAGA orthodoxy:

- Ted Cruz re: Kimmel
- Oklahoma gov re: National Guard
- MTG re: Obamacare subsidies
- A few re: RFK kookiness
- Rand Paul re: a few things

Could be that some smell weakness in the White House, are seeing what they can get away with. Worth watching.

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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 1d

"They're not sending their best." ~ Donald J. Trump, on Earth 2, on DOJ in 2025 instead of on Mexico in 2015

Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 1d

Oh come on. On an official document?

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1d

Good time to read @mollyroberts.bsky.social:

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.”

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Next Up: Letitia James
Molly Roberts
Monday, October 6, 2025, 9:59 AM
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It's hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey-until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 1d

I fully expect an epic Trump meltdown on Truth Social when the Nobel Peace Prize is announced tomorrow.

Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 2d

Good read. Two pull quotes:

"Employees of the federal government felt so threatened that they were turning to a random journalist in Brooklyn with no national profile and a website she published herself."

"Being a journalist right now has never felt more scary, while never feeling more essential."

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

New — I was fortunate to speak in front of students and faculty at Grinnell College in Iowa tonight about the business of independent journalism, the current state of media under Trump 2.0, and billionaire control.

I published my full speech because I thought it might resonate beyond campus:

Truth, morality and independence in journalism under the second Trump regime

My full remarks to students and faculty at Grennell College.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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Rebecca Ingber @becingber.bsky.social · 2d

To be clear, the President has been summarily executing suspected members of “cartels” on his say-so, on the basis of a secret legal memo from Bondi’s DOJ.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 2d

Quite a headline
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Trump to get a 'routine yearly' medical check-up — his second in 6 months

The White House said Trump would be at Walter Reed Medical Center and undergo a checkup after a planned meeting with service members in the facility.

www.nbcnews.com

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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 2d

Beautiful!! There's a joke in here about metaphorically riding the current like a sea turtle as Trump tries to take us back to the Gilded Age. 😉

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Reuters @reuters.com · 3d

China says Taiwan president is 'prostituting' himself, after interview lauding Trump reut.rs/48mx3by

China says Taiwan president is 'prostituting' himself, after interview lauding Trump

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te is "prostituting" himself to foreigners to try and win their favour but his schemes are doomed to fail, China's government said on Wednesday after he gave an interview lauding U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 3d

October 8, 2025

"Certain procedures"

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 3d

TURKEY'S ERDOGAN: TRUMP TOLD US "THE HALKBANK PROBLEM IS FINISHED", BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN PROCEDURES THAT NEED TO BE COMPLETED AND WE HOPE THEY WILL BE DONE POSITIVELY

Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 3d

October 7, 2025

www.reuters.com/world/turkey...

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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 3d

October 6, 2025

www.reuters.com/world/us-sup...

US Supreme Court rejects challenge by Turkey's Halkbank to prosecution

The Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear another bid by Turkey's state-owned lender Halkbank to avoid fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges in the United States for allegedly helping Iran evade American economic sanctions.

www.reuters.com

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11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social · 3d

'I think it's very scary'

Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb weighs in on Trump's use of the military in U.S. cities on #The11thHour with @stephruhle.bsky.social.

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Lauren Milicov @laurenmilicov.bsky.social · 3d

"You would think the Insurrection Act would be to prevent an insurrection, but in this instance, you have an insurrectionist who's experienced [and] probably likely to use that act to cause an insurrection." Ty Cobb, @11thhourmsnbc.bsky.social

valeened.bsky.social @valeened.bsky.social · 3d

Just watched a very sobering interview with Ty Cobb, former Trump WH attorney, on the 11th Hour/MSNBC. The man knows who Trump really is, and he is clearly very worried.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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Indy Auntie @indyauntie.bsky.social · 3d

“I think today she achieved one thing. She knocked John Mitchell off the perch of reprehensible attorney general as number one, despite his guilty plea and time in jail.” ~ Ty Cobb, former Trump White House attorney 🔥

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valeened.bsky.social @valeened.bsky.social · 3d

Just watched a very sobering interview with Ty Cobb, former Trump WH attorney, on the 11th Hour/MSNBC. The man knows who Trump really is, and he is clearly very worried.

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 3d

I love how Miller very clearly pretends that his connection freezes after realizing that he said the quiet part out loud.

What a complete dufus.

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

plenary authority over what Stephen?!? OVER WHAT STEPHEN

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