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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 3h

I'm going to try to write the newsletter this week on my deep sense of commentary fatigue. A little ironic I suppose, but I feel we're spending too much effort trying to interpret and explain our time to one another and not enough effort accepting it and meeting the moment on it's own terms.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 43m

i wld gladly pay in if it meant things like.... healthcare for all, childcare for all, reliable public education & higher ed, WIC & SNAP weren't defunded, roads were actually good.... but what the *fuck* am i getting out of this?

the knowledge my $$ is used to terrorize my neighbors? aw, hell no.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 46m

my job made me salary this week (i have been a freelancer for years) & damn i did not realize that approximately 40% of my earnings went to funding, uh, police, ICE, trump's stupid plane & virtually no social services at all 🤮

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 12h

graffiti today.

graffiti saying "beware of controlled opposition" shot through a chain link fence

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 15h

nearly every single thing the united states accuses others of doing... it does.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 15h

the united states government is actually five atrocities in a trench coat, repeating "brutality for me, not for thee."

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 15h

the deepest irony here is that the U.S. government offered bounties for killing indigenous people beginning in the 1600s at least through the civil war.

and... bounty hunting for alleged criminals was declared legitimate through a supreme court ruling (Taylor v. Taintor) in 1872.

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 16h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18h

The State of Illinois is documenting the criminal misconduct of Trump secret police agents in order to bring charges against those who engaged in acts ranging from assault to reckless endangerment and negligent operation of motor vehicles in the near future, Newsweek reveals.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Department of State v
@StateDept
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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 23h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 17h

Free speech is when you are punished for criticizing the President’s favorite podcaster.

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 18h

The Donald Trump administration has revoked the visas of citizens from Argentina, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, and Paraguay for comments about Charlie Kirk.

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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 21h

“Instead of stalking our ex-boyfriends online, we started a newspaper.”

Founded in 1966, during the Vietnam War, the original 'Rag' emerged out of a sense that free speech was under fire. It's back again. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ut-underground-newspaper-the-rag-revived/

These UT Students Are Fed Up With Social Media. So They Revived a Newspaper From the Sixties.

“Instead of stalking our ex-boyfriends online, we started a newspaper.”

www.texasmonthly.com

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 21h

i know the terrorgram cults are targeting the young ones these days, and things like cyberbullying / harassment has become so immersive, as technology has scaled.

but damn — all this is to say, i agree. so many generations of girls have been failed 💔

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 21h

absolutely.

i'm younger than vance's cohort, but still in the same generational cohort. and the harassment for me started around age 9.

if i had realized the online bullies were going to be the whole political establishment, i may have gone full bunnicula on them sooner.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 21h

g-d, sorry i'm just an embittered cassandra figure these days.

all i say anymore is some variation on:
"i warned you & you didn't listen, and now it's worse,"
or
"oh jesus, we're in hell."

i promise i'll add some new dialogue to my repertoire soon. i'm beginning to bore myself 😵‍💫

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 21h

i will never forgive y'all for writing off violent online misogyny when young girls reported it.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 21h

perhaps years & years of lauding "great men" with the preface of "oh, just ignore the racism / sexism / bigotry" was... ✨ a mistake ✨

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 21h

when i was at a (public, elite, midwestern) math & science boarding high school, my classmates would DM me stuff like this, along with unsolicited d*ck pics.

and i was labeled the outlier for developing ptsd symptoms.

misogyny is a gateway to all of this, and so many of us tried to warn you.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 22h

Wednesday marks one month since a group of football players found Delta State University student Trey Reed hanging in a tree on campus.

Amid swirling rumors, we've published a timeline of the known events surrounding his death and the investigations.

Timeline: Trey Reed's Hanging Death at Delta State University

A timeline of the known events surrounding Delta State University student Trey Reed's hanging death in Cleveland, Mississippi.

buff.ly

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 22h

his blush is so bad; it looks like he failed a tiktok tutorial.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson says Medicaid is "intended for vulnerable populations, the elderly, disabled, and young pregnant women, and not young able-bodied men without dependents who are playing video games."

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 23h

like every treaty,
every ceasefire broken.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 23h

my therapist says you need to first name, grieve & accept the tragedy to move forward 🥲

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 23h

one day, i will stop whining about this & will go back to making guerrilla art, but today i am ✨tired✨

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 23h

a blogger is in charge of CBS.
a right-wing podcaster is getting the presidential medal of freedom.
grifter twitter personalities are influencing terrorism policy.
a hate group is platformed to journalism students.

meanwhile, reporters who understand genocide are... unemployable.

🤡

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