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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 23h

So the government's case against Letitia James is that she she bought a house for a family member to live in rent-free and visited said family frequently, but that she should have declared it as a for-profit rental to Fannie Mae? And they expect a conviction on that?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In the Eye of a Political Storm, a Tiny Yellow House in Norfolk, Va.

www.nytimes.com

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5h

It's disturbing to see Hispanics arresting other Hispanics, as if they consider themselves superior to those they are apprehending.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

guys i'm beginning to think they haven't thought this through

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING: Some of the layoffs at CDC are being REVERSED.
Here is my updated story.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown

Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.

www.washingtonpost.com

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J Keen @jkeen1213.bsky.social · 20h

There you go 😊

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3h

THESE are the promises I want to hear.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 4h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 7h

Many of us grew up in the church being taught to root for Moses, Daniel, and John the Baptist in the Bible, only to grow up and have our churches question our faith for not cheering on the Pharaohs, Nebuchadnezzars, and Herods in our world today.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 10h

British people unaware of the reality of ethnicity and culture in the U.S. might find paying attention to Baseball a bit of an education. Look at the big stars, the heroes, the record-breakers. Who they are, where they’re from.

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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 9h

Let that sink in.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4h

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home.

So much for “America First.”

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 15h

Amy Poehler as Pam Bondi and Tina Fey as Kristi Noem. 😂👍

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 10h

People freaking out over the Chat-fishing dating-app article seem to miss that this is the *whole point* of ChatGPT and similar generative AI: writing as though you’re something other than you are. The whole idea is deception. Writing like a pro, like a lawyer etc, when you’re too lazy to be one.

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Johnny Ninefingers @johnnyninefingers.bsky.social · 3h

Or to write like people who write.

Being a person of letters wasn't restricted to certain professions.

The ability to write and communicate clearly is a skill which was at one time commonplace. I suppose that the generation below me will be the last for which that is true.

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Brian Moore @briantrumpet.bsky.social · 3h

More to the point, I want to write like me, not someone else, whether that's the humour, unexpected idea or vocabulary, or the fallibility. I want the mistakes to be mine.

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Trevor Ward @ukmigrant.bsky.social · 12h

WTAF is wrong with America?
The mental instability of the orange moron is off the cliff edge and everyone is just letting him carry on??
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 6h

Quick scone etiquette question (no, not about in which sequence cream goes, that’s been answered):

Which goes on first - cheese or apricot jam?

Scones - one with jam and cheese, and one with cream and jam, side by side.

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AntiPastor🇺🇦AtheisticalMinista @jonstackpool.bsky.social · 3h

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 4h

“A viral and ridiculous image, such as a cute cartoonish frog standing off against a row of heavily-equipped militarised police, or even national reserve members, tells the story far more quickly than official statements ever could. It also spreads further and faster.” inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Trump’s movement was fuelled by Pepe the Frog — now another amphibian is pushing back

A new figure has emerged at anti-ICE protests in Portland - a man wearing an inflatable frog costume

inews.co.uk

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MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t give TWO SHITS if you think it’s perfectly fine to have a Qatari air base in Idaho!! I DO NOT TRUST A SINGLE THING FROM THIS REGIME.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 2d

Awkward for Zia Yusuf, who keeps being sent out to lie as cover for the Reform UK leader

Who did Nigel Farage have lunch with after resigning as UKIP leader 4 July 2016?

Why, it's Russian bribe enthusiast Nathan Gill, who then did the important news briefing on his behalf (to Russia Today)

#BBCQT

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

Either Zia Yusuf has been lying to the British public or he's been used as a patsy to cover for the Reform UK leaders who absolutely know who Nathan Gill is.

"I've never spoken to him, most people in the senior leadership team have never really heard of the guy." 😬

(h/t @jim_nauseum2 on X-Twitter)

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

It's time for a montage!

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

Either Zia Yusuf has been lying to the British public or he's been used as a patsy to cover for the Reform UK leaders who absolutely know who Nathan Gill is.

"I've never spoken to him, most people in the senior leadership team have never really heard of the guy." 😬

(h/t @jim_nauseum2 on X-Twitter)

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Johnny Ninefingers @johnnyninefingers.bsky.social · 3h

And it's not just Peter Thiel...

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 5h

Are Labour really going to try and tie current economic damage (and hence the need for further tax rises) to Farage and to Brexit, whilst at the same time insisting that persevering with Brexit is the right thing to do?

That feels like gaslighting of the very highest order.

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