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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 17h

Oooh, watch out for the scary antifa animal crossing in war ravaged Portland 😂

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16h

What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 14h

Amen. ⬇️⬇️

Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 14h

Mike Johnson tried tonight to characterize the upcoming No Kings 2.0 day on 10/18 as a “Hate America” movement. Wrong. Utterly wrong. To reject dictators, authoritarians, and tyrants is to love America, to love the very idea at the heart of it.

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 14h

Tomorrow, 10/11 in #SantaFe #NewMexico, @indivisiblesantafe.org is hosting its second Speakers’ Corner. Come on out to say your piece or just to show support for free speech. More info at indivisiblesantafe.org/speakers-cor... 1/

Speakers' Corner Diary, Number 1

We held the first Speakers’ Corner sponsored by Indivisible Santa Fe this past Saturday, October 4, 2025. A group of us set up our sign and stepstool-cum-soapbox in the Santa Fe Railyard Park, in betw...

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 16h

Exactement. Lawless thugs.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 16h

By “toughen” they mean blowing them up

Reuters @reuters.com · 16h

US eases some penalties tied to foreign-built ships, toughens others reut.rs/473xUvc

US eases some penalties tied to foreign-built ships, toughens others

The United States Trade Representative's office said on Friday it would modify certain maritime-related fees for foreign-built vehicle carriers and liquefied natural gas vessels ahead of port fees on China-linked ships slated to go into effect next week.

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 18h

The fact that the price of gold and the stock market are both up is troubling. Something is amiss.

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 19h

The Court, blocking Trump's deployment of Texas NG to Illinois: "not even the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one state’s militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h

“This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison”

This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison

Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20h

He cannot admit he played himself and American consumers.

As Trump likes to say “you don’t have the cards.”
China has moved on.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

More tariff policy evolution — via one man’s whim.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20h

You break it, you own it. Kudos to @akalhan.bsky.social.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19h

Healthcare cuts are a funding mechanism for Trump to reward tech oligarchs and other billionaires. Slashing the safety net and consolidating power go together for him.

@mcbride.house.gov joins @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social from this week's D.C. live show!

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19h

Yes. Molly is right. This is the way. The only way.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

This is the way

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M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

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JMVZ @vz44.bsky.social · 1d

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 19h

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22h

Trump has begun dismissing federal workers, with furloughed staff at the Department of Health and Human Services now facing permanent layoffs. The cuts are hitting the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention especially hard.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22h

Federal workers: If you were impacted by the Trump administration's just-announced mass layoffs, our reporters are here to listen.

We understand you may be taking a risk in contacting us, and we take your privacy seriously.

Here's how to get in touch securely 👇

How to Contact ProPublica or Send a Tip Securely — ProPublica

Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.

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Michael Markman @mickeleh.bsky.social · 21h

But of course they did

Politico @politico.com · 22h

The Trump admin cancels what would have been one of the world’s largest solar power projects.

Interior cancels largest solar project in North America

It's the Trump administration's latest move to slow or block major clean energy projects.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21h

And, as he will never say, Poland in 1939 declined to invade the USSR as a German ally. And then the USSR agreed to invade Poland as a German ally. Details in my book "Black Earth"

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 9d

❗️Putin's logic:Poland has provoked Hitler who wanted to find a peaceful solution:

Poland made many mistakes.Germany offered to resolve the issue of Danzig&the Danzig Corridor peacefully.The Polish leadership at the time categorically refused&,in the end, became the first victim of Nazi aggression

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 19h

Read this short thread.
Watch the video.
#ResistFascism

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 21h

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Rush hour. Lincoln Square.
2 Border Patrol thugs tackled a WGN-TV producer to the pavement in front of horrified commuters, handcuffing her, face-down.

Debbie Brockman, a journalist with WGN since 2011, identified herself before being dragged into an unmarked silver van with New Jersey plates.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 21h

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A Latino man was already inside. Witnesses say she was accused of “obstruction.” Her response? “I didn’t obstruct.”

The agents then sped off, clipping a car, blowing through a red light, nearly hitting a CTA bus.

This was a kidnapping in broad daylight by armed thugs targeting a journalist.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 21h

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Rush hour. Lincoln Square.
2 Border Patrol thugs tackled a WGN-TV producer to the pavement in front of horrified commuters, handcuffing her, face-down.

Debbie Brockman, a journalist with WGN since 2011, identified herself before being dragged into an unmarked silver van with New Jersey plates.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

A paycheck or a lofty title is good. But moral integrity is much, much better

I talked to Penn's climate wizard Michael Mann about his great new book and his decision to drop his high-level university post to keep speaking out against science denial

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/scie...

Science is under siege. How Penn’s top climate scientist is fighting back. | Will Bunch

Michael E. Mann's new book, and the sacrifice this Penn scientist made to fight the war against climate disinformation.

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 21h

I know it is a futile game, but seriously, imagine if a Democratic President announced this. Imagine Clinton or Obama or Biden doing this. The press, pundits, GOP & most Dems would go apeshit. Where is the backlash to this insanity from 47 and Kegsbreath?

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Qatar is getting an Air Force facility in Idaho: What to know

The U.S. and Qatar have increasingly cooperated on a number of issues in recent years, including the Gaza peace deal.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

October 9, 2025

Today Trump appointee Lindsey Halligan did what President Donald J.

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