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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 5h

Tesla's "Mad Max" mode has kicked off the latest NHTSA investigation into Autopilot/FSD...

...aaaand meanwhile another Tesla has crashed into a police vehicle on Autopilot, even though NHTSA's only recall of Autopilot was meant to address 16 previous crashes into emergency response vehicles 🙃

Tesla’s “Mad Max” mode is now under federal scrutiny

The new mode added in the latest update will speed and weave through traffic.

arstechnica.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6h

Remember when the Supreme Court gave a pass to a state that created a private right of action crafted with the purpose of evading federal law and judicial review?

States should experiment with a similar law to allow damages actions against federal agents in state court.

That'll go over well.

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Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 19h

“Walmart was the top employer of SNAP recipients in five states and one of the top four employers in the remaining four states. McDonald’s was among the top five employers of Medicaid enrollees in five of six states and SNAP recipients in eight of nine states.”

www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/w...

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 20h

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

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Julie Laumann ❌ 👑 @julielaumann.bsky.social · 11h

“Well, Martha, in case you don’t know it, I’m actually a soybean farmer. So, I have felt this pain, too,” Bessent said.

But Bessent [net worth: $500 million+] isn’t a farmer; he’s a landlord who rents $25 million in farmland out to real soybean farmers.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Scott Bessent Claims He Feels Soybean Farmers' Pain. He's Worth $500 Million

China's boycott of American soy has farmers suffering. Trump's very rich treasury secretary feigns empathy.

www.rollingstone.com

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 21h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 22h

Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families?

Now you know.

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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

Oh god

They’d use that size 128 crisis font with headlines like “America Stands Up” or “The Silent Majority Speaks” over full screen images of the most patriotic-looking crowds they could find

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.

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Julie Laumann ❌ 👑 @julielaumann.bsky.social · 12h

Old enough to remember Kushner complaining about @cnn.com's coverage of his father-in-law during a meeting with Time-Warner executives – an implicit threat to block its merger with AT&T unless they were nicer to Trump. www.wsj.com/articles/jar...

Back then, CNN refused to bend the knee. No longer.

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 19h

CNN editor-in-chief Mark Thompson, following a While House meeting, sought to soften the news network's coverage of President Trump's demolition of the East Wing, claiming viewers aren't that interested in the story, according to the Status newsletter.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 21h

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live.

Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps:

* Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled

* Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Marc Lobliner post on X: "Why the hell are we giving food stamps to 40 million people?

Does anyone work anymore?"

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 17h

Trump ally Mike Davis to food stamp recipients:

“Get off your fat, ghetto asses.”

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✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨ @the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 23h

Only two states voted unanimously across all counties for the same presidential candidate.

The contrast is striking. 🔴🔵

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CajunBlue 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨Three Star General Russel Honoré (rt) calls out President Trump's proposal to deploy the National Guard in U.S. 1/2

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon on Chicago: "[Greg Bovino] was filmed lobbing a tear gas canister into a crowd...deliberately trying to provoke a confrontation."

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 3d

New: "Trump Crypto Partner Suspends CEO With No Explanation After Stock Falls 74%"

me, for @forbes.com

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Trump Crypto Partner Alt5 Sigma Suspends CEO With No Explanation After Stock Crashes 74%

Alt5 Sigma suspended Peter Tassiopoulos just two months after the company announced a $1.5 billion deal involving the Trump-backed World Liberty Financial.

www.forbes.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

FYI: it’s, uh, *not nothing* that the head of an entire Christian denomination — here Rev. Karen Georgia A. Thompson of the United Church of Christ — issued a statement decrying DHS agents for shooting one of her pastors in the face with a pepper round, adding, “No one is safe from tyranny."

"Peaceful protest is guaranteed under the first amendment. The escalation of aggression against peaceful protestors is a sign of the times, another reflection of the cruelty directed at people, and lack of regard this current administration has for the constitution and the law. No peaceful protestor should be afraid of exercising their rights, in fact no person should be afraid to exercise the freedoms guaranteed.
This is the third identified clergy to experience pepper spray in the face. No one is safe from tyranny."

Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia A. Thompson - United Church of Christ

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Per @chicagotribune.com, the pajama-pants-guy is a former county prosecutor.

And he had some things to say. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/25/c...

A different video captured after agents unleashed tear gas showed plumes of smoke billowing down the street as the crowd's piercing shouts and whistles reached a fever pitch.
Onlookers scurried to the sidewalk to get away from the chemicals, with one neighbor, Brian Kolp, seen walking away barefoot and in Chicago Blackhawks pajamas.
Kolp, 41, said he was drinking coffee on his couch and watching the news as he always does on Saturday morning when he saw what's become an all-too-familiar scene unfold outside
his window.
Two U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents were tackling a man to the ground on his front yard.
Meanwhile, Kolp's TV continued to blare a news segment discussing the ongoing temporary restraining order restricting federal immigration agents' use of tear gas.

Kolp, a former prosecutor with the Cook County State's Attorney's office, sprang into action as he sometimes wondered he would have to do
throughout the Trump administration's
"Operation Midway Blitz" these last two months.
He didn't even have time to put on his shoes or change out of his pajamas, he said, drawing jeers from one of the agents as he screamed
"Nazis!" and "Gestapo!" at the agents.
"Quite honestly, when all this started happening, I thought to myself that if the opportunity ever came my way to have to get involved in one of these situations, I was certainly going to do what I could to make sure that they weren't openly and flagrantly violating the law or the Constitution," Kolp said. "And yet, they just went ahead and did it anyway."

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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 1d

“That's like an existential threat for congressional power…How do you negotiate a longer-term spending deal…when you don't believe the executive branch is going to implement whatever choices it is that you put into that law?" Via Reuters

US government shutdown threatens the spending power of Congress

As Republican and Democratic lawmakers trade blame for the U.S. government shutdown, some have begun to worry that the impasse is ceding their authority over federal spending to an increasingly assertive President Donald Trump.

www.reuters.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2d

An embarrassingly obvious point, but...

This. Is. Illegal.

If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed.

In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...

Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business

President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...

www.cnn.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

In a wealthy neighborhood in Chicago, immigration agents hopped the fence of a US citizen’s home and tried to pull a construction worker out a 2nd-story window. Homeowner came home to blood all over his house. www.msnbc.com/the-weekend-...

'Jarring, frightening attack': Chicago homeowner describes immigration raid at his home

MSNBC exclusively obtained security footage of federal agents targeting construction workers at a home in the wealthy Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. Leo Feler, who owns the property, joined The Wee...

www.msnbc.com

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Julie Laumann ❌ 👑 @julielaumann.bsky.social · 1d

Truly visionary.

Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, so lemme get this straight, expanded trade with Non-China countries - not blanket tariffs on their imports - can give the US better economic/geopolitical leverage vs China?

What a novel strategy! 🙄 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, so lemme get this straight, expanded trade with Non-China countries - not blanket tariffs on their imports - can give the US better economic/geopolitical leverage vs China?

What a novel strategy! 🙄 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Brown M&Ms www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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