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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 4h

JB Pritzker says NO KINGS, SHOW UP ON 10/18

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

Finally, Pritzker says more Dems must sound the alarm, though he notes some exceptions (like Chris Murphy).

"I am surprised that more leaders have not stood up," he says.

He urges people to join No Kings protests to let the country know something's wrong. 5/5

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

"D’Souza, in an act of humiliation rarely seen outside of rent-by-the-hour motels, apologized and promised to 'wash my mouth.'"

Why Is Megyn Kelly Afraid to Take on Candace Owens?

Right-wing media’s old guard is scared of its younger, crazier rivals.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 12h

Virginia Gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger (D): "she does not think that gay couples should be able to marry...she thinks it's ok for someone to be fired from their job for being gay"

Winsome Earle-Sears (R): "that's not discrimination!"

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Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 11h

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17h

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Mike Gehrke @mikegehrke.bsky.social · 16h

Geez...How many Venezuelan fishing boats does a guy have to blow up before they give him a peace prize?

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 19h

Hot new fusion cuisine: Norwegian TACO 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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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote"

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine to limit absentee voting & impose voter ID requirements.

Important reporting from Zeteo's new political reporter @andrewperez.bsky.social

The Supreme Court’s Dark Money Man Is Trying to Make It Harder to Vote

Leonard Leo’s network is bankrolling the main donor behind a ballot initiative in Maine that would limit absentee voting and impose voter ID requirements.

zeteo.com

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 16h

the smoking popes are back!

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 17h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 16h

fleabag from the show fleabag looking horrified and offended (because she shags a hot priest)

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Brett "Solidarity 2025" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 17h

Our enemies are cowards, and we're going to defeat them.

By frog.

Be it by chicken.

Be it by ballot box.

Be it by shield.

We will win.

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 17h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 18h

Exactly. "Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans." wapo.st/3VTALll

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

wapo.st

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 22h

so i'm hooking up my research tool to it the sdk to see if can get it to work. If that works, it'll become what i use for anything agentic. It used to be i learned code from these things now things that can be done with code are getting turned to these models and not sure that's effecient.

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 22h

Yes. this is so true. The only agentic system i've found that works consistently in the range of acceptable to very good is Claude code. I was figuring out these ways around to use it for work but then they came up with the sdk which doesn't use the plan but i found a workaround iwth another model

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

Big presence on the beaches of Normandy in 1944 too.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

Annals in sane-washing. When I checked NYT, WSJ, Politico, and WaPo for a story abt how Trump invited PizzaGate guy to the White House and declared an end to the First Amendment, this single story that mentioned it was on top of WaPo. Now it's buried.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A story headlined, Trump builds case for deploying National Guard to Chicago, Portland The president said he would pursue designating antifa a "foreign terrorist organization" and called for Democratic officials in Chicago to be jailed.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday looked to bolster his public case for deploying the National Guard to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, cities where he claims Democrat politicians have failed to protect journalists and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from people whom he sees as left-wing domestic terrorists.

Trump said during a televised meeting at the White House that he would pursue designating antifa as a “foreign terrorist organization” — a label that would allow for key financial and legal penalties because foreign entities are not protected by the First Amendment. Proponents of antifa — a political protest movement composed of unaffiliated groups — militantly oppose fascism, right-wing ideologies and are often anti-capitalist or anti-state.

Trump also repeated a call he had made earlier in the day for Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, both Democrats, to be jailed, accusing them without evidence of “failing to protect” ICE officers who have been sent to the city.

His statements and other remarks given by top aides during a 2½-hour event laid out a legal and moral case for the administration’s push to send National Guard troops into U.S. cities. Designated foreign terrorist groups can face financial sanctions imposed by the Treasury Department. The Justice Department can prosecute supporters under enhanced charges of providing “material support” to a terrorist group.

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 1d

ok, we are absolutely in the biggest bubble ever. not since the tulip bubble - AI Agent Startup N8n Nets $2.5 Billion Valuation With Backing From Nvidia - Bloomberg share.google/jrOGmubOJz3B...

AI Agent Startup N8n Nets $2.5 Billion Valuation With Backing From Nvidia

N8n, a German startup that helps businesses deploy artificial intelligence agents, has raised $180 million to compete in a crowded market that includes OpenAI.

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 1d

the best healthcare system in the world!!! girl who is alive because of heart transplant may not be able to stay alive because of health insurance. An organ donor gave her his heart. But now she can’t afford the life-saving medicines to keep it beating | The Independent share.google/fAQOIylqDApL...

An organ donor gave her his heart. She can’t afford the medicines to keep it beating

Exclusive: A heart transplant recipient tells Rhian Lubin how she feels a health insurance company is ‘gambling’ with the gift of life from her donor: ‘If they let me go into rejection, they’re not ju...

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta love twitter - Priest shot in the head by ICE. Community note: He desreved it

He is antifa.

Community notes:
Officials have confirmed he refused to obey a lawful order and was trespassing.

Second community note:

Although allegedly a minister, the cleric in the video is a known antifa activist and agitator. The post gives the impression of an innocent bystanding priest being assaulted by ICE, which is most probably what the video is meant to achieve.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

notably doing better than pope pius xii here

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 2d

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Kombiz Lavasany @kombiz.bsky.social · 1d

wait, trump is giving Qatar security guarantees now because Bibi's attacks on Qatar backfired? it is a good thing that Qatar's adversaries are all even bigger client states of the US, but wow. share.google/86p1AlGoDLiY...

What to make of Qatar's diet Article 5 protections

Trump "may well have intended it one way, and the region could interpret it in another," said one expert.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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