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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

RFKJr decides to gut the CDC entirely.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 4h

The theocratic dictatorship that funded Hamas, gifted a $400m jet to Trump, and contributed billions to Jared Kushner's fund will have a military facility on US soil.

Axios @axios.com · 11h

NEW: Qatar will build an air force facility at Idaho's Mountain Home Airbase, the U.S. and Qatar jointly announced today.

Qatar to build air force facility on U.S. base in Idaho

Laura Loomer and other MAGA figures expressed shock and outrage, but the deal was long in the making.

www.axios.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Kristi Noem orders a video in which she delivers a political speech attacking Democrats to be played on continuous loop in airports all across the US. This is a violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits civil servants from engaging in political activity inside federal buildings or while on duty.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Video of Kristi Noem blaming Democrats for Trump's shutdown rolling out at TSA security checkpoints across the country.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5h

They literally sprayed teargas in the vent of his costume. Sadistic torture for being mocking the fuhrur and his storm troopers; only that.

And you know that happened? The frogs multiplied.

That's in Future Rick Perlstein's book.

We shall overcome.

youtube.com/shorts/g0kt6...

'Frog' protester recounts being pepper-sprayed at protest outside Portland ICE facility

YouTube video by KATU News

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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 4h

The Army has suspended in-progress permanent-change-of-station moves by soldiers for the entirety of the federal government shutdown, leaving some families in limbo. (from @wyattwolson.bsky.social)

Army leaves families in limbo with suspension of in-progress PCS moves

The Army has suspended in-progress permanent-change-of-station moves for the entirety of the federal government shutdown, leaving some families in limbo.

www.stripes.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 4h

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Actually, Jeremy, the Founding Fathers largely believed that it was perfectly reasonable to have Baptists and Christian Nationalists, like yourself, publicly flogged because of your heretical views.

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 2d

The MAGA right’s cynical effort to rewrite the history of January 6 reached a new but seemingly inevitable low this week. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/cal...

Calls for retaliatory prosecutions are the next phase in the right’s rewriting of January 6

www.mediamatters.org

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DCCyclone @dccyclone.bsky.social · 5h

It's actually perfect to make wingnut Trump trash Idahoans eat this shit.

Emily @emilyyour8.bsky.social · 8h

June 2017 Trump: Qatar is funding terrorists!!!

May 2025 Qatar: Here's a $400,000,000 bribe, I mean plane!

Oct. 2025 Trump: Qatar needs an airbase in Idaho!!!

The quid is pro quo-ing all over the place.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5h

He actually does get into it extensively in the interview. Wilson is very clear about what he means.

believe that Muslims and Hindus could be assimilated in an ideal republic at decent rates of speed, and that assimilation would be hand in glove with evangelization, because people would be coming to fit into this Christian society. But right now, they're coming in a parasitic way, I believe, to devour a rotting empire, and that's because we don't know who we are. We don't know what we stand for. We don't know what we think. And so consequently, you've got that
90-foot-tall Hindu statue in Texas.
Douthat: Right. That should be illegal, in your view.
Wilson: Oh, yeah. Well, I think that sort of thing — there shouldn't even have to be a law.
Douthat: Right.

Wilson: Nineteenth-century America was a monkey house of communes and different things — that's all true. But the 90-foot statue, those sorts of things, are taunts. It's not, "Here's our freedom, we're just trying to worship in our own quiet little way." It's sort of, "I wonder how far we can push this before somebody says something."
Douthat: OK. So there's a "no taunting the Christian majority" soft policy.
Wilson: Right.

You mentioned earlier a CNN interview you did which asked about women voting, and you said ideally in families ——
Wilson: Households.
Douthat: Households would cast a vote, and the decider would be the husband.
Wilson: Right.
Douthat: Single women, if they were heads of household, would have a right to vote.
Wilson: Correct.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 5h

Look, I get critiques of *how* someone conducts an interview.

But Wilson’s congregants include the Sec. of Defense, who invited a pastor in Wilson’s denomination to lead the first of a recurring worship service at the Pentagon.

If anything, it’s odd it took this long for outlets to interview him.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 9h

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 5h

Ingraham appears still not to understand that these tariffs are paid by US consumers, not by China.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 6h

🧵:
The world’s extremely poor are also often extremely remote, with limited access to healthcare & health education. In many developing countries, the government—often with the help of the UN and, until this year, USAID—maintains health posts that bring these services to people living off the grid.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

Is Kid Rock ok? He's looking like an ad for a place called Thrifty Dialysis

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6h

Note: This isn't the first time the Trump admin has used an apparent AI-generated image prominently on a govt website.

They also appear to have done it on the "America Prays" website, which initially had an image of George Washington praying that differed oddly from the original painting (right).

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 6h

Press needs to assume everything McLaughlin says is a lie. On Saturday within an hour or so of it happening, she was tweeting about the woman they shot and
Everything
She
Said
Was
A
Lie

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 8h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 7h

Does genuinely seem like a bad thing that every rich person is completely deluded now

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. Since the pandemic, he has mostly lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, where he has bought up numerous parcels of land. He said that he wasn’t sure how many days he spends each year in San Francisco ..”

@nytimes.com $CRM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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meh 🎃 @mharvey816.bsky.social · 6h

"Pepsi is never ok!"

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3d

How does he keep getting these exclusives?!?

A fake image of Jesse Waters interviewing the same person as in all the videos in the quoted tweet, except this time with Darth Vader's helmet on and the caption "Former Jedi Speaks Out".

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h

At the rally in support of Leticia James today, a huge turn out from the New York legal community. Mamdani speaks. Cuomo is a no-show, as usual.

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Kris Stoever @krisstoever.bsky.social · 8h

not the behavior of legitimate LE. They're outlaws.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 10h

Like look. You can just watch it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away.

More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 10h

This shit is crazy because they're just straight up on video hitting a car that was blocked in the street. The extent as to which DHS now just brazenly puts out lies is utterly obscene.

CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 11h

UPDATE: In emailed statement to me / @reason.com, DHS alleges that WGN-TV producer Debbie Brockman "threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer."

Screencap of email from DHS public affairs: Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin:

“U.S. Border Patrol was conducting immigration enforcement operations and when several violent agitators used their vehicles to block in agents in an effort to impede and assault federal officers. In fear of public safety and of law enforcement, officers used their service vehicle to strike a suspect’s vehicle and create an opening. As agents were driving, Deborah Brockman, a U.S. citizen, threw objects at Border Patrol’s car and she was placed under arrest for assault on a federal law enforcement officer.

“This incident is not isolated and reflects a growing and dangerous trend of illegal aliens violently resisting arrest and agitators and criminals ramming cars into our law enforcement officers. These attacks highlight the dangers our law enforcement officers face daily—all while receiving no pay thanks to the Democrats’ government shutdown.”

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