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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

AOC: I don't care if someone likes me or not. That will never change the fact that I'm going to fight for them to have health care. I want MAGA to have health care. I want MAGA to be paid a living wage.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 6h

"We want to be very aggressive where we can be in shuttering the bureaucracy," Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought also said. "Not just the funding, but the bureaucracy, that we now have an opportunity to do that." https://to.pbs.org/3W4Qezh

Federal workforce shutdown cuts will 'probably' exceed 10,000, Vought says

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said in an interview Wednesday on “The Charlie Kirk Show” that many more workforce cuts, known was RIFS or reductions-in-force plans, are planned a...

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone needs to do this: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Tell Congress: Pay our troops during the Trump shutdown and ensure federal workers get back pay

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

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Mjkwho @mjkwho.bsky.social · 3h

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

I just keep thinking for all the damage Trump is doing unchecked, forgiving student loans was just too far.

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Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @repyassansari.bsky.social · 11h

I sat in the room with Mike Johnson as Epstein’s survivors told their stories. He looked them in the eyes and promised accountability.

Now he’s blocking the vote to release the files. Swear in Congresswoman-elect @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social—now.

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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 8h

Malala Yousafzai Thought She’d Never Fall in Love www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/p...

Malala Yousafzai Thought She’d Never Fall in Love

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11h

Well-known internet personality Robby Roadsteamer makes fun of ICE and calls them Nazis. They prove his point & come out to arrest him for trespassing after shoving him over the property line.

Just like Russia, if you protest the regime, men with guns come to take you away.
youtu.be/HHTuJ7P8YiM?...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

At least he has UAE, Qatar and the Saudis giving him billions, along with millions of MAGA rubes buying his baubles and trinkets.

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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 10h

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Temporarily Blocks Layoffs During Federal Shutdown www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Temporarily Blocks Layoffs During Federal Shutdown

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 12h

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a noted Bible enthusiast, says ICE shooting a praying pastor with pepper balls is just fine. Is there a new version of the Bible that I missed?

My column on the GOP’s faith-based hypocrisy:

www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

www.usatoday.com

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 15h

Remember just a few years ago when the entire press corps ridiculed Bernie Sanders for politely suggesting that billionaires have influence over the media properties they own?

And remember how none of them ever apologized or admitted he was absolutely right?

Good times.

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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 15h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

Before Alaska Flooding, E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant

www.nytimes.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social · Jul 16

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There is no “elite pedophile ring conspiracy” when it’s this open.

They told us who Epstein was.

They told us what he did.

And STILL

Congress said “Nah, let’s keep those files sealed.”

The cover-up is policy.

#Congress
#EpsteinFiles
#EpsteinList

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

I presume that orchestra people have vicious stereotypes about clarinetists that could be deployed here. I once heard three performers riff on violists for ten minutes and it was frightening.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 16h

Again, I will mention, for no reason, that my high school bully went on to work for ICE.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 17h

Hamas comes out of hiding and immediately starts killing fellow Palestinians.

Maybe the leaders of Hamas and the upper tiers of the Israeli regime should be shipped to a deserted island to work it out, and let everyone else to lead their lives.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

E.P.A. Canceled $20 Million Flood Protection Grant to Alaska, Parts of Which Just Flooded

The remote village of Kipnuk planned to use the money to protect against flooding. On Sunday, it was inundated.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible photo from @chicago.suntimes.com ‘s Anthony Vazquez. Pointing what looks to be a teargas launcher at someone’s head at nearly point blank range is incredibly dangerous. This is why I prefer a ballistic helmet in the field.

Feds ram SUV in chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd

The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N on Chicago's East Side, resulting in dozens of residents showing up to protest the federal immigration agents.

chicago.suntimes.com

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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 1d

Tim Walz is the ONLY guy the democrats have that can bring farmers and ranchers back to the table. He's it.

I'm from a multigenerational ranching family. I'm a co-owner today. I exist in the ag world and nobody is talking to them. Walz can break through, and that's important.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 1d

NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population.

Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient.

Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

And so much more important work.

But they’re destroying it all.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

The entire economy depends on this horseshit so it's your patriotic duty to ask the computer to honk your bingus several times a day

The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Kate Rothwell @kroth.bsky.social · 1d

"why was he running?"
Oh, I dunno. . . maybe because you guys knock people down and drag them off? youtu.be/A1xximZcDNA?...

"He's a Citizen!" - ICE Tackles & Detains American Teen in Chicago

YouTube video by Save America Movement

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