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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 8h
Counterpoint: Protest is patriotic
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h
Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 8h
Senators are demanding answers from Deloitte and other companies about errors in eligibility systems for Medicaid, following a KFF Health News investigation exposing problems that resulted in people losing health benefits.
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Senators Press Deloitte, Other Contractors on Errors in Medicaid Eligibility Systems - KFF Health News
As contractors position themselves to cash in on a gush of new business managing Medicaid work requirements, a cadre of senators has launched an inquiry into the companies paid billions to build eligi...
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David Nir @davidnir.com · 8h
Some background on the "Qatari Emiri Air Force facility" planned in the western U.S. --> sofrep.com/news/qatari-...
Qatari Fighter Jets Over Idaho?
Folks in Idaho will be seeing F-15Q fighters with Qatari air force markings and no, they are not lost.
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Josh Moody @byjoshmoody.bsky.social · 10h
MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
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Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h
“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h
“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h
News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 2d
Ask Mike Benz and Michael Shellenberger about all the lies they told to help accomplish this. Ask Joe Rogan about how he nodded along mutely while hosting Benz on his show while he spouted bullshit about “CIA fronts”.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2d
Naumovski first got involved in American political content around 2016, when North Macedonian teenagers churned out pro-Trump content, and a former Fox News executive hired him to help with social media.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2d
Half a dozen Republican lawmakers share Naumovski's content about American politics that he runs with a Florida company from his home in Macedonia. He explained this year that he's never been to the US on a tourist visa, because he refused to show Covid vaccination./
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 2d
NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America
Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 8h
Who was president in 2020?

Senate Rs spent hours Wed insisting a Biden Censorship Regime was in power.

It’s ridiculous on its face—but dangerous in its purpose.

If you can convince people of that lie, you can justify what Trump is doing now. It’s “just payback”.

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Who was president in 2020?
On pressure, coercion, and confrontations with reality
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 1d
I want to highlight this excellent piece by @noupside.bsky.social and @rachelkleinfeld.bsky.social on the rapidly shifting information & media landscape. Domain experts and the institutions that support them must rapidly change tactics to meet the moment.
For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies
To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 6d
"Beyond social media scams, women journalists have also increasingly been the target of pornographic deepfakes used to harass and blackmail them, and deepfakes created to fuel disinformation campaigns and push political narratives."
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 6d
Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them? www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/scam...
Scammers are using video deepfakes of journalists to peddle products online
Broadcast journalists around the world are being targeted amid an explosion in deepfake scams. Are social media platforms doing enough to counter them?
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 4d
Today, MSNBC (newly independent from NBC News) and CBS News (now led by Bari Weiss) shared their new journalistic principles. A close reading shows some striking differences. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/msnb...
Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different
CBS: "America," "American," "all of the tools of the digital era," and speed. MSNBC: Press freedom, the First Amendment, and ethics.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 1d
The United States contains about 660 million acres of public lands and waters. Re:Public (the name is a play on words; it will publish stories regarding the public lands of this republic) plans to find stories on as much of that land as possible. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/repu...
Re:Public is reporting stories about the lands that belong to all of us
The new publication, from former Outside Magazine EIC Chris Keyes, will focus on longform stories about the 660 million acres of public lands and waters in the U.S.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 20h
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

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Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20h
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h
"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.
Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History
Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 1d
NYT World:
The vast majority of cocaine is produced and smuggled elsewhere. And Venezuela does not supply fentanyl at all.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs
President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d
It’s fun to imagine how little his and his allies’ rhetoric would change if the prize Trump was so desperate for wasn’t the Nobel Peace Prize but “Sexiest Man Alive.”
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 21h
Did a quick post earlier to reinforce that in the places where Trump says crime is out of control crime is demonstrably under control.
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Pablo De La Rosa @pablodelarosa.bsky.social · 21h
Thread on the latest from Across The Americas — In many cultures, caring for the needy is a litmus test for societal health. In the U.S., Trump's key legislation boosts border security by $170 billion, while cutting food aid for millions. (Photo: World Central Kitchen)
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SFDB @sfdb.bsky.social · 23h
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Political cartoon from Pat Bagley comparing Capitol Police during the January 6 Capitol riot and ICE agents targeting the Statue of Liberty, commenting on shifts in law enforcement focus and civil liberties in the United States, with text reading How it started and How it's going.
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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 21h
The title verse of “We Shall Overcome” and most of the others are in the future tense. One verse is in the present: “We are not afraid TODAY.”

That is the most important message for our current moment. If you can “afford” to be fearless, do it.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h
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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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