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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 4h

More Insta snaps from the let them eat cake ball at Mar a Lago

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2h

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago.

He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

Reuters @reuters.com · 2h

Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians reut.rs/4qBrVXy

Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he has asked the Defense Department to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government "continues to allow the killing of Christians."

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1h

Confirmation from TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of War/Defense/whatevs Pete Hegseth.

Pete Hegseth * O
@PeteHegseth
Yes sir.
The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria
— and anywhere — must end immediately.
The Department of War is preparing for action. Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 1h

The moment Trump dies, this will be the sum total of the GOP. It took them 60 years, but the Dixiecrats finally took over the entire party.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2h

America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling

The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.

www.theatlantic.com

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Megan O’Toole @meganotoole.bsky.social · 1h

Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue

Satellite images show most el-Fasher civilians likely still trapped

Latest images suggest that majority of 260,000 civilians still in captured city, as mass RSF killings continue

www.middleeasteye.net

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

The deeply unprofessional masked goons are now going to subcontract their bounties to completely unprofessional armed goons. Awesome.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10h

“Under the plan, bounty hunters may receive “monetary bonuses” depending on how successfully they track down their targets — and how many immigrants they then report to ICE.”

Or ICE could just fund the Klan directly.

ICE Plans Cash Rewards for Private Bounty Hunters to Locate and Track Immigrants

Companies hired by ICE would be given bundles of information on 10,000 immigrants at a time to locate — and paid cash bonuses for performance.

theintercept.com

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this corrosion says unban Łink @roguesecunit.bsky.social · 1h

Reminder to la migra who would take advantage of Día de Muertos to carry out their ghoulish work:

You, too, have ancestors.

And your face coverings do not hide you from them.

Photo of a Día de Muertos ofrenda (Day of the Dead altar). It’s dark; the light of several candles show that there are photographs of people, a pack of cigarettes, a rosary, a few small bottles of alcohol, a novena candle, and other objects that have been left as gifts of remembrance.

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WCVB NewsCenter 5, Boston @wcvb5.bsky.social · 1h

JUST IN: Harvard University released three photos of two suspects wanted in connection with an overnight explosion on the medical campus.

📸 Courtesy: Harvard University

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JikissGamer @jikissgamer.bsky.social · 2h

As a Syrian-American and a native Arabic speaker, this gets the arab stamp of approval lol.

I can tell his Arabic instructor is Egyptian based on the dialect here. Love it!

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2h

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 2h

it’s illegal to be mean to me

tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 2h

Like North Korea with Kim Jong Un, it will soon be illegal to hate Donald Trump.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2h

Old: The US might illegally attack Venezuela.

New: The US might illegally attack Nigeria.

If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians! WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump posts crazy stuff like this at times where he feels like he’s not getting enough attention and wants people to start talking about him again. It’s deranged, narcissistic behavior.

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Ben Penn @benjaminpenn.bsky.social · 3h

Scoop: FBI ousts senior official after Kash Patel’s fury over news of his use of government jet to see girlfriend perform. The removed head of critical incident response group was 27-year FBI veteran who oversaw aviation sections.
news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/fbi-o...

FBI Ousts Leader as Patel Fumes Over Attention to Agency Jet Use

The FBI forced out a senior official overseeing aviation shortly after Director Kash Patel grew outraged about revelations of his publicly-available jet logs indicating he’d flown to see his musician ...

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2h

guy just loves peace, what can you say

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

Trump threatens to invade Nigeria "guns-a-blazing.”

“I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians!”

Trump: If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. Will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, "guns-a-blazing," to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians!
WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT
BETTER MOVE FAST!
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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

So there were some AI-generated videos that purported to show Black women ranting about SNAP benefits, and... Fox News is reporting on this like these are real people. They're not! They're AI!

This is truly insane. Total unreality. www.foxnews.com/media/snap-b...

CULTURE TRENDS
SNAP beneficiaries threaten to ransack stores over government shutdown
One mother claims taxpayers must feed her children as
SNAP benefits face cuts
By Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi • Fox News
Published October 31, 2025 2:16pm EDT

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Pamela in CA @pamica.bsky.social · 3h

This was $4.99 last year

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

It is now illegal to be anti-Trump. - per Dicktator Donnie.

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Tim Dooley @tdooley.bsky.social · 6h

When I got out of college, I rented a room in my buddy’s double-wide. He was a firefighter. I was a firefighter. I made $26,000 that year and had 0 kids. He had 3 kids, 2 jobs, rented out a room - and still needed food stamps to make ends meet and put good food on the table for the kids.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net.

In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:

SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more

Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10h

Tell me you haven’t actually *read* The Great Gatsby without telling me you haven’t actually read it…

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 20h

Trump is holding a Great Gatsby/Roaring 20s-themed party at his private club in Palm Beach tonight as he tries to withhold SNAP and health care subsidies from millions of Americans. (via Kellie Meyer)

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 20h

I think a lot about how Halloween has been fucked up for the last 5 years. At the beginning of the pandemic we put runners on our porch so we could stay well more than six feet away and still give out candy. Now we have to patrol our neighborhood for stormtroopers looking to kidnap people.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 1d

Loads of families are currently trick or treating from business to business and parking lot to parking lot along 26th Street in Little Village. There’s also loads of rapid responders with vests and whistles patrolling making sure families can enjoy the holiday in peace.

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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 7h

November 1: All Saints' Day, Day of the Dead, and the start of ACA open enrollment, when people start realizing that their out-of-pocket premiums are increasing an average of 114% due to expiration of enhanced tax credits.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

it’s ironic how nothing makes you sound more like you live in a weird little bubble than when you make the bizarre assumption that liberals in big cities have never interacted with a conservative before

Jakub Jaraczewski @jakubjaraczewski.bsky.social · 12h

The educated liberal big city US folks outraged at Trump's renovation of Lincoln bathroom really need to scroll some Facebook of their less established relatives and friends to see what kind of aesthetic resonates with Trump's target audience.

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Josh Cowen @joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 1d

This billionaire is trolling hardworking educators—and making jokes about gutting supports for special needs kids.

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 1d

A reminder that Musk is a mass murderer. It's not hyperbole.

Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · Apr 22

“DOGE’s latest efficiency is halting $500 million in food deliveries to the nation's food banks.”
@joshtpm.bsky.social

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