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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 14h

Republicans are pushing debunked anti-abortion propaganda as an excuse to rip mifepristone off the shelves and block women from getting abortion care.

100+ studies prove mifepristone is safe and effective.

SPEAK UP, we can't let them get away with this.

Nearly All GOP Senators Urge the FDA to Restrict Abortion Pills

The senators are asking the FDA to suspend its approval of generic mifepristone, which would heavily restrict access to abortion pills nationwide.

www.notus.org

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 9h

In case anyone missed this

Erdoğa said that Trump ended Halkbank’s criminal case after talks w him. He said that Trump told him “The Halkbank problem is finished for us.”

Halkbank was helping Iran evade taxes and launder billions.

Qatar and now this. The corruption is off the charts

Turkey’s Erdogan Says Halkbank US Case to End After Trump Talks

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said state lender Halkbank’s legal case in the US is due to be resolved following recent talks with President Donald Trump, prompting bank shares to rise.

www.bloomberg.com

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montygibbon.bsky.social @montygibbon.bsky.social · 9h

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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 15h

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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kathleenpolarb.bsky.social @kathleenpolarb.bsky.social · 9h

MontCo PA Visibility Brigade reminds Philly commuters to VOTE YES to retain our fair judges in PA! Don’t let billionaires like Yass buy our courts!
@visibilitybrigade.bsky.social
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
@governor.pa.gov
@maddow.msnbc.com
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

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Marni @marnigood.bsky.social · 4h

Ebola makes Covid-19 look like a walk in the park. It's one plane flight awaybfrom us. If it lands here now.......we're FUBAR!

HTT- yeah, you prolly know me. @httorg.bsky.social · 7h

Seriously.
As a public health scientist?
I cannot stress enough how poorly prepared this administration is for an ultra deadly & infectious disease like Ebola to make landfall here in the USA.
The best defense for the USA is fast resolution of an outbreak overseas.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 9h

RIFed:

Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.

You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)

Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

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HTT- yeah, you prolly know me. @httorg.bsky.social · 7h

Seriously.
As a public health scientist?
I cannot stress enough how poorly prepared this administration is for an ultra deadly & infectious disease like Ebola to make landfall here in the USA.
The best defense for the USA is fast resolution of an outbreak overseas.

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 9h

RIFed:

Several CDC staff currently working on an Ebola outbreak overseas.

You know — the ones literally helping contain and prevent it from spreading. (Like, to the U.S.)

Trust us: dying from Ebola is a MISERABLE way to die.

Ebola disease

WHO fact sheet on Ebola: key facts, definition, transmission, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, WHO response.

www.who.int

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 20h

Thoughts and prayers to Cosplay Cop Kristi who had to brave the dogs, farmer’s markets, capybaras, and marathon runners of Portland this week.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 4h

October 10, 2025

All of President Donald J.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Lizard Of Oz @lizardofoz316.bsky.social · 6h

This is a hair on fire situation.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 11h

At least there's a silver lining to this toxic, gaseous Taco cloud.

www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Steve Rattner warns the GOP: Health care cuts will hit red states the hardest

The former Treasury official said the data, which shows GOP-led states use ACA subsidies at a higher rate, has put Republicans under pressure.

www.msnbc.com

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 14h

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 12h

"President Trump continued to describe Portland as a city on fire Friday even as residents enjoyed the first fall rain and the lone demonstrator at the city’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement building was dressed as a pink Care Bear."

Sometimes there is a good sentence or two in the NYT.

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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 @andreasor.bsky.social · 12h

Gavin Newsom:

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 16h

There it is: $20 billion for Argentina at the same time they’re taking markets away from our farmers.

But no $ for health insurance for Americans?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 12h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 19h

A few minutes ago in the House:

- Speaker Mike Johnson officially cancels votes next week, extending the House recess through a fourth week

- House Republicans block Democrats from passing a bill to pay the troops during the shutdown, ensuring they will miss paychecks next week

House Press Gallery: During today's pro forma session, the Clerk read a message from the Speaker designating Tuesday, October 14 through Sunday, October 19 as a district work period.

Punchbowl's Briana Reilly: House gaveled in and out of its pro forma just now w/o recognizing Rep Elfreth, who was seeking to UC a mil pay bill from Rep Sykes.

Elfreth told reporters after that House Dems stand “ready and willing to take” up standalone legislation to pay troops.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18h

Farm bankruptcies are back in the news, so it's time to pull this chart out again.

Hey look they kept rising during Trump's first term. Then they went way down under Biden.

Now they're up again? So weird. Thanks Farm Bureau for the graphic

Screenshot from Farm Bureau article on farm bankruptcies. It shows farm bankruptcies climbing steadily 2014-2020, falling by half in 2021, & continuing to fall through 2023.

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Marni @marnigood.bsky.social · 11h

SMH.....
Crazy & wrong on so many levels

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12h

OH. MY. GOD. 🫠

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 12h

OH. MY. GOD. 🫠

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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: It looks like the number of federal layoffs -- so far -- is over 4,000, we've learned from court documents

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

White House Signals Federal Layoffs Have Begun During Government Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

"To focus on the 'woke left' as a threat to liberalism in America in late 2025 while soft-pedaling the threat from the authoritarian/populist right that now holds the levers of power is a sign of either extraordinary myopia or bad faith."

Bari Weiss, CBS News, and the Triumph of Faux Balance

The record of the Free Press shows her journey from independent to MAGA fellow traveler.

www.thebulwark.com

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 13h

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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