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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 21h

(🚨) NEW at PROOF: It is 8PM the night before Election Day, and *this* is the breaking news the whole world should be talking about.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump’s Involvement in An Apparent Obama Assassination Plot Was Just Discovered—Then Systematically Covered Up

As America heads to the polls in early November, this would seem to be the biggest legal and political scandal US media is by and large doing nothing to draw voters’ attention to. Proof has the story.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

The Education Department has hired at least 9 people from the America First Policy Institute, co-founded by Secretary Linda McMahon.

The think tank’s listed goals include ending the separation of church and state and “plant[ing] Jesus in every space.”

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Matthew McKee @mckeeinnovation.bsky.social · 7h

The event planner for this shindig either is just as myopic as the GOP or this was the meme setup of the decade.

Tzippy Shmilovitz @tzipshmil.bsky.social · 9h

happy to see more and more of @mollyjongfast.bsky.social in the NYT. this is excellent.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Great Gatsby’ Party Did Not Accept SNAP

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 9h

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 9h

If you haven't voted, and you have an election today, GO VOTE NOW.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 8h

Dick Cheney was proud to have normalized state-sponsored torture. That, and the dead of Iraq in an unjust war, constitute his entire legacy. “That’s not funny” is a meme-y cliche but I don’t care about the friend he shot or our jokes about it. Cheney is Kissinger level. He made the world worse.

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 8h

Well, hell. Looks like I'm going to need to drink more coffee. Dick Cheney died and I'm going to need a full bladder for the funeral.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans threatening us with a good time again.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Johnson: "If they had no filibuster, they would pack the SCOTUS. You'd go from 9 to 17 or however many liberals they could pack. You would make DC & Puerto Rico into states, which would give 4 additional Democrat senators & make us a permanent minority. You'd see massive restrictions of 2A rights"

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 8h

Dick Cheney was a cruel bureaucrat who made corrupt institutions more abusive. Officials in those institutions then surrendered what was left of their morals to accommodate his evil vision. In time, those institutions became even more corrupt. What politicians say today will be revealing of the rot.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 16h

The Trump administration COULD fund the entire SNAP program in November

They decided to only PARTIALLY fund the program-and only after a court said they must

Why partly fund it

Because they think it’ll force Democrats to end the shutdown

They’re starving Americans to play political games

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

Advocates say some tactics used by officers to target Latinos in Trump’s deportation effort draw from Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s playbook.

“The model was Maricopa County — the very public, very humiliating, demoralizing approach to the raids, and the cruelty.”

With @azluminaria.org

This County Was the “Model” for Local Police Carrying Out Immigration Raids. It Ended in Civil Rights Violations.

Under Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County was one of the first testing grounds for ICE’s 287(g) program, which lets local police enforce immigration laws. Many Arizonans say those abuses parallel…

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 8h

fyi for the folks who say left media should promote dems when they fight back the right way

Top Democrat blasts GOP for its ‘pedophile protection program’ www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Top Democrat blasts GOP for its ‘pedophile protection program’

On Monday, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused President Donald Trump and House Republicans of operating a “pedophile protection program.” House Speaker Mike Johnson has refused to ...

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Matthew McKee @mckeeinnovation.bsky.social · 7h

“The Trump regime keeps taking big, bold, incompetent, evil, stupid swings in the hope of looking too powerful for anyone to be able to fight back against it. And they keep missing.”

Palmer Report @palmerreport.com · 8h

Donald Trump just caved

Here’s the thing about the current Trump regime: it desperately, desperately wants you to believe it’s all powerful and getting away with everything. Why? The more it can create that appearance, the more likely people are to give up trying to fight against the Trump regime. After all, not that many people are willing to…

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 2d

REAL TALK - IS TRUMP FUCKING HIGH RN?! Nigeria is the most populated country in Africa with 237 MILLION people. Also its 45% Christian or 106 million. GN has been fighting a counter insurgency against Islamic terrorists for DECADES.
we were helping them stop Boko Haram.
GET HIM OFF ADDERAL

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · Sep 7

I did NOT approve this.

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · Sep 7

I did NOT approve this.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4d

Certain things are DEEP and complex and nuanced … and some shit is only nuanced because thy don’t like who is saying it

Now a white man is saying it , maybe they’ll listen

Jay @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 4d

He ain’t lyin’

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Matthew McKee @mckeeinnovation.bsky.social · 3d

Someone who has stocks in AI startups and is afraid their money is being burnt to heat a pot that will never boil.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 3d

A middle school kid just came to the door dressed as "An AI Overlord." I asked if she was good or evil. "Evil, of course." I laughed and said the future was in good hands, to which she replied, "No, it's not."

Protect these kids at all costs.

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Matthew McKee @mckeeinnovation.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah my FIL was doing that in the 90’s , and he would go through a lot of potatoes.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 4d

@sulliview.bsky.social This will interest you— as an opportunity lost. bsky.app/profile/jayr...

Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 4d

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.

During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

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Josh Cohen @jcohenwrites.bsky.social · 4d

Crosscut is dead. Long live Crosscut. Today’s the official last day for me and my Cascade PBS newsroom colleagues. We did good work over the decades and it is supremely sad to see it shut down.

Empty cubicles in the Cascade PBS newsroom

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Matthew McKee @mckeeinnovation.bsky.social · 3d

IRS will know who worked at ICE for sure.

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Matthew McKee @mckeeinnovation.bsky.social · 3d

So speaking of that. Has anyone proposed the formation of community truth & reconciliation committees to find, expose, and prosecute those responsible for this situation?

We need to start organizing these and letting it be known this waiting for them at the end.

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Matthew McKee @mckeeinnovation.bsky.social · 3d

Sane.

Matthew McKee @mckeeinnovation.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t threaten me with a good time.