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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21h

NYPD announces that zero arrests were made at the massive No Kings protests today after Republicans spent days claiming the protestors are violent terrorists.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

The 30-second video from the National Republican Senatorial Committee is raising alarms among many observers who warn it crosses a new boundary in politics and could unleash a flood of AI-generated deepfake attack ads.

A GOP attack ad deepfakes Chuck Schumer with AI

The 30-second video from the National Republican Senatorial Committee is raising alarms among many observers who warn it crosses a new boundary in politics and could unleash a flood of AI-generated deepfake attack ads.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Welcome to the largest day of peaceful protest we’ve ever seen in our lifetimes.

Today, we’re gonna speak out on a grander scale than Trump has ever seen. No Kings Day is going to be big, loud, boisterous, and joyful. Find your local event and let’s make history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE #NoKings

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 2d

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 3d

There are currently 16 data centers in Scotland.

They use enough tap water to fill 27 million bottles per year.

And that number has quadrupled in just four years.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year

The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.

www.bbc.com

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No Kings.

Frogs ok.

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

We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life.

And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.

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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 3d

We've said it before and we'll say it again: New York State law protects trans students.

We'll keep fighting until all trans students, in Massapequa and beyond, have the right to use the bathrooms and locker rooms that align with their gender identity.

Massapequa district cannot enforce transgender bathroom policy, state education commissioner rules

Betty A. Rosa issued her ruling following an appeal by the New York Civil Liberties Union.

www.newsday.com

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 4d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 3d

Trump found another $20 BILLION to give to Argentina, totaling their bailout to $40 BILLION.

Yet we can’t afford to prevent millions of Americans from losing their healthcare.

Shame.

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Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 3d

That's right. It was unlwaful then, and it's unlawful now.

Trump must stop his cruel attacks on our dedicated federal workforce.

NBC News @nbcnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks the layoffs off thousands of federal workers during the shutdown, calling the White House move illegal.

Judge blocks Trump's shutdown layoffs, calling them illegal

The Trump administration began laying off federal workers on Friday as the government shutdown enters its third week.

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 3d

The US is on track to lose its measles elimination status this year or early next year.
The current public health leadership seems intent to ignore the outbreak until more children die avoidable deaths.
The vaccine is the most effective way to end the outbreak.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/more...

More measles in South Carolina as US nears 1,600 confirmed cases

www.cidrap.umn.edu

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Dan Friedman @dfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

A lot of these guys are in their 30s. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.politico.com

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 9d

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 6d

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 7d

Trump’s presidency has been defined by the decay of public information sources and dismantling of public health institutions.

So firing the people who produce the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Report certainly tracks.

Donald Trump's war on public health enters a new phase

Another bad day at the CDC

www.motherjones.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7d

Exactly.

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 8d

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Sara Partridge, PhD @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 8d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 7d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social · 9d

HANDS OFF TISH JAMES.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 9d

I give shit to Jeffries (and Schumer) when they suck, so it’s also important to recognize when they’re doing it right.

This is doing it right. More of this, indeed. *Everyone* involved in the corruption of this administration MUST face consequences for their actions.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 12d

Vaccine disinformation/misinformation is as damaging as banning vaccines because it accomplishes the same thing i.e. fewer people get vaccinated as a result.
RFK. Jr's agenda doesn't need to explicitly take vaccines off shelves to meet its goals pseudoscience and misinformation are doing the job.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 12d

Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to hospital administrators for breakthroughs in surliness

OSLO - Today the Nobel committee announced that they have awarded this year’s prize in Physiology or Medicine to everyone who works as an administrator in a hospital for breakthroughs in surliness and...

www.thebeaverton.com

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