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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 5m

Yup, they did actually; they voted to enrich Trump and his cronies.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4h

American farmers be like, “this is what I voted for”. 🥴

Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 9m

This is what it looks like when you don’t vote because you don’t think the fleece guy looks scary.

Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 10m

UVA’s interim president has genuflected wannanbe King Don.

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 16h

UVA "agrees to be bound by [DoJ's] 'Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination,' ensuring that UVA does not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities." bluevirginia.us/2025/10/brea...

Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 10m

UVA’s interim president has genuflected wannanbe King Don.

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 16h

UVA "agrees to be bound by [DoJ's] 'Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination,' ensuring that UVA does not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities." bluevirginia.us/2025/10/brea...

Today, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement with the University of Virginia (“UVA”) that will protect UVA’s students, faculty, and employees from violations of federal civil rights laws, including from discrimination based on race, sex, or national origin.

As part of the agreement, the University of Virginia agrees to be bound by the Department of Justice’s “Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination,” ensuring that UVA does not engage in unlawful racial discrimination in its university programming, admissions, hiring, or other activities. UVA will provide relevant information and data to the Department of Justice on a quarterly basis through 2028. The President of UVA will personally certify each quarter that UVA is in compliance with the agreement. The Department will pause its pending investigations into the university’s admissions policies and other civil rights concerns. The United States shall treat UVA as eligible for future grants and awards. If UVA completes its planned reforms prohibiting DEI at the university, the Department will close its investigations against UVA.

“This notable agreement with the University of Virginia will protect students and faculty from unlawful discrimination, ensuring that equal opportunity and fairness are restored,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division. “We appreciate the progress that the university has made in combatting antisemitism and racial bias, and other American universities should be on alert that the Justice Department will ensure that our federal civil rights laws are enforced for every American, without exception.”

Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 3h

Oh and bring back and bolster #USAID because our soft power protected the US.

Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 3h

Hegseth’s #TopGun cosplay shows the military gets way too much money. Take away all the money not used is protecting or helping Americans (that includes all funding of deployments against US). Use it to fund education, healthcare and combatting food insecurity.

#Hegseth must be fired.

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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 3h

Hegseth’s #TopGun cosplay shows the military gets way too much money. Take away all the money not used is protecting or helping Americans (that includes all funding of deployments against US). Use it to fund education, healthcare and combatting food insecurity.

#Hegseth must be fired.

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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 3h

Yup, this is what Woody Johnson’s legacy at the NYJets is. Seriously search Johnson and dysfunction and NYJets.

CPFC - never let him or his kids anywhere near the locker rooms or the personnel offices.

Steve Brewer @sjbrewer.bsky.social · 2d

NFL Jets fan cosplaying as a Spurs fan

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11h

Corruption goes courtside.

A screenshot of a post on X from Andrew Cuomo showing him sitting courtside at Madison Square Garden next to Mayor Eric Adams.

The tweet says: "No better way to celebrate winning tonight's debate than making it to the @nyknicks game in time for the 2nd half."

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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 3h

What the hell is he so busy with when the House hasn’t worked a full month in 4 months? Ahhh, avoiding swearing in the 218th vote to release the #EpsteinFiles and covering for Trump’s Regime must take up a lot of time.

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Renee (paix120) @paix120.bsky.social · 8h

At least someone in media is calling him out on this BS 🤪

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 13h

Mike Johnson doesn't know sh*t

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8h

The U.S. government has often lied about things but I think it’s genuinely remarkable that we’re in an era where almost every public statement contains at least one lie.

Kyle Pfannenstiel @pfannyyy.bsky.social · 13h

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were.

The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.

FBI backtracks on denying children were zip tied in Idaho raid, saying instead no ‘young’ kids were • Idaho Capital Sun

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in raid in Wilder, Idaho, FBI says no "young" children were.

idahocapitalsun.com

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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 3h

Ooooffff

#WhiteHouse destruction by Trump and Google and Meta and Clark construction and the NYJets and Palantir and a host of other corporations that got huge tax breaks for their owners from Trump

Everything Hat Ever Sent You Is Off The Record @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.

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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 3h

The Washington Times - a “conservative” losing the Washington Times.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/oc...

‘He lost us’: Generals, senior officers say trust in Hegseth has evaporated

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has lost the trust and respect of some top military commanders, with his public “grandstanding” widely seen as unprofessional and the personnel moves made by the former ...

www.washingtontimes.com

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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 3h

How is Platner even in the discussion? Nazi tattoos are never acceptable. Even drunk, if you get one you’re an idiot, at least. You wake up sober and don’t get it removed, you’re into Nazis. That’s it. Having confirmation he’s a bigot is just added evidence it was his thing.

EktaShahMD @ektashahmd.bsky.social · 9h

Oh look platner js not only racist and Nazi antiBlack and antisemitic

But he is also anti LGBTQIA and this was during Trump 1.0

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 8h

people keep saying Platner is "contrite" and WHERE. I haven't seen it. They're just assuming he is because of COURSE you apologize for having a NAZI TATTOO but he actually hasn't done anything of the sort! He's continuing to brush it off as a funny story.

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 22h

Somehow the “saying you’re sorry” part has dropped clean out of the list of things that are supposed to happen on the way to people granting you forgiveness

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 4h

The rush to defend Platner from some Democrats is the real story, in my opinion. It’s inexplicable. There’s plenty of time to find another Jack Reacher guy—and properly vet him

Dan Izzo @izzos.us · 20h

People really need to wrap their heads around HOW ATTENUATED our election cycles have gotten.

They're acting like the Maine primary was a race between Platner and Mills only and it's too late for anyone else to jump in.

The deadline to REGISTER FOR IT is in MARCH!

Go out and recruit SOMEONE ELSE

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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 4h

Failson Woody Johnson among the useful idiots to Trump involved in #WhiteHouse destruction by Trump.

Still can’t believe he has a stake in #CPFC. His bigotry should have been a bar.

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 15h

Alphabet
Altria
Amazon
Apple
Blackstone
Booz Allen Hamilton
Carrier
Caterpillar
Coinbase
Comcast
Google
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin
Meta
Microsoft
New York Jets
OpenAI
Palantir
Reynolds American
Ripple
Roblox
T-Mobile
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Tether
Union Pacific Railroad

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 10h

A Lockheed Martin vice president said the company “is grateful for the opportunity to help bring the President's vision to reality , … a powerful symbol of the American ideals we work to defend every day.”

Let Lockheed Martin know what you think of its support for Trump’s East Wing demolition.

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 7h

These companies:
• Apple
• Amazon
• Microsoft
• Google
• Comcast &
• Meta
are financing Trump’s destruction of the White House’s East Wing.

Contact these companies & let them know whether you approve of their helping Trump demolish a landmark.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/p...

Apple, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Google, Coinbase, Comcast and Meta are just some of the major companies who have made donations to build President Donald Trump's
proposed 90,000-square-foot ballroom, according to the White House.

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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 5h

This is why Democrats refused the clean CR that Trump and the Republicans wanted. This is what Trump & Repubs did in their “big beautiful bill” - they gave all sorts of tax breaks for billionaires permanency and gave Noem a private army and raised health insurance costs ridiculously for millions.

Jennifer Shin @jennifershin.bsky.social · 20h

This 👇👇👇

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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 5h

#WhiteHouse destruction by Trump

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Wait! So Trump lied about the East Wing not being touched—and now about the ballroom price tag too?

The cost suddenly ballooned to $300 million.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10h

Wait! So Trump lied about the East Wing not being touched—and now about the ballroom price tag too?

The cost suddenly ballooned to $300 million.

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Mena Burke @menaburke.bsky.social · 5h

Defund ICE. Make the rule of law great again.

Larry Houston @larrytoons54.bsky.social · 6h

New: Today we publish a report from ProPublica detailing just how unaccountable ICE is as it carries out arrests & raids across the country. Former federal officials say Trump is weaponizing the agency.
“We’re at an inflection point in history right now."

www.investigativepost.org/2025/10/21/u...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

“we’ve gutted our newspaper, chased off most of the talent, and turned our opinion page into a low rent WSJ clone

somehow this is not attracting new subscribers, better gut it some more”

what a disgrace

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 11h

Some news: The Washington Post is preparing to cut newsroom staff even after several high profile exits. Bezos’ new opinion editor has privately told people The Post is in “severe financial distress.” Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/washington...

Pain at The Post

As morale sinks and top talent exits, staffers at The Washington Post are bracing for more pain ahead of the holidays—raising questions about Will Lewis’ leadership, nearly two years into his tenure a...

www.status.news

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Richard Bellavance @richardbellavance.bsky.social · 14h

« The browser from OpenAI [...] doesn’t just log which websites you visit; it also stores “memories” of what you look at and do on those sites. It can even grab control of your mouse and browse for you. »

Oh, HELL NO.

A web browser doesn't need any sort of integrated AI, much less an "AI agent".

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