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VT Commons @vtcommons.bsky.social · 13h

Cracks in the wall.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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I, Scarecrowman ™️ (michael!) 🇧🇷 🇺🇦 @mikem.bsky.social · 1d

Someone chose violence

disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 1d

Jurassic Park is better than Les Misérables.

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 1d

We are in the second week of the Republican shutdown.

Where are House Republicans? On vacation.

Went looking around the Capitol to see if any Republicans had the common sense to come back. Featuring @mcbride.house.gov.

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I, Scarecrowman ™️ (michael!) 🇧🇷 🇺🇦 @mikem.bsky.social · 1d

Is that a chapter 11 reorg or a 7 liquidation

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 2d

It's giving ... Talladega Nights

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I, Scarecrowman ™️ (michael!) 🇧🇷 🇺🇦 @mikem.bsky.social · 2d

There are plenty of groups that want him dead

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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I, Scarecrowman ™️ (michael!) 🇧🇷 🇺🇦 @mikem.bsky.social · 2d

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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 2d

Law enforcement historically loves announcing their undercover operations ahead of time

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Under- cover Operations to Infil- trate and Uproot Leftist Terror Cells in Texas After Increased Political Violence

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I, Scarecrowman ™️ (michael!) 🇧🇷 🇺🇦 @mikem.bsky.social · 3d

You have google, why ask? But here

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fire destroys home of South Carolina judge who had received death threats

State’s chief justice says fire that sent three people to the hospital appeared to have been caused by an ‘explosion’

www.theguardian.com

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I, Scarecrowman ™️ (michael!) 🇧🇷 🇺🇦 @mikem.bsky.social · 4d

emphatic "no"

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competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 5d

wizard frog is insane

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5d

None of it was in pursuit of justice, but all of it was in pursuit of social media videos.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 9d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 5d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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I, Scarecrowman ™️ (michael!) 🇧🇷 🇺🇦 @mikem.bsky.social · 6d

TX is getting weirder by the day

www.tpr.org/news/2025-10...

Texas Supreme Court breaks with American Bar Association over law school credentials

Texas could be the first of several states to stop using the ABA for accreditation.

www.tpr.org

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Ozma @rowyourbot.bsky.social · 8d

Something in my gut made me delve into this subculture at one point. Maybe...something I saw about how it affects people's minds. I was online when it started. I rubbernecked--my husband would laugh at my weird reports. It frightened me but I wanted everyone to be right it wasn't a threat. Alas!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10d

perhaps instead of cowering under a blanket labeled "health care," democrats should respond and advance on the issues that move people. this, of course, would require a foundation of conviction and principle, which may be asking too much of the party's leadership and strategists.

After Volatile Summer, Trump’s Approval Remains Low but Stable, Poll Finds

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 10d

For those who may be unfamiliar, here’s the paragraph that is from:

but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10d

i’m the secretary of defense, and this is jackass

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 11d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

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I, Scarecrowman ™️ (michael!) 🇧🇷 🇺🇦 @mikem.bsky.social · 10d

dude is having an episode

QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion and targets Musk, T-Mobile and Warner Bros in rambling lawsuit

www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

MSN

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 11d

Jimmy Kimmel might’ve been their Pickett’s Charge.

Schefter: Bad Bunny is the Super Bowl LX halftime performer.

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