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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1h

“Trump administration officials have expressed confidence that they will continue to win at the Supreme Court — where the president has racked up multiple victories this year. That might make them less concerned with activities in the lower courts.”

They believe they own John Roberts …

Skeptical judges increasingly question administration’s veracity

Judges have increasingly shown exasperation with Trump administration court tactics. The White House has shot back, raising tensions to previously unseen levels.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 7h

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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

www.nytimes.com

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Mzbitca @mzbitca.bsky.social · 1h

yep it's the double edged swords of creating characters people over identify with or love. For them no problems is what they want for themselves so they want it in their media. Those creating the media want to explore reality and conflict

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Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 1h

Someone at the TVL NYCC panel asked if the writers had considered "solving" the louis-lestat-armand love triangle with a throuple and the response was an emphatic NO (lol) and i have a take brewing that readers/fans are drawn to imagining solutions where writers are more about loving problems

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1h

it's a sickness, and I say that as someone who writes fanfic now. "rooting" for a fictional character to succeed in life like they're a real person to the point where you get angry with the writer when they don't is demented and antisocial

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Sara Hinkley @boneysoups.bsky.social · 1h

which is why fandom as a site of exchange between writers and readers/fans is also a site of contestation. some fans really seem to hate the creators of the thing they love, as if they resent their power to impose problems. even when they don't there's for sure a kind of jockeying that goes on

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Dan McCrum @mccrum.bsky.social · 2h

This isn’t funny. Judges only speak to the press when they’re in extreme distress

Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 6h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

“This is not sustainable”

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2h

Time for those Black students to revive direct action protests. Many of them know the history & legacy - it's why they are on these campuses in the first place. Time to do their part in the ongoing struggle.

Calder 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ktg48.bsky.social · 2h

UNC just removed their long-standing space for the Black Student Movement to gather, in yet another stunning capitulation to the toddler-man’s anti-DEI demands.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3h

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Cohen is a Ghost @skullmandible.bsky.social · 5h

"even if it's AI, it's at least true" hard to overstate the damage this stuff is doing to people's brains. we're gonna be cleaning the slop out of archives for decades

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 3h

Yo this is wild AF

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
www.instagram.com/p/DPoq7b9Fez...

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 13h

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Same day that the US announced a $20 billion bailout of Argentina that will benefit Trump's political allies and donors.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 4h

Conservatives in the 90s: We should cut government funding for higher ed and let them operate more like companies.

<Universities adapt to a more corporate system, substantially increasing costs>

Conservatives today: Academia is broken, so the government should fix it by dictum!

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Does this make more sense?

headline adjusted to read: Academia is Broken. Trump University Can Help Fix it

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.bsky.social · 4h

Anyone with even basic first aid (which police have to do) could have spotted this as a stroke! This was yet another racist murder by cops.
Stop viewing Black people as disposable.

AND even IF it had been drugs they didn't know which ones and if he was ODing!
Ending stigma around drugs saves lives.

Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 19h

Horrific. A 50-year old black man had a stroke & was confused from it. Cops didn’t want to “waste time” doing a thorough evaluation for a medical emergency, assumed it was drugs, & simply threw him in jail. He died

A tragic example of the cruelty of structural racism

www.kare11.com/article/news...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 16h

This kind of partisan political message, under the guise of a public service announcement, is illegal on several levels.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

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

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Beth S Linas, PhD, MHS @bethlinas.bsky.social · 14h

Good lord. The MMWR is a hallmark of public health practice. Firing its editors will impact you and how your local health department functions.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 13h

Read this as "Our lawyers were on the way before the footage finished airing"

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18h

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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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Nicholas Wallace @wallace.bsky.social · 14h

Funny that you don’t hear the phrase “heckler’s veto” so much these days

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 14h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18h

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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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 16h

there's really just zero motivation for Ds to negotiate when they're saying things like this. if they're just going to rule by recissision anyway, might as well make them admit they're gutting the fillibuster in order to destroy healthcare.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 20h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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