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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 9h

Go away, Andrew.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 18h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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Noreen Folan Essenberg @noreen900.bsky.social · 7h

Cuomo is so done.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9h

tell me more about republicans being the pro-business party.

www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

NoKings.org

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Noreen Folan Essenberg @noreen900.bsky.social · 7h

100%!

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 9h

"Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy"

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV, writes Zeteo's @swin24.bsky.social:

Trump’s Addiction to Watching Fox Is Killing American Democracy

Our country is falling apart because one old man, Trump advisers and former administration officials say, won’t stop ‘yelling’ at his TV.

zeteo.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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Ed @ed3d.net · 11h

cut from the team right at the gates

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Noreen Folan Essenberg @noreen900.bsky.social · 7h

Shameful!

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 12h

Fact check:

@propublica.org is an outstanding news organization that does fact based reporting. The work is credible, reliable, timely and without fear or favor. If you aren't already familiar with ProPublica, give it a read: www.propublica.org.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 9h

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 9h

Goodnight 🌙

Fuck Trump flying to Israel to gobble up all the credit.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

💯

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 11h

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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KimberlyD-AZ @kimberlyd-az.bsky.social · 2d

OK, so I deleted an earlier post about the Nobel Peace Prize because hooooboy I am confused on that, but this story is still awesome.

It's especially cool because this discovery was made possible by a serendipitous tag-team effort from different research teams on different continents.

Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 6d

I know the news is tough right now.

So take a moment and soak in the gorgeousness & promise of the science that led to this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology.

WOW.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded for Work on Immune Systems

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 9h

Trump is ramping up his attacks on a free press and on freedom of expression in this country - and it should frighten every single one of us to the core.

#ResistTrump

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

"Horror isn’t merely about being scared: It’s about hopelessness and misery. What else is there to be frightened of? They’re the basis of the genre. This can be seen even in Beaumont’s most seemingly run-of-the-mill and ostensibly 'basic' short stories."

The Hopeless Horror of Charles Beaumont

The writer died before his fortieth birthday—but left behind an influential catalogue of stories and unforgettable Twilight Zone episodes.

www.thebulwark.com

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Noreen Folan Essenberg @noreen900.bsky.social · 8h

Fu** off. Such a mean witch.

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 9h

Sounds like his second annual physical went well.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 9h

Crowds protesting a spike in fuel prices spilled into the streets of Ecuador’s capital of Quito Sunday, burning tires, blocking roads and facing off against police officers who responded with volleys of tear gas.
https://to.pbs.org/48nR0Pb

Demonstrators in Ecuador clash with police amid strike over fuel prices

Sunday's protest was the latest confrontation in a series of nationwide demonstrations now testing Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa. Ecuador’s largest Indigenous organization called the strikes 21 day...

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 9h

This *ought* to be a clarifying moment for the evangelical right

Sure would be if anyone else said it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 9h

More like Code Stink.
People like this are absolutely appalling.
I reckon it's self hate.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

This takes awhile to get going but it’s worth watching the whole thing

LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1d

Really remarkable how Andrea uses the Klein/Coates conversation to produce so much clarity about the moment we're in.

You don't have to swallow frogs. Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

TikTok video by degenerateartnews

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

The Supreme Court’s 2025 term will decide critical election and voting rights cases that could reshape American democracy. I explain what is on their docket and what cases deserve your attention.

Please watch and share.
youtu.be/0iKo6YdLxhA

Supreme Court's SHOCKING New Agenda Revealed!

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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