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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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pravetz.bsky.social @pravetz.bsky.social · 7h

This game started so long ago the pitchers wife has a SuperSonics tshirt

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pravetz.bsky.social @pravetz.bsky.social · 7h

Dang Polanco way to make some noise

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11h

This is absolutely disgusting

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11h

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

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 7h

They not only stop selling beer in the seventh but they straight up run out of food and stop serving anything. We were drinking bathroom sink water out of nacho helmets.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 7h

As someone who sat through a seven hour, 18 inning playoff game, let me tell u that everyone in that stadium is both freezing and starving lol

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 7h

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 7h

just toss a fucking coin and be done

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 1d

Yet again, the satirical media doing a far better job at conveying the truth than the mainstream press.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 14h

1. This AM we learned Bari Weiss sent an email to CBS News staff asking them to submit a memo explaining how they spend their time and what’s working/not working.

Now, the Writers Guild, the union which reps some CBS News staff, says it has sent a demand to CBS to get more info about Bari’s request

Dear Guild Members:
We are aware that Bari Weiss sent an email asking CBS employees to provide information about their jobs and feedback about CBS News. Many of you have expressed concern to us about the purpose of the email, and we share those concerns. That is why we sent the company an immediate demand to provide information about the email by Monday. (Information request copied below.) We suggest that you refrain from responding until we are able to share the information that we receive so that you can make an informed decision by the Tuesday deadline.
Solidarity,
Michael Isaac, Director of
Broadcast/Cable/Streaming News
Brandon West, Field Representative
Sophie Martin, Field Representative
Dana Trentalange, Field Representative

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🪡 Ether GhostLace 🪡 (she/her—illiteratis did this) @laceslibgremlin.bsky.social · 14h

Using inflatable costumes for protesting is actually an incredible way to cut through propaganda

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Terzilla Ford @bassdiesel.bsky.social · 10h

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 11h

This kind of kidnapping, whether it's otherwise law-abiding undocumented workers, or 🇺🇸 citizens, ICE thugs act like they get a bounty per head (they already get a $50K signing bonus), these goons would have been slave catchers back in the day.

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Bynum Demands End to ICE Raids After U.S. Citizen Allegedly Abducted by Masked Agents
Bynum compares ICE’s conduct to U.S. Marshals hunting down Black Americans under the Fugitive Slave Act.
By Anthony Effinger
October 09, 2025 3:34PM PDT

One of the ICE agents who apprehended Frank Miranda, a U.S. citizen, on Oct. 2, 2025 (courtesy of Frank Miranda). (Frank Miranda)

U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Ore.) called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop abducting her constituents, a week after ICE agents apprehended a Milwaukie man born in California on his way to work and detained him for part of the day.

“These ICE raids are reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act, when the U.S. Marshals would hunt down and kidnap Black Americans,” Bynum said in a statement. “That was a dark and shameful time in our nation’s history—we must not allow that to repeat. Masked federal agents aren’t welcome in our state and they can’t keep kidnapping Americans.”

https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/10/09/bynum-demands-end-to-ice-raids-after-us-citizen-allegedly-abducted-by-masked-agents/

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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pravetz.bsky.social @pravetz.bsky.social · 7h

Cal Raleigh like “don’t make me catch another inning”

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Jay Jaffe @jayjaffe.bsky.social · 8h

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

The president says there are very few stores left in Portland, Oregon, and the ones that are left are made of plywood.

I know we’re numb to this, but in any other time he’d have been removed by the 25th Amendment by now

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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pravetz.bsky.social @pravetz.bsky.social · 7h

Every inning is like watching Groundhog Day

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 9h

Who are these ICE agents? Who are these masked federal agents acting like the dictator’s cruel, lawless thugs? No really, who are they? We took a deep dive. Have a read.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

Who Is ICE?

That’s the problem—we don’t know.

open.substack.com

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 7h

anybody who's good at history want to tell me if it's good or not to starve your troops

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8h

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 7h

Historians sometimes say that when societies are descending into fascism, it can be hard for the people to notice it in real time. Well, historians of the future, I’m here to tell you: We are noticing. Millions of us are noticing. And we are horrified and enraged.

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.

newrepublic.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 8h

oh you want me to get excited because they have 2 on and nobody out lol it's like you think I haven't watched the last 13 innings

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 14h

Hot new item. Flying off the shelves.

Silence 🇺🇦🇺🇸 @b-dogood.bsky.social · 16h

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 14h

this man's name is written in the book of life

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 16h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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🍂k a r e n @andthenisleep.bsky.social · 1d

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