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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 6h

Russians are shocked by the surge of hatred toward Russia in Europe over the past four years. How could that be? Why?

It doesn’t occur to them that maybe invading a neighboring state has something to do with it.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 1h

Both, I reckon. 😅

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 2h

Some thoughts for young men on investing.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 2h

13 October 1915 | A Dutch Jew, Jacob Batavier, was born in Aarlanderveen. A tailor.

In #Auschwitz from 17 November 1943.
No. 163452
He perished in the camp on 31 January 1944.
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Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Vintage black and white portrait of a man wearing a suit and striped tie.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h

Marge does appear to be the only Republican congressperson who is actually concerned for her constituents. I haven't seen any interest in any other reps in doing anything that helps their voters. It's simply not a topic of conversation for them. It's only all about Trump and what Trump wants.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Jeffies on Marjorie Taylor Greene: "It does seem to many of us that she's had a surprisingly enlightened few weeks."

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 2h

IDK how anyone could continue to call themselves a journalist without asking this question every single day.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 2h

What did Tom Homan do with the $50K he took in a CAVA bag from undercover FBI agents?

Just keep asking this everyday. Its a big scandal they can't escape because Pam Bondi and her DOJ killed the investigation. They're cornered on this and the Epstein Files.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2h

Wait. We get paid?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Sean Duffy says the No Kings protests this Saturday are “really frustrating” because they are all paid Antifa people.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

All discovery from DOJ due tomorrow, whether they like it or not. (They don't.)

“Under no circumstance shall the failure to reach agreement with respect to a protective order justify withholding prompt disclosure of discovery to defense counsel for review,” the judge wrote.

Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 2h

Major setback for Trump DOJ as judge unexpectedly asks for evidence of a crime

www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-...

Trump admin suffers blow in James Comey case

The Trump administration lost a bid to delay evidence sharing in the DOJ’s case against ex-FBI Director James Comey.

www.newsweek.com

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1h

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

Parking Signs

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

Phang: We know that there is a move by 99% of the Republicans locked step with Trump and countless still unidentified billionaires and politicians to keep this from moving forward. How do we know? Because Speaker Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva…

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

“Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your health care plan?

@SpeakerJohnson: *attacks the ACA and says Republicans are the party of wanting to fix health care🤔 even though they have no plan, sabotaged the ACA, just cut $1 trillion from health care*

#MedicareForAll

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

"To try to win the support of Senate Democrats, Republicans have suggested they’d promise to *hold a vote* on extending the ACA subsidies after the government reopens, which is very different from actually extending them." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

There is zero chance that US companies continue to eat the tariffs. Smaller companies can't, and the big ones who afford to will place their stock holders over their customers. They've all been holding back, hoping TACO Trump will backtrack or come up with solutions, but they won't do this forever.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

"Through the first months of Trump's new trade regime it is U.S. companies that are footing the bill for his tariffs, and passing on some of it to the consumer - with more price hikes likely..."

www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

How the United States is eating Trump's tariffs

U.S. companies and consumers are bearing the brunt of the country's new import tariffs, early indications show, contradicting assertions by President Donald Trump and complicating the Federal Reserve's fight against inflation.

www.reuters.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

I know I tell this story all the time, BUT

Pete Hoekstra, Trump's current ambassador to Canada (& to Netherlands in Trump 1) told me when he was first being considered that he had no proof of naturalization. (He came to US when he was 12.)

He had been HPSCI chair for years before that. [corrected]

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 5h

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1h

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

Just in case the dramatically low Leni Riefenstahl-style angle was too subtle, they used a word from her most famous movie

Time magazine cover featuring a photo of Trump from a dramatically low angle

HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1h

A Boston débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting V. R. Lang—who died at 32—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing lines of the 20th century. Anthony Lane writes about a forgotten queen bee of modern poetry.

V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry

A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing poetry of the twentieth century.

www.newyorker.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

"There is, however, one big difference between Trump’s trade policy and China’s. Namely, the Chinese appear to know what they’re doing."

How Trump Is Making China Great

Why we’re going to lose the trade war, and much more besides

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

The textual and historical evidence for limiting the president's power to fire executive officials is much stronger than the justices have suggested, he argued.

“In the face of such ambiguities, I hope that the justices will not act as if their hands are tied."
www.rawstory.com/humphreys-ex...

'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning

The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal ...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

“Bombshell!” posted University of Chicago law professor William Baude on social media. “Caleb Nelson, one of the most respected originalist scholars in the country, comes out against the unitary executive interpretation” of the Constitution.

www.rawstory.com/humphreys-ex...

'Bombshell!' Ex-clerk to Clarence Thomas sends shockwaves with Supreme Court warning

The U.S. Supreme Court seems almost certain to side with President Donald Trump in an upcoming challenge to his authority to fire government officials for any reason, but a leading conservative legal ...

www.rawstory.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1h

A UVA law professor, former Clarence Thomas clerk and a leading originalist scholar whose work has been cited by all of the court's conservative members in more than a dozen opinions, published an article Sept. 29 for the Democracy Project that has sent shockwaves through the legal community.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

It's not the best strategy for the next 2-4 years (or rather, 2-4 years is medium term).

The best strategy for the short term is:
1) Get 3.5% of the population in the streets protesting
2) Peel off 4 Senators and 8 Congresspeople

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 3h

This is an essential. "Democrats need to beat the Trumpists in elections that we ensure are free" is the best strategy for the next 2-4 years. But it is not a long-term strategy! The only possible long-term strategy is that someone else needs to defeat the Trumpists for control of the Repub Party.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 6h

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1h

Finally watched John Oliver on Bari Weiss. That felt cathartically personal.

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[The Great War & Modern Memory] @ps9714.bsky.social · 6h

Crooked rivers often are.