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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 11h

October 29, 2025

Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 16m

“Peter Thiel’s protégés: a common thread runs through Trump’s tech team” 5/21/25 … 1/ fortune.com/2025/05/21/p...

Peter Thiel’s protégés: a common thread runs through Trump’s tech team | Fortune

Vice President J.D. Vance and Elon Musk are among Thiel's Silicon Valley collaborators that now find themselves in Trump's D.C. circle.

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Over 2/3rds of Volkswagen Chattanooga workers have voted to authorize a strike.

They say the company is not guaranteeing contract language that would keep the plant open. More details in our newsletter today

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2/3rd of Volkswagen Workers Fight to Strike - 132 Killed in Rio - AFGE Rank-and-File Resist Leadership

While the UAW did not release the strike vote authorization number, wnder the UAW constitution, a 2/3rd majority is required to call a strike. The UAW has stated that they reached that threshold easil...

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Michael Froomkin @mfroomkin.bsky.social · 14h

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5d

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Pentagon Accepts $130 Million Donation to Help Pay Troops During Shutdown

www.nytimes.com

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Florian Oswald @floswald.bsky.social · 8h

The @python.org foundation is fundamental in maintaining python. Y'all are waiting for the huge benefits of AI to materialize? Good luck without a working python ecosystem. Trump has cut funding, because they are here for everyone ("diverse and international"). You can chip in, 25$/year. #econsky

Python Software Foundation @python.org · 3d

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language

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Alan @alangisaac.bsky.social · 20h

#EconSky

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

Today is Casey Means’ confirmation hearing! Looking forward to watching her attempts to convince the Senate HELP Committee that she’s not a quack running a metabolic snake oil cartel over Zoom from her luxury functional obstetrics compound in Hawaii 👇🏻

www.c-span.org/event/senate...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

Known as the Battle of Blair Mountain, this was the largest labor uprising in US history and the largest armed uprising since the Civil War. For a month, 10,000 coal miners confronted some 3,000 company guards, state soldiers, and strikebreakers. Nearly a million rounds were shot.

Washington Times headline reads: Air Fleet Ordered to W VA Battlefield.

A West Virginian coal miner holding a gun.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 7h

This whole thread is truly worth your time.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 8h

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 17h

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 7h

Cövid is seriously SHIT for your 🫀

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Long-term cardiovascular complications in COVID-19 survivors according to disease severity - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Long-term cardiovascular complications in COVID-19 survivors according to disease severity

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 18h

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

We checked the Department of Homeland Security's viral videos of chaos and protests. What we found were months-old, misleading clips, some recorded thousands of miles away.

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Rebecca Joy Bingham @rebeccabingham.bsky.social · 7h

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Rebecca Joy Bingham @rebeccabingham.bsky.social · Sep 24

1.1 million • Total US casualties in major #military conflicts since the Revolution

1.2 million • Total US Dead from #Covid, so far. Additional 300/wk still dying. That’s a plane crash a week.

Please share these powerful lessons from Margaret Heffernan on the dangers of #WillfulBlindness

#Data

Total confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 (deaths)
1.23 million

Total US war casualties since the Revolution
1.1 million

Rebecca Joy Bingham @rebeccabingham.bsky.social · 7h

#wastewater

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Climate, Ecology, War & More by Dr. Glen Barry, BigEarthData.ai @bigearthdata.bsky.social · 7h

Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid
->STAT | #vaccinated #health care #covid | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai

Health care workers under 65 must be vaccinated against Covid

The discussion around health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s changes to Covid vaccine recommendations have focused on two things: the exclusion of pregnant women and infants, and the restrictions on anyone under 65 without an underlying condition getting the vaccine...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 7h

“Who’s going to pay for people to have food & healthcare? You?”

Yes. That’s the point. We all pay & everyone benefits.

I would gladly contribute my fair share to ensure no one is left behind.

I want my tax dollars to feed & house people. I want them to have medical care

This shouldn’t be radical

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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 20h

🚨Wow - this will be huge if it bears out. Exit polls show the pro-EU D66 party has WON the Dutch election.

The far-right PVV party of Geeet Wildsrs has lost 12 seats, according to exit polls.

Huge if true.

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 21h

To follow the path of former Nazi scholar Carl Schmitt wld mean investing in “systems that permit violence against scapegoats” in an effort to “postpone the far greater violence of the apocalypse.” The “‘strange new thoughts’ Thiel wanted his audience to entertain were…largely those of…Schmitt.” 1/

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 13h

Exactly this — vaccines help prevent hospitalisation and death, but they don’t stop infection or transmission. That’s why masking is still so important. 😷

Source: x.com/TaylorLorenz...

The post shows a tweet from journalist Taylor Lorenz responding to a tweet by David Moscrop. Moscrop mentions getting his annual flu and COVID shots, noting it should reduce illness and transmission. Lorenz replies, emphasizing that current COVID vaccines do not significantly prevent infection or transmission, warning that some vaccinated people may take more risks believing they’re fully protected. She adds that vaccines help prevent severe outcomes and death, but urges people to wear masks to stop infecting others.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 22h

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

Looking like the election in the Netherlands has taken an interesting turn if the first exit poll is anything to go by.

The Far Right’s Geert Wilders has already conceded.

Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says

Rob Jetten's D66 party celebrates, two years after his party languished in fifth place in the last vote.

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 1d

Wrongfully Convicted Pennsylvania Man Who Spent 43 Years in Prison Detained by ICE After His Release, Faces Deportation | Just moments after his release, Subramanyam Vedam was taken into custody by ICE officials & is currently being held at an 1,800-bed immigration detention facility in central PA.

Wrongfully Convicted Pennsylvania Man Who Spent 43 Years in Prison Detained by ICE After His Release, Faces Deportation - Bucks County Beacon

Just moments after his release, Subramanyam Vedam was taken into custody by ICE officials and is currently being held at an 1,800-bed immigration detention facility in central PA.

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