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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

So dangerous that they must be blown into small pieces rather than arrested … unless they are actually captured in which case they may go home with a warning. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 12h

Style.

Alejandro Alvarez @aletakesphotos.bsky.social · 14h

Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 12h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Popehat Or Danger of Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

/7 the best sign. I saw so far said "you sucked in Home Alone 2"

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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 12h

Fave so far #phoenix #nokings

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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 12h

No Kings Phoenix

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Landguy @landguyminor.bsky.social · 16h

No kings Americans!!!
Apalachicola protest. This town might have 2500 folks. Ten percent are out here!!
#nokings #blueskyartshow #photography #protest

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 15h

#NOKINGS

New York City, NY

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Just an incredible opening to this NYT interview with Zohran Mamdani:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

You sit, according to the polls, on the cusp of a historic political victory. You would be the youngest mayor in a century. You’d be New York City’s first Muslim mayor. You’d be its first democratic socialist mayor.

I wouldn’t actually be the first democratic socialist mayor.

Who would it be?

David Dinkins was a member of D.S.A., he identified also as a democratic socialist.

Thank you for the correction.

Very welcome.

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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 1d

this is the explainer on the recent crypto sell-off criss you've been looking for. Clear and thorough assessment by
@molly.wiki

www.citationneeded.news/anatomy-of-a...

Anatomy of a crypto meltdown

October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

www.citationneeded.news

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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 1d

sometimes you need a break from bleak news. here ya go:

wapo.st/4qgx1s6

Toddler safe after German shepherd tracks her for hours in cold dense woods

The 2-year-old left her fenced yard and wandered in the New Hampshire woods for hours as search parties tried to find her.

wapo.st

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 2d

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 1d

And discovered by an amateur satellite tracker:

"Tilley regularly monitors satellites from his home in British Columbia as a hobby. He was working on another project when he accidentally triggered a scan of radio frequencies that are normally quiet"

www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

A classified network of SpaceX satellites is emitting a mysterious signal

An amateur satellite tracker stumbled across the signal, which is coming from Starshield satellites in a "hidden" part of the radio spectrum.

www.npr.org

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Dave Jamieson @jamieson.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Sidney Reid, the DC woman just found not guilty of assaulting an FBI agent, issues a withering and gutsy statement on Trump through her attorneys.

"I feel sorry for the prosecutors really, who must be burdened by Trump's irrational and unfounded hatred for his fellow man."

It's a must-read:

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Joe Rojas-Burke @rojasburke.bsky.social · 2d

#KavanaughStops

Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Penn joins MIT and Brown in saying “no” to Trump extortion move.

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

www.thedp.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 2d

Cloudflare recently updated millions of websites' robots.txt files in an effort to force Google to change how it crawls them to fuel its AI products and initiatives.

Inside the web infrastructure revolt over Google’s AI Overviews

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand.

arstechnica.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 6d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 6d

‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app

Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging

www.theguardian.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6d

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 8d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8d

I wonder how many ICE dudes read Anne Frank’s diary in high school and thought, “I’d have gotten her sooner.”

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 10d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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