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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 2h

Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?

Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.

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Sarah A @sarahleeab.bsky.social · 1h

1 in 5 kids goes hungry every day in North Carolina. Join the fight for free, healthy meals for every NC public school student with the link below and tell legislation to prioritize funding for school meals (Farm to School, SUN Bucks and SNAP).

- School Meals for All NC

schoolmealsforallnc.org

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Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 8h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 15h

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 14h

my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re assigning articles you should have students download the link from the library instead of just posting a PDF to increase the author’s metrics and the journal’s as well.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 4d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The NYTimes was not able to rule out the possibility that Donald Trump was actually filmed wearing a crown and flying a jet that doused Americans with diarrhea.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

"Brown liquid" ftw. I thought they'd at least acknowledge the consistency. I also love the "appeared to be AI." I think it's pretty safe to conclude he didn't have the whizzes at Industrial Light and Magic whip that up for him.

Trump Posts Fake Video of Himself
Flying a 'King Trump' Jet Over
Protesters President Trump shared what appeared to be an A.I.-generated video on social media. It shows Mr. Trump wearing a crown and
flying a jet that dumps brown liquid on demonstrators.

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 6d

The entire HR department at the CDC is gone. Everyone at the IRB, which makes sure studies are conducted ethically and rigorously, and the ethics office, which oversee conflicts of interest for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and confusion’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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m a x 🎃 @maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 1d

Attempting to get out from my elite pedophile cabal scandal by posting an AI video of me shitting thousands of people for some reason

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 2d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 2d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For posting AI generated videos of Himself flying a Plane full of Shite

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

“So it looks like you’re flying a fighter jet and wearing a crown, but it turns out it’s really a bomber and the bombs are poops. You’re up there pooping on all the cities in America because you’re the king of America, and so of course you shit on it when it doesn’t behave. It’s high concept, sir.”

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1d

This is quite a hed/subhed.
1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex.
2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands
3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.

Vance Flexes the Marines’ Might as Thousand Protest Trump’s Agenda
VP JD Vance’s trips o a military base in California illustrated rising tensions between the federal government and Democratic leaders

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants

Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social · 1d

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

"Mr. President sir the idea is you're constantly flying around in a big jet filled with your own shit in it. Like human shit. Anyways you're wearing a little crown in your little shitmobile and you're dumping the shit out. I think people will like it."

molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 2d

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2d

I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Laura Seay @texasinafrica.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings in rural Sylva, NC. In the mountains for a girls' getaway & this was our closest protest. I'd guesstimate 500 or so folks are here.

Jackson County, NC Old Courthouse atop a hill with protesters in front.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

Look at this turnout in Charlotte! #NoKings (via Marco Foster/Threads)

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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 3d

You know how billionaires end up with severe cognitive deficits as a result of becoming surrounded by yes men who constantly tell them their every idea is genius? What if we made a bot that just does that to everyone. I think that would be a good idea.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Another example of 'get in where you can get in' and everyone can do something of use... blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/16/a...

As Fear Keeps Some Inside Amid ICE Raids, Chicago Dog Walker Offers Free Pet Care

"Animals are very important to families. If I can help someone, even if it's just one person, I'm more than willing to do that," said Candice Nelson.

blockclubchicago.org

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 4d

Men are from Mars. Women don't like the Vehicle

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