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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

There is little doubt that the “Great Feminization” discourse will help (further) normalize misogyny on the right and drive women farther left. Perhaps that is actually the point.

The Right’s New Grand Unified Theory: Blame Women for Everything

Helen Andrews’s latest screed is short on rational facts, long on mushy feelings of misogyny.

www.thebulwark.com

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 22h

You can push back on authoritarian drumpf.

🐸 Register new Dem voters!
Did you know most unregistered folks aren't registered because no one ever asked them?

Data is key & @fieldteam6.org has it. We train you & up your skills.

www.fieldteam6.org/all-voluntee...

#Voices4Victory
#USDemocracy

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When Is Trump Gone? @daysleft4trump.bsky.social · 17h

3 years, 2 months, 3 weeks, 2 days, 17 hours, 28 minutes, and 56 seconds

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 19h

ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital.

"I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!"

The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck.

Houston, Texas.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 17h

The Trump admin knows they can legally extend SNAP benefits, and even that they may be legally required to, but of course they think they're above the law, and would prefer to let people starve while they blame Democrats.

www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

Trump Administration Buries Legal Memo Suggesting It Could Pay November Food Benefits

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which administers the food program, says its hands are tied by the shutdown.

www.huffpost.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 17h

Merry Christmas from Jeff Bezos

www.reuters.com/business/wor...

Exclusive: Amazon targets as many as 30,000 corporate job cuts, sources say

Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter.

www.reuters.com

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Anonymous ⩜ @youranona.bsky.social · 17h

Trump's goon squad barges into Chicago's Halloween cheer, blitzing families with illicit tear gas, pummeling elders, and flagrantly defying court edicts in a grotesque authoritarian spree. #AbolishICE

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

This was done to the White House, a federal property, by a man who wanted protesters who spray painted a wall arrested for "destruction of federal property."

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h

it is obvious the billionaire Ellisons want to turn CBS into right wing propaganda, but as a reader coming in fresh you'd have zero understanding of this from reading the U.S. press

even this Semafor style where the writer expresses "their view" lacks the courage to be pointed about it

CBS’ Weiss explores poaching conservatives from other networks

CNN personality Scott Jennings visited the new CBS News editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, this week at CBS’ New York headquarters.

www.semafor.com

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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 1d

It's an elementary grade school test.

We used to be led by men of letters. We are currently led by a man who is boastful about being able to name them all.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

Two headlines.
Two economies.
Same day.

Poetic.

@nytimes.com @bloomberg.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 22h

Actually, what the Republicans did with Medicaid is weaponize the federal bureaucracy—the very thing they claim to despise—against America's most vulnerable families in order to maintain and expand tax cuts, primarily for the wealthiest 10 percent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson on Republicans cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid: "We strengthened the Medicaid program."

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 22h

The federal government is fast-tracking the hire of 10,000 ICE agents — but a past rush to hire 5,000 Border Patrol officers led to more corruption and bribery tied to trafficking and smuggling operations, notes @margyoh.bsky.social. Read @hcrichardson.bsky.social’s latest:

October 23, 2025

Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez of NBC News reported today that Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s rush to get new recruits onto the street has meant they have pushed into their training program mo...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 1d

Families are fighting to afford groceries and gas. Inflation’s up, energy costs are through the roof. Donald Trump’s biggest concern? Knocking down the White House’s historic east wing to build a ballroom for himself.

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NOH8 Campaign @noh8campaign.bsky.social · 22h

King Charles unveiled the United Kingdom’s first national memorial honoring LGBT veterans, recognizing those who were banned from serving in the armed forces due to their sexuality or gender identity #NOH8

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22h

Trump’s team says they won’t be able to disburse anymore SNAP funds due to the shutdown, but the USDA’s shutdown plan says just the opposite.

The Lapse of Funding Plan has been removed from the agency’s website. trib.al/09GTkYV

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d

Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.

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Senator Mazie K. Hirono @hirono.senate.gov · 1d

Friendly reminder that Republicans control the White House, the Senate, and the House.

This shutdown is entirely their fault.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22h

This is another lie. Trump & Republicans find every conceivable way to plunder funds and redirect them to things they weren’t appropriated for, but money specifically set aside to feed people in a shutdown situation are now untouchable. DIDN’T JESUS SPEAK ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Johnson: Snap benefits is a unique situation. I got a summary of the legal analysis…the contingency funds are not legally available to cover the benefits right now

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 22h

Women who lack permanent legal status, like Estela Ramos Baten are now casualties. Her death leaves her teenage daughter, Nory, due to start her senior year in high school before deportation, orphaned in a country she hasn’t lived in since early childhood.

Nory and her mother were deported together. Then she was orphaned.

Estela’s death at 45 followed her rapid deportation, leaving her teenage daughter to navigate a new life in Guatemala on her own — afraid of the same gang violence her mother originally fled.

19thnews.org

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22h

Let me get this straight: Trump found tens of billions of dollars to give to Argentina for a bailout during our government shutdown, but he couldn't find funding to keep SNAP program benefits going for 42 million hungry Americans past this Friday?

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scohig.bsky.social @scohig.bsky.social · 1d

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

AOC: There was a day before his presidency, and there will be a day after — and it belongs to us.

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1d

It was a real treat to talk with @gregsargent.bsky.social on his great podcast about Trump and the politicization of federal disaster aid. I hope folks will give it a listen.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

When Trump denied disaster aid to Maryland, he apparently thought he was punishing a blue state. But the afflicted areas are Garrett and Allegany counties. Western Maryland is Appalachia. Those counties are deep in Trump country.

Details on pod w/ @stevebenen.com:

newrepublic.com/article/2022...

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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 2d

Tish James launched an online portal for New Yorkers to submit photos and videos of ICE activity.
ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

Federal Action Reporting Form

Federal Action Reporting Form Please use this form to share information regarding federal government action in New York state. Filing a complaint does not start

ag.ny.gov

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Once again, the main day of Tea Party protests had about 300,000 nationwide, but saw endless coverage.

The No Kings protests had about 7,000,000 nationwide, and many media outlets reacted with a yawn.

No Kings was nearly 25x as big as the Tea Party but the Tea Party got 25x the attention.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

Ask yourself this: How would the New York Times have covered the protests if it had been seven million MAGA supporters flooding the streets? We don’t even have to guess: We know how they and other mainstream outlets covered the Tea Party protests during Obama’s first term.

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