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ScottCulkin 🇺🇸/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🚒🚑(ret.)/🚴/🥁/⚽ @scottculkin.bsky.social · 22m

Great day to fly. /s 😐

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 9h

Johnny Cash didn't switch costumes with Elton John on SNL just to have some asshat call him "deeply uncool." I hate to even share this but the ratio is nice.

Left: Johnny Cash wearing a pink feather boa, a sparkly gold ascot, and gold glasses with pink feathers at the temples.

Right: Elton John in a black cowboy hat and leather jacket over a plaid shirt.

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Ken Stone @kenstonemedia.bsky.social · 8h

If you can't beat 'em, buy 'em. timesofsandiego.com/business/202... @jayshams.bsky.social @brianstelter.bsky.social @oliverdarcy.bsky.social @maddow.msnbc.com

In stunning reversal, Dominion Voting drops defamation suit against SD's OAN

The stunning news broke Thursday, but the outcome was telegraphed six days earlier — Oct. 3 — in a joint motion filed by OAN owner Herring Networks and Denver-based Dominion.

timesofsandiego.com

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Andy Richter @andyrichter.co · 8h

Yep

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ScottCulkin 🇺🇸/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🚒🚑(ret.)/🚴/🥁/⚽ @scottculkin.bsky.social · 8h

So, Mile High Club is still a thing? 😬

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ScottCulkin 🇺🇸/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🚒🚑(ret.)/🚴/🥁/⚽ @scottculkin.bsky.social · 8h

I mean, it is the Wall Street Journal. WTF would they know about cool? 😐

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 8h

It will soon come ashore looking for the manager.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 9h

Subtropical Storm Karen forms far from land in the north Atlantic Ocean.

Tropical Storm Raymond, third system now off the coast of Mexico, forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean

Tropical Storm Raymond has formed in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the third system now off the western coast of Mexico. The U.S.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 8h

Philippines earthquakes sequence recorded by seismometer in Davao. To see seismic data visit www.iris.edu/app/station_...

Seismic recording showing multiple earthquakes. Each earthquake is marked with a circle.

List showing the earthquakes recorded by the seismometer shown in the last image.

Map showing the location of the seismometer in the Philippines

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ScottCulkin 🇺🇸/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🚒🚑(ret.)/🚴/🥁/⚽ @scottculkin.bsky.social · 8h

Priscilla spinning things up. 🤔

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 12h

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Los Angeles County Fire Department @lacofd.bsky.social · 11h

Apply Now to be an #LACoFD Senior Nursing Instructor!

Filing for this open competitive job opportunity will remain open until the position is filled.

To access the bulletin, please use the link below:

🔗 www.governmentjobs.com/jobs/4895708...

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ScottCulkin 🇺🇸/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🚒🚑(ret.)/🚴/🥁/⚽ @scottculkin.bsky.social · 10h

Our brothers south of the border out getting it done. Respect. 👊

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ScottCulkin 🇺🇸/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🚒🚑(ret.)/🚴/🥁/⚽ @scottculkin.bsky.social · 11h

It just never ends, brother. Sorry to hear this news.

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Andrew Dyer @andrewdyer.bsky.social · 11h

Lots of ways for military families to get help as the first missed payday of the shutdown looms.

www.kpbs.org/news/militar...

San Diego nonprofits ready to help military families during shutdown

Here's where you can find free food, zero-interest loans and other support during the government shutdown.

www.kpbs.org

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 11h

#AbolishICE

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Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 11h

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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 11h

They are nominating someone who would be the target of a formal EEOC sexual harassment and discrimination charge to head the department that oversees the EEOC. Got it. Anyone see a pattern? Anyone?

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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ScottCulkin 🇺🇸/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🚒🚑(ret.)/🚴/🥁/⚽ @scottculkin.bsky.social · 11h

Make Argentina Great Again! 🤪

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

Our grocery and utilities prices rise through the roof while Trump shovels tens of billions in bailout money to Argentina. Absurd

CNN @cnn.com · 12h

The Trump administration has finalized plans to provide a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. Additionally, the US “directly” purchased Argentine pesos, Bessent said, a move that marks the latest step in an attempt to stabilize the country’s financial market.

Bessent says US purchased pesos and finalized framework for $20 billion lifeline for Argentina | CNN Business

The Trump administration has finalized plans to provide a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday via social media. Additionally, the United States “directly”...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11h

Democrats and Republicans so it looks like a debate with two sides, but everyone sitting there agrees on the actual subject of the discussion.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12h

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 12h

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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ScottCulkin 🇺🇸/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🚒🚑(ret.)/🚴/🥁/⚽ @scottculkin.bsky.social · 12h

Got that fall feel, RN.

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Jeremy Ogul @jeremyogul.com · 13h

It took Juan Vargas a while to get this statement approved by his AIPAC sponsors.

Congressman Juan Vargas @vargas.house.gov · 14h

I'm encouraged to hear reports that a ceasefire agreement has been reached. 1/3

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Crucial from former prosecutor @kristyparker.bsky.social: Trump might have immunity, but those who commit corrupt or illegal orders for him do not. That's why DOJ insiders are leaking word that cases against Comey and Letitia James are collapsing.

All on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Trump Threats to Jail Foes Take Darker Turn with Damning New DOJ Leaks

As ugly new information emerges about Trump’s efforts to prosecute James Comey and other enemies, a former federal prosecutor explains how his corrupt schemes are running into stiff internal resistanc...

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