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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 5h

I appreciate actors / shows / channels raising awareness about scams like this. It’s crazy how much this stuff happens and it can really harm people.

Be sure to share this PSA with any gullible holiday movie fans in your life!

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 7h

@mobute.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social I assume you’ve both been apprised but just in case

www.instagram.com/reel/DPjeHb3...

hallmarkchannel on Instagram: "💜 We love our Hallmark family—and that means doing our part to raise awareness around scammers, some who are impersonating Hallmar…"

💜 We love our Hallmark family—and that means doing our part to raise awareness around scammers, some who are impersonating Hallmark stars. Learn how to spot the signs and protect yourself.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 6h

they’re smoothing the landing for when they run off to Argentina to retire on the large pile of assets they pilfered while in power lol

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 6h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6h

Spiegel on the criminal complaint against James: The US legal system has become a farce. When lackeys can file charges on the orders of their masters, no one can feel safe anymore. Then arbitrariness prevails. The end of the rule of law and freedom. And that affects everyone

US-Justizministerium klagt prominente Trump-Gegnerin Letitia James an

Die Vorwürfe lauten Bankbetrug und falsche Angaben: Das US-Justizministerium hat Anklage gegen Generalstaatsanwältin Letitia James erhoben. Die Widersacherin von Donald Trump reagierte mit einer Kampf...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

I spoke with this pastor and other clergy and faith leaders who have been protesting at the Chicago ICE facility.

All told me they've been shot by pepper balls or targeted by other non-lethal rounds. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 6h

I want to!! Hopefully one day.

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 6h

California I miss you so much

Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 6h

California: while things are terrible, also not terrible

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

"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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

he does not regret to inform you and neither do I

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 7h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 13h

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 14h

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 14h

Psychopath Mad Libs!

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 14h

Crisps and Guinness, the most important things!

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 15h

Armed agents in Florida showed up at the door of a 77-year-old anti-Trump protester who wrote a postcard to the state's finance chief that said only "You lack values" www.axios.com/local/tampa-...

Armed Florida agents visited Largo man over postcard critical of CFO Ingoglia

The situation raises questions about how Ingoglia's office is utilizing law enforcement.

www.axios.com

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Glenn White @justicar.xyz · 16h

Who could have seen this coming except every single online security expert and privacy expert on the whole planet.

I really wish legislators would listen to people who know what the hell they're talking about.

404 Media @404media.co · 16h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17h

Wait, there's something REALLY interesting here I missed.

The US consensus that "crime is falling" stops in 2001-02, even though the Great Crime Decline kept dropping.

My take has always been that that's a 9/11 effect: when scared, we say "crime is up!"

But the partisan split THERE is unexpected.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 17d

I mean, we are living in two different realities now, and this really hasn't always been the case.

Partisan views on "more crime": used to move fairly closely, but now radically different (90% say up for GOP, 29% for Dems).

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 17h

Viscerally horrifying, but it's so obvious they felt they needed something other than one driveway in Broadview to "protect," and figured well there's the big federal courthouse let's throw that in. Without remembering that's not theirs.

They're blindly bumbling into extra constitutional crises.

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 18h

Chief Judge Kendall's statement comes as last night an Army commander told a federal court that DHS had so far made two requests for National Guard deployments in the Chicago area: (1) at the Broadview ICE facility, (2) at the Dirksen Courthouse on Friday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17h

Every Dem going on any TV hit on any channel needs to immediately talk about this. Make statements, do pressers. ACT LIKE THE GOP AND GET THE MESSAGE OUT.

Say "we'll stop the shutdown when you seat Ms. Grijalva" and see what the response is. Tell Mike. We'll come to the table if you seat her.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 18h

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for a ninth day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 17h

The border is being redesigned to keep Americans in.

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 19h

There is so much horrible stuff happening, but the rampant dismantling of our science and health, especially around vaccines, is dangerous and stupid beyond words. The anger and rage I feel about this could fuel more than US coal output.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 19h

Arbitrarily breaking these up means people who do get their kids vaccinated will still inevitably pick and choose, because that’s what always happens. This will drop uptake rates not just for “skeptics” but for people who believe in vaccination because 3 shots psychologically feels like too many.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 19h

The MMR vaccine is one of the most stunningly effective medical therapeutics in existence. It’s also safer than most of your everyday activities. This is simply an attempt to stop people from vaccinating.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 19h

The acting director of the CDC called for new, separate MMR shots. That would be "remarkably complicated, time-consuming, costly, but more importantly unnecessary," @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social told me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alarm as CDC calls for separate MMR vaccines despite measles outbreak

Concerns that three separate shots would be more costly and time-consuming, and keep kids from being vaccinated

www.theguardian.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19h

Masked agents snatching people at work, church, their child’s daycare. A return of family separations. States are lining up to run their own detention centers.

Anti-immigrant animus is now being paired with unprecedented funding, manpower, and technology.

We report from inside the American gulag.

American Gulag

The brutal rollout of Trump's police state.

www.motherjones.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 20h

This remains the most important piece i’ve written about the goals and ideological principles of the second Trump administration www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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