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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 9h

I’m signing SB 41 to lower health care costs for all Californians.

Alongside the 2025 budget and CalRx, this bill marks the most aggressive effort in the nation to drive down prescription drug prices, boost transparency, and ensure savings reach consumers and families.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 5h

Compare that milquetoast with this: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u... which is behind a barrier to reading about our democracy, as is the critique in TNR (which points out that NYT should be using the correct term, "propaganda" for this blatant lying). newrepublic.com/article/2016...

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland

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NutMeg @casuallychaotic.bsky.social · 9h

"My god, it's a hellscape out there.

"People are... I can barely bring myself to say this but, they're talking to each other pleasantly while sharing food and drinks with one another.

"Some are even dancing without any regard for the social standing of the other people involved.

"Total chaos."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 7h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 9h

Hire anyone quitting CISA right now.
techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/h...

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 10h

This is what patriotic Americans look like.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 10h

This is the Minnesota assassin, a white Christian conservative extremist, who had 70 people on his list: apnews.com/article/minn...

Please repost this whenever you see the preposterous lie that this guy is an example of the violent left. #uspol

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 10h

"As the nation reels from another devastating mass shooting...at a Mormon church in suburban Michigan—Republican leaders have remained notably silent following revelations that the gunman was a devoted Trump supporter who once proudly wore the label “Ultra MAGA.”
dailyboulder.com/gop-silent-a...

GOP Silent as Mormon Church Gunman Identified as ‘Ultra MAGA’ Trump Supporter

The man who stormed a Mormon church with an assault rifle and left four people dead was a self-described "Ultra MAGA" Trump supporter, a former Marine, and a father of one.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 11h

It's almost as if using numbers would be too informative.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 14h

Fustiliarian Friday: Trump/Kennedy/GOP use the shutdown as an excuse to destroy the CDC’s elite field epidemiology team and one of the most important epidemiology journals in the world.

Gift link.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 14h

my big low-hanging fruit is healthcare REITs, which primarily exist as a way to extract enormous profits from "nonprofit" hospitals

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 14h

Your single best "we could remove this with very little damage to the system as it is almost completely vestigal and it would see meaningful cost decreases" are PBMs.

But very few people even know PBMs exist, and they like to keep it that way.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 14h

Portland continues to disprove the lies of the propagandists and show the world that we are whimsical, non-threatening working class Americans exercising our Constitutional rights and the regime is unhinged, extreme, and as Alan Ginsberg said, "one mind, brute force, and full of money."

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 14h

When we talk about new nonviolent tactics emerging and how every action of the regime gives us a chance to be creative, adaptive, and get control of the narrative: the protestors at the Portland ICE facility are giving a master class right now.

Alicia Victoria Lozano @aliciavlozano.bsky.social · 2d

Someone showed up with a cart of inflatables. The protest is now a dance party outside the PDX ICE facility. Federal police have mostly stood back but did unleash a toxin into the air @nbcnews.com

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 11h

Yes, Pennysaver would be a good use of their reporting talent.

Screenshot showing Nazi Barbie's view from the PDX ICE HQ roof for her photo op. Below are a "dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit." as reported in the independent.uk

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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skryptical @skryptical.bsky.social · 11h

Microsoft Word needs to be fired.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival’s lawsuit alleges.

How a new firm with DHS ties won a $915 million contract to help immigrants "self-deport"

The “rushed” deal was handed to a firm with “no track record” as a federal contractor, a rival's lawsuit alleges.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina, a main US competitor in the soybean market.

This is a move that will only further screw over American soybean farmers, who're being priced out of their own market.

A 90-second crash course in Trump's betrayal of American soy farmers

Here’s the geopolitical beans.

www.motherjones.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

“I know some judges who had packed up their offices in anticipation of being fired."

The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

“Fired for no reason”: Former immigration judges speak out against Trump’s assault on the courts

The Trump administration’s push for more deportations is upending immigration courts. Recently terminated judges fear the changes imperil due process.

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

CNN will host a live town hall with progressive lawmakers Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, October 15, the network announced Friday.

CNN to host town hall with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Bernie Sanders | CNN Politics

CNN will host a live town hall with progressive lawmakers Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, October 15, the network announced Friday.

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CNN @cnn.com · 1d

President Donald Trump saw another one of his opponents indicted — but he also gave New York Attorney General Letitia James her best single day of fundraising in a nearly 30-year political career.

Letitia James sees a record fundraising surge and Democratic support after indictment | CNN Politics

President Donald Trump saw another one of his opponents indicted — but he also gave New York Attorney General Letitia James her best single day of fundraising in a nearly 30-year political career.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

The forever chemical PFNA is so hazardous that the EPA struck an agreement with 8 companies to phase it out nearly two decades ago.

Now an EPA report on its harms sits in limbo, and the Trump administration won’t say when it will be released.

By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It.

Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump’s political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding. https://to.pbs.org/4qadGZG

MIT president rejects proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump's politica...

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

NEW: A panel of three federal judges will soon decide whether to block Texas from using its new congressional map in the 2026 election, after a contentious nine-day hearing concluded Friday.

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‘We Could Not Have Clearer Facts’: Minority Advocates Say Racial Motive Is Evident As Texas Redistricting Hearing Wraps Up