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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2h

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5h

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

• New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said that Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, "want to ... repeal the Affordable Care Act and elim nate protections for preexisting conditions." It's unclear what Trump would do, since he hasn't released a plan to replace the ACA. He said he would do so, if "we can come up With something that's better."

Schumer, meanwhile, was wrong to
say, as he did on the Senate floor April 28, that the bill goes "back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."

perorats and Republicans have made
competing claims on whether the latest version of the GOP health care bill maintains protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. President Trump has said, "Pre-existing conditions are in the bill. And I mandate it." Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer has said that
"insurance companies could deny coverage to those with pre-existing conditions."
Neither of those comments quite gets it right. The latest version offers lesser protections than the Affordable Care Act, but it doesn't allow insurers to deny coverage to someone with a health

Who's right? Like everything else in health care, it's complicated.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Let’s be clear:

Republicans are 💯 responsible for the government shutdown. They don’t need a single vote from Democrats to reopen.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for firing thousands of federal workers. They don’t need a single layoff to offset the shutdown. It’s their Project 2025 playbook.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 7h

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’

Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

"Support the troops, y'all!"

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 2d

A real man of the people…

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PoliticsGirl @politicsgirl.bsky.social · 6h

Credit where credit is due. We need more of this every day from everyone. Stop letting them lie.

Jodi Jacobson @jljacobson.bsky.social · 13h

George Stephanopolous did what every anchor and host should have been doing since Bush 2000: Rejecting the bullshit, gaslighting, and rude, evasive filibustering the GOP has perfected to hide their lies.

NO MORE BULLSHIT.

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Bryan Dawson @bryandawsonusa.bsky.social · 1d

DeSantis ally Blaise Ingoglia warned Democratic cities to “expect a knock on the door.” Armed state investigators showed up at a veteran’s home—over a postcard reading “You lack values.”

Peaceful dissent in Florida now meets police at the door

#DeSantis #Florida
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Minnesota Mary @minnesotamarys.bsky.social · 6h

🙄🙄🙄🤬

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 6h

After bungling job cuts -- laying people off, then rescinding those layoffs -- WH Says More Job Cuts Could Be on the Way
www.today.com/video/new-im...

Shutdown Day 13: WH Says More Job Cuts Could Be on the Way

As the shutdown stalemate enters its 13th day, the White House warns more jobs could be lost after workers at multiple departments throughout the federal government have already received layoff notice...

www.today.com

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15h

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 9h

I’ve been really shocked how many people on here didn’t know any of this

Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

www.msnbc.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 9h

Solidarity is the only way

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 11h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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sweetrhesus.bsky.social @sweetrhesus.bsky.social · 9h

The pelvic thrust is the best!

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 9h

Find a frog gathering near you this Saturday, October 18

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

Nokings.org

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9h

“We can demand a government that makes our lives better.

We can tell billionaires that this city doesn’t just belong to them.

We can tell Donald Trump that he cannot buy this election.

And we can tell Andrew Cuomo that New York City is not for sale!”

Mamdani crushed it tonight.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 16h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Tony Serrata 🇺🇦 @serrata.org · 14h

That there's media outlets still talking about that bigot that was shot in Utah a few weeks ago now, is telling about how right wing our news media as a whole has become while they barely reported about kids getting shot in schools on the same day.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 17h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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David Nir @davidnir.com · 16h

The gaslighting—from NC Republicans and many others—is really something else. They're just outright pretending that California launched this year's redistricting wars, even though it started with Texas. bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

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NPR @npr.org · 14h

With no end in sight to the funding standoff, financial anxiety is growing. One single mom in Colorado raided her retirement savings to get through the shutdown.

"It feels terrible." Federal worker's family tightens their belts as shutdown drags on

With no end in sight to the funding standoff, financial anxiety is growing. One single mom in Colorado raided her retirement savings to get through the shutdown.

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