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Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 20h

Autocracy feedback loop:
Losing popularity/grabbing power

Power gaining leads to popularity loss which leads to additional power grabbing.

Power grabbed is power gained.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 7h

Interesting. I just described myself as a "historian of fascism" without thinking about it. Am I? I guess it turns out I am.

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back

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Congresswoman Gwen Moore @repgwenmoore.bsky.social · 18h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

www.cnn.com

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 1d

We really need to get Pope Leo on our podcast. www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/10/09/p...

Pope Leo XIV: News agencies have ‘crucial role’ in forming consciences, sharing the truth

www.catholicworldreport.com

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not an art thief @famousartthief.bsky.social · 9h

as a free nation we will live forever or die by suicide

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 13h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 22h

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert @upine.bsky.social · 8h

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 22h

The thing about Thiel and Miller that gets me is they've both chosen to align themselves with people that will seek to destroy them the second their vision is achieved.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 13h

This is dedicated to those who believed DJT and legacy media coverage that Project 2025 was nothing to be concerned about.

Also, this isn’t legal.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 13h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 16h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 9h

Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement

Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

www.theguardian.com

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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert @upine.bsky.social · 8h

finance.yahoo.com/news/anthony...?

Anthony Scaramucci Says Republicans Will Control Country For A Generation If Democrats Keep Acting Like Bitcoin Critic Katie Porter

Anthony Scaramucci, founder of SkyBridge Capital and longtime Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) advocate, condemned on Wednesday California gubernatorial hopeful Katie Porter's conduct during a press interview. S...

finance.yahoo.com

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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert @upine.bsky.social · 9h

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h

It is absolutely acceptable, and often admirable, for candidates for public office to set boundaries against trolling, bothsides numbskullery, and general abuse of the public's intelligence from elite journalists who sound like aristocrats. This may, and should, increase Katie Porter's support.

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Indivisible Oregon @indivisible-oregon.bsky.social · 13h

Portland councilors move to resist federal intervention:
a “Protect Portland” resolution,
codifying sanctuary status,
monitoring federal tactics,
limiting data-sharing and chemicals.
Powers are limited,
but unity and oversight signal:
no military policing.

OPB @opb.org · 13h

With the National Guard poised to descend on Portland, city councilors are using their limited power to take a stand against federal intervention.

City councilors look to administrative tweaks to ‘protect Portland’ from federal actions

Several council members are working on the “Protect Portland Initiative,” a resolution urging the city’s administrative offices to take action against federal agents.

www.opb.org

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert @upine.bsky.social · 9h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 9h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mayor Q @mayorq.bsky.social · 23h

THANK YOU TO OUR WORKERS!!!

More resurfacing and pothole filling coming to you citywide in Kansas City for smoother streets ahead. 🙏🏾

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

DAILY MEMO: Another ICE Detention Death and A Woman is Saved From ICE By Police 🧵 2 parts

If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a member of L.A. TACO, buying some merch, or dropping a dime in our fundraiser so we can continue to bring you this news.
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Julie H. Hotard Ph.D., Disinfo expert @upine.bsky.social · 9h

No they were not done out of spite. They were done to save money to use to give tax cuts & gov contracts to billionaires. There is spite from the useful idiots in the administration against the scapegoats that gov workers have been made into by GOP propagandists. But it is not the purpose of this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Bacon: "The president was demanding her indictment 2 weeks ago and I think it really muddies the water. Normally, the president says out of this discussion, they let the attorney general and the process work. When you have a president ordering & demanding indictments, it will be used by the defense"

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 10h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 9h

“All of these actions reflect a buoyed commander in chief who feels emboldened to go further after feeling as though he has faced surprisingly little resistance to his ambitious agenda in the first nine months. He has even remarked to aides that he is shocked how easy it has all proven to be.”

Trump, Feeling Emboldened, Pushes Agenda Into Higher Gear

Recent moves by the president reflect a commander in chief who has seemingly faced little resistance to his agenda.

www.wsj.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19h

Trump sending 200 US troops to Gaza and allowing Qatar to build a base in Idaho is not going to go over well with the AMERICA FIRST MAGA movement.

Clearly, he no longer cares, but this will likely cause more fractures.

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