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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Why did the Marine Corps decide to fire live artillery shells across California’s major interstate freeway on Saturday?

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-other-demonstration-on-saturday

The Other Demonstration on Saturday

Friends,

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 1d

NEW:Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Russia’s terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Putin had said he would “destroy” Ukraine if it did not agree.

The meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy descended many times into a “shouting match” on.ft.com/3WMSQSu

Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia

US president tossed aside maps of Ukraine frontline in volatile White House meeting

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virtuous_being @virtuousbeing.bsky.social · 9h

He really is a Putin Puppet.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 14h

NEWS: Trump is finalizing plans to offer U.S. asylum to far right, anti-immigrant protesters in Europe.

Meanwhile, he posts videos of himself literally shit-bombing U.S. protesters.

This sums it up. Freedom for neo-nazis. Feces for my people.

www.treason.io/p/read-trump...

READ: Trump defends foreign, neo-nazi protesters but bombs U.S. protesters.

Trump’s refugee plan offers asylum to white extremists; meanwhile, he attacks U.S. protesters online with virtual human excrement.

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 12h

Gaza.

Not fireworks.

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virtuous_being @virtuousbeing.bsky.social · 9h

Of course it's all deliberate and calculated. The truth has never been their friend.

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 12h

🚨 🚨 ICYMI: Federal judges caught the U.S. government providing false info in over 35 court cases.

Sworn declarations. Falsified records. Repeated lies.

Law professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social says it may be intentional.

via @60minutes.bsky.social

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 16h

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

... But over the last few months, the compartmentalization and coping stopped working to silence my conscience."

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 12h

"At every step along the way, I rationalized, compartmentalized, and found excuses to stay tethered to the party, even as I grew to believe it was undermining the foundations of our constitutional republic. ...
www.thebulwark.com/p/my-last-da...

My Last Day as an Accomplice of the Republican Party

Why I’m leaving the GOP and why I’m urging my former colleagues to do the same.

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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 1d

Actor Robert De Niro: “I like what Letitia James is doing. She’s fighting back. She’s saying fuck you. I’m sorry, this is where we are. She’s saying this is it. I will not be taken down by this person. I am not afraid of him. God bless her for that.”

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Jessica Tarlov @jessicatarlov.bsky.social · 12h

I think everyone knew exactly what point Trump was making dropping shit on Americans.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: What does it say that president released a video of him pooping on the American people?

MIKE JOHNSON: You can argue he's probably the most effective person who has ever used social media. He's using satire to make a point. He's not calling for the murder of his political opponents.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

Why would so many people protest? Must be Soros www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump’s approach to several key policy areas polls poorly, including deploying the National Guard in American cities, levying tariffs on trading partners and his handling of the war in Ukraine. More than two-thirds of Americans hold negative views of the economy, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll last month. Despite Republicans’ fervent messaging that Democrats’ health care demands caused the current government shutdown, early polling suggests a majority of Americans believe the president and his party are to blame.

Protesters and organizers said they weren’t motivated by any single policy area — attendees cited frustration with everything from Trump’s immigration crackdowns to his slashing of the federal workforce to general malaise about the economy — but they shared a sense of concern that Trump was acting outside the bounds of the presidency.

“The truth is that he is enacting a detailed step-by-step plan to try to destroy all of the things that protect our democracy: free speech, fair elections and independent press, the right to peacefully protest,” Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, said of Trump at the protest in downtown Washington. “But the truth is he has not won yet. The people still rule in this country.”

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

More Americans are struggling to make their monthly car-loan payments, one of the clearest indications that low- and middle-income families could be starting to buckle, even as the U.S. economy on its surface has appeared to hold up relatively well.

Lower-Income Americans Are Missing Car Payments

Inflation and a tough job market are making it harder for some people to pay back the car loans they signed in better times.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 12h

Trump says the boats that U.S. forces are blowing up and the people they’re killing are carrying deadly fentanyl here.

The administration has provided no evidence.

U.S. and other officials say the route they’re attacking actually carries marijuana and cocaine to Europe and Africa

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Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats

Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States. U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

People are constantly asking me — what can I do? Between now and the 2026 midterm elections, here are five practical steps you can take to make a difference. youtu.be/8W-lVRQQGtI?...

Five Ways to Fight Trump's Fascism

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12h

Oregon has one of the most complex sets of zoning and land use laws in the U.S. Portland, under pressure from its liberal residents, is using those restrictions against immigrant detention.

To Fight ICE, Portland’s Leaders Turn to What They Know Best: Zoning

Portland, Ore., is well known for its dense laws on land use. Now, under pressure from its liberal residents, the city is using those restrictions against immigrant detention.

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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 13h

The first look at the scale of Disney backlash after it suspended Kimmel. Wow>>

“Antenna estimated a total of 3 million cancellations for Disney+ and 4.1 million for Hulu in September. Both of those figures far exceeded the trailing three-month averages for the services”
www.wsj.com/business/med...

Customers Ditched Disney+, Hulu After Kimmel Suspension

Cancellation rates for both Disney’s streaming services doubled in September from a month earlier.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12h

What have the news media been thinking as they’ve normalized and empowered MAGA fascism over the last decade? I took an intrepid journey inside the media’s brain to find out.
Read my free Stop the Presses newsletter.

My exclusive Trump-era tour inside the media’s brain

What were America’s journalists thinking? I have strong suspicions.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 11h

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them

techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican.

It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.

Millions hit the streets this weekend in solidarity with each other and to affirm the foundations of the common good.

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 11h

In 2021, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution affirming access to food as a human right, with 186 countries voting in favor. Only two countries dissented.

America and Israel.

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