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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 51m

Go on then. Git.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4h

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.

Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless
warmongering.

It failed 48-51.

Murkowski and Paul voted yes.

Fetterman voted no.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 1h

Ezra Klein: Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 5h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not an expert on voting laws or policy, but it strikes me as quite a long shot that the GOP could actually get this done before 2026 and have it pass legal muster. Regardless, the fact that these OR GOP activists are talking publicly about their desire to nullify Oregonians' votes is bananapants

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 6h

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Spam McGrumper🌹 @cooptimo.bsky.social · 10h

"YOU AREN'T OCCUPYING PORTLAND, PORTLAND IS OCCUPYING YOU!" *random dude in inflatable costume starts twerking*

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 13h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 11h

Octavia Butler how. How.

niki grayson @nikigrayson.com · 13h

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

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

Basically: This administration wants to kill people. One of its core goals appears to be to lower the population.

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 14h

I completely agree and it makes me feel so unhinged that I avoid talking about it with people. But I think they think that AI will render a lot of people “surplus” to the labor needs of corporations, who they intend to run our neo-feudal system

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 14h

Marco Rubio, who is directly and personally responsible for this child starving to death, was confirmed 99-0 by the US Senate with every Democratic Senator voting for him

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Mike Johnson’s position is young pregnant American women shouldn’t have to wait before being turned away to die in the parking lot from an ectopic pregnancy the hospital is afraid to treat

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 15h

this was really hard to read. my son is almost exactly the same age as the kid in here that Trump and Musk deliberately starved to death apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 23h

Children in America went to bed hungry tonight while billionaires set a trillion dollars on fire for something no one even asked for

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 2d

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 1d

🧐🎯💯🤬

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

Much much better Chuck.

Gotta keep it going, keep it going, full steam!!

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 1d

The government is shut down because Trump and the Republicans are hellbent on taking health care away from you.

And they won’t even come to the table to talk to us about it.

This is not about politics. It's about people.

Let’s break it down:

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 1d

Thread, which illustrates nicely why I'm having that "hey uhhhh did the dissolution of the Union just kind of happen just now" feeling the last few days

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

Another W for conservative propaganda

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

it's weird how several decades of organized assault on higher education has led to a cratering of American public opinion on higher education

news.gallup.com/poll/695003/...

Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low

The percentage of Americans who consider a college education "very important" has slipped below the majority level.

news.gallup.com

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

Oh excellent, people love working for free

Axios @axios.com · 1d

SCOOP: Furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown, according to a draft White House memo described to Axios by three sources.

Scoop: White House memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to backpay

A move to deny backpay to up to 750,000 furloughed workers would dramatically escalate Trump's pressure on Democrats to end the shutdown.

www.axios.com

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anon in a deranged way @anonlis.bsky.social · 1d

The comments on this article are really something

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

“The Tucson Democrat stood on the House floor during a pro forma session that lasted less than three minutes, enough time for an opening prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Fellow Democrats chanted ‘Swear her in!’

But the Republican presiding over the House gaveled the session to an abrupt end.”

Stalling Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in also delays vote on release of Epstein files

Democrats say House Republicans are delaying the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva – elected by landslide last week to replace her late father in Congress – to stall release of the Epstein files. The Tu...

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