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Big Brain

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Cancel the Washington Post and NY Times and support independent journalists who actually care about democracy and holding truth to power No Kings Reposts ≠ Endorsement

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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 22h

This is perfect!

It is weird. That’s from when people were losing their minds about people telling Dems they should talk like normal people and mobs were arguing against it. You helped prove my point. Thank you!! Haha.

Oedipal Arrangements 🇵🇸 @6to12elbow.bsky.social · 1d

Lmaooooo fuckin weirdo

Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 5h

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Door number 3? Neither?

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 5h

Is this the free markets or the personal liberties

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Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 6h

Loyola University Chicago's Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt has passed away at 106 years old. She was a Catholic nun, campus minister and official chaplain of the Ramblers men's basketball team. RIP.

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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 6h

Fascists and autocrats fear what teachers do because they know their brand of greed, hierarchy, and extremism cannot survive in a democracy of diverse, educated citizens. Thank you @NationalMemo.com. www.nationalmemo.com/teachers-aga...

In Her New Book, Teachers Union Leader Explores 'Why Fascists Fear Teachers'

With nearly every day presenting more evidence of America’s eroding democracy, it’s understandable to wonder whether a countervailing force will come forward to ensure—to paraphrase Lincoln—that the g...

www.nationalmemo.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 16h

these people are actually out of their fucking minds and im so sick of being told we need to pretend otherwise

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 17h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Mike Baker @mikebaker.bsky.social · 7h

The last three NFL games:
• Giants 34, Eagles 17
• Jaguars 31, Chiefs 28
• Patriots 23, Bills 20

The winning teams were a combined 11-40 last season. The losing teams were a combined 42-9.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 7h

Phillies lost to LA and are done for the year and the eagles lost to the fucking giants on the same day. wtf.

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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 7h

Saying the not so quiet part very much out loud.

Wtg, Jeff.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 8h

"What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid."

Willamette Week @wweek.com · 10h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

www.wweek.com

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 7h

Earlier I read a lament that Republicans have no legislative agenda — which is true, but shouldn’t be misread to mean they have no *partisan* agenda.

They want impunity for themselves, and unfettered oligarchy for the economy. They wreck government from the inside to further those goals.

ProPublica @propublica.org · 9h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

www.propublica.org

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 7h

We're spending $20B to bail out Argentina, but they cut USAID down to the bone, causing deaths around the world. The entire budget of USAID, the whole agency, was $21B last year. Shameful.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 7h

My boss to me every time I pitch him

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 7h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 7h

I had a feeling Tony recently lying to help maga and getting pissed when Sen Warren called him out was for an audience of one - His new boss. This all checks. F that guy and F cbs.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 8h

Scoop: Bari Weiss had lunch with Norah O'Donnell this week as CBS News brass re-evaluates how to revamp the "Evening News," a top priority for them. Another name in the mix: Tony Dokoupil. And then, I'm told, there's a mystery outsider.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

The Weiss House

As Bari Weiss settles into CBS News, she’s moving fast—taking anchors to lunch, phoning potential hires, and plotting a new “Evening News," with names like Norah O'Donell and Tony Dokoupil in the mix.

www.status.news

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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 7h

Oh shit. I bet they are.

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Bryan Thomas @munkiman.bsky.social · 7h

Sharyl Attkisson and Lara Logan are probably coming back from Sinclair News to CBS, now that she's in charge, right? Ugh. So glad I'm not watching anymore.

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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 7h

Yep. Was he auditioning? I got the feeling it was for an audience in 1. His new boss.

Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 7h

Is that why Tony has basically gone maga all the sudden? Fuck. Him.

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 8h

I—I’m sorry? Kevin Stitt? I would be less surprised if you told me John McCain rose from the dead to say this.

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 16h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you!

Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 8h

Oh! I didn’t know that. I thought it was strictly a Swedish Org.

Big Brain @bigbrain1234.bsky.social · 8h

I reallly hope more Trump cabinet meetings include cabinet members telling Trump they just watched a TikTok video that included a women saying “fuck Trump” like rfk jr did today. lol.

Please.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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