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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 4h

This is his attempt to muscle the Supreme Court.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "I can create peace with tariffs. I'm using them for a lot of different reasons. If that power was taken away, it would be a terrible terrible day for our country. I would say many of the things I've done could be eradicated ... these are enemies of the country that are pursuing that lawsuit"

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 2h

This is the game we needed. Should have been in game 1 but here we are. Now we just need to keep on the gas through Saturday. Let some team in 2030-whatever talk about the Phillies in 2025.

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 2h

[email protected] - We're now finding out that as many as 70,000 people had their government IDs provided to prove their ages leaked by Discord.Like I wrote last week,this is a risk (and made greater by a rushed process)of getting platforms to do age checks

www.theverge.com/news/797051/...

Discord says 70,000 users may have had their government IDs leaked in breach

The ID pics had been submitted as part of age-related appeals.

www.theverge.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2h

Quick, a Walter Duranty Award with Oakleaf Cluster for Jazmine Hughes, whose conduct clearly embodies the spirit of the man who praised Comrade Stalin to the rafters while denying the genocide in Ukraine.

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 2h

[email protected] - ⚾ Hello offense, my old friend.

#Phillies

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 2h

[email protected] - Sonoma County’s ‘Adopt a Corner’ program aims to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE.

www.coyotemedia.org/sonoma-count...

A New Kind of Neighborhood Watch

Sonoma County’s ‘Adopt a Corner’ program aims to protect undocumented day laborers from ICE.

www.coyotemedia.org

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 2h

[email protected] - The scene of the Blue Jays celebration is surreal. The players are being interviewed in the midst of a deafening party, music is blasting, the questions are all like "how good does it feel to have won?"

Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 3h

When it bursts the blood will be everywhere

Christine Maria Rose 🇨🇦 @cmhrose.bsky.social · 5h

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/8f04a1f...

Bank of England, IMF warn about potential AI bubble

Officials at U.K.’s central bank flag growing risk that tech stock prices could burst

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 3h

Pentagon’s revised press rules are unacceptable, journalists’ group says

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Pentagon’s revised press rules are unacceptable, journalists’ group says

The Pentagon Press Association said the government’s policy still appears “designed to stifle a free press and potentially expose us to prosecution.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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Robert Cwiklik @cwik.bsky.social · 4h

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 3h

[email protected] - If Trump’s name and the sex crimes he committed against under age girls weren’t all over the Epstein files then Republicans would have released them long ago.

#pambondi #kashpatel #mikejohnson #republicans #MAGA #fbi #DOJ #EpsteinFiles #epstein #trump #pedophiles #news

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TJ Nichols @tjniko.bsky.social · 4h

Omg so many thoughts and they are about the "troops".

A. The national guard have day jobs.

C. Could/would Pritker call up the Illinois National Guard? Does civil war start right there in Chicago with rest of us looking on in horror?

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

Texas’ Blue-State Deployments Shred Relations Between Governors

www.nytimes.com

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Olga H. R. @standardbearer.bsky.social · 4h

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

Stephen Miller Cited ‘Plenary Authority,’ Then Paused. Conspiracies Started Flying.

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 3h

[email protected] - “Have you given any more thought to suspending habeas corpus?”

TRUMP: “Suspending who?” 🤷🏼

Aaand scene.

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Lungu @lungu2.bsky.social · 4h

Technical glich or not, Miller said the verboten out loud: They think the president has plenary-i.e. unlimited--power. They believe he has dictatorial power.

Needless to say, he's full of shit.

I imagine this clip will get played at his trial.

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

Stephen Miller Cited ‘Plenary Authority,’ Then Paused. Conspiracies Started Flying.

www.nytimes.com

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Fairfax Democrats @fairfaxdemocrats.bsky.social · 4h

Trump has been publicly and repeatedly threatening people for years but still feels entitled to point the finger at anyone if it serves his needs. He's also never apologized for anything he's said no matter how ugly or disgusting his words were.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Brief History of Trump’s Violent Remarks

Here are 40 instances in which the former president incited or praised violence against his fellow citizens.

www.theatlantic.com

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 3h

[email protected] - I used to wonder how IBM could possibly create a system to help Hitler organize his concentration camps.

Then I look around at all the tech companies aligning with fascism today.

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Doug McVay @dougmcvay.bsky.social · 4h

"Two U.S. officials, who were not authorized to discuss the sensitive matter publicly, also said that Colombians were aboard at least one of the boats recently destroyed by the United States."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/w...

Colombia’s President Says Boat Bombed by U.S. Was Carrying Colombians

www.nytimes.com

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Ben Edwards @bostonhistory.bsky.social · 4h

The American Experiment - At 250, the Revolution’s goals remain noble and indispensable.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The American Experiment

At 250, the Revolution’s goals remain noble and indispensable.

www.theatlantic.com

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Carolyn Barthel ❌👑 @carolyncbarthel.bsky.social · 4h

“If you execute an unlawful order, you will go to jail. You cld go to jail for the rest of your life.”
Yet we shld do everything we can to let our military know that if they risk their careers & even their freedom to protect the Constitution, we'll stand w them.

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here

The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.

www.theatlantic.com

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p155r.bsky.social @p155r.bsky.social · 4h

Naaah, something's in it for trump. Something big. And it's not the Nobel Peace Prize. It's bigger and dirtier. What is it?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Live Updates: Israel and Hamas Reach Deal on Hostage and Prisoner Exchange

www.nytimes.com

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Chris Lombardi @chrisblue.bsky.social · 4h

w7voa - A federal judge grants the New York Times’ request for a list of security clearances held by billionaire Elon Musk. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 5h

It's my understanding that authoritarianism and incompetent governing is a common combination.

The only sense in which an authoritarian society is merit-based is the "merit" of having or acquiring power. And people who *are* competent are seen as threats by people with power.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h

it really feels like you should need to be smarter than these guys to do the amount of damage they do

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 5h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 4h

People believe “empathy fatigue” when it’s a privileged asshole mad at folks denied housing

But not

“People are FUCKING EXHAUSTED” at being asked to find empathy when it really means

“ hey please be mad someone is being treated we actually value is being treated like you”

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