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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 3h

Since the Trumpists make up legal theories to justify whatever the hell they want to do, maybe it’s time for some creative thinking on the other side. For instance, in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief, perhaps Trump is subject to court martial for abusing his authority to politicize the military.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe it's because I'm a parent, but avoidable harm to kids really gets to me. My kids can be difficult when they don't get an afternoon snack at the usual time. I'm sure various parents and teachers can say the same. Watching a kid starve to death? And the US govt did it on purpose?
Unconscionable.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

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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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 6h

That's right. The new testament tells us that when Peter took him to his mother in law, Jesus LOLed and said "hmmm no money, no miracle. Thoughts and prayers, Tchuss"

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 6h

8 wars. Wait, I'm being told a 9th one just came in. Oh we're at 12 now. Moving fast 19! 24!!! That's it, he's ended all wars.

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 6h

So people have to make FOR FREE the content necessary for training the AI that will remove their jobs?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

IMF DIRECTOR GEORGIEVA, on @cnbc.com, calls AI a “tsunami” that will impact 60% of jobs — in some fashion.

At the IMF, she says, “We used to have 200 interpreters. Now we have 50.”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

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.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 7h

There is so much mental illness in the GOP. It's a collective hallucination. Staggering.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Sen. Hagerty: "This goes all the way back to Obama. I moved into Trump Tower the day after the election in 2016. The FBI came up and surveilled us then ... the real threat to democracy are Chuck Schumer and the Democrats."

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 7h

Red America voted for this. They should live with the consequences of their own vote.
No bail out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Rep. Stutzman on a bailout for farmers: "People are gonna struggle to make it through, but I think President Trump has a plan. He understands that the tariff policies have created some volatility for agriculture."

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Ken Mahan @weatherken.bsky.social · 8h

New England was in desperate need of this kind of rain to curb the drought. Scattered showers and pockets of steady light rain will persist through early afternoon for some. Here's a look at the current totals.

#mawx #nhwx #riwx #vtwx #mewx #boston @bostonglobe.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 8h

if blue state governors and mayors aren't already thinking about the reliability of various police forces nominally under their control, they should start immediately

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h

The situation in America is not great. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 8h

Yep. The deals suck too, it resembles black Friday when it had become so popular, retailers weren't even trying any longer.

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 9h

There's literally nothing else that explains Trump's behavior around the Epstein files that he tells us we must now forget.

Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10h

so theres a possibility the attorney general has seen evidence the president raped children and now the entire republican party is helping to cover it up?

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 10h

I would love for it to be good news, but the most likely explanation is that the legacy media thinks Nazism is fashionable and edgy.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

Someone should start asking why we’re hearing and seeing Stephen Miller so much all of a sudden.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

open.substack.com

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 10h

Yes. Clearly Republicans don't care about democracy. But they do that ICE is wasting a bunch of money going after what looks like a big Halloween party.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 11h

Once again, I’m wondering why Democrats aren’t running with a straightforward message of “despotism is un-American and unaffordable” right now and all the way into the midterms.

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 12h

Omar Yaghi, who just won a Nobel for the US is an immigrant from a Palestinian refugee family.
Trump is cutting us off from people like him.

AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 12h

#UPDATE Japan's Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson and American-Jordanian Omar M. Yaghi have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing so-called metal–organic frameworks, the Nobel jury said.

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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously folks ICE is making fake 911 calls to Chicago PD according to the hellsite. They are the biggest perpetrators of lawless and criminal violence in the country today.

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 12h

If you want to be a political journalist, you should have an interest in the policy news. That's the only way you'll remember or follow people who will remind you of this kind of things.
Otherwise, you're a Boston globe reporter who sounds like they're there because they couldn't do anything else.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h

Boston Globe. “Longstanding policy” is federal law passed in 2019. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/07/n...

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 12h

Still waiting for anyone at the national news editions at @npr.org to ask themselves this question.
Seems that's beyond their comprehension but @wbur.org wants me to pay the salary of these simpletons.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

If appropriations bills are not seen as enforceable contracts, why should any Member of Congress vote to fund any part of the federal government under Donald Trump? You're voting to provide money for lawlessness. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 13h

Yes and I don't see a future Dem administration going after those who installed them because freedom of speech and non-weaponization.
There's a paradox for the need of a trump-like figure in the opposite direction, but democracy-loving politicians aren't like that.
So the movement Right can't stop.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 18h

We need to have solutions for the Collaborator Problem: the way the fascist takeover of all our institutions has led to the promotion of soulless, facile, subservient mediocrities filling vitally important roles across the breadth of our society

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 13h

In the past 15 years of GOP rule, Ohio has gone down about 15-20 spots in state performance for education.
Meanwhile...

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · Sep 6

Was talking to someone from another state yesterday who couldn’t believe it but yes, Ohio law not only requires public school buses to transport kids to private schools, it actually *prioritizes* public bussing for private school students over public school students. Total insanity.

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · Sep 6

Thousands of Ohio students left without a school bus ride as private school transport expands
by Julie Carr Smyth
apnews.com/article/scho...

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 15h

Snakebite surge as Bangladesh hit by record rains.

Bangladesh has seen nearly 15,000 snakebite admissions this year, with 84 deaths reported so far

u.afp.com/SmdX

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 22h

"In effect, these voters responded to the most comprehensive attempt to provide concrete benefits to them since the New Deal by loading an economic shotgun and pointing it directly at themselves." prospect.org/politics/202...

House Republicans Take Aim at Red-State Economies

President Biden bent over backwards to help left-behind communities get factories and jobs. Their congressional representatives don’t appreciate it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Charles Attend @cmerlin.bsky.social · 21h

Man, after Dollywood closing, a tough sucky week.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 23h

Dolly Parton's sister is asking fans to "pray with me" amid the country music icon's health issues

Dolly Parton’s Sister Says ‘I Was Up All Night Praying’ Amid Country Icon’s Health Issues and Asks Fans to ‘Pray With Me’

Dolly Parton's sister Frieda is asking fans of the Queen of Country to "pray with me" amid Dolly's continued health struggles.

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