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NewsCurrentNow @newscurrentnow.com · 17h

We’re watching an entire political party actively protect the single most infamous sex-trafficking operation of our time.

This isn’t just silence—it’s complicity at the highest level.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 10h

You know who takes a cognitive test? People whose family members suspect their loved one is suffering from dementia. If he kept getting “perfect” scores…they wouldn’t keep administering them. My take? He blew the first one he ever took. Now, they’re tracking the decline. I’d bet my hot coffee on it.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16h

An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it.

Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device.

The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

This 4-year-old's heart is failing. A federal grant that might help him was canceled

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down.

www.npr.org

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 16h

If you rename the Department of Defense the Department of War, then bomb fishing boats in the Caribbean, and shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper bullet, you should automatically be barred from receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for the rest of your life.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 20h

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 17h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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dbnewtondoors.bsky.social @dbnewtondoors.bsky.social · 21h

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 13h

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A.J. @andynear70.bsky.social · 10h

This is "Project 2025."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19h

Everything Trump is doing now is a preamble for his regime's real goal: to invoke the Insurrection Act.

I don’t want to unduly alarm you, but you need to be aware of this imminent danger. Let me explain what’s going on.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

This is that "plenary" authority Stephen Miller was referring to in the now edited CNN interview. Arguing that the president's deployment of troops is unreviewable by the courts is arguing that his power is plenary.

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 19h

Hamilton insists the president's decision is "unreviewable."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

Donald Trump is ordering extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers.

He's vilifying his political opponents and threatening to jail them.

His ICE agents are terrorizing immigrants and firing chemical agents at peaceful protestors.

And some people think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize?

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 14h

from Thursday’s post, on the batshit White House ‘anti-antifa’ roundtable that featured Donny Convict, ICE Barbie, and a fetid fucktangle of MAGA halfwits and hangers-on.
you can read the whole thing in all its glory here: bit.ly/4mSP3Ol

Chris Wray — who had been appointed FBI director by Donny — had it exactly right. antifa isn’t an organization. it’s a belief — that fascism is bad.

pro tip: if you’re against the idea of antifascism, you’re on the wrong fucking side.

this is something that Pizzagate Jack and his buddies don’t seem to realize.
fast forward to today. Chris Wray is gone, replaced by Krazee-Eyes Kash. Donny no longer has adults in the room.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gave ICE more cops than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Once the bill is fully implemented, nowhere in America will be safe from Trump's secret police state.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13h

The lies are becoming pure fantasy lately. Time for the 25th amendment.

Screenshot of a tweet from Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) on X featuring a clip of Donald Trump speaking. The tweet quotes Trump saying: ‘I don’t know what could be worse than Portland. You don’t even have stores anymore. They don’t even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows.’ The image below shows Trump seated at a table with a microphone and water cup, speaking during a meeting.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 19h

💉🧵Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) season starts soon. Now is the time to get vaccinated if vaccine is recommended for you.

TL;DR: Who should get RSV immunization?

💉Adults 75+ or 50-74 with certain conditions
💉Some pregnant people
💉Babies <8mo (if no vax during pregnancy)
💉Some babies 8-19mo

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23h

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

BlinkRX, an online prescription drug delivery company, stands to benefit from proposed changes by Trump that would allow pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs directly to patients.

His son, Eric Trump, is on the company’s board.

Always follow the money.

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 17h

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 1d

"We took the freedom of speech away." -DJT

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cookiebaker14.bsky.social @cookiebaker14.bsky.social · 8h

a woman is laughing with the words * snort * written on her shirt

ALT: a woman is laughing with the words * snort * written on her shirt

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 15h

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 13h

Maryland Rep. Olszewski: With all the due respect to the Speaker, that is a load of crap. Rep. elect Grijalva was duly elected. She’s ready to get sworn in any time, any place. Those 2 Floridians were sworn in the day after they were elected. This is now weeks that we’ve been waiting to swear her in

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