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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

when i saw marsha fucking blackburn was being honored by journalists i thought i was having a neurological episode

Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 1h

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.

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Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 13h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10h

This headline is sexy af

Free Parking 🚘 @free-parking.bsky.social · 13h

This is exactly what we need. This is it.

"New York City Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, is privately discussing a run against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)"

Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries

Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

www.axios.com

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 10h

You can tell it’s October when ppl start spreading drug sadism myths about expensive drugs given for free to school-age children, since children usually have the means to purchase more drugs…

Anyways, we actually know pretty definitively that “fentanyl-laced marijuana” isn’t a thing & never will be

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10h

I really hope Dave just lets Kershaw eat all this shit. Just leave him out there forever. And have this be the last game for him.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 8d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 14h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12h

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

"I'm attacked every time I do my job" -- it's the victimhood olympics today at the White House

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 16h

This is why I'm saying to be careful what you say online. By all means, oppose this administration vocally, loudly, and publicly. Just don't snitch on yourself in the process.

truthout.org/articles/tex...

Texas AG Announces Undercover Operations Into “Antifa,” Cites “Transgenderism”

The move echoes a push by the Trump administration to weaponize counterterrorism tools against left-leaning groups.

truthout.org

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13h

Every other outlet reporting that House Republicans are in open revolt while the Senate Republicans feel boxed in, but yeah, the Free Press has its finger right on the meme pulse of things.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 13h

This is the kind of free-thinking, hard-hitting journalism they're going to be getting at CBS soon.

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Melter of ICE @davidhalber.bsky.social · 11h

Is this about Katie Porter?

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Melter of ICE @davidhalber.bsky.social · 11h

What's wrong with his health, NBC?

There's the hand bruise, the rambling, the slowness, and the inability to stay awake or answer questions coherently.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h

This is important.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 14h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 15h

My hot take is that if does not actually matter to Palestine, or to any Indigenous population, what DNA tests show. I'm obviously not an Indigenous person but if my DNA showed I was 96% donkey and 4% tardigrade, it still wouldn't be okay to kill me and take my house.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h

Love this. “NATO for nonprofits.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

'NATO for nonprofits': Groups organize to band together if targeted by Trump

Nonprofit organizations took lessons away from law firms and universities that largely decided to act in isolation after finding themselves in the administration's crosshairs.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13h

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Melter of ICE @davidhalber.bsky.social · 11h

Sounds like her. Pretty much everyone at Columbia, and everyone who worked with her after thinks she’s the fucking antichrist.

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 1d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 14h

In some ways this is the government now

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I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12h

Van Jones's "Green Collar Economy," with a foreword by RFK Jr, is such a wild thing to remember.

The late 2000s! What a time!

The Green Collar Economy
Book by Van Jones

Forward by RFK Jr.

Quote from Al Gore

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

It’s so funny that we finally got confirmation it was an accident and even funnier that we didn’t know for sure because he tweets such crazy, criminal shit all the time

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 13h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 16h

Industrial Revolution Provides Millions Of Out-Of-Work Children With Jobs https://theonion.com/industrial-revolution-provides-millions-of-out-of-work-1819571223/

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 14h

We are ruled by criminal morons

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