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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 54m

Pelosi: "Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, all of that, are now being asked to reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich. We're not doing it. It isn't a question of, 'let's come back together so we can discuss it.' That isn't going to happen."

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 57m

Little fiefdoms everywhere

AL.com @al.com · 2h

🔗: https://www.al.com/news/2025/10/alabama-police-chief-resigns-after-video-allegedly-shows-him-sexually-harass-teen-dispatcher.html
Cordova Police Chief Jason Hare, a husband and father, resigned Monday, Mayor Jeremy Pate confirmed.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1h

We are the richest shithole of a nation to demonstrate our inhumanity in the long, miserable history of this failing planet.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 3h

Notice the drumbeat that every undocumented person is a “rabble rouser,” fellow kids

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 3h

“My understanding” is the new “I haven’t seen that tweet”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Mike Johnson: "Federal workers, it's my understanding that the law is that they would be paid. There is some other legal analysis floating around. I haven't yet had time to dig in and read that."

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 3h

“Whooping cough cases in Florida have soared this year, marking an 81% increase from 2024's number

As of Sept. 27, 2025, there have been 1,295 cases reported to the [Dept of Health] compared to 715 cases for the entirety of 2024”

Parents hurting their own kids

www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...

Whooping cough cases soar in Florida as pediatricians worry about vaccine rollback

Whooping cough cases in Florida have soared this year, marking an 81% increase from 2024's number.

www.tallahassee.com

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

When a law enforcement officer aims a weapon at someone wielding a camera, it is procedurally unsound and unprofessional in two fundamental ways:
1) It is disproportional to any actual threat and is instead an unprovoked threat against a citizen.
2) The officer is a crazed, untrained asshole.

Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 17h

Call me a libtard but this doesn't seem like something that should be happening in the United States of America.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4h

This is all bullshit, by the way. There is no imminent risk of rotting crops, according to experts and farmworker unions. It's a ploy to cut wages (even below state minimum wages) for foreign workers, which will eventually hit U.S. workers too.
So much for America First!

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 4h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 6h

Don’t worry, I said. It’s a king bed, there’s plenty of room...

Image of a golden retriever spread cross-wise across a king bed, taking up most of the room, and a cat curled up taking the space of a pillow

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 7h

Jay’s waffle offense is a masterclass in sunken cost

It’s ok to admit you missed the mark in creating a bad analogy between reflexive purist trolls and platforming a doxxing transphobe

Unless, of course, you support the transphobe

Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 7h

Which indicates that Pam Bondi is not morally repulsed by anything she’s seen in Trump’s Epstein files

Bad faith morals, bad faith ethics, bad faith arguments

Bad people

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 1d

There it is

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 1d

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“It was kind of shoved down our throat. Nobody wants to speak to us,” Crocker said.”

And yet that’s what they said about people existing as trans and gay

Looks like one threat was more real than the other

Franklin County sheriff criticizes selected prison site, possible plans for ICE site

The Franklin County Sheriff has expressed strong opposition to the state's plan to use land near Charleston for a 3,000-bed prison, and it also being the possible site of a U.S. Immigration and Custom...

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 20h

Feels like there’s a historical precedent that could’ve helped Abbott with this one

But history is woke, so…

Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 20h

So, Trump is sending the Texas National Guard to Chicago.

A bunch of Texans. Habituated to Texas. Equipped for Texas. Deployed to CHICAGO. On the Lake. With Winter coming on...

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 2d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

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Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social · 17h

I think more people should be aware of how much cool stuff Link does in real life. He’s not just a poster.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 1d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 18h

Long story short: Bluesky banned a popular user named Link. Link's vanished from Bluesky, but because he'd migrated to the Blacksky servers, his data has been preserved. And now Blacksky is going to fire up the system that will put Link back online on Blacksky.

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Desarrayed @desarrayed.bsky.social · 15h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16h

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 17h

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...