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Ahmed Baba @ahmedbaba.bsky.social · 5h

We can't become desensitized to this.

The President of the United States is baselessly calling for the jailing of two Dem leaders on the same day a former FBI Director was arraigned for an indictment the president personally directed. This is un-American authoritarian insanity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also!

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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 4h

🧪🧬🌍🌊💨🔬🔭🥼

Greg Todd @1gregtodd.bsky.social · 7h

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA.

Neil Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map in 2019.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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Amarie @humanwolf.bsky.social · 7h

NOAA to be run by “Sharpiegate” meteorologist🔥😵‍💫

Good luck everyone 🙏

#HowToDestoyACountry

WHAT WERE YOU THINKING

#BlueEarth
#ResistanceEarth
#OV1

Greg Todd @1gregtodd.bsky.social · 7h

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA.

Neil Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map in 2019.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

www.nytimes.com

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 1d

Stop private equity from buying single-family homes.

Instead, give young Americans low-interest mortgages & downpayment help to buy them.

Homes for young families, not Wall Street.

That’s new economic patriotism.

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Drew Webb Free @Azbrittney and @Donkoclock @archeryfan93.bsky.social · 6h

To all the National Guard and military members remember you don't have to violate the Constitution

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

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Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 7h

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

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rc2c.bsky.social @rc2c.bsky.social · 1d

It is hard to believe GOP Senators just sit there and let Bondi lie, disrespect, and commit perjury and do nothing. It’s appalling.

It’s the US Senate. Act like it GOP.

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 7h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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JB Pritzker @jbpritzker.bsky.social · 6d

- Indicting political rivals
- Suppressing dissent
- Rewriting history

These are all chapters in the authoritarian playbook, and Donald Trump is following them step by step. Now is not the time to stand on the sidelines; it’s time to make your voice heard.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

i think it is cool that a government run by fanatical bigots is on track to plunge the economy into a mountain and cause a food crisis

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 8h

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.

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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 8h

Gotta wonder what the hell the #NFL is thinking. It isn’t like they didn’t know.

Back in 2015, before entering the NFL, Hill pleaded guilty to domestic assault and battery by strangulation after he assaulted Espinal, who was then pregnant. Hill received three years probation for that crime. The NFL has yet to hand down any discipline for Hill for this most recent incident.

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 23h

proceedings.nyumootcourt.org/2022/10/pres...

Preserving the Bivens Doctrine in the Fourth Amendment Context – N.Y.U. Proceedings

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Bill Conroy @bconroy.bsky.social · 23h

Masked ICE agents are violating the 4th Amendment blatantly. The amendment isn't foggy. It doesn't say "citizens." It says "the right of the people" to be secure in their persons and homes. Sue them as John Does. You can if they violate your constitutional rights. I would. See Bivens lawsuit.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 12h

"If the Supreme Court officially makes the chief executive a unitary executive, the advancement of the public good may depend on little more than the whims of the president, a state of affairs normally more characteristic of dictatorship than democracy." www.salon.com/2025/10/08/t...

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power - Salon.com

In a series of cases over the past 15 years, the Supreme Court has moved in a pro-presidential direction.

www.salon.com

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 22h

Attorney General Pam Bondi came before the Judiciary Committee today.

But she refused to answer a raft of important questions.

On Tom Homan's bribe.

On Donald Trump's new luxury plane.

On January 6th pardons.

On illegal strikes in the Caribbean.

On Epstein.

The stonewalling was staggering.

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karmaisawoman.bsky.social @karmaisawoman.bsky.social · 10h

Fun fact the new young incels say Anne Frank is a hoax and she didn’t exist. Tells you what we are dealing with.

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RevDaniel 🇨🇦 @revdaniel.bsky.social · 10h

This is why I deleted my Facebook account.

Yes I can be friends with people who I disagree with politically. But that means disagreements like “should more or less tax money go to this department or that one?”

It doesn’t mean “are these people human, or not?”

Meme saying: It depressed the hell out of me that people I used to consider friends have turned into people I wouldn’t tell where Anne Frank was hiding.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine that.

www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 9h

One would think that the MSM would be running out of euphemisms to whitewash immoral behavior and crimes by now, but it seems the euphemism store never empties.

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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 9h

Dear @npr.org , as a sustaining member, I suggest you do better in your framing. I am bussing a lot of sustaining members might feel the same.

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

“Bucking tradition and legal precedent.” Lol.

I guess according to the sanitizing standards of mainstream media’s neutrality-theater journalism, you can “buck tradition and legal precedent” so hard that you end democratic self-government and the constitutional order altogether.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 9h

“Bucking tradition and legal precedent.” Lol.

I guess according to the sanitizing standards of mainstream media’s neutrality-theater journalism, you can “buck tradition and legal precedent” so hard that you end democratic self-government and the constitutional order altogether.

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

n.pr

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