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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5d

Jeffries: In that Oval Office meeting, which lasted over an hour, the amount of time spent talking about health insurance for undocumented immigrants was less than 10 seconds. You know why? Because they know it’s a lie. They didn’t even bother to bring it up—because the cameras weren’t rolling.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5d

BREAKING: Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” More billionaires bending the knee.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 5d

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation.

Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

Media

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Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
By Alexandra Steigrad
Published Oct. 2, 2025, 3:24 p.m. ET

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 5d

First they shut down the government. Then they tampered with federal workers’ emails to shift the blame. This is corruption in broad daylight.

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown

Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.

www.nbcnews.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6d

Sen. Coons: “You can only benefit from the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid if you have legal status in this country. We are not fighting for health care for people here illegally. That’s not true. We are fighting for health care for Americans.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Bari Weiss is set to be named the editor in chief of CBS News, the New York Post reports

Paramount Skydance is poised to name Bari Weiss as editor in chief of CBS News in the coming days — giving the hard-charging journalist unusual clout to revamp the struggling network as it also acquires her scrappy news site the Free Press, The Post has learned.

Weiss — a 41-year-old former New York Times opinion writer who has built the Free Press into a buzzworthy site with a contrarian bent — is expected to be named to the top post in a Monday announcement, although the talks are in flux and the timing could change, a source close to the situation said.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 6d

“Senior federal officials have quietly counseled several agencies against firing employees while the government is shut down — as President Donald Trump has suggested he will — warning the strategy may violate appropriations law”

Do* violate appropriations law

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13d

Republicans can’t win on their policies, so they are trying to dodge accountability by rewriting the rules. These lawmakers are going out of their way to silence the will of the people and deliberately undermine our democracy.

All On The Line @allontheline.bsky.social · 13d

The White House is continuing to pressure more states to gerrymander their congressional maps because they are afraid of voters holding them accountable for their unpopular policies.

This is a decisive moment for our democracy. Take action to fight back against this power grab. ⬇️

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 6d

If you are shocked by what the Trump regime is publicly stealing or crimes it is committing, imagine the magnitude of the crimes they are actually hiding.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6d

gift link - no paywall.

very much worth reading:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

If policies and programs need to be cut, as Johnson says, why is it only happening in blue states? www.npr.org/2025/10/02/n...

The Energy Department canceled billions in funding. Democrats say it's retribution

Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said the funding was for projects in 16 states, all of which voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris.

www.npr.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Jeffries: "Trump and the Republicans spent all year last year promising they were gonna lower the high cost of living. They also spent all of last year running away from Project 2025 ... now all of the sudden, Donald Trump admits it was his project all along. He just did it earlier today."

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Plenary Popehat Power @kenwhite.bsky.social · 6d

There is a gulf in America. I submit it is the gulf between good and evil, or at least not-evil and evil.

The gulf is not just between people who oppose this and people who are indifferent to it or reluctantly accept it in support of immigration policy or see it as collateral damage.
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 6d

This raid is disgusting, abominable behavior, traumatizing children and families in their homes.
abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

"They was terrified. The kids was crying. People was screaming. They looked very distraught. I was out there crying when I seen the little girl come around the corner, because they was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other," Watson said. "That's all I kept asking. What is the morality? Where's the human? One of them literally laughed. He was standing right here. He said, 'f*** them kids.'"

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6d

So Qatar gets NATO Article 5 level protection, but Ukraine does not? This is raw corruption in action.

A screenshot of an X post by Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkow
..., 11h ago) stating: "This is pretty unbelievable. Qatar giving Trump that jet is really paying off for them in a big way." The post includes a quoted X post by Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid
) with an auto-translated Grok Show original message: "As part of the initiative to end the war in Gaza and as compensation to Qatar for the Israeli attack in Doha, President Trump signed on Monday a presidential order that dramatically upgrades the U.S. commitment to Qatar's security. This is an unprecedented security agreement between the U.S. and an Arab country. According to the presidential order, published today, 'The United States will regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty, or vital infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States.' The order further states: 'In the event of such an attack, the United States will take all appropriate and lawful measures – including diplomatic, economic, and if necessary, military measures – in order to defend the interests of the United States and the State of Qatar and to restore peace and stability.'"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

"On Monday, Google paid a $24.5 million bribe to President Trump. The bag of cash was euphemistically described as a 'legal settlement,' but in this dangerous political moment we do ourselves no favors with polite obfuscation."

Google joins presidential bribe club

It's a "settlement." WINK WINK.

www.publicnotice.co

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 6d

Rob Wittman spent the night of the shutdown eating steak with his rich donors. Meanwhile, the shutdown he and the GOP caused means soldiers and federal workers in his district will struggle to feed their families. Call his office at (202) 225-4261 and ask why.

The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14d

According to the numbers, these are the 26 most vulnerable MAGA House representatives. They've spent more time defending “Dear Leader” than the Constitution, and they can be beat. We're pledging to target them all in the 2026 midterms.

See anybody missing? Let us know here: https://t.co/geQUe7ptY6

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 6d

Project 2025 was the plan all along

The fever dream of Stephen Miller

Fire as many government employees as possible

Roll back regulations so billionaires can exploit ALL of our resources-including US workers

End anything that promotes equity

Destroy the rule of law

Burn down American democracy

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing to see the ease with which Johnson lies.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Johnson: "Russ does this reluctantly. He takes no pleasure in this. Russ has to sit down and decide which policies, personnel, & programs are essential & which are not. That's not a fun task and he's not enjoying that responsibility...if they keep the govt closed, it's gonna get more & more painful"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6d

July 24, 2024

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 6d

New polling suggests that Trump’s efforts to falsely claim that Democrats shut down the government because they want to provide “free health care for illegal aliens” are not working.

Nearly half of Americans blame the shutdown on Trump and Republicans in Congress, and for good reason.

Americans aren't buying Trump's shutdown blame game

Early polls show that most blame Trump and Republicans—and for good reason.

www.motherjones.com

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 6d

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 6d

This was always the plan.

Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 6d

Funny how Sleepy Joe Biden managed to get through an entire term of a presidency without the government shutting down.

Something Troubled Trump has not been able to do. Either time.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6d

Meiselas: There’s the golden ballroom, which he claims is being funded by companies or corporations.

Garcia: Well, stay tuned, because we’re asking those same questions.

Who’s involved? Are foreign governments paying for it? Oversight is already working on getting those answers and investigating..

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