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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 3h

Trump promised a health care plan TEN YEARS AGO and has never come up with one. Unless you consider it a "health care plan" when you cut health care and use the savings to give rich people a tax cut.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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D Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social · 3h

Worth looking at the actual language in Alfred Nobel's will establishing the Peace Prize, where he said it should go to the person who does:

"the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and promotion of peace congresses"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

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TetraLogical @tetralogical.com · 7h

⚒️ Are you in or around Toronto 14 to 17th October?

@stevefaulkner.bsky.social
will be in Toronto and attending #a11yTO. This means an opportunity for customers, potential customers, and comrades to meet with him and talk accessibility!

Office hours available: calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...

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Genwil 🍁 @genwil.bsky.social · 3h

Right after Infrastructure Week.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3h

So many of these videos don’t show resistance as much as people pleading with the armed goons to be human and they open fire.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Stonekettle @stonekettle.bsky.social · 3h

In Trump's America, you're a hell of a lot more likely to lose your healthcare due to Trump's tax giveaways to billionaires, than because an emergency room doctor patched up an undocumented immigrant.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h

The thing where people believe we can attack class hierarchy without addressing race hierarchy is giving them leeway to strengthen both.

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Genwil 🍁 @genwil.bsky.social · 3h

He’s gone mad.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

FOX: Do you think Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?

FETTERMAN: If this sticks. I think the whole point of having a Nobel Peace Prize is for ending wars and promoting peace. And if he brings the Ukrainian war to its end, I will be the Democrat leading the committee for his Nobel Prize Peace.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 3h

How Easter Island’s giant statues “walked” to their final platforms

Workers with ropes could make the moai “walk” in zig-zag motion along roads tailor-made for the purpose.

arstechnica.com

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 3h

Some of you believed the anti-mask nonsense from conservatives during the pandemic only for them to use it on you. Rinse and repeat

Charles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 3h

“ICE goes masked for a single reason — to terrorize Americans into quiescence"

Opinion | ‘ICE Goes Masked for a Single Reason’

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

This pretty much captures the contradictions of the politics of Kirk and Turning Point: Of course we oppose doxxing and violence, but we will absolutely use inflammatory language, false claims, and enemies list that fuels threats and intimidation.

Several days after publishing the petition calling for Dr. Bray’s dismissal from Rutgers, the Turning Point USA chapter added an update saying that it did not support harassment or the doxxing of him or anyone else.

“I think that all death threats and doxxing are unjustified and not how political disputes should be resolved in civilized society,” Ava Kwan, a Turning Point USA chapter member, said in an email on Wednesday.
But she defended the broader point of the petition, saying, “I think Dr. Antifa, who believes in violence as a political tool, should be fired, of course. Taxpayer money should not fund the salaries of terrorists.”

For years, Turning Point USA has maintained a watch-list of hundreds of professors whom the group accuses of advancing leftist propaganda in the classroom. Dr. Bray is on the list.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 3h

It was only a matter of time

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 5h

A woman who was shot multiple times by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents did not ram them with her car and had her weapon stored in her purse at the time of the incident, according to her lawyer, contradicting accounts by the Department of Homeland Security.

www.reuters.com/world/us/bod...

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Genwil 🍁 @genwil.bsky.social · 4h

What a racist creep n

Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 21h

Rempel is such a shit. Perfect image of racist white feminism.

National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 21h

Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents nationalnewswatch.com/2025/10/08/c...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Alastair Somerville @acuity.design · 9h

Jony Ive involved in electric Ferrari design. I hope they’ve checked where the charge cable plugs in.

WIRED @wired.com · 9h

More than 1,000 hp, 192 mph, and regen braking with more than half the force of an emergency stop aren't enough for the Italian carmaker—it might just have solved the EV sonic problem once and for all. www.wired.com/story/ferrar...

Ferrari Reveals Its Electric Powerhouse, and What Could Finally Be Real EV Sound

More than 1,000 hp, 192 mph, and regen braking with more than half the force of an emergency stop aren't enough for the Italian carmaker—it might just have solved the EV sonic problem once and for all.

www.wired.com

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 8h

… and c) … they’ve hollowed themselves out. Voices of reason and intellectual heft are absent. Attempts to connect policy with reality, knowable consequences and necessity are just not allowed.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 8h

These movements globally are at root a refusal to hear the word “no”. There can be no external restrictions. No planetary chemistry may interfere with profit, no law may block executive power. Thus the platform.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 8h

I just warn my firends in the UK that as repulsive as youth wearing the aged garments of fascism is to you, the billionaires know it's their only way to succeed and will spend infinite money to make it happen.

How we got Kirk and Turning Point after years of them being clowned in the Obama era.

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 10h

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 22h

Link's ban is wrong and should be reversed.

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Genwil 🍁 @genwil.bsky.social · 17h

Oh yeah: she lives in Canada.

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 18h

Why I get cranky about out of context debt-to-gdp ratios, fiscal anchors, and how this all leads to austerity that inevitably ends up hurting those if us that need support the most

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 19h

Now in wide release, my latest YouTube episode where @lindsaytedds.bsky.social and I talk about what we're not talking about when we talk about austerity #cdnpoli

The Problems with Austerity

YouTube video by Dale Smith

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 18h

Has a single “journalist” in mainstream media asked Trump, Mike Johnson or John Thune why they haven’t used their Senate majority to override the 60 vote threshold and reopen the government?

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Derek Simon @dartmouthderek.bsky.social · 23h

if your business model is only viable if you can steal from other people then you don’t have a legitimate business.

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Genwil 🍁 @genwil.bsky.social · 22h

There is no downside to this.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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