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Glencora

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · Oct 22

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · Oct 22

just want to be clear that if Trump wins, the only accurate answer to "why did Harris lose?" will not be found in a thousand thinkpieces on "if only she'd announced more policy".

the accurate answer will be "cos American politics and American society are irredeemable fucked".

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 4h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 2h

A toddler can hurt a lot of people with a loaded gun.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3h

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 2h

I think it's less of an issue of abusive women getting reported and more of an issue of abusive men *not* getting reported; statistically speaking, I expect that at least a couple dozen men in Congress are absolutely terrible bosses

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William Moss @williammoss.bsky.social · 2h

I'm reading a WSJ story about high-priced consultants in New York that help parents get their kids into selective high schools, and I can't get over one of the consultants having having the last name "Shashou" which is the pinyin for the Chinese word for assassin.

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Andrew @andrewwmiller.com · 12h

This Senate Gabe dude has been intentionally misleading people about Senate procedure for like 6 months now to build hate for Democratic leadership. Please do not follow him.

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 13h

Wrong Rock! Wrong Rock!

(Also this person is insane and I can't believe so many people follow him, criminal charges WTF are you talking about man)

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2h

Geopolitics as told by a dim toddler.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "I spoke to Bibi Netanyahu just a little while ago. He called, he said, 'I can't believe it. Everybody is liking me now,' meaning him. I said, 'more importantly they are loving Israel again.'"

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 4h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 3h

the media told us information security was the most important issue facing the country in 2016

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3h

Underrated part of this story is that official USG business is done by Truth Social DM. It almost makes you miss the good old days of the PC small group Signal Chat.

Sean O’Kane @seanokane.bsky.social · 4h

WSJ is reporting that the Truth Social post where Trump told Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey *really was supposed to be a private message*

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

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2h

The MMR shot is safe and effective, and there is no credible evidence otherwise.

Breaking MMR into three shots means 3x more copays at the doctor’s office, 3x more hours of missed work, 3x more bummed out kiddos, and probably more than 3x as many kids who aren’t fully vaccinated.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3h

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 8h

Another riot in Minneapolis was instigated by a right-wing agitator who was convicted of shooting into a police station and setting it on fire, in the hopes of starting a civil war.

A self-described "boogaloo boi," he drove up from Texas to create a false flag.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

www.nbcnews.com

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 2h

Not exit unless you pay the exit tax and gift your savings and property to the regime

Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 2h

There is not enough funding anywhere in the WORLD to replace US- funded science…China is catching up but you’d be switching from an authoritarian country to another

Philip Mai @philipmai.com · 10h

"Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe. U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold." 🤔 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Top US researchers rush to relocate to Europe

U.S.-based applicants to a prestigious EU research scheme have increased five-fold.

www.politico.eu

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ok city ok @krogerfoot.bsky.social · 2h

It’s Wilhoit policing. Encounters with cops are a brief inconvenience at worst for me, a hazard to life and limb and fortune for thee

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3h

This is absolutely enraging. They can and will beat and detain US citizens for the crime of being Hispanic and then they’ll dump them unceremoniously hours later with no recompense.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Candidly Tiff @tify330.bsky.social · 5h

Brooklyn Hakeem. Run Up and Get Done Up 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Glencora @glencora.bsky.social · 3h

But they like him best because he gives them access you see?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump smiles along as Sortor refers to the White House press as "the garbage standing over here"

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 11h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 12h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Tim Lambert @timlambert-pa.bsky.social · 3h

"One of the fired FBI employees, a combat veteran who was months away from becoming eligible for retirement, was called back to the office after having left for the day and informed of the dismissal, a person familiar with the matter told NBC News."

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 10h

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

FBI fires special agents who worked on Jack Smith's probe into Trump

The three agents were fired after Kash Patel disclosed that Jack Smith's team obtained phone records of members of Congress, which the Smith report itself referenced.

www.nbcnews.com

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 4h

It's fascinating that a higher ed search firm reached out to a very conservative member of Congress to recruit the new president of Youngstown State. I didn't know that was a part of search firms' playbooks.

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

What is more unusual is that, while in Congress, Johnson, a staunch conservative, swapped endorsements with President Trump, and was perhaps best known for voting not to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election and supporting a travel ban on majority-Muslim nations during Trump’s first administration.

Johnson, 70, wasn’t seeking a fourth act. So when representatives from the search firm WittKieffer came calling about the Youngstown State job, he had a question of his own: “Why would I consider something like this?”

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

The first part of this interaction, including the threat to turn dogs on the American citizen, is on video here: www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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The Next Day @incompetusrex.bsky.social · 3h

This is just straightforwardly the type of tyranny the Bill of Rights is meant to stop.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 4h

Not an irrational concern.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3h

The next Supreme Court term is shaping up to be the most consequential since 1937. Depending on how it rules, it may cease to be accepted as a legitimate arbiter, and even nullify its own power as an independent judiciary.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 3h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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