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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14h

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 15h

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 12h

Performing Arts Recommended: William Kentridge’s Sibyl at Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus. Phenomenal show, great new venue, $30 community tix.

Powerhouse Arts, @powerhousearts.bsky.social
322 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, NY
festival.powerhousearts.org/festival-per...

www.kentridge.studio/william-kent...

Sibyl at Powerhouse: International

Powerhouse: International brings groundbreaking artists from around the world to Brooklyn this fall. Join us for live dance, theater, and music that sparks joy, change, and connection. Tickets availab...

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Kaz @kazlefay.bsky.social · 19h

Like little babies that are still figuring out object permanence through peek-a-boo.

Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 19h

Trump team thinks if you can’t see a law, it no longer exists www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Trump team thinks if you can’t see a law, it no longer exists

Showing the same reasoning skills as a toddler under a blanket who thinks you can’t see them if they can’t see you, the Trump administration has decided that, if it just deletes references to ...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

I met Samantha after Trump’s agents took her mom off the street yesterday, which she confirmed by watching video we showed her.

“She looks ready to cry… she wanted to go to the store. She wanted to make some albondigas which is basically a meatball stew” youtu.be/9dx266qOOic?...

Neighbors push back as Trump's ICE army terrorizes Chicago suburbs

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m just trying to find any clues, ideas, see where they took him, why they took him. And what’s the whole purpose for this?”

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 1d

two men were taken at a bakery by armed and masked federal agents in Cicero, Illinois this morning while having coffee before work. we were there moments later. Trump says they’re going after the “worst of the worst” around Chicago. that’s not what we saw. youtu.be/EkCcsaFdpsw?...

Jacob Soboroff speaks to people in Chicago suburb after ICE arrests 2 men at bakery

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.msnbc.com · 20h

Maddow: "Since Trump has been back in office, he has just been destroying the top leadership of the U.S. military."

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 21h

I was primarily noting the medical demographic targeting of people in their 60s & 70s with this almost fifty year old punk anthem. Maybe it’s been played in sports stadiums for twenty years too and what it means to punk olds is in the punk olds bubble. Waiting to hear Too Many Creeps licensed… 👀

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 1d

That’s me not watching enough tv then 😂

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a vaccine tv commercial using
The Ramones *Blitzkrieg Bop*
Friends, we are punk rock old.

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 1d

“AG” Bondi answers direct questions with nonsequitor-packed attacks and sidestepping counter-questions. Total refusal and aggressive shit-talking, her dial is set to Eleven.
It’s…something.

Chairing the hearing was Grassley, who appeared to be playing Candy Crush on his phone, and not looking up.

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 2d

Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her first oversight hearing. Here are the latest updates.

Pam Bondi to Face Grilling in Senate Hearing: Live Updates

Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her first oversight hearing. Here are the latest updates.

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 1d

Government-granted patent monopolies are the reason drugs are expensive. This needs to be explained to the explainers on Today Explained cepr.net/publications...

Drugs are Cheap, Patent Monopolies Make Them Expensive: Explaining to Today Explained

TrumpRX won’t fix high drug prices because patents—not foreign pricing—drive costs. Ending monopolies could save Americans trillions.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1d

Russ Vought is like the creep boss when you were a teen working at a restaurant or ice cream stand who steals your tips and wages.

He deleted the law from the OMB website saying federal employees are entitled to back pay after govt shutdowns.

Obviously, the law still exists and is enforceable.

GovExec @govexec.bsky.social · 2d

OMB quietly removed language from its #shutdown guidance that referenced the 2019 law guaranteeing retroactive pay to furloughed federal employees. buff.ly/P0AsxeZ

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 2d

Cops misled journalists about using a powerful surveillance tool to track a woman across state lines because she had an abortion, then tried to cover it up when we found out the truth. Huge story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social and @josephcox.bsky.social this morning: www.404media.co/police-said-...

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime

Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller: "Violence beats votes."

Yeah, buddy. We know that's the philosophy you live by.

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller: "Eventually elections don’t carry the day because violence beats votes… When we see a muscular response from the federal government, it’s because we’re not going to let violence beat votes."

Is he implying federal intervention determines political legitimacy, not ballots or courts?

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Diane Curtis @dianecurtis.bsky.social · 2d

"It’s clear that the president’s and Miller’s assertions about political violence from the left are not based on actual facts."

Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows

Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the US. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 3d

this felt too informative not to share

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 3d

Got a tip recently about how Trump's tariffs are preventing libraries from sharing books, and causing their loaned books to get stuck or lost in other countries: www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 3d

NYC Ballot Initiatives, what say you?
The City has a thing…
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b...

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 3d

A direct attack on New York City schoolchildren. Disgusting and craven.

New York Amsterdam News @nyamnews.bsky.social · 3d

The #Trump administration is canceling millions of dollars in magnet school grant funding after New York City officials missed a Tuesday deadline to overhaul their policies regarding #transgender students.

Trump administration cancels NYC magnet school funding over transgender student policies

The Trump administration is canceling millions of dollars in magnet school grant funding after New York City officials missed a Tuesday deadline to overhaul their policies regarding transgender students.

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Lisa Guido @guidoo.bsky.social · 3d

NYC Ballot Initiatives, what say you?
The City has a thing…
www.thecity.nyc/2025/10/06/b...

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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 6d

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

www.wsj.com

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