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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 5h

Sale ongoing. A $2 book! And it’s good!!! #medievalsky

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 1d

yoooooooo go get books from @bookshop.org

the ebook of mine & @lollardfish.bsky.social's THE BRIGHT AGES is $1.99!!!!!!

bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1h

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 9m

FWIW, I love talking about this stuff. Don't every worry about asking.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 12m

On ICE raids and attacks in Chicago, local reporters have consistently shown up the national outlets attempting to report remotely.

Locals continue to break story after story even as the nationals are summarizing govt press releases. They've shown physical bravery in very dangerous circumstances.

COURIER @couriernewsroom.bsky.social · 18h

"With local news in a severe tailspin for decades, there was a real question about whether Chicago’s media would meet the moment. But they have indeed," writes @markjacob.bsky.social in Stop The Presses.

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable

www.stopthepresses.news

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 27m

They're both valid. Posse Comitatus did not overwrite the Insurrection Act.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h

NEW: Comey is going to file selective and vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss AND he will challenge the legality of Halligan’s appointment! There’s more, too… so glad @annabower.bsky.social is there to bring us the whole story! Thread below with details:

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

The judge also set an initial schedule for pre-trial motions.

The first set is expected by Oct. 12. Per Comey’s defense counsel, that batch will include motions to dismiss for selective and vindictive prosecution, as well as a motion challenging the legality of Halligan’s appointment as US attorney

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 43m

The consensus of macroeconomists globally is that the techbros and Trump are driving the markets towards a Crédit Mobilier-type meltdown in which they will profit massively, but the financial system will be devastated. www.ft.com/content/fe47...

IMF and BoE warn AI boom risks ‘abrupt’ stock market correction

Kristalina Georgieva and UK financial stability watchdog say valuations are closing in on dotcom bubble levels

www.ft.com

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Greg Todd @1gregtodd.bsky.social · 1h

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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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 1h

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 5h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 43m

A reminder on the 8th day of this Republican shutdown: Speaker Johnson could call Members back to negotiate to re-open the government any time he wants. He's choosing not to.

Republicans would rather raise costs and kick millions of Americans off their health care.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1h

If I'm hearing the Speaker and Republican leadership right in this press conference they are now saying they will keep the House in recess for the fourth week in a row as troops and federal workers start missing their paychecks

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 1h

This is true. Once you drive one for a while you start thinking, wait why *do* regular cars have all these tubes and gaskets and whatnot?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

i’d say the real killer feature of EVs is basically the lack of real maintenance costs.

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson furiously backpedaling on the back pay thing is a pretty good indication that nobody in the GOP has the slightest clue how to deal with the shutdown.

Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 1h

Speaker Johnson appears to say furloughed federal workers should get back pay under 2019 law

"It has always been the case. It is tradition and I think it is statutory law that federal employees be paid. And that’s my position."

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Kevin Young Propagandist @jfloyd314.bsky.social · 1h

This shutdown is utterly unique in US political history in that it essentially stems entirely from the House majority's total inability to do anything but run in circles trying to satisfy the whims of an unstable, incompetent, self-obsessed president. It doesn't obey normal political rules.

Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson furiously backpedaling on the back pay thing is a pretty good indication that nobody in the GOP has the slightest clue how to deal with the shutdown.

Jennifer Shutt @jennifershutt.bsky.social · 1h

Speaker Johnson appears to say furloughed federal workers should get back pay under 2019 law

"It has always been the case. It is tradition and I think it is statutory law that federal employees be paid. And that’s my position."

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1h

Isn’t this how we met?!? 😂

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1h

Beautiful! Thank you! 🙂

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! 🙂

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! 🙂

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1h

Thank you! Right now it’s pouring so hard I’d swamp, but hoping to get out later!

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 2h

17 guardsmen died in what basically amounted to a private security service for rich West/South Texas patrons and he can still be re-elected until the heat death of the universe at this rate.

17 Guardsmen have died on Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial border mission, soldiers speak out | Houston Public Media

Since Abbott's Operation Lone Star began in 2021, at least 17 Texas National Guardsman have died from a multitude of causes, including a drowning in an attempt to save migrants, negligent discharge of...

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

This is an important point.

Everyone one of these people has been asked to leave their home, their family, and their job to work without pay bc of the shutdown. We're better off thinking of ways to make this backfire on Abbott than to treat them poorly.

Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 11h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 11h

Texas National Guard troops arriving in Chicago (via ABC News)

Remember: These are not MAGA stormtroopers. These are everyday teachers and accountants who signed up to serve their country with their spare time. They're being used as political pawns by venal, un-American, draft-dodging president

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 2h

Republicans continue to postpone the swearing-in of Adelita Grijalva, the newest Democrat elected to Congress, for an eighth day.

Her day one promise is to be the tie-breaking vote to release the Epstein files.

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