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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

This is obviously hateful, but for people indifferent to the hate, just a big waste of money. You have the Secretary of Transportation cheering the destruction of functional public infrastructure.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 7h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

NOTABLE -- Pam Bondi refuses to answer direct questions about if the FBI has incriminating photos of Trump with half-naked young women, but instead deflects from them by attacking Sen. Whitehouse

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 2d

My latest, on Trump's agreement with Pfizer and how his bark turned into a whimper.

"It’s a lot of nothing.“For most people, it will have very little effect on drug prices”--Prof Craig Garthwaite, head of healthcare studies at the Kellogg School of Management

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www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Donald Trump’s Big Pharma Showdown Ends with a Whimper

Wall Street is celebrating the White House’s deal with Pfizer on drug prices. Patients shouldn’t be.

www.newyorker.com

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 2d

4/4 A key issue is whether Pfizer will cut the cost of new drugs to match lower prices overseas, as the WH claims.
Details are sparse, but Conti said drugmakers could end up raising prices overseas instead. No wonder drug stocks have bounced since the announcement.

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 2d

3/n As for the proposed TrumpRX website, Garthwaite and Conti said the vast majority of people will find it much cheaper to get branded prescription drugs through their insurance plans and pay the co-payments. Some people with no insurance could benefit, but costs would still be high.

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 2d

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Drugmakers and investors in drug stocks had feared price controls and hefty tariffs on branded drugs: Pfizer will face neither. The reforms it agreed to are "fiddling around the edges," Rena Conti, an economist at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, told me

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 2d

My latest, on Trump's agreement with Pfizer and how his bark turned into a whimper.

"It’s a lot of nothing.“For most people, it will have very little effect on drug prices”--Prof Craig Garthwaite, head of healthcare studies at the Kellogg School of Management

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www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Donald Trump’s Big Pharma Showdown Ends with a Whimper

Wall Street is celebrating the White House’s deal with Pfizer on drug prices. Patients shouldn’t be.

www.newyorker.com

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 2d

NEWS: The Pentagon is considering sending the elite military unit that invaded Iraq & Afghanistan into U.S. cities.

The 82nd Airborne Division.

Wake up, people. This not about petty theft and street crime.

www.treason.io/p/what-are-t...

What are they hiding? asks Pentagon reporter Barbara Starr

PLUS -- Trump's invasion of Illinois is (another) seminal moment.

www.treason.io

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

In place of real reform to bring down drug prices, we now have Donald Trump’s agreement with Pfizer. @johncassidysays.bsky.social explains how Trump’s bark turned into a whimper.

Donald Trump’s Big Pharma Showdown Ends with a Whimper

Wall Street is celebrating the White House’s deal with Pfizer on drug prices. Patients shouldn’t be.

www.newyorker.com

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 2d

Court blocks Trump's effort to avoid prior injunction by sending out of state National Guard to invade Portland

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 3d

Brooklyn chillin’ at Atlantic Antic.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4d

The lesson of the Trump era is to stick with your principles. He’s coming for you anyway, whether you do or not, so you might as well stick to your principles so people don’t laugh at you afterward and you can look yourself in the mirror.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 5d

Pity the ADL. It went out of its way to defend Elon Musk's definitely-not-a-sieg-heil, and in return gets this.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4d

Not for nothing, but the law says you gotta be two years dead to be on a coin. And also, the law expired in 2016. But whatevs, I guess.

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 4d

This is apparently being fast-tracked. A die of the $1 Trump coin has reportedly been circulating within the US Mint's Bureau of Engraving and Printing this week. defector.com/treasury-departm...

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 4d

The wheel of history turns slowly but turn it does.

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 5d

from @dhnexon.bsky.social www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

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The single most important problem for pro-democracy forces is that too many people — especially in position of power — seem unable to truly believe that we are living in a consolidating competitive authoritarian regime. Perhaps they are too habituated to the "rules" of the system
that no longer exists. Perhaps they still cling to the drug of American exceptionalism, which makes it difficult for them to accept that "it can happen here." Perhaps they understand it intellectually, but find it too difficult to make the necessary paradigm shift.

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 5d

What’s happening to this country? Sadly the answer is obvious.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/02/s...

South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell'

A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

blockclubchicago.org

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retepelyod @retepelyod.bsky.social · 6d

The DEMS should commit now that any US military who loses their job for refusing an order to fire on US citizens will have any lost pay and pension fully restored, along with a promotion and a newly minted medal honoring this specific valor, when the DEMS return to the White House.

John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 8d

Trump telling US generals they have to fight the "enemy within" and the "war within." No wonder there was no applause.

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 6d

Now it's defense treaties by executive order. Just another day in the Twilight Zone.

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 7d

One wonders what the US generals are thinking as they fly back to their military bases around the word. "WTF" figures prominently, I would imagine.

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 7d

This is the right framing.

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 7d

Paging Schumer and Jeffries.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/p...

Americans’ Support for Israel Dramatically Declines, Times/Siena Poll Finds

www.nytimes.com

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John Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 7d

Don't know much about Judge Young but if we ever get through this whoever is in power should put a statue of him up outside the Supreme Court.

Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 8d

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.”

- Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

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