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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · Aug 19

“If you identify data that is at risk, perhaps because its collection has been discontinued or it covers a controversial topic, you can report your observations to the Data Rescue Project” theconversation.com/data-that-ta...

Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it

Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.

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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 19h

Fascist republicans have confirmed idiot MAGA lunatic Herschel Walker as US Ambassador to the Bahamas for no other reason than to give yet another deranged unqualified cultist a title with fancy taxpayer funded salary for a job he doesn’t give a flying fuck about.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 19h

Herschel Walker has been confirmed as the U.S. Bahamas Ambassador. It’s been reported that just as soon as Herschel learns to to tie his own shoes without help, he will begin a program teaching young people to tie theirs.

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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 19m

Joe is responsible for everything. Thanks for the reminder.

ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 20m

Tall. So tall!!

a baby is sitting on a bed wearing a varsity shirt and crying .

ALT: a baby is sitting on a bed wearing a varsity shirt and crying .

media.tenor.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1h

I demand boots!

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 1h

Who needs cameras in the courtroom when you’ve got this

Doodle of parties at the comet arraignment. Messy stick figure drawings

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23m

I've had a long day and so can't really do this myself, yet.

But I hope people realize this shitshow propaganda fest needs a very coordinated vigorous response?

Like rap sheets for all the people present?

Mockery? Music videos?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29m

GOV. PRITZKER: “This is a convicted felon threatening to jail me? He’s an unhinged, insecure wannabe dictator. Come and get me.”

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 22m

Trump finally specifying what he meant by "terminating the Constitution."

He wants to make it a crime to criticize him. After spending years claiming it was wrong for citizens to criticize other citizens.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 43m

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Eric Johnson @erictjohnson.bsky.social · 1h

OK. It's not that bad

"Additionally, the second temporary
restraining order has not been challenged or appealed, and it prohibits the
deployment of National Guard members in Oregon."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1h

NEW: The 9th Circuit has lifted Judge Immergut’s FIRST restraining order, but NOT her second one. So the national Guard still can’t be deployed to Portland despite this 9th circuit administrative stay because the SECOND TRO is still in place.

Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 1h

JUST IN: 9th Circuit panel lifts TRO judge issued against federalization & deployment of Oregon National Guard in Portland for ICE security. Administrative stay. Args on longer stay set for tomorrow. 3-0. Graber/R.Nelson/Bade (Clinton/Trump/Trump). Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

storage.courtlistener.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1h

In this alt universe where bad news flips upside down, some more good news!

FakeCIP postponed their October vaccine meeting indefinitely.

Meaning - no fresh chaos from peeps who still confuse causation and correlation.

www.reuters.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 59m

That's one key function of having Sortor there. A trusted propagandist, telling Trump the most inflammatory things.

Ditto Benny as Noem's cosplay sidekick.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/d...

"Do something, bitch!"* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia's Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP - emptywheel

DHS is increasingly using overt propaganda to justify its invasions of Democratic states. It's horrible in real time--and possibly designed to feed Trump false claims about the states--but it could ba...

www.emptywheel.net

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 45m

Foreign?

a group of clowns are posing for a photo and one has a mcdonald 's hat on

ALT: a group of clowns are posing for a photo and one has a mcdonald 's hat on

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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 48m

Is this proof in the room with us right now?

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1h

Shocked, just shocked, by this important scoop on front page of today's NYT. /s/

Based on report that came out ... nine months ago

And behavior long predating that

("Skip a class? Perish the thought!!" Says anyone who ever worked on a college newspaper, which covers a lot of people in the media.)

NYT front page headline: "Harvard Finds Skipping Class Part of Culture."

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Rep. Ted Lieu @reptedlieu.bsky.social · 2h

It is insane to not pay our troops.

Democrats are here. Republicans need to come back from their vacation, work with us, and we need to pay our troops.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 21h

Incredible (via www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...)

A group of apparent armed agents assemble at the end of a street, as seen from the perspective of a person in inflatable frog costume, their frog’s eyes dominating the foreground. The Ice facility in downtown Portland on Monday. Photograph: Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/AFP/Getty Images

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 2h

Damn straight.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

"El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, who attended the meeting, said Chicago-born Pope Leo was visibly moved after being handed dozens of letters from immigrants describing their fears of arrest and separation under Trump’s enforcement policies..."

www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h

"Mother Jones has substantially more paid subscribers than Bari Weiss’ The Free Press, so perhaps someone should put us in charge of a TV network."

The latest from @monikab.bsky.social:

Nice little TV network you got there

How easily has Trump rolled corporate media? So much more easily than he probably expected.

www.motherjones.com

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2h

"The Federal Protective Service reports — which are prepared each day for law enforcement partners — offered no indication of a dangerous escalation of tensions, or unusual levels of protest activity that would prompt the level of alarm expressed by Trump..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u...

Before Trump Ordered In Troops, Federal Officers Called Portland Protests ‘Low Energy’

www.nytimes.com

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ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 2h

Omfg

ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 2h

Detached from reality

ListenToTheEpsteinVictims @jos1463.bsky.social · 2h

It’s an excellent way to curate your “feed”