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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 13h

Adelita Grijalva won her election fair and square.

Now House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear her in because she would be the final signature to release the Epstein files.

Mr. Speaker, respect democracy. Obey the law. Swear Representative Grijalva in immediately.

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aaron @hillenjoyer.bsky.social · 9h

as a new mexican i just have to say that yeah texas invades sometimes you just have to kick their asses and send them home tail tucked. it’s usually way easier than you think, i think one time we just rolled a bunch of boulders on them from the canyon cliffs above. people love repelling texan armies

Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h

Also fuck you Texas for doing this, invading another state with armed troops; lone star Republic my ass

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 1d

They sell us individualism because we can't defeat them alone.

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Zach Dorfman @zachsdorfman.bsky.social · 10h

Holding aside everything—everything—else, the President conducting very sensitive conversations with his Attorney General on an unencrypted social media platform would have been a major scandal any time before 2016. Is he DMing the CIA Director on there? The Secretary of Defense? We don’t know.

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 11h

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

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

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Boo-rendan Harkin @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 14h

He said this deliberately because he is a Nazi and he wants you to know he's a Nazi who you can't touch. He also wants other Nazis to know they can be open about the fact they are Nazis too.

This isn't an oversight, a fumble or an opportunity for a "heh, well actually, dummy" zinger.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

"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 Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2h

ARE YOU HABEAS CORPUS?

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Hon Guilded Dirigible @memers08.bsky.social · 23h

The AG is prosecuting a former AG for lying to Congress when yesterday she sat in front of Congees and lied and lied and lied.

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AltFDA @altfda.altgov.info · 1h

Good morning ppl! It’s day 9 of the GOP shitdown & I have a special Spam in the Gears to start your morning with. Speaker Johnson will be live on C-Span @ 8:30 ET to take questions over the shitdown. It would be a shame if ppl called in and only asked about the #Epstein files. Numbers below to call.

Speaker Johnson taking calls on c-span about the shitdown today at 8:30am ET

Call in numbers: (302)748-8000
(302)748-8001
(302)748-8002
(302)748-8003

Call speaker Johnson and ask about the Epstein files.

Armcahir Activist Activate! Call in to Speaker Johnson on live tv taking questions about the Shitdown.

Spam in the Gears! Call in to Speaker Johnson and ask him about the Epstein files.

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LizW @cave-malum.bsky.social · 1h

@altfda.altgov.info Also rubbish decision-whim of Makary & Prasad published in JAMA opinions, well-known alternative to FR.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 5h

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

CDC, its advisers quietly expand access to Covid-19 shot for pregnant women

The panel voted to undo an action by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. which removed the vaccine from the immunization schedule for pregnant women.

www.politico.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 48m

Nothing to see here, just Trump going for his second “yearly” checkup this year.

Anyone ready to admit that something is wrong with POTUS yet?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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feminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social · 12h

We will eliminate all anti fascists from American Society via their girlfriends

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 16h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 12h

i am not saying the world has gone completely bonkers but
the world has gone absolutely completely bonkers

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12h

The same thing happened under Trump when U.S. Navy SEALs on a mission in North Korea killed civilians, including fishermen (or shellfishermen), after accidentally encountering them.

Petro claims US strike in Caribbean may have killed Colombian citizens

Colombia's President Gustavo Petro has indicated there are "signs" that a recent U.S. military boat attack off Venezuela involved Colombian citizens.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12h

President Gustavo Petro of Colombia said his government believed one of the boats recently bombed by the United States in its campaign against alleged drug traffickers had been carrying Colombian citizens, not drug traffickers.

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Christopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 12h

There is so much in this WSJ piece on what Trump has done / plans to do with the Justice Dept it's impossible to sum it up, but:

* Indictments planned for a half dozen current / former officials Trump dislikes

* So many have resigned from that whole sections are gutted

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

Inside the Justice Department Where the President Calls the Shots

The president has executed a wholesale transformation of the Justice Department, taking control in ways he could have only dreamed of in his first term.

www.wsj.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 12h

incredibly, bleakly funny that trump is going after christopher wray, who spent his entire tenure at the fbi with his head down desperately trying to avoid trump's attention and did nothing to protect the bureau from trump's attacks www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Other prosecutors are investigating former CIA director John Brennan, another prominent Trump critic, and former FBI director Christopher Wray, who was originally appointed by Trump but enraged conservatives who came to believe he had wielded the bureau’s powers against them. Former officials have received subpoenas in recent days in the Wray inquiry, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 11h

If we are taking in “trillion” of dollars in tariffs:

1. Why haven’t we paid down a cent of the debt?

2. Why can’t we afford to not fuck millions of people over with expiring insurance subsidies?

3. Why is none of it being used to help the abysmal job market?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11h

Combustion is the past, electricity is the future, pass it on.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

This is exactly why ICE needs to be unmasked and ID’d — like cops.

📌 Cases of ICE impersonators this year alone outnumber the last four presidential terms combined.

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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 10h

Air traffic control staffing steady, but stress during shutdown worries DOT | via @fischler.bsky.social #ksleg

Air traffic control staffing steady, but stress during shutdown worries DOT • Kansas Reflector

The Federal Aviation Administration reported no travel delays due to staffing levels at U.S. air traffic control facilities Wednesday, following a day of some delays related to above-average absences ...

kansasreflector.com

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

If this sounds alarmist, it's because the facts are alarming. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 12h

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

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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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

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