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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 4h

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service will furlough more than 34,000 employees beginning on Wednesday due to the government shutdown, according to an agency statement, effectively shuttering taxpayer call centers.

www.reuters.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi claims that the ICEBlock app was "criminal in that people were posting where ICE officers lived"

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 6h

Christian minister attacked by ICE agents. Waiting for the outrage from MAGA. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Pastor shot in the head by ICE agents sues over First Amendment threats

David Black joins journalists and protesters in lawsuit to stop ‘pattern of extreme brutality’ from federal agents

www.independent.co.uk

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 5h

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 8h

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pelosi: "Democrats who created Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, all of that, are now being asked to reject that so we can give a tax cut to the rich. We're not doing it. It isn't a question of, 'let's come back together so we can discuss it.' That isn't going to happen."

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 5h

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 6h

Her notes for the Senate Judiciary Committee had nothing to do with her work leading the DOJ, or even the embattled border czar. Rather, Bondi had collected screenshots of social media posts, prewritten comebacks, and handwritten notes she hoped could give her a good “gotcha” moment.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 6h

Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.

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HappyCamper22 @happycamper22.bsky.social · 6h

@maddow.msnbc.com @craigtimes.bsky.social
If you're not already boycotting Publix, this might do it for 'ya

Dictator DeSantis' law: you can open carry weapons now in effect. Many exceptions, like grocery stores.
But Publix ,no surprise, is allowing it
Publix's always on the wrong side of humanity

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine that.

www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 5h

A Florida man has been arrested on suspicion of arson in connection with the destructive Palisades Fire that killed a dozen people in Los Angeles earlier this year, officials said on Wednesday.

Palisades Fire arrest made; suspect allegedly set earlier blaze that later ignited Jan. 7 LA inferno, officials say

29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht "maliciously" started the Lachman Fire on Jan. 1, which later became the devastating Palisades Fire, prosecutors said.

www.cbsnews.com

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 6h

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

“I wish I could be the guy who says, ‘everyone calm down; things have been just as bad before, and we got through it.’ But I can’t be that reasonable-sounding moderate floating above it all. Things are very bad. People should be far more alarmed than they are.”

open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

The Emerging Shape of American Politics

Dynamism v. Reaction / Open v. Closed

open.substack.com

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 7h

And yes, the "free beacon" is a front group posing as a news outlet, which regularly regurgitates fossil fuel industry climate disinformation: www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Th...
#ScienceUnderSiege

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 7h

From Toronto.

Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 7h

Antifa clowns facing off with ICEholes in Portland.

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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 7h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused 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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Kat Benjamin @katskib.bsky.social · 7h

It's the botox treatments. 😉

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 9h

"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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TrumpsTaxes @trumpstaxes.com · 9h

Had a feeling that the GOP redistricting efforts in Indiana had stalled. Their hearts clearly are not in it.

If you live in Indiana, keep calling all of your State Representatives and tell them to hold the line in the face of these threats.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Vance heads to Indiana after Republicans warn White House of stalled redistricting push

It marks the vice president's second trip to the Hoosier State over the remapping effort.

www.politico.com

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