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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 32m

I can't emphasize how important it is for people to understand that unless something FAR BIGGER than an election win happens, this is a pipe dream.

It would take quite a bit to get past qualified immunity.

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 38m

I can't emphasize enough how important it is that the next attorney general set a team to go through ICE records with a fine tooth comb and prosecute individual agents.

It's the only way to stop this from happening again.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 31m

I'm not saying there should not be accountability.

I'm saying we need to get very creative, now, how to get that.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u... 🎁

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 5h

I’m sure this will turn out fine as Trump guts all green energy investment.

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 8h

Antarctica may have passed a climate tipping point of no return, scientists are warning, with mounting evidence that a sudden slump in sea ice formation since 2016 is linked to human-induced ocean warming.

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 5h

Dada dada dada Antifa!

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 1d

This is awesome.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 8h

Only a government run by billionaires would berate its employees for not wanting to work without pay.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 18h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 5h

Making life harder for the non-wealthy is the goal.

Julee @juleemc.bsky.social · 7d

If they kill this program, it’s a punch to the gut. I use my library’s digital tools regularly, and for many people, it’s their only access to books, research, and connection. This is severing a lifeline. But hey, who needs access to knowledge when you’ve got chaos?

www.ala.org/news/2025/09...

FCC plans to kill new federal hotspot lending rule “one more way to limit access to information”

SHLB Coalition, ALA, EdLiNC and the Homework Gap Coalition submitted a joint letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) urging the Commission to protect two vital programs that expand inter...

www.ala.org

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Republicans R Evil 👿 @republicansrevil.bsky.social · 1d

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 6h

The people who work this work schedule want for you to never be able to retire.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

What a work schedule. The Republican speaker of the House grinds hard

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 6h

It’s considered impolite to use language like this, but “evil” is the best word for what these folks are doing. It’s bad enough to screw over workers to attack political enemies. But here, doing so will literally kill people and lead to avoidable disease.

open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

BREAKING NEWS: CDC employees terminated in apparent Friday night massacre.

The Trump administration is using the shutdown to further weaken the our national public health infrastructure.

open.substack.com

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 1d

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”

www.ft.com/content/013e...

The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate

The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries

www.ft.com

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 8h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 6h

The sickness of this regime accusing anyone of antisemitism while shoveling billions to ELON MUSK, the greatest popularizer of Nazism since Hitler, is a failure of sense, dignity and everything that should make us human.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 22h

X is doing nothing about antisemitic abuse & hatred in the last week. (It is a breach of its legal duties to fail to offer an equal service to those with a protected characteristic, if the regulators want to do their job of keeping it within the law)

www.thejc.com/news/uk/excl...

EXCLUSIVE: Study reveals flood of blood-curdling Jew-hate following Manchester attack - The Jewish Chronicle

The Centre for Countering Digital Hate analysed social media posts following last week’s atrocity

www.thejc.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6h

Good piece: DOGE was the battering ram, but Russ Vought was the one enabling it, and then hiding it's impacts.

During the months when DOGE was most aggressively canceling contracts, O.M.B. was concealing how it was moving money through to agencies. Mr. Vought removed a legally required public database tracking those records. When a court forced the administration to restore it in August, the spending logs showed O.M.B. exerting unusual control over agency spending, using other documents the public can’t see.

Under a 1974 law, it’s illegal for the administration to “impound” or block money appropriated by Congress (to not spend the funds on those credit cards). But Mr. Vought has made clear he believes that law is unconstitutional and wants to test it in court.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

The IRS is laying off people during the shutdown, even though it was rehiring staff it previously fired because it was so shorthanded.
This one stands out because firing IRS employees costs the government money, since they bring in about $6-8 for every dollar spent on tax enforcement

IRS Halts Layoff Plans, Begins Rehiring Amid Staffing Shortages
The agency is attempting to rebuild its workforce and restore public confidence.

Treasury Department: Treasury cut 1,446 employees on Friday. Two Internal Revenue Service employees confirmed layoffs were taking place at the tax agency, which has already shed more than 25,000 employees. One employee who was laid off was working Friday and exempt from shutdown furloughs.

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 12h

The Trump Administration does not care if we die. There’s an underlying belief the “strong,” “those with good genes,” or money will survive.

There’s different visions of what comes after the culling, but usually some variation of overlords and servants (human or robots).

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 17h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 19h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 20h

Not a drag queen and further proving the theory that every accusation is a confession.

Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 22h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

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macatoo.bsky.social @macatoo.bsky.social · 20h

Art of the Deal Strategery

Matt Peterson @mattpeterson.bsky.social · 22h

China put Trump in a corner. Every way out hurts. www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

China's latest threat to clamp down on exports of rare earths appears to have blindsided President Donald Trump. The Chinese plan "came out of nowhere," Trump said Friday in a social media post.
"Nobody has ever seen anything like this."
Beijing's escalation of the trade fight has put the Trump administration on the backfoot at a moment of weakness. China's actions show that the U.S. is vulnerable to economic pressure, and China has forced the administration to choose between further escalation or a humiliating climbdown.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 21h

also a sign of how far trump has checked out-there is zero chance in the old days he would countenance anyone else taking credit, even in a slip of the tongue

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21h

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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