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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 21h

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 21h

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"“If the deputy director wants to do something and needs a legal opinion about whether or not he can do it, he can’t advise himself...”

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C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

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Trump pushes a new label for Democrats: ‘The Party Of Hate, Evil, And Satan’

Republicans apparently want Democrats to stop using the kind of incendiary political rhetoric that the president uses all the time.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

Reported Trump plan to cut more than 750,000 older Americans off disability:

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Despite campaign promises, White House eyes new changes to Social Security and Medicare

“I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump vowed in 2024. I have bad news for voters who believed him.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"In 1964, while reporting from the Republican National Convention just south of San Francisco, Ms. Davis and a Black male reporter were hounded from the hall by fans of the nominee, Barry Goldwater. The crowd snarled racial epithets and tossed garbage at them..."

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Belva Davis, West Coast Trailblazer in TV News, Dies at 92

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"U.S. citizens, immigrants with legal status and children have been among those detained in increasingly brazen and aggressive encounters..."

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Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"In August, Trump Jr.’s lawyer sent a cease-and-desist letter to Beach to stop representing himself as a business partner of Trump Jr. Beach denied ever receiving or seeing the letter.

The Journal reviewed the letter and texts in which Beach confirmed receipt..."

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He Drops Trump Jr.’s Name in Pursuit of Billion-Dollar Deals. It’s Getting Awkward.

Gentry Beach, a college friend of the president’s firstborn, has left a trail of confusion abroad as he courts foreign officials and business leaders to lock up investments in mining, oil pipelines an...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

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“There’s a baby!” ICE agents stop Alamosa family at gunpoint, smash car window

Immigration arrest last week in southern Colorado follows national trend of escalating force from ICE agents

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

Oklahoma's GOP Governor struggles to defend state schools chief after resignation:

“Well, first off, you know, there’s 30,000 state employees, and so you don’t always get it right on picking people. But it doesn’t mean we don’t move forward and try our very, very best..."

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"Morris, former spiritual advisor to President Trump and the former pastor at a megachurch in Texas, pleaded guilty to charges in a child sex abuse scandal on Oct. 2.

He faced five counts of lewd indecent acts with a child..."

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Former Trump spiritual advisor Morris enters plea deal in Hominy child sex abuse case

Robert Morris, the former pastor at a megachurch in Texas and former spiritual advisor to President Trump, pleaded guilty to five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child on Oct. 2.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

"'They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van,' she said..."

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ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

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Opinion: Why we resigned from our jobs as journalists after an Alaska elected official made threats over coverage

The duty of a community newspaper is to provide coverage of local elected officials and government. The ability of journalists at the Homer News and Peninsula Clarion to do this was undermined by our ...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 3d

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Federal agents shoot woman on Southwest Side, battle protesters for hours

The shooting occurred Saturday in Brighton Park when federal patrols were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security, an account that has yet to be verified...

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

look at the map here -- more than 2000 protests planned already...

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No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8d

Hegseth plugs his own book during meeting with top generals:

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

"He rushes to his car. He opens the hatch and packs in five-gallon buckets, drumsticks to pound on them, and bullhorns..."

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Standing up to ICE in the suburbs, the People’s Patrol puts its faith in resistance

Cristóbal Cavazos leads a rapid-response effort to document ICE activity. Meet the man confronting Trump’s deportation blitz.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

“The statue, spray-painted bronze, appeared fully restored today, with only minor damage still apparent and Trump and Epstein’s hands once again clasped together…”

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Trump-Epstein statue returns to National Mall

The Park Service had removed the installation, saying that it was out of compliance with its previous permit.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 7d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 5d

Former BLS employees have told Warren’s office the September labor data has been collected and is likely ready to be released

The monthly jobs report, compiled and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is arguably the most critical piece of US economic data released each month. Its importance is even greater now, given concerns about weakness in the job market and the rising unemployment rate.

Former BLS employees have told Warren’s office the September labor data has been collected and is likely ready to be released, the Senate Banking Committee aide said.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 5d

gift link - no paywall.

very much worth reading:

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Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

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