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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 6h

Found her

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe Pritzker can offer to send in the IL National Guard

Chron.com @chron.com · 7h

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

4 dead in Houston-area shooting rampage starting in Sugar Land

Details surrounding the bloody string of shootings remain murky, police said.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 6h

Found her

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 17h

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 15h

I know @soyboy.bsky.social from grad school!

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 15h

Or, in 12 states they let you bleed out in parking lot or die of sepsis while doctors watch.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 15h

@amarshll.bsky.social !!!

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 16h

Except Jasmine.

Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 16h

All of these people give me the ick.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 16h

Please. They knew he was serial sex abuser when they nominated him the first time and rapist when they nominated him second time.

Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 17h

👀👀👀👀

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 18h

Will no one rid me of these meddlesome officials?

Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 18h

Trump declares that Mayor Johnson of Chicago and Gov Pritzker of Illinois "should be in jail."

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 18h

Trump declares that Mayor Johnson of Chicago and Gov Pritzker of Illinois "should be in jail."

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 18h

It’s been a party that does fan service for its base for at least 50 years so only the base turning will matter to them.

💙🐶🚴🏻🏊‍♂️♊️ Victoria🌈💥☀️ @victoriaswimcycle.bsky.social · 19h

apple.news/Aj-7BX8ZnTGi...

Most Americans don't want troops deployed without an external threat, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds — Reuters

Some 58% of Americans - including seven in 10 Democrats and half of Republicans - think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats, a sign of unease as President Donald Trump...

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 19h

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

www.nytimes.com

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Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter.bsky.social · 18h

Troops descending on Chicago gave no notice to local officials.

“They have not communicated,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/n...

Texas National Guard arrives in the Chicago area

Texas National Guard members have arrived in Illinois. City and state officials say Donald Trump is using them as “political props” in Chicago.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

Good morning from the line outside the courthouse in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former FBI director James Comey is set to be arraigned on federal charges.

I’m here for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along for updates ⬇️

Federal courthouse in EDVA, with line of people out front and a guy holding a “show trial” sign

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 20h

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts 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.

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18h

ALSO WTF is a “federal guard”

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 18h

1. Trump Culture War quote.
2. Johnson CW quote.
3. *Imagined* Schumer CW quote.
4. “These culture wars get sillier by the day.”

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 1d

“Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown”

New, for @zeteo.com tonight, via @andrewperez.bsky.social and me:

zeteo.com/p/trump-hegs...

Pentagon Leakers Practice Beating Polygraphs Amid Trump's 'Idiotic' Leak Crackdown

The president and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are waging a war on leakers – but ‘this stuff only works if you let it get to you,’ says one Pentagon official.

zeteo.com

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 1d

They are dead set on killing any enthusiasm about their party.

Axios @axios.com · 1d

Scoop: Maine Gov. Janet Mills is poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Scoop: Mills poised to jump into Maine Senate race

Gov. Janey Mills' entry into the race would set off another complicated Democratic primary.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

This image was posted on X today by a Chicago Tribune reporter. Trump’s government has declared war on the American people — or some of them, based on race.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 1d

They're getting ready for Epstein files - "In departure from norms elite donors engaged in decade long sex trafficking scheme."

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