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Kim Wexler's Ponytail 🐝💛🎗 @madisonkittay.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not saying air traffic controllers should walk off the job on Thursday night, but if they do, the Senate is not in session next week and all those red state senators would be stuck in DC. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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FAA says there will be staff shortages at 3 other air traffic control facilities tonight, bringing total to 6

The government shutdown enters its second week today, with no sign of the stalemate in Congress stopping.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1h

"...this appears to be the Trump administration’s first official policy move to redefine contraceptives as ‘abortion’."

and Texas arrests 8 more over charges related to providing abortions.

Eight More Abortion Arrests in Texas

10.8.25

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Greg the Miller @gregthemiller.bsky.social · 16h

got into an argument with my cat again but we came to an agreement: she can do whatever she wants

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 9h

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
How are we not dead yet? The federal government is just hanging by a thread cybersecurity-wise.

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 10h

New: DHS has reassigned hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel from CISA, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts and said it would fire anyone who refuses to go along. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Homeland Security Cyber Personnel Reassigned to Jobs in Trump’s Deportation Push

The US Department of Homeland Security has shifted hundreds of national security specialists, including cyber personnel, into jobs that support President Donald Trump’s deportations and said it would ...

www.bloomberg.com

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 9h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMSMtRSD/
I love that Portland somehow turned this badness into joy.

Something tells me Portland isn’t quite the war-ravaged place Trump says it is… #portland #ice

TikTok video by Don Lemon

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johnmark @johnmark.org · 11h

Molly does hands-down the best reporting on the crypto industry. Shining a light on blatant corruption may seem quaint and inconsequential right now, but it will make a difference. It's important to have a record of the grift, and you can play a role by supporting her investigative work.

Molly White @molly.wiki · 12h

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/

Issue 94 – Backdoor deals

Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.

www.citationneeded.news

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 10h

California is now the first state in the U.S. to ban ultra-processed food in school lunches — including soda, energy drinks and other foods high in sugar or salt and low in nutrients.

California becomes first state to ban ultraprocessed foods in school meals

California is now the first state in the U.S. to ban ultra-processed food in school lunches — including soda, energy drinks and other foods high in sugar or salt and low in nutrients.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 10h

Living in Fox News Cinematic Universe rots your brain.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

Good lord.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11h

Really enjoyed going on the KQED forum to talk slop: www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

Deepfake Videos Just Got More Realistic…and More Dangerous | KQED

We talk about OpenAI's Sora and what kind of destabilizing impact could it have on our society.

www.kqed.org

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 11h

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMS23qHU/

OMG

Kristi Noem in Portland, the imaginary war zone. #portland #kristinoem #politicalsatire #parody #politicalcomedy

TikTok video by Maggie Reed

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12h

If you wanna know why Miller and Vought and Vance are speedrunning the playbook it's because they know when he goes they no longer have the juice to finish the plan. No one is gonna listen to them and there will be a power vacuum.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Christine Galea @chrisgalea.bsky.social · 14h

The fact that Elon musk, Peter Thiel, and Steve Bannon all being in the Epstein files dropped out of the news way too fast www.bbc.com/news/article...

Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in new Epstein files

The documents by the estate of convicted paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein were released by Congressional Democrats.

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Derek B. Johnson @derekbjohnson.bsky.social · 12h

You'd really have to deepfake any other politician to get a video of them saying "we took the freedom of speech away" on camera.

Like, not even people trying to take away your freedom of speech tend to use that language!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 13h

DC's Mayor Bowser has simply got to go, folks.

She's complicit in what Trump is doing to our city and our democracy. I dearly hope she has no plans to show up at this year's high-heel race as if she were a friend to the city.

From this week's FreeDC newsletter.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 15h

Why oh why do the right-wing justices hate LGBTQ people so much? Has something happened to them to instill this much hatred?

Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 15h

Roberts Court to invent inalienable right to impose disabilities on LGBTQ people www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/robe...

Roberts Court to invent inalienable right to impose disabilities on LGBTQ people - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Apparently in consecutive terms the Republican Six are going to rule that states can ban medical treatments for trans people that doctors think are appropriate but cannot ban “gender conversion” thera...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 16h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 17h

FBI agents assigned to Musk concluded he was systematically avoiding conduct standards imposed on those holding high-level clearances. FBI management concluded it could do nothing about this because of Musk's ties to Trump and the GOP.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 16h

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16h

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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Lesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 17h

I see so much gaslighting of people who are struggling to find jobs at junior and mid-level cybersecurity by folks who got their last job or first job before 2023. It's unreal and uncalled for. The market and the automation in the hiring processes have gone to hell. www.reddit.com/r/SecurityCa...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

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.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 20h

Forget about nation-states for a moment: The top four items in today's Metacurity all deal with serious cybersecurity threats emanating from teen hackers.

Don't miss today's issue for the complete run-down of infosec developments you should know, including 1/5
www.metacurity.com/shinyhunters...

ShinyHunters threatens to release data stolen from dozens of Fortune 500 firms

Salesforce refuses to pay ShinyHunters ransom, Qantas braces for the release of its data, Two teens busted for Kido nurseries cyberattack, Qilin claims attack on Asahi, Chinese hackers infiltrated Wil...

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