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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Suzanne Kelleher @srkelleher.bsky.social · 22h

“The air traffic system, in general, is stressed to the max,” a veteran air traffic controller working at a major East Coast airport told Forbes on Tuesday, adding “sick outs will continue to happen because the [controllers] aren’t fit for duty.”

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Overstressed, Unpaid Air Traffic Controllers ‘Aren’t Fit For Duty,’ Says Agency Veteran

Cracks in the air travel system are widening, as air traffic controllers bear the strain of an understaffed system and no pay until the government shutdown ends.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 22h

Democrats love to lose. I'm convinced that is their #1 priority.

Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 1d

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Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 1d

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm a South Carolina refugee now in New Jersey (talk about an improvement). I'm worried about my parents because they are CBS News diehards. I hope they don't get brainwashed, but I fear they will.

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Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 1d

I'm guessing us Americans just want to get out and about to travel abroad while we still can.

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Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 1d

As @jeffjarvis.bsky.social has been saying, the Overton window has been shifting so far to the extreme, that Fox News is considered 'acceptable' in the mainstream. Now CNN, CBS and now I fear, soon to be MS NOW are all following.

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Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 1d

I honestly don't think Republicans need to "interfere" with the 2026 midterms. Democrats are about to do a great job of failing on their own.
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Amy McGrath to again run for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat

Former Marine veteran Amy McGrath has entered the race for Sen. Mitch McConnell's seat. She lost to McConnell in the 2020 general election.

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Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 1d

TL;DR: Everything the right doesn't like is automatically left-wing extremism.
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Ted Cruz picks a fight with Wikipedia, accusing platform of left-wing bias

Cruz sends letter demanding answers from Wikimedia Foundation.

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Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 1d

Riverview-Fisk Park, Jersey City.

Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 1d

My God. This makes me so livid. Trump's people are who they are, but the media normalizes it and it's sickening.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Jake Tapper did a whole interview with Trump by text message? Which means he can't actually confirm it was him. And now everyone's asking even more than before very reasonable questions about the wannabe dictator's health.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The CNN anchor did not explain how he verified that it was the president — not any of his aides — who authored the written responses to his questions.

He also did not explain whether he’d made any effort to speak with the president by phone, something that has become commonplace for reporters covering the second Trump administration because Trump has maintained use of his personal mobile phone since returning to the presidency and frequently uses it to contact reporters directly.

The president’s purported text message exchange with Tapper was also unusual because Trump is not known to be a frequent user of his phone’s text message capacity.

He also famously eschews email and other written forms of communication and during his first term he openly complained when attorneys working for his administration took notes during meetings.

Trump’s unconventional use of text-based communications to purportedly respond to Tapper comes as questions continue to swirl about the state of his health

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Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 3d

I got a flu and COVID last weekend at Walgreens. If you can wait 2 hours for an appointment you already made, it's worth it.

Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 3d

I think that's Klingon.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4d

German authorities have confirmed drones circling Munich were military grade.

Not sure how much longer NATO countries can keep up the pretense…

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Alt: a cartoon dog is sitting in front of a fire and saying i 'm fine this is fine everything is fine

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Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 4d

Ah, an "Aerohole".

Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 4d

I am up early on a Saturday. What are you going to do about it?

Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 4d

Will these be one way trips? MacKenzie Scott is asking for an ex.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

"WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters)—An FBI agent was relieved of duty for declining to arrange a 'perp walk' of the bureau's former director, James Comey, in front of news media cameras after Comey was federally charged last month, four people briefed on the matter said."

www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 4d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 5d

Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Treasury Department considers minting a $1 Trump coin

The draft design of the coin, which was overseen by the Office of the U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, features Trump’s profile on one side of the coin.

www.politico.com

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 5d

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5d

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it.

Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 5d

Big tech CEOs have spent more than a decade puffing their chests and saying that they are more like heads of state running global companies with bigger revenues than many countries

… but now they’re all folding to actual government pressure faster than any tinpot dictator has ever folded

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Michael Martinez @michaelmartinez.co · 5d

Does anyone here care? Please be voidterous.

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6d

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate.

Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.