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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 6h

Shot a priest in the head with a pepper ball, just for fun.
There was absolutely no threat here.

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s video of the incident

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 6h

The shutdown is a big deal for a lot of people. Another example...

Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 8h

One week into a federal government shutdown, U.S. service members, DOD civilian employees and their families in Japan and South Korea were taking stock and asking how much longer, with affording groceries and rent the main concerns.

Rent, groceries on minds of US military families in Asia Pacific as government shutdown continues

Americans with the U.S. military in the Pacific are concerned about how they will afford groceries and rent if the shutdown continues.

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Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 7h

My department is hiring! Tenure-track assistant professor in philosophy (AOS: philosophy of technology) jobs.sjsu.edu/en-us/job/55...

San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 9h

If Republicans don’t pass our bill to reopen the government and extend ACA tax credits, millions of families will see their health care costs soar.

Here's just one example of a MD couple who would see their costs nearly TRIPLE — a health catastrophe and another Trump betrayal:

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 11h

This is great news. It is also a reminder that this train has left the station, no matter what the Trump administration does to slow it down.

Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 12h

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new analysis.
share.google/FrLUSBkG5xrX... 🔌💡 #Upshift

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 1d

They're just waiting for Trump to drop his health care plan in 2 weeks. Maybe they'll finally release his concepts of a plan.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 4d

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

Anyone: Why are there suddenly so many AHDH diagnoses?
Dr. Jen: Same reason there are suddenly more stars after we built telescopes.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 4d

BLS produces essential services!
#JobsReport
www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/e...

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4d

One of the demands is to freeze tuition. Which will help the rich kids and international students, since they’re the only ones at some of these schools who actually pay the sticker price www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 5d

Montana Senator Steve Daines gets a truth-telling award. Acknowledges Republicans shut down the government because they think people should pay higher health insurance premiums cepr.net/publications... It's not about "illegals" getting healthcare

Thoughts From the Shutdown

Trump’s shutdown chaos, his “America Fourth” foreign policy moves, and a bleak ADP jobs report highlight the growing costs of his presidency.

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 5d

We got a surprising number of assistant professors from TX applying for our position. Tremendous resumes. Some states will end up with weak/no social science research. Wonder how employers will feel about this.

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Sam Rosenfeld @samrosenfeld.bsky.social · 5d

Is this the first Dem MC to say this explicitly? That the reason this is the GOP’s shutdown isn’t because they “refuse to negotiate” or whatever but because they in fact have the power at any moment to nuke the filibuster and pass whatever they want to keep the govt operating?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

Some statistics about the 16 blue states Russ Vought wants to target:
- 39% of the country lives in those states.
- They contribute 44% of GDP.
- They are also home to almost a third of 2024 Trump voters, some 24 million of them.
www.pbump.net/o/sorry-abou...

Sorry about your luck, 24 million Trump voters

It has been the case since Donald Trump's first tenure as president that he wants to slice the size of the federal workforce. During his period in the political wilderness (also known as the Biden adm...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5d

ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: Your wallet has been taking a hit this year. You can blame the mass deportation policies of Trump and Stephen Miller, which have ensnared and scared off the skilled workers who feed us and are the backbone of the agricultural industry:

Your Wallet Is Taking A Hit This Year. Blame Mass Deportation

The rapid growth in daily expenses for working Americans has been fueled in part by the administration’s cruel and chaotic mass detention and deportation agenda.

americasvoicecnn.substack.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 5d

Not sure reminding people that the architect of Project 2025 is making illegal decisions inside the WH is a good strategy. But, what do I know?!

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 5d

huh

“I have nothing to do with Project 2025,” Trump said in the opening moments of his September debate against Vice President Kamala Harris. “That’s out there. I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it, purposely. I’m not going to read it.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

PLAYBOOK: “.. Fine dining on the first night of a government shutdown? Those Democratic attack lines almost write themselves.”

@politico.com
www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 5d

Thoughts from the shutdown: Senator Steve Daines is a new hero for being honest: shutdown is about insurance premiums for 15 million people. New MAGA slogan is "America Fourth" deanbaker22.substack.com/p/thoughts-f...

Thoughts from the Shutdown

MAGA's new slogan is "America Fourth"

deanbaker22.substack.com

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 5d

And caving is gonna get schools nothing, see Columbia.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 5d

It's about health care for low and middle income people. Rs want to cancel it to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Ds want to maintain it. They are not the same and Rs have the power to fund things, Ds are in the minority (as a reminder).

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 5d

Without the subsidies, premiums will increase for more than 20 million people next year, and an estimated two million people are expected to lose coverage. But the magnitude of the change depends on where people live, how old they are, and what they earn.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

At Stake in the Shutdown Fight: Obamacare Prices That Could Rise by Thousands of Dollars

Here’s where Affordable Care Act premiums could increase the most.

www.nytimes.com

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Christian Weller @profcew.bsky.social · 6d

Let them dance (and eat cake).

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6d

File this under “essential function.” 🤡

#Shutdown
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 6d

Hard to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when you're in charge of all 3 branches of government, plus the Supreme Court.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 6d

Here are all the states Russ Vought announced just today he would be illegally stealing taxpayer dollars from.

Have we ever had a President work so hard to hurt the people he represents? I'm not going to be intimidated by these crooks.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 7d

Unless Congress acts swiftly, millions of Americans who purchase their health care coverage on the individual market will experience sticker shock when they reenroll for 2026 coverage or receive their first bill for next year. CAP's Emily Gee explains: https://ow.ly/aiMx50X4kWl

Health Insurance Premium Costs Will More Than Double for Millions of Americans Unless Congress Acts

If enhanced tax credits expire, net premiums for those receiving financial assistance to purchase health insurance would rise 136 percent on average in 2026.

ow.ly

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