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Shawn "Smith" Peirce @silversmith1.bsky.social · 33m

Don't Call It A Done Deal
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Don't Call It A Done Deal

Two Years… And Still Counting

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 13h

Kamala Harris: “These Motherfuckers Are CRAZY” 😂💀

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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MSW Media @mswmedia.com · 1h

Catch the latest @thepoliticsbar.bsky.social 🍸 with
@jodyhamilton.bsky.social & @silversmith1.bsky.social #MSWMedia

Guest: @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

Listen: redcircle.com/shows/9bce8c...

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 2h

Our government’s official policy is “hurt and exploit workers to enrich their bosses.”

Only one of two things can be true: Either Trump's Labor Department actually believes that Trump's immigration enforcement is destroying the agricultural sector and threatening food security, or they are pretending this threat is real in order to crush wages for both foreign and domestic agricultural workers. Neither look particularly good.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1h

Illinois soybean farmer: We can't help but feel very anxious, wondering why it's taking so long to get this resolved. The farther we go into the season, the more we're going to lose. China should have been buying our beans already, and they're not. It's like crickets

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1h

Anyway, this is a wonderful book www.amazon.com/EVERY-Fallad...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1h

Florida cops were investigating James O’Gara, a Vietnam vet, because he had sent the state CFO a postcard that said, “You lack values.”

Said his wife: “I expected them to show up eventually because I’m an organizer, and it follows the state of play these days"

www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/10/07/a...

Armed investigators visit man who sent postcard critical of Florida CFO Ingoglia

The politically active couple expected a knock on their door because of their criticism of Trump and DeSantis, but not over a seemingly innocuous postcard.

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Stephanie Miller @stephaniemiller.bsky.social · 21h

Tune in to @FreeSpeechTV on Saturday, October 18 for LIVE coverage of the national No Kings mobilization. Join from wherever you are! youtu.be/af5KQeehsJI

No Kings: America Rises Again | National Day of Action on FSTV

On October 18th, America will rise again. Across the country, millions of people are joining the No Kings national day of action—a peaceful, powerful mobilization against corruption, cruelty, and…

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 3h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13h

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

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

Absolute must-read from @swin24.bsky.social:

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.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 3h

There is nothing strategic about obeisance. There is nothing practical about complicity.

A simple framework on how to weigh tough decisions in the Trump era: do the opposite.

wiczipedia.substack.com/p/how-to-not...

How to Not Capitulate for Dummies

A framework for weighing decisions under Trump.

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NPR @npr.org · 3h

A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.

The government shutdown keeps snarling air travel. Officials say it could get worse

A dozen facilities saw air traffic control shortages on Monday, delaying flights at several airports. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy blamed "a slight tick-up in sick calls" due to the shutdown.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

WATCH: Trump’s lawless Ice goons shoot an unarmed priest in the head with a pepper ball. Completely out of control.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 14h

“The American Farm Bureau Federation projects per-acre losses this year of $169 for corn, $114 for soybeans, $111 for wheat and $379 for cotton.

“Higher farm safety net programs passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill won't begin paying out until a year from now.”

www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/...

Ag Groups Press for Aid While Some Raise Concerns About Long-Term Tariff Damage

President Donald Trump and members of his administration continue to tease that an aid package of up to $15 billion for farmers could be announced this week. More than 200 farm organizations wrote the...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 18h

"In any case, Ms. Weiss has certainly found her time becoming too valuable to engage in actual journalistic work."

That is from an op-ed on the .... WSJ editorial page.

www.wsj.com/opinion/cbs-...

Opinion | CBS Deal Smells Like a Gimmick

An aspiring mogul finds yet another way to appease Donald Trump.

www.wsj.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

Stephen Miller believes that if he supercharges the debate over Trump's abuses of power with enough propaganda, he can polarize it and force low-info voters to embrace authoritarianism. Pritzker/Newsom have accepted that this requires an information war in response.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 13h

I want to apologize for calling Adam O’Neal’s Washpost editorials “congealed Cream of Wheat” in a column last week.

So, B&G Foods, I am sorry for insulting your fine breakfast product.

subscribers; reading the once vibrant opinion section under its new editor, Adam O'Neal, feels like choking down a spoonful of congealed Cream of Wheat.

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Abu Aardvark’s Ghost @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 3h

“Their strategy is to play divide and conquer, rewarding friends and brutally punishing opponents. They win when society cracks, creating a self-enforcing set of expectations, in which everyone shuts up and complies because everyone expects everyone else to shut up and comply, too.” - excellent

Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3h

"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.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 4h

No Raids
No War
No Cuts
No Kings

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 15h

You know it has to be really, really, really extremely bad Republican disarray if even Politico admits it

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 15h

Disarray!
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Politico: Republicans are in disarray 1 week into the shutdown

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Reuters @reuters.com · 4h

Russia moves to withdraw from plutonium agreement with the United States reut.rs/4odLRxS

Russia moves to withdraw from plutonium agreement with the United States

Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved a move to withdraw from a landmark agreement with the United States aimed at reducing vast stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium left over from thousands of Cold War nuclear warheads.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 4h

Hunter Biden says wtf

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

“.. the latest example of the Trump administration’s policy priorities overlapping with the business dealings of the president and his family.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/health/pharm...

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