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Less estranged from Elon than most of his kids 10.18.2025 WE SAY NO KINGS https://www.nokings.org/ It's going to take all of us https://www.nokings.org/rise We will win https://www.thefarce.org/ Jort fiction https://medium.com/@jasonsattler

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 5d

"When you’re scared, you get tunnel vision."

Andrea Pitzer explains how the conversation between Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a window into how not to be played by a system that benefits from our confusion.

You don't have to swallow frogs

YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2h

Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...

A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 15m

Just in case you're worried, the potential payoff is so little for me it doesn't even activate my ethical concerns. Just a hard no.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 16m

For big names who can make huge money fast with little overhead (except SS's fees, which are much higher than Ghosts or Beehiv) the temptation has to be massive.

My wife keeps pushing me toward monetizing there because it really does have all the tools I want and doesn't even quite get my concerns.

Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1h

- Grim that media barons are buying up mainstream media and making them fascism-enabling propaganda engines

- ULTAGRIM that so many of the big-name journalists escaping that fire are voluntarily leaping directly into a completely separate newsletter website trap set by the same fascists

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

arstechnica.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 31m

EVERY Republican has this exact concern. They just can't say it.

MTG has proven herself to be less of a Palin or a Bachmann or even a Gohmert. A genuine QAnon misfit with a requisite Antisemitic lean who gets activated by the last thing she read on the internet. And in this case, she's 100% right.

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 50m

Here is why MTG is for extending the enhanced premium tax credits (EPTCs) for ACA marketplace plans.

In her district, GA14

there are 78,000 on ACA plans
74,000 receiving subsidies
the average increase in premiums would be 85%
for a 60-yr-old on a silver plan: 246%
www.kff.org/affordable-c...

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 49m

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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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 11h

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 6h

Journalism? Podcast? Decades?? Lmao

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

Some scoops in here: Adam O'Neal is telling people he will helm The WaPo's flagship opinion podcast, spending upwards of four hours a day on it. He's also indicated, per a source, that he plans to remain in his current job for decades. www.status.news/p/washington...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1h

Dutch merchant in 1647: “Yes I've sold my land for a handful of bulbs, but there is nothing especially alarming about price of tulips.”

Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 1h

Is AI a bubble about to burst, bringing down the economy? Although the spending is massive, at this point there’s nothing especially alarming.

The AI Spending Boom Is Massive But Not Unprecedented

The boom in capital expenditures related to generative artificial intelligence is generating lots of questions about whether it is sustainable. Coming up with definitive answers to them is something of a fool’s errand. Quantifying the size of the capex surge seems like a more productive endeavor — and one that may offer some hints as to its sustainability.

bloom.bg

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 1h

Nearly 70% think the economy is on the wrong track

The polls reflect the economy far better than the stock markets.

The disconnect is empowering Trump's drive for dictatorship.

Nearly 70% think the economy is on the wrong track

The polls reflect the economy far better than the stock markets. The disconnect is fueling Trump's drive for dictatorship.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 2h

Feels like the beginning of a horror movie

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 2h

This continues a strategy of the Russian disinformation campaign to find videos of public figures from a variety of backgrounds and using deepfaked audio to promote their various causes.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 23h

More are united around a simple message: RFK Jr should not be HHS Sec. His decisions undermine our public health capacity and put lives and health at risk.

As 6 former Surgeon Generals argue:

"He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans."

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Opinion | Six surgeons general: RFK Jr. is a threat to the health of Americans

It was our duty in office to warn of dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

wapo.st

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 9h

“Today, the federal government has been deliberately wrecked by Trump and his allies, in an ongoing project to extract wealth for the richest Americans and deny benefits to the poorest.”

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 9h

I started Degenerate Art a year ago today, in the last weeks of the before times. Today, I wrote about the most important history and current events I've covered related to our rapidly expanding authoritarianism, and what the future is likely to bring.

State of the Degenerate union

The newsletter turned one today! What's happened and what's next.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15h

“No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law.”

George Pearkes @peark.es · 15h

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10h

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 9h

I know it’s easy to get inured to this stuff but imagine a podcast ep where @mikeduncan.bsky.social is telling you about this happening in some other country at the same time that a crisis in parliament has shut down the national budget.

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10h

Presidents have federalized a state's own Guard to use over its objection, most famously desegregation. And sometimes regular military has been used. But taking one state's soldiers and putting them in another state? This is a completely unprecedented breakdown of what the Union fundamentally is.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 10h

Chris Hayes poses an interesting question: Is Pam Bondi already a worse attorney general than Bill Barr?

‘Trump’s lawyer, not America’s’: Hayes BLASTS Bondi as worst AG in modern history

YouTube video by MSNBC

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 11h

“When this goes to court — and undoubtedly it will in some form — DOJ will be stuck defending the premise that DOD has to invade Portland because right wingers with close ties to the President traveled across the country to stoke unrest.”

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13h

"Do something, bitch!"* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia's Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/07/d...

"Do something, bitch!"* Kristi Noem Dressed Russia's Useful Idiot Up to Cosplay CBP - emptywheel

DHS is increasingly using overt propaganda to justify its invasions of Democratic states. It's horrible in real time--and possibly designed to feed Trump false claims about the states--but it could ba...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Based off this post, which I updated w/the habeas petition.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/05/4...

$400,000: The "Free" Medical Care Kristi Noem's Goons Made Taxpayers Pay - emptywheel

After ICE badly broke the leg of a guy detained at a Carson car wash back in August, he's been in the hospital with 24/7 private security guard. Which means taxpayers have already paid around $400,000...

www.emptywheel.net

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11h

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

Politico: Republicans are in disarray 1 week into the shutdown

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 11h

I'm a total sap because I'm genuinely worried for dude.

HEAR IT: Country star Zach Bryan CALLS OUT Trump's deportation crackdown in new song

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13h

I'm never ever gonna forget all the furrowed browed corporatist Charlie Kirk hagiography and sportsball halftime memoriams for a race baiting brigading zealot

Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 13h

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa, Leading to Death Threats for Him and His Family
newrepublic.com/post/201448/...

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa

Rutgers University professor Mark Bray no longer feels safe at home.

newrepublic.com

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 11h

then it's accurate

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 11h

So late December.

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