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US House Equality @ushouseequality.bsky.social · 1h

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

YouTube video by The Onion

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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 2h

The problem is that normie Times readers will read and believe this, because they won’t have the context in the thread below.

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 2h

Add that to him siccing the DOJ on Black women like Lisa Cook, Tish James and Rep. McIver with criminal investigations, and a pretty clear picture is being painted here

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Grist @grist.org · 2h

The shutdown is poised to deepen hunger in America — just as the Trump administration stopped tracking it.

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#Hunger #Family #Children #Food #USDA

The shutdown is poised to deepen hunger in America — just as the Trump administration stopped tracking it

Millions of women and children are at risk of losing food benefits during the shutdown. The USDA just killed the long-running survey that would track the fallout.

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Max P III @blackballer.bsky.social · 2h

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

NEW: Cutting federal funding. Weakening civil rights protections. Injecting God into the classroom.

Here are some of the ways Trump’s Department of Education could upend public schools.

How Trump’s Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools

The Trump administration has made a rapid succession of hires and decisions at the Department of Education that could spur profound changes in how schools operate and children learn. Here’s what to know.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

JB Pritzker has also been emphatically placing Trump's mental decline squarely on the agenda. On our pod, he adds a new element: People around Trump are using his decline to manipulate him, so they're less likely to intervene. More Dems should say this. 1/

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US House Equality @ushouseequality.bsky.social · 2h

One very important thing you can do is stop paying for a subscription to that "teammate".

Maybe they inherited their position on the team or maybe they bought it.

Maybe they are only pretending to be on the team.

Their behavior suggests they are working for the other team.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7h

Column: How can I help a teammate who comes across as rude, loud and abrasive to people who don’t know him as well?

Column | Work Advice: Managing a quirky colleague’s interactions with outsiders

How can I help a teammate who comes across as rude, loud and abrasive to people who don’t know him as well?

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 2h

If you are a paying subscriber to The Washington Post, this is what you get.

If you are a free subscriber to Democracy Docket, this is what you get.

Support independent, pro-democracy media. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 3h

www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump’s War On The Left: Inside The Plan To Investigate Liberal Groups

The Trump admin plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus against left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, the officials said.

www.huffpost.com

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Jane Norman @janenorman.bsky.social · 3h

NEW THIS MORNING--THE IMMIGRATION RAID DOWN THE ROAD FROM KRISTI NOEM: Noem’s South Dakota neighbors hit with an immigration audit that decimates their workforce -- by @makenziehuber.bsky.social southdakotasearchlight.com/2025/10/10/d...

Noem's South Dakota neighbors hit with an immigration audit that decimates their workforce • South Dakota Searchlight

Dairy farm audits in South Dakota under the Trump administration’s escalated immigration enforcement efforts have “created unrest."

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 13h

“Fearing retaliation, the woman later withdrew a complaint”

IOW:
she feared that
the man Trump nominated to head the office charged with protecting whistleblowers from retaliation
would retaliate against her
for blowing the whistle on him

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

POLITICO
Trump watchdog pick faces scrutiny after hotel incident with female colleague
Paul Ingrassia has been investigated for allegedly harassing a lower-ranking colleague, according to administration officials. Fearing retaliation, the woman later withdrew a complaint, and Ingrassia denied wrongdoing.
Alex Brandon/AP
By DANIEL LIPPMAN
10/09/2025 08:22 PM EDT

Ingrassia's female colleague filed a human resources complaint against him before retracting it days later, fearing retaliation, according to three of the officials.
However, five administration officials told POLITICO she complained to them that Ingrassia was making her feel
uncomfortable and that it was hurting her ability to do her job.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 3h

“It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/next...

Next Up: Letitia James

It’s hard to imagine a worse case than the one against James Comey—until you see the one against the attorney general of New York.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

NEW: Nevada could’ve fined Elon Musk’s Boring Co. more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h

Congrats to the Nobel Committee for being more resistant to Trump attacks than most institutions

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Stateline @stateline.org · 3h

From @timhenderson.bsky.social: The telehealth and in-home hospital care programs were both temporary options for Medicare recipients. The shutdown has prevented Congress from extending them.

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Shutdown forces Medicare patients off popular telehealth and hospital-at-home programs • Stateline

The federal government shutdown is forcing a reckoning for two remote health care programs because they automatically expired Oct. 1. The telehealth and in-home hospital care programs were both tempor...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 3h

Under my guidance, our Washington Post editorial page is now devoted to free markets and individual liberties. Here’s an op-ed sanewashing January 6th.

by Jeff Bezos

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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2h

Recordings offer new detail about how influential billionaire Peter Thiel, a Trump ally, seems to place those who would critique or regulate tech developers into a religious good-vs.-evil worldview, where the future of all creation depends on giving innovators free rein. - WaPo wapo.st/4q5wR6S

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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makena kelly @makenakelly.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

Wrote a bit about the content mill for consensus the Trump administration has created to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

More here:
www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Trump Wants to Take Over Cities. Influencers Are Giving Him the Fuel to Do It

The Trump administration has built its own content mill to justify its law-and-order immigration agenda.

www.wired.com

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 11h

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2h

It’s an insane world where militarizing your own civilian streets and ordering extrajudicial murders on the high seas doesn’t get you a prize.

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US House Equality @ushouseequality.bsky.social · 12h

A writer admitting they were a mistaken fool is great but projecting it on everyone else is not.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13h

Our grocery and utilities prices rise through the roof while Trump shovels tens of billions in bailout money to Argentina. Absurd

CNN @cnn.com · 14h

The Trump administration has finalized plans to provide a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. Additionally, the US “directly” purchased Argentine pesos, Bessent said, a move that marks the latest step in an attempt to stabilize the country’s financial market.

Bessent says US purchased pesos and finalized framework for $20 billion lifeline for Argentina | CNN Business

The Trump administration has finalized plans to provide a $20 billion lifeline to Argentina, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday via social media. Additionally, the United States “directly”...

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 13h

A predator in the trump administration?! Do tell.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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