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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 7h

America First means dead kids.

Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 7h

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

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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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 34m

When a judge's home burned down, the head of the Justice Dept civil rights division responded not with care or concern but on-line snark.

@HarmeetKDhillon displays the administration's us-vs-them approach to the law -- and a lack of basic decency. | LA Times

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Commentary: At Trump's Justice Department, partisan pugnacity where honor, integrity should be

Harmeet Dhillon of the Civil Rights Division responds to personal tragedy with a lack of civility, reflecting an administration that deems half the country its enemy.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Ingots We Trust

Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

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.

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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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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 4h

Excited to see the ranking of #ScienceUnderSiege spiking today! Please check out the book (ask your local library to stock it if they haven't already).

@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I began writing this book well over a year ago. We wish the book didn't feel as prescience as it now does.

Science Under Siege Amazon raking (#357--audiobook)

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

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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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 5h

More good work by Greg Sargent

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

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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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 29m

I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 1h

She melts down in front of the Senate ... in her non-answers, Bondi is colluding w/ pedophiles in a coverup ... refusing to answer because she is a total shill ... & her role is to gender wash so that the MAGA females feel like they're represented - @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

IHIP News: 🚨 Pam Bondi EXPLODES After Dems DESTROY HER in CHAOTIC Senate Hearings!!

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 2h

"Bondi is a patent lightweight & essentially a programmed attack dog for Trump. She is destined to be remembered as a consummate traitor to the DOJ mission,her portrait gathering dust in the basement. But her service to Trump captures the admin's great contempt..."

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A Ridiculous Attorney General

Bondi’s smug evasions revealed volumes about the Administration

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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 1h

@schiff.senate.gov delivers a savaging litany of the serious questions Bondi refused to answer during a Senate oversight hearing on Tuesday 10/7/25, please watch, please share, there must be a reckoning & we must keep all the receipts

Schiff DEMOLISHES Pam Bondi TO HER FACE at Hearing

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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 1h

we learn from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social at NYU that authoritarians will put a female in a position of power as a way to gender wash ... the MAGA regime has trotted out Pam Bondi as a means to gender wash their patriarchal ambitions - @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

IHIP News: 🚨 Pam Bondi EXPLODES After Dems DESTROY HER in CHAOTIC Senate Hearings!!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18h

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Resistance Knitters 🧶💙🌊📎🕊️🗽📚🫖☕️📖🐈💍 @resistanceknitters.bsky.social · 3h

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Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 4h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 2h

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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 1h

@maryltrump.bsky.social is finding The Good In Us, and so it’s an apt title for her amazing Substack. @katiephang.bsky.social & Mary talk politics, humor, & when giving up actually makes sense.

Mary Trump REVEALS The SECRET To Taking Donald DOWN

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused 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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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1h

Another moment where Octavia Butler got it right.

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2h

I read somewhere recently that what the rich really want is slavery and it's hard not to read this article through that lens

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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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 3h

NEWS: James Comey pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that followed President Trump’s demand to prosecute.

The judge set a Jan. 5 trial date — but Comey is expected to try to kill the case before it starts, including by disqualifying Lindsey Halligan

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

President Trump called for the jailing of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on Truth Social.

The threat comes after Illinois sued the administration on Monday in hopes of halting the troops’ deployment. The National Guard arrived this week nonetheless. trib.al/pXoPcwu

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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 1h

So very sad, so very embarrassing, so very destructive, so very unnecessary ... Disrupting & dismantling our natural, long-standing alliances ... how long is the Republican Party going to enable this deranged man & endorse his diabolical schemes? He is destroying our economy & national security

FURIOUS Canada STRIKES BACK after DISASTER WH Meeting

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

Full video from Katie Phang’s YouTube channel here:

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MAGA Pastor PLEADS GUILTY After CAUGHT in SHOCKING SCANDAL

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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