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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1h
Wall Street Journal reported on a 2024 New Year’s Eve celebration where Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives and a woman who wasn’t his wife www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
"As fireworks exploded over the Burj Khalifa skyscraper to welcome 2025, Paxton and his girlfriend Tracy Duhon watched from a luxury high-rise balcony full of people, according to a video of the gathering reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, details of which were contained in court filings and confirmed by people familiar with the matter.

Among those at the event with Texas’ top law-enforcement official were two Americans who had been indicted months before on federal healthcare-fraud charges but failed to return to the U.S., Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, according to the court records and people familiar with the matter. Ahmed, a healthcare executive, had donated $190,000 to Paxton, campaign finance records show, including $25,000 days after he was indicted."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h
The difference between the Paxton scandals vs. the Talarico scandals is that the Paxton scandals are a) demonstrably worse, and b) demonstrably real.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 2h
The Detroit Free Press allowed readers to submit their verdict on who won the debate between Dr. Abdul El Sayed and Mike Rogers— but the only two people who said Rogers won decided to include anti Arab slurs in their letters in addition to abject lies. So the DFP refused to publish them.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 3h
This is an actual Nazi rally.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 3h
This morning, the federal government turned the full force of the Department of Homeland Security against a sitting member of Congress for the offense of disagreeing with the White House.

The path to citizenship should not be weaponized against anyone, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized American who swore an oath to this country — the same one that I took.

The promise of citizenship should not be contingent on someone agreeing with the federal government.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3h
Garbage country filled with garbage fascists
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3h
Per the Middle East Studies Association, since October 7, 76 North American academics have been fired for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Two-thirds of those people are non-white. 16.5% are Jewish. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...
Retaliation goes far beyond firing. Of 196 recorded incidents of employer retaliation against employees speaking out on Palestine, nearly 40% (76) resulted in termination. Retaliation that does not rise to the level of termination is an even larger phenomenon.
All categories of academic workers are at risk. Of the 162 individuals whose employment status was disclosed, 30% involved non-tenure track faculty or instructors, and 36% were tenured.
People of color are disproportionately affected. Of the 134 cases recorded in the AFI database in which respondents’ identification is known, two-thirds were people of color: 30% SWANA; 10.5% Black; and 27% other POC. Additionally, 16.5% identify as Jewish. More than half of those targeted whose gender is known are women. Such retaliation compounds the abuse of already racist and sexist work environments.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h
The official U.S. Department of Education account posted a Columbus Day video set to the song L'Amour toujours, which, if you don’t know, is a random dance song that’s been song co-opted by Nazi groups across Europe, complete with new (nazi) lyrics. link in next post. x.com/usedgov/stat...
a screenshot from x. the U.S. department of education account has posted a video. in the screenshot it’s conquistadors with a cross from the movie apocalypto.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
so cheerful and inclusive!!!
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 9h
I think a lot of people have forgotten that Donald Trump entered the political conversation as a big voice in the Obama birther conspiracy
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 9h
if people would like to hear more from him, he does a lot of advocacy work and there are many of his speeches and stories on youtube
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Chief Arvol Looking Horse One Prayer
YouTube video by Native American Music Awards
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 9h
hey ben. the guy in the picture here is an actual person, my friend’s dad, and a spiritual leader of Lakota people, Chief Arvol Looking Horse. not only does he support Indigenous People’s Day, he’s the founder of World Peace and Prayer Day. feels weird to use his image and not his name.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 11h
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
D+15 Midterm indicator
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A hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 22h
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 14h
These fucking fascists have to pay.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 14h
To start with, this is happening because the president has targeted a member of Congress as part of a broader explicitly racist hate campaign against Americans of a particular ethnic origin. There's no other way to put it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h
why the fuck was a DHS agency doing the search
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h
off the fucking rails. a rogue government.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 15h
Trump’s feds raid home of Ilhan Omar as part of criminal investigation
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Trump’s feds raid home of Ilhan Omar as part of criminal investigation
Raid comes as Omar, the first Somali American elected to Congress, has drawn President Donald Trump’s ire for years
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 14h
no coming back from this without punishing the entire chain of command from the officers carrying out this shit to the people at the top giving the orders
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 12/10/2026
I (probably obviously) disagree with John's POV here, but let's grant that all of what he says is true, and that X is good in all the ways listed in the post; let's even grant that's true for all demographics (it's not). It'd *still* be a site that pays known CSAM distributors at its owner's behest.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16h
no amnesty
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
i’ll be saying “tiffany you have raging boners too” for years from this day forward to zero effect but idc
Tiffany Fong @TiffanyFong 
wild that dudes just wake up with raging boners.

reply from Bryan Johnson O @bryan_johnson

Tiffany you have raging boners too.
Women experience clitoral tumescence during REM sleep, often referred to as the "morning bean”
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk amplified the conspiracy theory, leading to a lot of right-wing frenzy. The Ohio facility, a small institution no doubt suddenly inundated by calls and harassment, finally said tonight that this is all false.
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David Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
One of the largest right-wing-extremist conspiracy accounts on X is the prediction market PolyMarket, and it really makes you wonder how this may affect the accuracy & calibration of their prices.
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
data center boosters try to keep the conversation focused on water consumption because air pollution is where the acute problem is
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
CyberTruck owners:
NFL graphic that says

SHORT
3 INCHES
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Stig Børsen Hansen, a founding member who was one of two reviewers who presented the study to the Danish committee, resigned from the group in protest on Friday, citing major ethical issues with the study.

“You are now enrolling newborns in a lottery to test a hypothesis,” Hansen said. The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage. “They contract hepatitis B in the context of being part of a research project,” Hansen said, which made their infection happen, in effect, “by design”.

Three other members of the committee have also resigned in protest.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Kentucky fans filming themselves flipping off Lane Kiffin
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is just a fucking carjacking. How the hell was he supposed to know it was a state sponsored carjacking. what the fuck are we doing here.
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fletcheredington.bsky.social @fletcheredington.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Training my AI agent on McNulty's plot from season 5 of The Wire and letting it rip
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fletcheredington.bsky.social @fletcheredington.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A Cruel Lina Khan's Thesis
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fletcheredington.bsky.social @fletcheredington.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Give Lina Khan a Gundam remains the moderate position
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
a grandmotherly woman just got booted from the Trump rally for protesting, and she went out like a hero talking trash and flipping the double bird
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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Democrats will never learn.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He quite literally has no idea what health insurance is. Truly none.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.
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merriam 🇰🇳 @merriam.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
These are cartel tactics
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There are no "rogue AI agents" that are spoiling the reputation of all the GOOD AI agents. Anthropic created a bad and dangerous product; the bad and dangerous product did this. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
nytimes.com
Anthropic Says Its A.I. Agents Attempted to Access a Range of Government Sites
The company said rogue A.I. agents acted on their own as they tried to access federal, state and local sites. The Philadelphia Police Department said its site was one of them.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What are @wmata.com workers doing here??? Nothing?? WORSE???
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
“These are systemic inequalities – problems so deep-rooted ⁠that, in fact, I’m glad that high-school students and young people in general are speaking up. I hear them, and I support them, and ‌I hope the people all over there will do the same.” ~ Victor Wembanyama
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NBA star Wembanyama to French students: ‘I hear you’
San ​Antonio Spurs player Victor Wembanyama offers solidarity to students protesting conditions in schools in France.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fearing for their safety, officers say the 72-year-old man pulled out a gun and shot Gonzalez. The woman's boyfriend, who is a police officer and was off-duty, came to the home and put Gonzalez in handcuffs.
abc7.com
72-year-old man shoots off-duty ICE agent found asleep on Fresno lawn, agent arrested: Police
Authorities say a woman found the ICE agent sleeping on her front lawn.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 09/10/2026
Because he's one of the only people standing next to a Republican going, "this person is a piece of shit, I don't respect him, neither should you, he's fucking evil and he needs to go, and I don't care if it makes me sound rude saying it" LIKE EVERY DEMOCRAT SHOULD BE DOING??? MAYBE???
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Sara Nelson @flyingwithsara.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
BOYCOTT ALERT. @sbworkersunited.org deserve a fair contract. Starbucks can’t be trusted to serve good coffee until there’s a union contract. Delete your app and find a local coffee shop! #NoContractNoCoffee
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