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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

We can’t just not open the portal to hell. We’d love to live in that world, but grow up. Someone is going to open the portal to hell. It might as well be us. Do you trust the other guys to open the portal to hell responsibly?

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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 6h

you can't be serious. This reads Meta/Facebook/Insta is looking to grant itself the rights to scrape websites across the open web - and train Meta's AI - if a company after Oct 30, 2026 uses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp or other Meta services. So every biz. Read that again. Outrageous. 1/5

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Shani 🫧🧙🏽‍♀️ @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app · 9h

Ta-Nehisi Coates responding to the question: “Could Kamala Harris have won in 2024 if she had spoken out on Gaza?”

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

Ilhan Omar is an extraordinarily courageous and dedicated leader and we are proud to stand with her.

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Steve in Chicago @spsnomad.bsky.social · 4h

The Hatch Act doesn’t have a lot of teeth, but one thing it DOES have is that they can prevent people from working for the federal government for 5 years and they should use that to remove every political hack protected by civil service or statute in 2029.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 12h

Last year, Trump and 98% of elected GOP enacted the biggest Medicaid cuts in history, bigger even than Reagan's Medicaid cuts. By 2034, 7.5 million people will lose their Medicaid because of the cuts. Clinics are already closing and hospitals are already cutting services, citing OBBBA as a reason.

medicaid cuts from obbba grow to 16% by 2034

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Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social · 5h

I've posted some of these before, but it's wild to see the Palace of Fine Arts in ruins during the years between the end of the 1893 Worlds Fair and the 1933 opening of the MSI? I first saw a few of these images in an elementary school library book when I was a kid. I was astonished.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h

Third Way wants Democrats to be Republicans and nobody should ever listen to them

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h

Zelenskyy: “I told Trump: If you enable Starlink access inside Russia, we can quickly destroy their ballistic missile launchers. Putin would come to negotiating table, and I wouldn’t need to destroy a single energy facility. But instead, they shut down Starlink.” As they say, "from RU, with love"

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The Onion @theonion.com · 11h

Somersaulting RFK Jr. Excitedly Chases Own Penis Through Cabinet Meeting theonion.com/somersaulting-rfk-jr-e…

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 12h

This is an absurd prayer for relief. I've never seen anything like this. I don't even understand how you can ask for this, and I can't imagine this goes anywhere beyond creating confusion. It's an extremely irresponsible action that further undermines the legitimacy of the Justice Department.

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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you to everyone who stood with me over the years. It’s been a scary journey but I have always been grounded in my work and ability to provide exemplary service to my constituents. Trump and his administration have been after me since I arrived in Congress.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs

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Companies rushed in on AI. Now some are pulling back

Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

I keep thinking of how morally bankrupt it was for Republican lawmakers to wear AR-15 lapel pins.

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Jim White @jawhite.bsky.social · 5h

There are still some spectacular recipes there from the old days. Never simple, but reliably very good.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 5h

Sure, Katie Zacharia never passed the bar. But Pete Hegseth has never passed one either.

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Barbara Waxer 🌈 @barbara-waxer.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 7h

y'all... 🤭😭

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 7h

This is such a scoop. For many reasons, including: Trump had made a couple of comments about Omar in the first term, but neither she nor Somali Americans were a Trump obsession at that time. (But Somalis _were_ a Miller obsession.) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Trump officials scrutinized Omar in 2019. They didn’t find citizenship issues.

The earlier review of Omar’s immigration records looked at many of the same issues being investigated now.

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Noelle @finallynoelle.bsky.social · 12h

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: Can you name a time when you voted against Trump and it changed the outcome? SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Sec. Hegseth. At the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated. Q: So it didn't change the outcome

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 10h

It’s a miracle of pure dumb luck that this person’s gun jammed before he was able to carry out the attack, but this stuff is a symptom of all the of the rising anti-Indian racism online that desperately needs to be pushed back against

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Jim White @jawhite.bsky.social · 10h

Her Linkedin page still says she was "General Counsel" of something called "Fix California" for a year and change. And says she was an "Associate" in the International Practice Team at Zhong Law Firm in China before. Both those sound to me like claiming to have been acting as a lawyer.

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Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 14h

Hah hah it's funny because we are murderers

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15h

A decade ago, a few of us tried to get across the significance of Putin’s patronage of Trump. Here’s my book, "Road to Unfreedom," which puts that relationship in the larger setting of oligarchy vs democracy. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/570367...

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The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder: 9780525574477 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of On Tyranny comes a stunning new chronicle of the rise of authoritarianism from Russia to Europe and America. “A brilliant analysis of our time.”—Karl...

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 15h

Jeffries has one weak-sauce joint statement on the raid on his press release page. Schumer, can't find anything at all. Those two are going to go down in history as some of the most aggressively stupid politicians we've had, people who, when the moment demanded leadership, were cowards.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 15h

christ almighty, this is disgusting

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 18h

I wanna quibble a bit with the premise of question 4: 'why court expansion over alternatives' suggests an either/or, but I want a whole suite of reforms But also, court expansion is the most urgent and necessary reform bc it's the clearcut constitutional way to immediately stop the bleeding

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Miles Taylor @milestaylor.bsky.social · 19h

2019: Trump was impeached for withholding Ukraine's aid for a political favor. 2026: Trump may have colluded with Russia to drop Ukraine’s air defenses, all to lower gas prices before a midterm. Both started with a phone call from Trump. Feels like Congress should investigate.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17h

our immigration “debate” has become a pandering contest between the two political parties to win the votes of racist assholes that see immigrants as an invasive species instead of people coming to us for help

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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 18h

This is a crime. I'd be nice if that meant anything anymore.

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 17h

I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19h

Republicans' anti-democracy project has a fast track (Trump) and a slow track (Roberts Court). They sometimes disagree on specifics, but both tracks backslide the US, and do more in concert than they could on their own. If you excuse the slow track because it's not the fast track, you're a sucker.

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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Lula has filed a legal complaint against Meta for election interference in Brasil. One study shows Meta censored over 1,000 pro-Lula accounts paydayreport.com/lula-files-l...

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Lula Files Legal Complaint Against Meta Alleging Election Theft

The legal complaint against Meta for election interference is an unprecedented move

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/10/2026

This is really, really cool. The URL *is* the document. So you can effectively do word processing in your browser... without it leaving your computer. Or... you can send it to others *in the URL*. This is really fantastic.

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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Here's Cat Murphy, a student journalist with the University of Maryland's Capital News Service, refusing to honor Rep. Andy Harris's false claim that she could not legally record his comments in this public setting @merrillcollege.bsky.social @cnsmd.bsky.social

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

By this logic, Jim Crow in the American South was no big deal, because in other parts of the US at the time, Black Americans could vote. I don’t think someone this well educated and intelligent really believes that.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

seems like maybe the GOP strategy of starting a dumb illegal war they can't finish that drives up gas prices while also using dumb illegal tariffs to make everything else more expensive and then telling people to go to Starbucks less often if they're having trouble paying for groceries isn't working

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Jim White @jawhite.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A lawyer is someone who (legally) practices law. It is not complicated. And to legally practice law, one needs a license. Indeed, historically and still I think in California, one can sit for the bar without having a JD.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

What the FUCK @pbs.org ... you used generative AI for archaeological reconstructions of Great Zimbabwe? Fuck you. How DARE you. You couldn't be bothered to pay actors? Animators? (Africa's Golden City, showing now- they did a "We used generative AI" disclaimer prior to the show starting)

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

To be frank, this is approaching Charles I's attempt to arrest the Five Members in 1642 and we ought to treat it with the same gravity. And perhaps remind those involved how things turned out for Charles I after 'all his birds had flown.' How about we not restage this particular episode?

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

We’re a banana republic And Republicans in Congress endorse every bit of it.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

To be an American right now is to feel an intense sense of shame, for abandoning our allies and sucking up to dictators. Trump and Musk are not just betraying Ukraine, they're betraying the very idea of freedom. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/w...

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Ukraine’s Exposure Grows as Satellite Use Is Restricted and Russia Escalates

A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people in Kyiv, and a Pentagon-funded satellite internet program appeared to be curbed without warning.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

When the AI bubble pops, we can’t repeat past corporate bail outs. We need to be ready with policies that protect ordinary people and hold tech execs accountable. We also need to talk about nationalizing AI companies — or maybe even abolishing them altogether… @astra.bsky.social @theguardian.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The Putin-Trump diesel deal is disastrous and illegal — but it is also a sign of the desperation of both men, one fearing to lose a war, the other to lose an election.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

her colleagues are really gonna show their asses in the coming days.

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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Keep the faith, Mississippi, and vote on November 3rd!

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