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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The worst Ebola outbreak in the world is ongoing in the DRC and you’re not being informed about it in part because the reason it is spiralling is US politics. At least one person who was suffering from the disease crossed into Uganda by road and then flew from Kampala to Nairobi where he died.

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Joel Brown @jbnbpt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The last ten minutes were great. I got a $90 check from Donald Trump, and sent a $50 donation to Ilhan Omar's reelection. Now I'm going to spend the other $40 on booze to forget the reality we live in.

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Joel Brown @jbnbpt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I think we can all agree that the resignation of Kimberly Guilfoyle is a huge blow to American diplomacy and absolutely worthy of team coverage on all major media outlets. Oh, wait...the opposite of that.

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"No thinking person should lend any credence to the idea that this attempt to terrorize Omar, her constituents, and the Somali community was remotely investigatory. This was an armed attack on the home of a Black woman who is a sitting Congresswoman."

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

UPDATE: Trump was asked what state Zacharia passed the bar exam. Trump deferred to Zacharia to answer. Zacharia said, "When I moved to China." Which makes absolutely no sense. She appears to waive away follow up questions. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

just a casual reminder that inciting violence against his political opponents and others he dislikes has been a core feature of Donald Trump's approach for more than a decade. It is a defining characteristic of Trump and his movement, but rarely centered as such by corporate media.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Rare good news in this time of incessant top-down vandalism

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Marko Kloos @markokloos.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

This is not a political rally, it's a gathering of a death cult that revels in violence, cruelty and destruction. A moral black hole from which no kindness or rational thought can escape.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

the livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan is going to blow back in ways that these fucksticks are too stupid to comprehend. lucky us. thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I try to explain to these morons exactly why they're morons. wish me luck. link is here: bit.ly/47UPzWJ

That’s Marky’s answer to a disgusting violation of human rights — ‘just pretend it’s not happening.’

Oh yeah, that’ll work. Just look away, and try not to think about how this savagery is being perpetrated in our names. Awesome idea, Marky. Thanks for your contribution to the national discourse. You’ve really done us all a solid.

Margaret Brennan has it exactly right in that clip. Donny and Petey are going to turn some asshole who murdered a bunch of soldiers into a martyr. They’re going to turn him into a cause.

And then what? Did not one of these nitwits think about what could happen next? Did they not game that shit out? Of course they didn’t. These are the morons who quite famously act first and think never. It’s as if you took two eight-year-old boys, pumped them full of sugar, and set them loose making policy.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/10/2026

I love that this might be the thing that tanks Paxton, and not the biblical divorce or letting a child rapist out early.

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Ken Pisani @kpsmartypants.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

We're at the "torturing my enemies" part of the authoritarian takeover of America, if anyone's keeping score.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/10/2026

I still remember in 2015 when Trump was gonna hold a press conference clear up all the questions about Melania's immigration issues in two weeks. And then he didn't. And the press never asked them about it again.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Three days: sanctioning the international criminal court, announcing that the firing-squad execution of NH will be live-streamed, investigating the WH press on bogus antitrust charges, searching IO’s home on transparently pretextual immigration charges, financing Putin, jettisoning Zelensky.

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

America has become an authoritarian state.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/10/2026

Breaking News: Homeland Security agents executed a search warrant at the home of Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. The Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative moves related to political candidates so close to elections. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing forward, looking slightly to her left. A headline reads: "Homeland Security Agents Search Home of Rep. Ilhan Omar." Photo by Kenny Holston/The New York Times.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.

foxnews.com

Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid

Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Talarico: I've heard credible reports that Ken Paxton has a serious medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice. People are concerned. He has asked for proof of life from me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Republican Party is chock full of Nazis. The government has Nazis in senior administration positions. The Republican Party’s largest donor is a neo-Nazi. David Brooks might not want to admit it, but that’s why it’s long past time for him to shut up.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NBC News: "Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 12/10/2026

There is one digger in all of Gaza available for use to help locate bodies buried under rubble. Israel refuses to allow in more "for security reasons." Incredible photo feature—cn for mention and photos of human remains.

npr.org

Skeletons in their clothing: Recovering bodies from the rubble in Gaza

It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Gaza war, devastating one extended family. A year and a half later, the survivors find their loved ones' remains.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yeah no kidding!!! Lawless freaks

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's like if Benghazi was what Republicans pretended it was, but times about 12.

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Joel Brown @jbnbpt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

These people are sick, utterly without conscience. Despicable.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

when the racist trillionaire with a breeding cult and a child porn bot is funding your opposition you should say something about it

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Eric Levai @ericlevai.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Now THIS is how you write a story. Devastating.

Screenshot from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/us/politics/fort-hood-execution-streamed-public.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HVE.Rw7O.Sj-0_s5YONzL&smid=nytcore-android-share

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ya i mean i do genuinely think that one of hegseth's goals is to drive people appalled by barbarity out of the military, because the long term plan is to make the military shoot at us, and the same guys who object to this won't do that either.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 09/10/2026

NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S.
Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government:
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.

United States
Conference of
Catholic Bishops
READINGS
"It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.
"I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."

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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 09/10/2026

Hegseth has posted multiple snuff films of civilians being killed off the coast of South America, and the initial outrage has faded away. Live-streaming an execution doesn't seem all that different. I just hope that someday he's dragged before an international tribunal to answer for his crimes.

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I Know What Juda Did Last Summer @gypaetus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the very same day the hospital i worked at started handing out "healthcare hero" t-shirts to us, corporate also had us sign a paper acknowledging that there would be no expectation for hazard pay or additional PTO for sick leave if we contracted covid

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I hope every single Democrat is traumatized enough by wrong polls over the years that they ignore these and vote anyway!!!

Polls showing Dems doing well in Texas, Alaska, Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026

JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...

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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)

President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

~Approximately no one in the general public knows because the leaders of the R1 research universities - whose budgets, programs, & personnel are entirely or significantly dependent on federal funding - have been totally absent from the public square in explaining & collectively protesting this.

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Joel Brown @jbnbpt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can you imagine the looks on the actual soldiers' faces?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/10/2026

New in PN: Scenes from a personality cult "The ads are unambiguously illegal — & that’s the point. Again & again, this regime has broken the law not just to accomplish some immediate goal, but as a dominance display to say to everyone: Donald Trump does whatever he wants, & nobody can stop him."

publicnotice.co

Scenes from a personality cult

Trump’s taxpayer-funded agitprop is clearly illegal — and that’s the point.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 30/09/2026

The ACLU's Jeffrey Stein called the ruling a "huge step in the right direction." “The public deserves to know how our government is justifying the cold-blooded murder of hundreds of civilians." 🔽

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🔥JACK SMITH: "Trump engaged in serious crimes against 🇺🇸- a criminal scheme to prevent a lawful transfer of power... the rule of law faces challenges unlike any we've experienced. I won't be silenced by threats of prosecution. While fear may be contagious, courage is as well."

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's inconceivable to me how someone who lost in a free & fair election can incite an angry mob to attack his own government, (the very definition of treason) & be allowed to run for any office ever again.

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