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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 6h
Same
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 6h
Over the decades we've had to visit people in memory care units. This is the kind of thing you would hear. (I mean, *listen* to it.)
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6h
The owner of X is almost single-handedly funding the Republican midterm election campaigns. Here’s why Bluesky has an intellectual diversity problem.
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Pod Save America @podsaveamerica.crooked.com · 5h
Dan Pfeiffer: JD Vance has this image of cool that's towel-snapping homophobia and as someone who has been snapped by a towel a lot he's now trying to snap the towel.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
we're reaching conspiracy theory singularity as Ron Johnson accuses Hunter Biden of being involved in Ukrainian bioweapons labs
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 4h
Looks like he lied. Democrats need to go after Space Caligula’s govt contracts. “The billionaire tech entrepreneur approached the US president with the proposal to introduce speed limits on the system, which hampered Ukraine’s drone defences, according to 4 sources familiar with the discussions.“
telegraph.co.uk
Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine
SpaceX founder had publicly blamed president for chaos over restrictions, but sources say he initiated them
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
I am convinced that if Trump ends up in a bunker Natalie Harp will be the last person with him
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 4h
Yes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a Florida home, pledging it would be his principal residence. Seven weeks later, he attested a neighboring property would also be his principal residence. In reality, he does not seem to have lived in either home. (Published Dec. 2025)
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing ...
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h
Just told my 10yo daughter about Katie Zacharia. She had tears in her eyes. And then she did the Wakanda pose and said “#Blondekanda forever” — which is the sort of pop culture cross-over I can celebra
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 2h
Admiral Cooper had been a "respected" person. He's learning, at a slower pace, what K Zacharia illustrated in five days. You won't ever remove the taint of kowtowing to this guy.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3h
The corruption of the career military is one of the most damaging and potentially dangerous legacies of the Trump/Hegseth era.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2h
This will receive less attention than Obama's tan suit. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Signs Order Exempting Russia From Sanctions Legislation
The sanctions were part of legislation that was named after Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h
The U.S. Army paid General Dynamics millions for a factory that kept churning out botched artillery shells. A former Army official called it an “absolute disaster” and said the Army “should’ve gone after recovering money from General Dynamics.” (Published August)
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Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2h
I mean, what are we even doing here
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1h
Calling a federal judge histrionic is quite the litigation strategy, let’s see how that works out for them!
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John Castiglione @johncastiglione.bsky.social · 5h
Would say this is the gayest thing I’ve seen in a long time, but I don’t wanna drag our gay brothers into this mess
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 17h
In case you were wondering what content creators were like in the age of Caligula.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 17h
NEW: Over and over, judges have rejected the Trump administration’s arguments for turning over state voter rolls. “Clearly, this demand is devoid of any factual basis,” one judge wrote.
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How Judges Eviscerated Trump’s DOJ Voter Data Lawsuits — ProPublica
Over the past year, the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has sued 30 states and Washington, D.C., to demand their unredacted voter rolls. The vast majority of cases have been thrown out.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 16h
I think the approach of YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, which is that it’s kind of fascinatingly unknowable whether Elizabeth Holmes is dishonest, is basically nonsense. With that said, it’s really well made and if you don’t compare it to reality, it’s very compelling.
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You Can See Everything
Podcast Episode · Pop Culture Happy Hour · October 16 · 25m
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16h
Of course, birds of a feather
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 16h
The New York Times published this op-ed today, so my post is now incorrect about no major newspaper has forcefully come out against Ilhan Omar being targeted for stripping of her U.S. citizenship. Find me other URLs to this story
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Opinion | Trump’s Attempt to Deport Ilhan Omar Is Another Leap Toward the Abyss
This is more than just another persecution of one of the president’s political enemies.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 17h
It is a depressing sign of the times that Marjorie Taylor Greene has come out more forcefully against the Trump administration trying to strip Ilhan Omar of her citizenship than the Democratic Party or any major newspaper.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16h
Yep. And I’m proud to say that I did know of them!
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Angela Collier @acollierastro.bsky.social · 16h
I early voted. No one complimented my hand knit sweater but it's fine.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump is trying to blame Zelensky for the oil crises caused by the disastrous wars started by Putin and Trump. He has acted like a Russian asset since at least the 1980s.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 15h
Imagine Trump watching this, turning beet red with rage, and having a stroke.
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 15h
www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with... Lesser known but equally egregious, dehumanizing seizure, torture and illegal deportation as Mahmoud Khalil. Lend a hand if you can.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 15h
A flying car that only goes down. Could have been useful for Thelma and Louise. Otherwise...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 15h
He has always wanted Russia to win.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 15h
In San Francisco, 170 sexual assault victims subjected themselves to a rape-kit exam through June this year. Yet as of October, the police had made only 11 arrests and only one of the cases is being prosecuted as a sex crime, reports @anyaviolet.bsky.social sfstandard.com/2026/10/16/s...
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170 rape kits, 1 rape prosecution: New SFPD data shows sexual assault cases stalling
Victims are getting exams within days. It can take police investigators months to even open a case.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 15h
Unsurprisingly, a terrific piece from Jen.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15h
it's funny how many policy perception issues really just boil down to that
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 15h
this is a really great data visualization that underscores how panic over noncitizen voting depends significantly on people not comprehending how big numbers are www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How Claims of Widespread Noncitizen Voting Fall Apart
Investigations into noncitizen voting follow a pattern. Each inquiry ends with few, if any, prosecutions.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h
One easy way to NOT have a stress ulcer is to leave the GOP.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h
You should not vote for fascism because fascism is evil. But also, you should not vote for fascism because fascism is stupid.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h
It would have been nice for everyone in the media to notice this many years ago. Like when JD Vance was like "we have a healthcare plan: deport millions. We also have a housing plan: you guessed it, widescale deportations. Wanna hear our childcare plan? Got it in one--it's ethnic cleansing again."
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 15h
An important thing to note in this period of fascism is that fascists are historically not good at government. Their entire shtick is "oh yeah? Well that's so-and-so's fault." Actual governance requires you to have a solution that is not "well let's fuck those marginalized guys up."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h
really funny because it was totally predictable
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
Sen. Marsha Blackburn: "Jack Smith should be jailed. This Biden DOJ should be held to account for what they have done."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h
FALLON: This little radically woke soy boy is completely out of touch with Texans FOX BUSINESS: But congressman, you can say Talarico is out of touch, but he seems to be in touch with perhaps a majority of the people who are gonna vote in this election
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 15h
Here's what the Senate map will look like if polls are exactly correct, versus what Dems could get with a historically normal shift in the race over the next 2.5 weeks + polling error favoring either Reps or Dems: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-16...
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The Senate is one ordinary polling miss from a blowout
If Democrats beat today's polls by a normal margin, they'd win 56 Senate seats — including South Carolina and Nebraska. Things could get weird, fast
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Steve Hasegawa @stevehasegawa.bsky.social · 12h
Yes, and so even if you don’t care about trans people (which you should), you should recognize that if they succeed in dehumanizing trans people out of existence, they will move on to scapegoating Black, Muslim, Jewish, immigrant, LGBQ, and all insufficiently fascist people in some order
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wishda @wishda.bsky.social · 14h
The other thing that happens historically is that, when the number of domestic enemies they have made begin to worry them, they will start major foreign wars to burn off their excess angry population. That’s when the collapse really starts to escalate.
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Uncle Rester 🎃 @unclerester.bsky.social · 14h
this is also part of the reason that feeding the fascists vulnerable people just isnt going to work, aside from it being immoral fascist loser shit to do. It doesnt solve things, so the fascists will just blame more\other people, or claim they didnt fascist hard enough
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14h
I think the future should look more like "a fuckload of trains and get more of this shit off the road" and less like...mad max trial runs.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 14h
"OK team, let's spread lies about VACCINES, the most beneficial, studied, and regulated biomedical intervention in human history... But let's embrace unproven and potentially harmful PEPTIDES, a pharmaceutical product pushed by wellness influencers❗" Ugh. 😡 www.cnbc.com/2026/10/15/p...
cnbc.com
Trump administration advances plan for peptide drugs favored by RFK Jr.
The proposal was quickly praised online by some Kennedy allies who sell peptides.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h
If Katie Zacharia flames out as White House Press Secretary, look for President Trump to replace her with a seasoned, savvy, respected communicator like Scott Jennings. by Scott Jennings
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h
Katie Zacharia shouldn't be Trump's Press Secretary. She should be on the Supreme Court. by Marc Thiessen
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 14h
I never thought I would see a demonstration of what's supposed to be a flying car and immediately think, "What is the possible use case for this in the hands of anyone except possibly a stunt coordinator?"
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