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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 13h
I wrote about the Cornell rape case, specifically about how MAGA responses to it highlight the male supremacism on the American right. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Consent: A Rape at Cornell and the MAGA Right
For the new right, when a man is accused of rape, he is first and foremost a victim of feminism.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3h
Rules for thee but not for me.
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Trump Just Urged MAGA To 'Vote By Mail' To Help Out Republicans In New Video—And The Hypocrisy Is Off The Charts
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 3h
Donald Trump has always been enormously stupid, but now he's also dangerously insane.
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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 3h
The algorithm doesn't want you calm, informed, or connected. It wants you angry, addicted, and isolated. Because that's what lines the pockets of folks like Musk and Zuckerberg.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3h
The Telegraph published an article titled Putin’s Dirty Tricks Reach Finnish Lavatories,reporting that Russian intelligence services left excrement,unlocked doors,lights turned on in the homes of Finnish politicians in an attempt to intimidate them.My sympathies.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h
The Hell's VIP Section is currently full. Please make other arrangements.
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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 2h
Reagan really did a number on white America with his "Black welfare queen driving a Cadillac," and now they CANNOT believe it was BS then and still. www.rawstory.com/arkansas-wel...
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MAGA's frothing demands for a Black 'welfare queen' ad collapse under red state's own data
Conservatives who blasted Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for casting a white man as her Medicaid freeloader ran into a problem, as a new report pulled her own state's numbers.About 60% of people...
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 3h
New: As Trump's meme coin dangled a gala dinner with the president for its top buyers, the wallet holding the creators' tokens moved ~$70M of $TRUMP to an account where it can be sold. @jeffstein.bsky.social for @washingtonsun.com
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Trump’s Meme Coin Firm Wants You to Buy. Insiders Are Preparing to Sell.
Trump personally made more than $600 million from his meme coin last year.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h
FUN FACT: The Bible doesn't say *anything* about abortion. Ever. Well, except for the time God provides a handy recipe for a magic potion to induce an involuntary one. Numbers 5:11-31
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2h
Very worthwhile to follow @zacheverson.com if you're trying to stay up to speed on the Trumps' crypto machinations.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 3h
Another thing to tear down in 2029: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h
Dictator Move of the Day.
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Inside Trump's Plan to Fence Off a Historic Protest Site (Gift Article)
The president’s proposal to enclose a park in Washington could alter how the space has been used for generations.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h
Yes, Pete Hegseth is so incompetent that our troops go without necessary medical care, but at least they are called "warriors" now while they go untreated. So it all evens out . . .
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Soldiers seriously wounded in Iranian drone strike tell AP the military's medical system failed them
Some U.S. soldiers gravely wounded in the deadliest Iran strike on American troops say the military medical system failed them.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3h
NEWS: New York City just recorded the fewest shootings, shooting victims, and murders in recorded history through the first nine months of the year. Major crime is down 6.6% citywide, the largest year-to-date drop in 17 years, with declines in all five boroughs. 1/
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2h
"The federal government is lying to you." "The government has said that ICE does not zip tie or handcuff children." "They’ve denied engaging in racial profiling" "They’ve said the government is not wrongly arresting U.S. citizens." *We found the truth* projects.propublica.org/american-cit....
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2h
Knowing Russia,I believe the suspicions that the Irkutsk institute was involved in developing biological weapons are justified If a Russian laboratory was experimenting with Yersinia pestis as a biological weapon&a leak occurred,the consequences could be tragic not only for the population of Russia
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Senator Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov · 2h
Coal miners make great sacrifices to keep our nation running. I was glad to host a forum with the National Black Lung Association to discuss how we can better support miners suffering from black lung disease and ensure they have protections in place to protect their safety.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 2h
BREAKING: Former Deputy AG Sally Yates will lead a review of Cornell's handling of sexual assault and harassment reports, the university said.
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Cornell brings in ex-Justice official Sally Yates to review school’s handling of sex assault claims
Cornell University trustees have announced that former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates will review how the university handles sexual misconduct complaints.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2h
Republican groups are now throwing millions of dollars behind embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller in Ohio on.wsj.com/3UbUDmr
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Republican groups are now throwing millions of dollars behind embattled GOP Rep. Max Miller in Ohio
The incumbent got a lift from Republican groups’ spending and says President Trump is “incredibly supportive.”
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 2h
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen criticized Trump’s treatment of US allies, and backed the idea of retaliation for protectionist moves
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Yellen Says Trump ‘Appalling’ on US Allies, Backs Retaliation
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen criticized President Donald Trump’s treatment of US allies, and backed the idea of retaliation for protectionist moves.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts. Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
notable -- Fox News hasn't mentioned Trump's transphobic attack on Annie Andrews a single time. Not once. And they cover a lot of his Truth Social posts.

Almost like they're trying to protect their audience from learning the true depth of his depravity.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Karoline Leavitt accepts a new full-time job two months after telling us she had to stop working because it kept her from spending time with her two young children. Just one more lie from relentless liar Karoline Leavitt.
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Karoline Leavitt lands new job after leaving struggling Trump White House
Karoline Leavitt has landed her next job less than two months after leaving Donald Trump's embattled White House: she's joining Fox News.According to The New York Times, Leavitt, who served as Trump's...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said [Zhao]. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Zhao has diligently and effectively pursued commercial relations with Trump's sons.
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Inside a Billionaire’s Paradise With Crypto’s Most Powerful Ex-Convict
Changpeng Zhao, jailed in the United States for a financial crime and pardoned by President Trump, is now living a gilded life in the United Arab Emirates.
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 05/10/2026
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the AGs in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New York to invalidate the so-called “shield laws” that have allowed providers to send abortion medication to people in states with abortion bans.
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Republican AGs sue abortion ‘shield law’ states in US Supreme Court • Ohio Capital Journal
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New…
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And now we find that Russia is cultivating pneumonic plague in test tubes.
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Putin warns West that Russia is ready to use every weapon to protect Kaliningrad
The Russian leader insists Moscow is "not threatening anyone" and is merely responding to statements by Western leaders.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. the continuing divergence between corporate profits as a percentage of GDP versus compensation.” - Sarmaya Partners substack.com/@sarmayakar?...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A hallmark of democratic backsliding is government leaders stealing from taxpayers and using public funds to try to get themselves electoral advantages. Backsliding countries keep the form of elections, but corrupt leaders render them no longer free and fair by putting a state thumb on the scale.
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Kim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I keep trying to tell people irl that what they're doing is like if I walked into your house like "you wanna buy my friend's stove for $20? you want their car? $50"
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ingemarknows.bsky.social @ingemarknows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Federal tax breaks mean giving taxpayer dollars to those the admin favors over services for regular Americans. They raise the deficit, then the admin makes more cuts: www.wired.com/story/rural-...
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Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break
Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act,  data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three U.S. citizens arrested and detained by immigration agents are the first Californians to sue federal officers under the No Kings Act, hours after it was signed by Gov. Newsom last week.
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Steven Greenhouse @greenhousenyt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social Voters should realize that Trump—with his failure to grasp basic economics—is a danger to our economy. He has brought us higher prices, trade tensions, slower GDP growth & huge economic uncertainty Voters should remember this in November www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump’s recent statements on the economy are even more bonkers than usual | Steven Greenhouse
Our ‘genius’ president is revealing his ignorance of economics, fueling concerns about the threat he poses to the world
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The Big Picture @readthebigpicture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump’s own words are coming back to bite him in Red states. And we love to see it. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progr...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is a really good piece by @natashakorecki.bsky.social at NBC News: "Many Latinos were better versed in the details of Salgado Araujo’s shooting death than in the names and backgrounds of those running for some of the highest-profile offices in their state..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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How the shooting death of a Houston father is igniting Latino politics in Texas
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed on his way to work by ICE agents, who said he used his vehicle as a weapon. An outraged community is demanding justice — and change.
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Dr. Amy Acton @amyactonoh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Public safety isn’t partisan. As governor, I’ll make sure our first responders have the resources, support, and respect they deserve to keep our communities safe. www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...
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Why this longtime Ohio sheriff is endorsing Amy Acton for governor | Opinion
Opinion: I've spent 40 years in public safety. I'm backing Amy Acton for governor.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#txlege
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE is now separating children from their parents in the nation’s interior and deeming them “unaccompanied.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For a change, now it's not just Ukraine's fault that diesel prices are up. We're now sharing the blame with "Dumocrats", according to President Trump. Comment from me: *yet another heavy sigh"
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The clearest and most succinct expression I've read of how, beyond the clear fascist rhetoric, the Prairieland prosecutions have terrifyingly expanded federal legal power, beyond the point many feds even wanted to go.
For other activists on the left — and on the right — the Prairieland case has set a dangerous precedent. Cadeddu, the federal defense attorney, told me that the most worrying of all the “terrorist acts” was vandalism. There is no dollar amount set on what sort of damage might qualify as an act of terror. Even throwing a snowball at an ICE vehicle during a protest and scratching the paint or damaging a taillight might qualify. “In theory, if you happen to be on a Signal chat with some people planning a protest, and one of the people at that protest — you don’t even have to know them — throws that snowball, you could be implicated in material support for terrorism, simply for helping to organize,” she says. “That’s the meaning of the case.”
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The NAACP sued the Trump administration, seeking records about its plan to deploy roughly 1,000 federal personnel to polling places during the 2026 midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ sued for records on ‘unprecedented’ plan to deploy 1,000 election monitors in midterms
DOJ's planned effort represents an extraordinary expansion of federal election monitoring. It has already sparked confrontations with state officials and concerns about voter intimidation.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NEW: Marimar Martinez of Chicago has officially filed her lawsuit against the federal government over her shooting by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum. Read the complaint here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/3e/79/71b60d...
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wilber was finally able to undergo surgery on Thursday—11 days after he was shot. “When ICE can shoot a man in the back and then barely give him any medical treatment and let him suffer, there’s a reason for that because we have gotten to a point where we see people as less than human.”
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Austin man has surgery 11 days after being shot by ICE agent
The surgery on the Venezuelan national, who has been in custody since his Sept. 20 run-in with an immigration officer, removed the bullet lodged in his back.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. The announcement comes as the US is grappling with one of the worst measles outbreaks in decades.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
Q: Your approval rating with Latino voters has dropped down to 27% TRUMP: You're fake news. You're CNN. My poll numbers are great. All you have to do is look at the crowds we're drawing.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991 ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/meas...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This proves only two things. The Ukrainian campaign against Russian refineries is causing serious damage. Putin has asked Trump to help him out and the US president obliged.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/10/2026
El-Sayed on Fox: "There is this argument you try to make often is that the best way to take this problem on is more war. How has that worked out for us? The war in Iraq which this channel spent years and years pressing -- has that made us safer? Are we more safe because of the war in Iran?"
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026
We’re moving 10,000 low-income children off the child care voucher waitlist — at absolutely no cost to their families. Eligible families with children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and through age 19 for children with special needs, will be invited to apply for a voucher on a rolling basis.
Mayor Mamdani and others make an announcement at a podium with signage that reads “Child Care for all”Children hold hands in front of signage that reads “Child Care for all”
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Justice Alito says he'll weigh retirement. If Democrats flip the Senate and he wants out, there’s an eight-week lame duck period. But the GOP vote math for confirmation of his replacement is tight. My write-up in the link in the comments.
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