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Beneath every rock is another rock. Jewish woman software engineer. Pro-democracy, pro-science, pro-intelligence, pro-kindness. Also pro-cats. Refugee from the charred remains of Twitter. In despair as to what is to befall us.

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 5h
1. Trump’s new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, says she is a lawyer. She has claimed to be a lawyer repeatedly on national TV, on podcasts, and on social media. But there is no evidence that Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h
The most corrupt and unethical president in US history by far.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
"When Trump plucked Katie Zacharia from obscurity & appointed her as his new press sec, he called her 'an attorney.' This is also how Zacharia describes herself. But Popular Information searched for evidence in all 50 states, plus DC, that she was admitted to practice law anywhere — & found none."
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Trump’s new press secretary, Katie Zacharia, claims she’s a lawyer. Is she?
There is no evidence Zacharia has ever been licensed to practice law — and the White House did not provide any
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h
Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 18h
A GOP PAC ran an ad opposing Maine Democrat Troy Jackson — in the wrong Portland. The $25,000 ad ran in Portland, Oregon.
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A GOP PAC ran an ad opposing Maine Democrat Troy Jackson — in the wrong Portland
The $25,000 ad, which accused the challenger to Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins of raising taxes, ran in Portland, Oregon.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14h
Google searches for health disinformation plunged after Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers. How much “turbo cancer” & ivermectin nonsense is fueled by Russian bots, and how many Americans have they killed? Bots spread disinformation. Humans search for it. When bots go down, so do searches.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14h
The Moron and Lunatic in the White House has now declared China and Russia aren’t helping Iran, and that if they were, “we would know about it very fast.” We do know. His own Defense Secretary told senators they are. Trump's covering for Putin and Xi as they help Iran kill American service members
Screenshot of a Truth Social post from Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), dated 10/12/26 at 7:45 PM, reading: “I see so many comments from the Radical Left Morons and Lunatics that China and Russia are helping the ‘wonderful’ Islamic Republic of Iran. If they are, it’s at a very low level, but I don’t believe they are at all. They have too much to lose, and we would know about it, and know about it very fast! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP”
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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 13h
🙄🙄🙄🙄😒 No, you want performative bullshit. You don't want competence, you want a Reality TV Show. You don't want someone to actually do their job (a job you don't even slightly understand) you want to watch WWE wrestling. Grow the fuck up, Tammy. Learn how shit works. Learn what REAL fighting is.
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Sanity Check @sanitycheck99.bsky.social · 12h
Well, she’s understandably concerned that you might be careless and lose them outside, and then how would she get her treats? You might need to explain to her that the hands are not detachable, kind of like her ears are not detachable.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15h
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations. Because there were fewer bots. It’s pretty clear where those bots were."
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 22h
The president of the United States is a puppet of the war criminal and thug who rules Russia, writes David Rothkopf.
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How Trump Just Proved He’s America’s Worst Ever Traitor
He’s now actively putting the American lives under his own command at risk—from an enemy.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 15h
It's not news that Trump is Putin's lackey. What is news is that the consequences grow more grave every day. This is my latest.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 15h
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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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 12/10/2026
‘The stock market tends to ignore off-balance sheet obligations until an inflection point. By the time equity analysts start inviting their bond counterparts to “grab a beer to pick your brain about leases”, hyperscaler bond prices — and PE ratios — may be a lot lower.‘ www.ft.com/content/17a2...
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The huge lurking leverage of AI hyperscalers
While equity investors look to sunny futures, creditors are scrutinising liabilities like leases on data centres
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h
🚨 WOW: WSJ reports Ken Paxton partied in a luxury Dubai high-rise with 2 FUGITIVES, Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, facing fed charges over an alleged $15 MILLION hospital embezzlement scheme — alongside his gf (not his wife). Ahmed donated $190K to Paxton, including $25K AFTER his indictment.
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Sanity Check @sanitycheck99.bsky.social · 14h
Oh no! Have the hands been a problem lately?? 🙀
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 23h
Please give this a read and share. Preparation is key to surviving what’s coming and I never paywall my new articles
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/10/2026
Trump just fell for a FAKE Denzel Washington endorsement, sharing a fabricated quote claiming the Oscar-winning actor called him the smartest and bravest person he’d ever met. Even more embarrassing? The exact same fake endorsement has been attributed to Matthew McConaughey and Mick Jagger.
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Trump Falls for Fake Denzel Washington Endorsement
The president shared a debunked quote praising him as “smarter” than anyone the actor had ever met.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23h
Trump’s making up endorsements because his rubes are too stupid to use Google. SNOPES: ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, MS NOW, NBC News, Newsmax, and NewsNation found no reporting or evidence that Denzel Washington ever publicly spoke favorably of Trump. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 20h
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 20h
Not one of these members of Congress had their houses searched even though they all plotted and attempted to carry out a coup.
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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 19h
Late night in Kyiv. Another drone threat has just ended. I cannot sleep. Ordered some books. The publisher whose warehouse was hit the other day suggested buying the books that survived. They have traces of fire or water damage. They called the initiative ‘The Fire Didn’t Finish Reading’.
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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 19h
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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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is a significant worsening of our current state of constitutional collapse. I know it feels like there are so many, and there are, but in terms of crossing the Rubicon moments this one's up there.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Additionally, it's an attempt to usurp the power to judge the qualifications of members of the House, which the Constitution vests solely in the House itself. And there's no reason to assume she will be the last member of Congress he goes after like this. It's a direct attack on the legislature.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We've been boiled frogs for so long this never gets mentioned. But this violates DOJ policies that have been in place for decades, ones that Defense Attorney Todd Blanche said should have extended for the entirety of the time his client had declared his candidacy. (Tho I think this was DHS.)
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Sanity Check @sanitycheck99.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It’s not incompetence. It’s deliberate. Trump starts from what he (Putin) wants (Ukraine to stop attacking Russian oil refineries), and then comes up with a more palatable name by which to sell it (“energy ceasefire”). The Republican Party have been masters of this technique for decades.
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Elon Musk has given Republican campaigns $650 million – MORE THAN HALF A BILLION DOLLARS – in the last few years. He's not doing it to make Americans more free. He's doing it to make Americans his serfs.
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Inside Elon Musk’s $276 Million Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans (Gift Article)
The world’s richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans’ Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Meg Kinnard @megkinnardap.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fox, probably being fed info from the regime, says the feds' search of Rep. Ilhan Omar's home "stems from a criminal fraud investigation into the Somali-born congresswoman's immigration paperwork, which was filled out by her late father when she was a child." In other words, it's fascist bullshit.
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/10/2026
As the Trump administration has relentlessly pursued immigrants, federal agents have run roughshod over the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens. We’re showing you every incident we’ve confirmed — along with the receipts: propub.li/3TBuddL
500+ U.S. citizens detained since the start of the second Trump administration. 100+ U.S. citizens held after agents questioned their citizenship. Nearly all of them were people of color. At least 70 American children and teens detained, some of whom were handcuffed. 36 U.S. citizens held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or family.
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Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Republican Senator Tim Tillis says that Rs are going to put pressure on a speaker Johnson to not sit newly elected D’s. It’s not impossible, learn why here and for gods sake, warn others. 👇
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Gabrielle🇸🇨 @djangoroo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nothing to see here. Move along www.thecollegefix.com/video-protes...
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VIDEO: Protesters outside U. Oregon Hillel praise Oct. 7 terrorists, demand ban on Jewish student group | The College Fix
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters descended on Hillel at the University of Oregon on Wednesday — the third anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attacks — to demand the Jewish student group be…
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Sanity Check @sanitycheck99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Sanity Check @sanitycheck99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Is Katya going also? This may sound awful, but do you have to tell Katya you didn’t go?? Your safety must come first!
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🚨 A military-developed "heat ray" designed to inflict intense pain. Pete Hegseth's Pentagon authorized its loan to DHS for use by CBP amid Trump's ICE crackdown.
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you think this isn't a trial balloon to incite and justify widespread violence in the years to come then you're either evil or stupid. www.advocate.com/politics/sta...
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Tennessee court overturns killer’s conviction because jury wasn’t told that the victim was transgender
Samuel Ward Jr. killed Paris Lee in January 2024.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/10/2026
SOMEBODY EXPLAIN HOW THIS MAN STILL HAS A JOB? Brenden Cuni, the same ICE agent seen on video brandishing a rifle at the scene of the shooting in NY, where officers shot an unarmed man in front of his 5-year-old child, was also filmed kneeling on a pregnant woman in Minneapolis last December.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Art of the Deal, folks. Donald is such an idiot.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All three Yandex AI supercomputers are reportedly offline: Galushkin in Vladimir, Chervonenkis and Lyapunov in Sasovo, whose data center shut down after the Oct 8 strike. Yandex Cloud outages also threaten thousands of Russian firms relying on it for websites, databases and payments 👏
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Sanity Check @sanitycheck99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Xenta @xenta.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is so spot-on, so concise and so logical It captures exactly what is happening and it will go down in history It is as clear as daylight Anyone who still can't see it lacks the most basic skills of logical thinking
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Sanity Check @sanitycheck99.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Gorgeous girl who has magnificent sons. And a beautiful step-daughter who weirdly resembles her!
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I'll bet a U.S. survey would find the same thing that this British survey did: Christian nationalists aren't big on church-going or prayer. And to no one's surprise, they're hostile to Jesus' teaching that they should welcome strangers.
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Christian nationalism in Britain driven by people who seldom go to church, says report
Research challenges the notion that the growing visibility of crosses and other symbols reflects a revival of Christianity
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.
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