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HoldSher @holdsher.bsky.social · 8h
I appreciate your sharing. Not trying to talk you out of it, but … 1. the next thing in my feed was this: www.ft.com/content/cf0b...
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We should call time on the ‘end times’
Narratives of looming apocalypse are a sign that something has gone seriously wrong with our politics
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 17h
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 7h
Donald Trump made the bonkers claim in front of a dead silent crowd. trib.al/6IxE4MA
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Trump, 80, Claims Iran War Ended Eight Months Before He Started It
Donald Trump made the bonkers claim in front of a dead silent crowd.
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 8h
Entirely coincidentally, I was just watching The Post, about the publication of the Pentagon Papers, on HBO. It suddenly seemed to be foreboding.
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Stella Rouse @stellarouse.bsky.social · 8h
One surprising thing from the Trump era is the level of cowardness and capitulation exhibited by institutions of power. Even in the face of evidence that pushback works and that the law is on their side, they continue to fall in line. It's a stain that will be hard to erase from history.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 8h
Martín Soto is FREE!
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 8h
“Those endorsing ‘no’ on Question 9 include… a number of gun stores, firing ranges and local gun clubs. Mike Minogue, the Republican nominee for governor, donated $5,000 to the ‘no’ campaign. Smith & Wesson… donated $50,000…” Vote Yes on 9 for a Safe Massachusetts… 1/ www.wbur.org/news/2026/10...
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Question 9: Referendum puts major Mass. gun law before voters
Question 9 asks voters whether to keep or scrap a 2024 gun law. The question is before voters because of an effort by gun rights advocates, who argue the law damages hunting traditions, prohibitively ...
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 9h
Translation: Donald Trump's efforts to abolish the Education Department are under independent investigation.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 9h
Venezuela's Cardon Oil refinery, the country's second largest at 310,000 barrels per day, just unexpectedly exploded and caught fire, forcing a full shutdown. The fire started at a gas line connecting the refinery's diesel hydrotreater and halted the whole plant, including the boilers. #ETTD
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 9h
“ICE never left. Things became less public, became less of a spectacle, but immigrants are still being targeted and persecuted,” Barham said. “And from rumors I'm hearing, things I've seen, I suspect that they're about to amp up again.” story via Cait Kelley www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
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Catch, release, catch: Inside ICE's new 'farce' tactic
Multiple immigration detainees in Minnesota have been ordered released by federal judges only for them to be immediately re-detained by immigration officers at the doors of the Whipple Federal buildin...
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 8h
The Republican candidate for governor of Colorado—a pastor whose ministry emphasizes spiritual warfare against demons; who teasingly hints that he has killed an unknown number of people, going back to when he was 7; whose campaign was hit with a massive fine last week—said this yesterday:
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 8h
Breaking news: DHS sped up training for police officers making immigration arrests by scaling back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws and real world scenarios they might encounter, according to emails reviewed by the Post.
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Emails show how ICE trimmed training for deputized officers
Police officers helping ICE arrest unauthorized immigrants were given a shortened training course that scaled back instruction on the nation’s immigration laws.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 8h
lol how do we reverse this? (Vote probably and then do as the French do)
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 16h
RFK Jr. wants fewer vaccines on the federal schedule. For 35 million kids on Medicaid or CHIP, that can mean vaccines kids need are no longer guaranteed or available. Trump & corrupt Republicans are putting children at risk for an anti-vax agenda. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h
Zach Lahn: "The biggest lie that he's said about me is what he's been talking about, about where I live." Moderator: "Mr. Lahn, we need to move on here." Lahn: "There's no time limit. We agreed to that in the moderation. If I'm going 4-on-1, I'm happy to do it." Moderator: "Mr. Lahn, no."
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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 8h
Sound familiar? He pledged editorial independence for 60 Minutes
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David Ellison backs CNN’s Trump lawsuit, pledges editorial independence | CNN Business
CNN’s new owner, David Ellison, says he supports CNN’s legal action against the Trump administration over White House access, and will not interfere in the news organization’s coverage.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 8h
HBO Max's interface is infinitely better so, of course, enshittification imminent.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 8h
God everything is so DUMB.
United States
Attorney's Office
Southern District of New York

PRESS RELEASE
North Carolina Man Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison For Super Intelligence-Assisted
Music Streaming Fraud
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h
Party of limited government: we will pass a law to resolve internal family disputes.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 10h
Something is happening in Texas. Lifelong Republicans are saying the same thing: “I’m voting for James Talarico.” 🔥 #VoteBlue down ballot 🗳️ #SheShed #TeamTalarico
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 8h
Our media are fundamentally broken. The truth has been there for all to see for a long time
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 8h
I had a conversation with someone recently who was saying that the job market for lawyers right now is so tough that some people they knew were even applying for positions as ... AUSAs
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 20h
I was told Zohran Mamdani would instantly turn New York into a crime-ridden hellscape. Yet murders are down almost 20%, year over year. 203 people have been slain, about 22.5 per month. In 1990, that average was *251 per month.* NYC has never been this safe.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h
as longtime readers know i am a longtime hegseth hater, but i think bouie is right here to note that hegseth's remark that "trannies" are out of the military is, by itself, an impeachable offense obviously much else besides, but i want to dwell on this
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Pete Hegseth: Bully, Bigot and the Biggest Loser Imaginable
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 8h
lol like no matter HOW you slice it, this is objectively ridiculous. One person has majority control over two MAJOR news broadcasts and nearly ALL entertainment streams, including children programming, globally. ONE person. A single human being.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h
Rob Sand: "I don't think you're going to be the biggest advocate for public school students…when you were running advertisements saying that Marxists have hijacked the curriculum in Iowa. Zach, I'm pretty sure that's just more evidence that you don't spend enough time in Iowa."
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 8h
Buffalo Bills players w Trump in 2025 Spencer Brown, Dalton Kincaid, Sam Martin, Ryan Van Demark, and Tommy Doyle.
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 9h
DOJ hired these prosecutors: -A gambling exec turned conspiracy theorist podcaster -A guy found liable for selling fraudulent insurance leads -A guy who violated attorney-client privilege in a high-profile murder trial -A guy currently facing animal neglect charges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...
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Justice Dept. Turns to Partisans and Conspiracists to Fill Depleted Ranks
The civil rights unit has recruited people whose questionable work histories and dearth of education and experience might have disqualified them in the past, former officials said.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 8h
British police arrested a 22-year-old on suspicion of terrorism offenses connected to a possible plot against the RAF Fairford air base. to.pbs.org/4y3QuyY
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Suspected Iranian drone plot pushed U.S. to evacuate bombers from British air base
British police arrested a 22-year-old on suspicion of terrorism offenses connected to a possible plot against the RAF Fairford air base. Over the weekend, the U.S. Air Force evacuated bombers from tha...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9h
(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 8h
I am genuinely baffled how Collins keeps getting re-elected. Can someone from Maine please explain the appeal?
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 8h
Congress *can* discipline a president. They can sack his incompetent cabinet secretaries, refuse to confirm anyone who isn't competent and normal, pass laws to constrain his freedom of action and if necessary bully the judiciary into enforcing them.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h
Bottoms: "My opponent has said he wants to be Trump's favorite governor…I'm not running to be his favorite governor. I'm running to work on behalf of people like you."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h
I have some ideas about how to cut off the broligarchs' money supply (see Chapter 5 of "Offshore"), but that may not be enough. They're entrenched in all our institutions now--burrowed like giant malevolent ticks into our body politic, in our schools. Can they be removed without a bloodbath? idk
Cover of my 2024 book, "Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h
It's true that collective action by humanity *could* turn this around, maybe even non-violently: there are way more of us than there are of the nihilists. But how? Even if I could reach enough people to make a difference & they believed what I had to say, what should actually be done, step by step?
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h
I can't sleep because I know this is happening--I see it in my own work & in that of ppl like @astra.bsky.social & @naomiaklein.bsky.social--but I don't know what to do. I've talked to Parliaments & intl policy-making bodies, but couldn't make change fast enough. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h
We lived under a sword & graphic films about nuclear war--like "The Day After"--traumatized & terrorized us. Now we're back there again--knowing we could die at any moment due to the whims of a few careless men--but this time, they're OUR men, inside the US. Traitors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-cm...
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The Day After (1983) Trailer | Jason Robards | JoBeth Williams
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h
The ambient dread is becoming overwhelming: the knowledge that broligarchs believe most of us don't deserve to live & have the power to act on their God Delusion. No one is stopping these anti-humanists: on the contrary, they're just getting more openly hostile to any life on Earth that isn't them.
Tucker Carlson on President Trump's war on Iran: "He should have been removed from office immediately when he threatened nuclear war, which is to say threatening the destruction of humanity. And he looked at me and said, yes, you're right. But in the end, we all die anyway, so it doesn't matter."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h
P.S.: It's NOT new in 1 important way & it's why my books is subtitled "The New Colonialism." These nihilists act like they're not of the Earth, humans like us. Instead, they conceptualize & comport themselves as alien invaders, here to extract & exploit til they can use us up & throw us away.
Old scifi illustration with text "Resistance Is Futile."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h
I see what it's doing to my students, my kid & his friends to have lost hope for a livable future. The men who stole the future have kids & grandkids of their own but seem to feel nothing for them. How to fight people who despise humanity, INCLUDING THEIR OWN? Is this as new a problem as it seems?
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h
tl;dr: I've reached the same point as a sociologist that many climate scientists arrived at yrs ago, for different reasons. I see the looming danger, have tried to inform everyone I could reach through every medium available to me, but it hasn't been enough to make a meaningful systemic difference.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 8h
In the past month, I've started waking once a week at 1am--involuntarily--& being so wired that I can't get back to sleep all night. Couldn't figure out why. Wasn't doing anything different. Just realized: I'm scared by what I'm seeing in my research. Nihilistic billionaires toying with our lives.
Headline of June 2025 article by in the Nation by author Jeet Heer: 
"The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity
Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10h
As budget director, Russell Vought has often ignored Congress by … not signing the checks. At other times, he’s been able to take money Congress intended for one thing and use it for something else by justifying it as a “national emergency.” Listen to our latest episode:
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Podcast: Who’s the Shadow President?
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 14h
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
SHELL CEO: “There’s a limit to how much those shock absorbers can continue to take. .. We have maybe softened the worst impact of the crisis, but there is only so long that you can continue to do that without further discontinuities emerging.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h
Here's a nearly 10-minute supercut of Troy Jackson taking it to Susan Collins during their debate tonight, including Jackson telling her "you can't eat road salt" and "Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"
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Thomas Long @rayosunlong.bsky.social · 15h
These are the states where voters are getting bribes. Notice anything?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
“.. Each hour, Muse updates its dossiers on you and the people you’ve mentioned in chats, messages, and emails that Muse has read. .. Even people who don’t use Muse are subject to this mapping process by other people’s Muse agents.” @time.com $META time.com/article/2026...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Mack Butterfield @mack2114.bsky.social · 8h
The downfall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker was caused by a combination of a major sex scandal, massive financial fraud, and lavish overspending that collapsed their PTL Club and Heritage USA empire in 1987.
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