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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Valuable reporting here. I think the key thing is the use of Venezuela to accustom American armed forces to lawless murder. The goal then is to get them to do the same thing inside the US. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats
The Administration has blown up seven vessels in the Caribbean in recent weeks, but the President has been pushing for more dramatic military action in Latin America since his first term.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Rick Scott was CEO of a company forced to settle what the DOJ called “the largest healthcare fraud case in history.” Is that the expertise that’s driving your “plan.” www.justice.gov/archive/opa/...
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#386: 06-26-03 LARGEST HEALTH CARE FRAUD CASE IN U.S. HISTORY SETTLED HCA INVESTIGATION NETS RECORD TOTAL OF $1.7 BILLION
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
from the resources section: labornotes.org/strikes
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How to Strike and Win: A Labor Notes Guide
After a long absence, the strike seems to be making a comeback in the U.S. The teacher strike wave of 2018-19 caught everyone off guard—but showed that workers’ most powerful tool can still win. As we...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"...this moment in history calls for an organized, powerful labor movement acting in solidarity to push back and fight forward for economic and racial justice. We have work to do. Labor Notes invites you to organize a regional Fightback School to begin this work." labornotes.org/content/figh...
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How to Hold a Fightback School
We are in a moment of authoritarian crisis. The attacks are dizzying in their speed and range: Courts are rolling back labor rights. Trump is dismantling the public sector and cracking down on free sp...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Traveling to the real America, doing a racism, running up a massive tab, and then skipping town is not just a Young Republican thing
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/10/2025
Wow that’s crazy release the files
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
In a country where public transport is scant outside major cities, car loans are one of the last things that Americans will let themselves default on. So it is particularly shocking that the share of car loan borrowers missing payments has soared to levels last seen during the financial crisis.
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Americans can’t afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried
In a country where public transport is scant outside major cities, car loans are one of the last things that Americans will let themselves default on.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"ICE declined to answer questions about the basement detentions in response to inquiries from Times of San Diego. Instead, in an email, an official suggested the agency be given the ID number for any migrant who had spoken with a reporter."
timesofsandiego.com
Asylum-seekers now held for days – in a downtown San Diego basement
Migrants held in makeshift conditions in basement offices say they slept in the cold, used the restroom without privacy and went without medical attention.
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Here's something that's not talked about enough The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year 1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
"Several sources say CIA officials have been trying to play a more central role in the foreign policy objectives of the Trump administration in the hemisphere."
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CIA playing ‘most important part’ in US strikes in the Caribbean, sources say
Exclusive: sources say the agency is providing real-time intelligence collected by satellites and signal intercepts
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Rose @rosedout.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We’re at the point where Daniel Biss, an actual Israeli, is anti Israel
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Captain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
On “youthful” and “joking” Nazi bullshit since apparently we’re still Doing This captainawkward.com/2018/02/26/1...
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#1083 and #1084: Nazis Are Beyond Awkward, Do Not Engage.
Behind a cut for Nazis and the extremely triggering Nazi stuff they say and do.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Once you realize the NYT is trying to help him you can’t stop seeing it
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Pelosi primary challenger @saikatforcongress raises NSPM-7 on CNN just now: "NSPM-7, which says any anti-American or anti-capitalist or anti-Christian speech is extremist speech. We have a task force of 4,000 agents...being put on prosecuting those people who are saying anti-capitalist things"
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
he only knows how to tear things down
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Anyone who doesn’t see the value of these protests is really missing the bigger picture
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
If the legacy media's coverage of #NoKings disappointed, get you a pro-democracy publication that covered protests from DC to Florida to Texas to Portland, and capped off the day with a 2-hour live event contrarian.substack.com
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The Contrarian | Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen | Substack
Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
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KevinK99 @coyotebig.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Seen in #Portland on Saturday. They do the best #Trolling! #NoKings2.0 #Portland #Protest
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 21/10/2025
This is the No Kings era — Trump just happens to be living in it. Join us tomorrow to discuss what’s next: www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
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Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater
Riker tooting on that boner
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20/10/2025
"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
the image of a backhoe slamming through the walls of the white house is one of those things that's going to stick around, i think. enterprising partisans with a decent camera would probably do well to camp out lol
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
The typical attendee at the D.C. protest was an educated white woman in her 40s who heard about the event either through friends or via Instagram, according to preliminary data collected by American University researchers who track protest movements. #Pinks www.axios.com/2025/10/20/w...
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Your typical No Kings attendee in D.C., according to data
The data gives an insight into who is joining the protest movement and which issues motivate them.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 20/10/2025
People in ICE detention face extreme heat risks in conditions with poor ventilation — this will only worsen as the Trump administration works to nearly double its detention capacity. The hottest 10% of ICE facilities see an average of 93 days of dangerous heat per year. This is unconscionable.
washingtonpost.com
Column | ICE detainees face greater risk from extreme heat than most prisoners
A Washington Post analysis found that ICE detention centers experience an average of 29 days of dangerous heat per year.
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Dr Nathan @nathan.butnotdetroit.com · 20/10/2025
Formula is expensive, but it saves lives. Reach out if you need help paying for formula.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
so that was money well spent then, hey? america firrrrst! "The Argentine peso has fallen below the level it reached before the US Treasury began purchases this month, in a sign that the Trump administration’s financial support is failing to halt the currency’s slide..." www.ft.com/content/815e...
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Argentine peso weakens to fresh low despite US interventions
Currency gains sparked by estimated $400mn of US purchases melt away ahead of election for president Javier Milei
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Democrats @democrats.org · 20/10/2025
The House calendar has been completely blank the month of October because of Mike Johnson btw
Screenshot of a U.S. House of Representatives Committee Repository calendar showing the month of October 2025 with nothing on it. October 20 is highlighted.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Ah I see Trump has turned on the random number generator again
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
More than anything this article falls into the dumb genre of “Trump is on the right track with ABC policy (in this case tariffs), I just wish he’d implement them in a smarter/more strategic way”. Shocker guys he is not capable of strategic policy, something everyone warned you about beforehand!
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
most people have severely degraded theory of mind for people in their outgroups and it tends to make them wrong
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Hannibal TaBOO! | writer/VO actor (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
“Buck naked” is unclothed. “Butt naked” is unclothed and up to something.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Danger, danger, Will Robinson: Reputable sites block AI while disinformation welcomes it. Guess where that leads. Is Misinformation More Open? A Study of robots.txt Gatekeeping on the Web arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10315
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Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circui...
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Ninth Circuit clears way for federalization of Oregon National Guard
President Donald Trump ordered the National Guard to an ICE facility in Portland to fend off what has been largely peaceful protests.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Wait, he lied?!?
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Politico @politico.com · 20/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
politico.com
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/10/2025
have long suspected that trump thinks the insurrection act is an instant "i win" cheat code that make his opposition go away
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Roger Sollenberger @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Vance spokesperson: “Gavin Newsom wants people to think this exercise is dangerous.” <shrapnel hits Vance’s motorcade> Vance spokesperson: No comment.
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Where's Nestor? ❌ @super-mutt.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Trump fantasizes about spewing shit on Americans; Tattoo and Hegseth literally spew shrapnel over the freeway & the Highway Patrol. Please America, let’s never let Republicans anywhere near our governance, politics, or civic life ever again.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/10/2025
JUST IN: Israeli officials halt the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and ramp up military strikes after accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire. Israeli officials are pushing for military operations to resume “in full force.”
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George Dubya @itisgeorge.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Like half the utilities in Texas are FDR-era co-ops in 80% maga counties with names one step removed from "People's Glorious Socialist Rural Electricity Kolkhoz of Whereversburg" and the locals love them! And if some huge investor utility tries to horn in they fight it. I could see reviving that
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/10/2025
the media has made a huge deal about Neutrality and Not Editorializing and it all falls apart when you realize they are too afraid to publish a factual description of the video Trump posted
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
So much this. This photo is what The Atlantic chose to illustrate resistance cringe, and I couldn’t be happier to be a part of it.
Photo of protesters carrying giant copy of the US Constitution at Los Angeles No Kings rally in June of 2025
Photo by Etienne LaurentCloser crop of same photo.Even closer crop of same photo revealing me carrying an American flag at the lower right corner of the Constitution.Another angle of me carrying an American flag as well as the lower right corner of the giant Constitution.
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BrobertBreadman @brobertbreadman.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I love that if we make it through this, there’s going to have to be a section in future history textbooks about the role of inflatable frog costumes in the regime’s collapse
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DMC ❌👑🐸 @dcombes.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
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That catgirl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
@i_zzzzzz

Trying to create the wikipedia article "List of parades that don't exist"
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