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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13h

omg this is a good ad

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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social · 13h

We cannot merely vote. We cannot merely vote in numbers so massive, MAGA is drowned in their wake. We must make it clear what are votes are for & about: a real repudiation of the whole fascist agenda not only a backlash against higher prices. Thank you Congresswoman.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21h

there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.

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AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News

A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 19h

I saw this announcement and I thought “in what other industry would a CEO saying something like “our product could destroy humanity” result in anything other than pulling the product off the market?” I MEAN COME ON/

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Mike Ludwig @mludwig.bsky.social · 19h

Right now the unemployment rate is 4.2% -- but the labor participation rate is at only 61.8%. Not far from the pandemic low of 60% in April 2020 Hits different, no? The unemployment rate doesn't tell the whole story, it misses "discouraged workers" who have given up looking for a job, for example

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19h

WOW. Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, among others, "chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an impeccable record of public service. ... The attacks against Ms. Comans were based entirely on false information" and many officials "knew [they] were untrue."

In conducting this hearing, the Court is not called upon to resolve factual disputes between
the parties. The facts set forth in this Memorandum Opinion and Order were proposed by the
Plaintiff, unobjected to by the Government, and then deemed admitted by the Court. Dkts. 74, 75,
77.2 These facts establish that high-ranking government officials, including then Secretary of DHS
Kristi Noem and Elon Musk, engaged in a coordinated public relations campaign to impugn the
personal and professional integrity of Ms. Comans. For reasons unfathomable to this Court,
officials chose to turn the power of the federal government against a singular employee with an
impeccable record of public service. In short, Ms. Comans was professionally targeted and
personally attacked by government officials for no legitimate reason. The attacks against Ms.
Comans were based entirely on false information, and many government officials knew the
accusations were untrue at the time they were made. With no regard for the truth and with no
consideration for the personal and professional effect on Ms. Comans, government officials
exploited their access to mass media outlets to broadcast false information. These false
statements reached hundreds of millions of people. The purpose of this Order is, to the best of
this Court’s ability, to correct the public record and establish as a matter of law that the
statements made by these officials about Ms. Comans were objectively and demonstrably false.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 18h

The truth of this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Troy Jackson: "She is the chair of appropriations. If she wants to stop the war, she could cut the funding off for the war, but she's not she is not willing to do that because Donald Trump wants this."

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 21h

We’re expanding our discretionary grant pilot program to speed up funding for nonprofits that serve New Yorkers. Now, 800 nonprofit partners are on track to receive funding within 30 days — cutting months of red tape so they can spend less time on paperwork and more time serving our communities.

Nonprofit leaders celebrate the pilot expansion at the Bushwick Starr.

Mayor Mamdani, Lincoln Restler, Julie Menin, and Linda Lee stand at a podium celebrating faster payments for non profits.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Every word of this thread 👇

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Right-wing online influencers: We can't prove Talarico *didn't* go to a rehab in Ohio NYT: We can, we saw video proof WSJ: Speaking of, we saw video of Paxton partying at the Burj Khalifa with his girlfriend and two men under federal indictment for fraud, one of whom donated to Paxton's campaign

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Charlie Chu @charliechu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

i made this video with my kiddo to help promote our local school bond here in Gladstone, Oregon. I hope no matter where you live, this November please support your local public schools and public education. (if you are in Gladstone, visit gladstoneschoolbond.org for more info)

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Chicken WingDings 🇵🇸 @ebridget.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

From Ms Rachel's account on Threads, she writes, "CORECIVIC, a company that makes hundreds of millions locking up KIDS in immigration detention
has a PAC that's sending campaign checks to Senator Susan Collins of Maine.
Susan Collins chairs the Senate committee that writes ICE's budget.
ICE is CoreCivic's customer.
The company gets paid out of a budget she controls, and it pays into her campaign."

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13/10/2026

I still remember in 2015 when Trump was gonna hold a press conference clear up all the questions about Melania's immigration issues in two weeks. And then he didn't. And the press never asked them about it again.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Yes, absolutely. For example, if in the next few weeks, Trump sends ICE officers to polls, you know what you do? You go anyway, you throw them a middle finger, and you walk into the ballot box and don't let them intimidate you. What you don't do is despair and stay home.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Absolutely stunning that in the NYT’s latest major story on Elon Musk single-handedly trying to save the GOP there is NOT ONE WORD about how he is the world’s most vocal white supremacist and advocate of ethnic cleansing.

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The world’s most vocal racist will be the Republican Party’s biggest donor again. But don’t mention it. | Press Watch

Our top news organizations are covering up Elon Musk’s white supremacist propaganda

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 10/10/2026

“They want us to be afraid. They want us to censor ourselves before they even have a chance to do it. We will not do that. We will confidently put resistance politics out there into the world to go along with the movements of people who are actively trying to fight against these systems.”

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Taking a Stand: PW Talks with Haymarket Books publisher Julie Fain

Left-wing press is celebrating 25 years of publishing books on social and economic justice

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 12/10/2026

JS did the same thing to gender affirming care as they did inventing this Talarico story.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 12/10/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAH.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Friends, I'm turning 40 tomorrow. I can't celebrate now because I'm too damn busy with the election. I'll celebrate afterward. So, to help me celebrate now, please--oh, please--check your voter registration. It takes a few moments. It's easy. Do it for me: midterms.voteamerica.org/vote/verify/...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Nothing is stopping your blue state or city from renaming its waste treatment plants and sewage facilities and garbage dumps after the needy, sweaty president. They could do it today! Give the man the attention he desperately needs!

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 11/10/2026

Just a reminder that when Dems turn against trans people for power, it's also a reminder that they'll do other things for power that you might not like too, such as supporting billionaires.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also, for chrissakes, tax billionaires out of existence. No single person should be rich enough to drop $276 million on an election cycle.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ending 287(g) agreements is easily one of the most pressing issues of this era. Read on.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If you are still on X, the best time to leave was four years ago when Elon took over (waves at my locked account). The second best time is now.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 12/10/2026

I want one (1) Democrat to pick a fight with Musk. Come on. COME ON.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I had no delusions I was gonna become an important media CEO guy when I left the bigger microblogging platform with all of the journalists and politicians on it, but guess what? It happened, because the only way to win on the Charles Manson Helter Skelter Reenactment App is not to play.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's not even the ethics of it. My career, my hobbies, my free time, hell, my whole life took off once I fully left Twitter. It is a place to go if you want to be stuck in a neverending race war feedback loop. Like not using ChatGPT, not using Twitter is a superpower. Remain employable; stay off it.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mike Rogers knows how to deliver BIG results: bigger hospital bills, bigger access to opioids, bigger war with Iran, and bigger gas prices.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 12/10/2026

It was a crime that shocked the city and stayed a mystery for 65 years, but now police say they solved it. The perpetrator, they say, was a man who wore a Chicago Police Department star.

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Closing a 65-year-old cold case, CPD says 8-year-old girl was brutally murdered by a young Chicago cop

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

There was a time when being married to Kimberly Guilfoyle was a mystery. No more!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NBC News: "Hunger grips a rural community hit by Trump’s cuts" www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Watch an ICE agent run down and then run over a man. The man was was then writhing on the ground, saying "You broke my leg! You broke my leg!" Agents didn't help him. And btw, the man wasn't the target of their operation.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I feel deep, deep gratitude toward every single person who takes a couple hours out of their busy lives to be a part of this movement to get money out of politics, put money in pockets, and pass Medicare for All.

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is exactly right. It’s a way to open the door to more of this.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 11/10/2026

This is not a trick: spooky season is taking over parks and rec centers across our city this month, from free haunted houses and pumpkin patches to Mad Science demonstrations and arts and crafts. We're building a city where every New Yorker can access joy and play.

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NYC Parks just released its 2026 fall festival lineup: Free pumpkin patches, harvest fairs, Halloween events & more

NYC’s 2026 fall festival schedule is here, with free pumpkin patches, harvest festivals, Halloween events and more.

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