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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 6h

using language which some analysts called racially charged, the president struck a controversial tone

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 5h

Vote all the Republicans out. Never forget this is the party who sold their souls and enabled Trump anntelnaes.substack.com/p/vote-the-r...

anntelnaes.substack.com

Vote the Republicans out

Never forget this is the party who sold their souls and enabled Trump

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 7h

If this report is right that Musk is trying to engineer Ukraine's defeat, then his motivations are more complex than just making money and avoiding liability. This move is not the way to make the GOP win. So Musk cares MORE about hurting Ukraine than about winning races. Ask why - who he answers to.

telegraph.co.uk

Exclusive: Musk approached Trump to slow down Starlink in Ukraine

SpaceX founder had publicly blamed president for chaos over restrictions, but sources say he initiated them

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 5h

Masks have been off for a long time, really, but now they’re off, soaked in kerosene and being used to set a cross on fire. Just gutter racist trash. And he and everybody there should be remembered as such.

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 5h

I’m in Rio and folks here are out on their balconies banging on pots and pans to protest the live Bolsonaro interview airing now

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 5h

I’ve often suggested that Democrats develop skills of connecting with stupid people as well as with smart people. It would help at the margins. And it does not require policy capitulation.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5h

Very, very good to see Washpost Executive Editor Matt Murray, whose photographer was beaten by violent Israelis, push back on Bibi’s bullshit

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

This is awesome. If your vote didn’t matter Republicans wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop you.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

I just see absolutely no evidence that the Second Amendment has ever been used or will ever be used to protect that right. The purpose of a system is what it does.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

protects the right of *white cis people* to have guns unmolested by the government. I agree that marginalized people should have the right to arm and defend themselves if they so choose.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

and that doesn't include the client who was being evicted for having a legal firearm or the client who had DCFS called for having a legal firearm. And the Second Amendment stopped...none of those. The Second Amendment, as a practical matter,

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

and last year I represented a Black person charged with a crime for having a legal firearm in their apartment when police were present, and the year before that I represented an immigrant who was charged with a crime for having a legal firearm in their car during a traffic stop,

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

See the problem I have with white people saying "we need the Second Amendment to protect ourselves" is that right now I am representing a Black woman charged with multiple crimes for allegedly *pointing* a gun at her rapist,

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 5h

I can’t wait to see how you’d get natural light into a totally soundproofed space.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5h

CENTCOM’s top commander just posted a video swearing the Strait of Hormuz is “controlled by the United States… not Iran.” The same week, Iran sank two cargo ships there, set a record for attacks, and oil hit $110. We fact-checked every claim in his video. 🧵👇

meidasnews.com

“Let Me Be Clear”: CENTCOM Chief’s Rosy Hormuz Video Collides With Reality

It was a strange week to declare victory.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 5h

The fact of the matter is that the so-called captains of industry have fully ascended into cloudcuckooland. trib.al/Na7NYFl

trib.al

How Big Business Lost Its Big Bet on Trump

The captains of industry that many assumed would keep the president in check all turned out to be paper tigers. Democrats, take note.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12h

Ultra-wealthy donors are spending a staggering $430 million to fight state efforts to raise their taxes. If they can afford to drop millions of dollars to keep their taxes low, they can afford to pay slightly higher taxes. They’re making the case for taxing the rich better than anyone else could.

levernews.com

The $430 Million War Against Taxing The Rich

Ultrawealthy donors have spent nearly half a billion dollars trying to convince voters to keep their taxes low via the b

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/10/2026

So the question isn't "What can universities do about rape culture at fraternities", it's "How are universities benefiting from rape culture"

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 6h

People don’t laugh Musk out of the room because he’s so rich 🔄 Musk is so rich because people don’t laugh him out of the room.

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chagadelic @chagadelic.bsky.social · 6h

(By the way, those are totally NOT wires holding her up) bsky.app/profile/chag...

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chagadelic @chagadelic.bsky.social · 12h

I'm now accepting $250k deposits on my commuter umbrellas, shipping in 2028.

Mary Poppins stage flying rig by the amazing ZFX Flying, Louisville, KY

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 7h

The part of the election runup where every day brings videos of Trump getting up in front of some battleground audience in his dumb hat and going "frankly you're terrible people, really disgusting. A bunch of stupid people and their awful kids. [long break for laughter and applause] Ugly as shit,"

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday, Christianity Today published a piece on the late purity culture matriarch Elisabeth Elliot, with newly discovered private correspondence suggesting she may have been bisexual. Today, the article has disappeared without a trace.

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Nikola @greasyboiler.bsky.social · 17h

"There is such a thing as too much empathy" - person who has never demonstrated a shred of empathy

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The Denver Post @denverpost.com · 12h

A Department of Homeland Security news release reported ICE made nearly 51,000 arrests in August, higher than any month on record. “We call it the ‘shadow surge.' It’s this much quieter, but no less violent or deadly, enforcement.”

denverpost.com

Inside the ‘shadow surge’ driving ICE arrests to new heights

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 6h

whoa... the current map of "No Kings: Vote Early" events planned for tomorrow, sat oct 17: www.nokings.org

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Steel Rat Gamer @steelrat.bsky.social · 6h

School choice and voucher programs is just another way to segregate schools using public funding

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 9h

Which - I get it! Knowing that hundreds of thousands of Russian husbands & fathers have decided to spend their one life killing Ukrainians in a war of sheer acquisition is very bad feeling, & provokes some reconsideration of close held beliefs. But that’s the data we have - gotta accept it

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davidrlurie @davidrlurie.com · 7h

The deep and abiding desire to demonize Schumer is deeper, in many "progressive" quarters, than the justified desire to demonize Trump - who is actually responsible for targeting Rep Omar.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13h

Just heard a sermon discussing the way twin movements against women's autonomy here and abroad, along with the exportation of movements targeting LGBTQ people here and abroad has been a key strategy in undermining Pan-African politics and liberation theology.

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Rob Bon Vivant🌊 @77sunnyandclear.bsky.social · 7h

What a nincompoop! C'Mon, man! 🤦🏻‍♂️

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gummyguru.bsky.social @gummyguru.bsky.social · 7h

If we had a real press pool he'd be asked which 5 states specifically.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 7h

In most civilized countries, saying this sort of thing will get you institutionalized. For a long time. Or arrested for lying to the public. Or possibly both (institution for the criminally insane).

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

Tell your douchebag pal to be a douchebag about non-licensed professions, perhaps.

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 7h

The cruelty is stunning, and it’s the point. ICE is smashing car windows and arresting parents at school drop off, forever traumatizing their young children. ICE has no place in our communities, and certainly not at our schools. Dismantle ICE.

seattletimes.com

ICE arrests man near Seattle elementary school during morning drop-off

Immigration agents arrested a man Tuesday morning near a Woodland Park elementary school as parents were dropping off their children.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

I have qualms masquerading as a licensed professional in any profession I’m not licensed in. But that’s just me, I guess.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

Do not call yourself a lawyer if you are not admitted to a bar, or you could risk prosecution.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

But in legal practice, claiming to be a lawyer in any capacity while not being licensed by a bar is “holding oneself out” to practice law. Since she was never barred anywhere/anytime, it’s a crime.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

I am pretty sure that the licensing requirements for doctors, like the licensing requirements for lawyers, bar you from pretending to be a physician or a lawyer equally. It’s fraud. And it’s evasion of the licensing and testing requirements.

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Kathryn Tewson @kathryntewson.bsky.social · 7h

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

I’m wondering if they asked an LLM, and thus obtained the typical wrong answers that they give.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

True. And some of this is probably based on false equivalence with other countries that establish two categories of licensed legal professional. Eg, the UK has different qualifications for “solicitors” and “barristers.” Not true anywhere in the USA. “Lawyer” and “attorney” are exact synonyms here.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

When you claim the title, you are considered to be offering to accept clients. And she was. According to her posted resume, she served as general counsel for a business, which was unauthorized/unlicensed practice of law absent a bar admission.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

False. In all jurisdictions in the US, it is illegal to “hold yourself out” as a lawyer or attorney if you are not licensed to the bar of that jurisdiction. Thus, as has been amply discussed here, it was a crime for Zachariah to claim she was a lawyer on TV, Linked In, resume, etc.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

Or by averaging and spreading a windfall until it’s not one.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

Losing that larger amount changed my life THEN. Gaining a much smaller amount of 30k would change my life NOW. THOSE ARE BOTH LIFE CHANGING AMOUNTS. You can’t evaluate the degree of life change only by gross totals.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

Your theory purports to define “what is life changing” and “what is not life changing.” People’s circumstances and needs, not just gross totals, determine how much will change their lives. You’re erasing the life variable while purporting to measure and compare it.

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Shockratees @thatshockratees.bsky.social · 7h

See, there’s the problem. The size of the amount is not the only factor in whether it changes a life. The need that it meets is also a life change, and your theory can just spread that away. Immediate 30k would change my life and so many others immediately. Make that down payment. Debt liquidation.

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