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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

There’s already video of some NYPD helping ICE leave after the shooting and the role of the police in aiding these incidents has to be addressed.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 2h

“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...

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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says

A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.

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Scary Mr. Olmec Man @scarymrolmecman.bsky.social · 2h

There are multiple stories like this where ppl are so horrified by public hangings that they end the death penalty in the state. It was the case in MN and WI.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 5h

can't wait to give the guy who's buying elections to stay out of prison direct access to all of my mobile data

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 4h

The last public execution in America was in 1936. A young black man in Kentucky was hanged by a drunk executioner; a news story said "They Ate Hotdogs While a Man Died." Was such an embarrassment that the governor outlawed it 18 months later www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Fort Hood shooter’s execution will be live-streamed, Defense Dept. says

“We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday about the firing squad execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

They understand they’re operating in a country which routinely makes policing and prison entertainment. They’re banking they can push that forward without consequences.

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 10h

I research frats. It's this: they are networks that provide connections to power, wealth, and impunity, especially historically white organizations. The big ones are extremely well monied.

In fact, Greek life regularly produces very powerful people. According to the New York Times, only about 2% of the US population is affiliated with Greek life but 80% of top executives at Fortune 500 companies and large majorities of US Congress, Presidents, and Supreme Court justices are 'Greeks.' And, despite Harris's political ascendency, the benefits of Greek life disproportionately favour members of historically white, male Greek-lettered fraternities, and reflect the inequities of US society as a whole.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9h

It’s (probably) not at an “I will I get fired if I put ‘artificial intelligence’ in an email” level but the WH is making clear that the expectation is to use Trump’s politically correct terminology in public communication

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 6h

It's even worse - he used to say his family escaped Castro, but then it was revealed his family fled the US-supported Fulgencio Batista. Now that it's advantageous to be a Western supremacist, he's pushing aside Cuban and going with Spanish.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h

It seems Eric Deters, the MAGA guy Kim Guilfoyle fleeced out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, kept all the receipts of his communications with her. In one exchange, she denies that Don Jr. was cheating on her with Bettina Anderson after the Daily Mail story broke. We know how that turned out.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

Donald Trump is an absolutely vile racist. Trump: “The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!”

Trump: The once Great State of Minnesota is being taken over by Somali Immigrants. There is Violence, Murder, and Mayhem all over the State. The people of Minnesota must fight back. You have been robbed, and abandoned by your State Government. Your Governor is an incompetent thief who doesn't want to get involved. He just wants to get out of town with as much as he can steal, and then, lead a quiet life. The Somalians should not be allowed to get away with what they are doing. They view you as weak and stupid people. Fight back Minnesota, fight back!
If you need, the Federal Government will come to your rescue.
Governor Tim Walz, and Mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, must immediately ask for Federal help — and leave the rest to us! President
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

Whoa. @haleaziz.bsky.social has the scoop on a truly insane plan to use some military training ships for deportations, with people presumably shackled or locked in cells for days at a time as they transit to Central and South America. Each journey would be staggeringly expensive — and dangerous.

nytimes.com

Trump Administration Considers Using Ships to Deport Immigrants (Gift Article)

Journeys to destinations including El Salvador and Venezuela could take days and cost millions. Officials cautioned that discussions are still preliminary.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 9h

I think it's closer to the truth that LLMs *can* save time on *some tasks* which can be valuable *if* you monitor them and check their output. But that doesn't get you a trillion dollars so they have to squint into the middle distance and say stupid sci fi bullshit instead

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

You just knew there was an example from her time as a Fox News pundit where Kim Guilfoyle called for investigations and criminal charges against Democrats for "racketeering" and "corruption" because they were "influence peddling" and "willing to sell access." www.mediamatters.org/kimberly-gui...

mediamatters.org

FLASHBACK: At Fox, U.S. Ambassador Guilfoyle endorsed criminal investigation into Clinton “pay-for-play” claims

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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 7h

WTTW News’ Voter Guide is your one-stop shop for everything you need to know before voting in the 2026 Illinois general election with information on statewide, Cook County and Chicago races. to.wttw.com/4yG8bpr

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2026 General Election Voter Guide | Chicago News | WTTW

WTTW News’ 2026 Voter Guide to the General Election is your comprehensive library of resources for the election on Nov. 3.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

"Just talk like normal people talk. 'The rent is too high'" is actually reasonably good advice. It's just that those who need this advice are not Democrats:

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

And Iran unsurprisingly doesn’t believe him. Senior IRGC figures are calling for strikes on significant targets in the region within the next three weeks because they’re sure Trump will launch an attack before the Midterms, Channel 14 reports.

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ace @aceanbender.com · 8h

if espn were trying to drive down the price of broadcasting rights for the wnba, what would they be doing differently

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 8h

God wants Mike Johnson to dedicate his life to lawn care. Who are you to thwart God’s will, America? #Vote

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 10h

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 8h

CPD has exceeded its annual overtime budget for the 10th straight year, despite repeated promises from Mayor Brandon Johnson to reign in police overtime spending, according to a database published by Chicago's inspector general.

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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 9h

Hot Take: Guilfoyle should be the *first* impeachment. She won't let herself go down alone and she knows *everything* about Trumpworld 2016-2024.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

oh bezos is *juicing* juicing

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 9h

iirc she was denied a security clearance in 2017.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 10h

Today in MAGA is crazy: The Chicago zillionaire who spent over $1B funding the right wing takeover of the US Supreme Court is apparently funding a different takeover in one of Chicago's most popular parks. YIKES.🐀 www.axios.com/local/chicag...

axios.com

Chicago billionaire accused of fueling Lincoln Park rat problem

Chicago billionaire accused of fueling Lincoln Park rat infestation

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

"She thought I was a sucker. I am not a sucker."

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Max Granger @maxgranger.info · 08/10/2026

🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 11h

You can draw a direct line from the price at the pumps to President Donald Trump, who started a wholly unnecessary war with Iran, and the congressional Republicans who have done nothing to stop the war. Make them pay in the midterms: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

usatoday.com

Trump's Iran war is costing us. Voters can make the GOP pay | Opinion

This is as close to political cause and effect as you'll ever get when it comes to the petroleum industry.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 12h

This is horrifying Tuskegee-level shit.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 11h

“I don’t know why you keep talking about Trump.” “That’s why I’m here. I want you to explain how you could exist as a functional Republican with him exercising a ridiculous amount of influence.” “Well, I think that description, it just doesn’t match the facts.” www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

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Steve Hilton is convinced he's going to win. Hahahaha.

"Why would I trust a Republican to change any of this?"

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11h

For the first time on record, a majority of Americans have not much/no confidence in the government to ensure food safety. news.gallup.com/poll/715430/...

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11h

so...eugenics

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

White supremacy is, above all, an ideology of stolen valor bsky.app/profile/seth...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14h

It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.

rollingstone.com

CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14h

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

X post from AI industry insider Alvin Sng :

My wife: Can you read our baby a book?
Me: I can just play an audiobook from my phone.
My wife: But then it won't be in your voice.
Me: I can train a voice model.
Parenting hits different when you work in Al.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

My gosh. Mike Huckabee's top aide: —Covered up an embassy report on Israeli killings of 9 Americans —Fabricated Orwellian reports on Israeli settler violence & the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to make it sound good for Israel —Questioned staff on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas”

In late March, at the height of the Iran war, Israel quietly approved more settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank than it ever had at one time.
Staff members at the United States Embassy in Jerusalem saw the move as potentially flouting one of President Trump's explicit red lines for Israel - no annexation of the West Bank - and drafted an urgent report intended for policy makers in Washington.
That memo never reached Washington. It was quashed by David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the process.
This was no isolated incident.
Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to a dozen people who work with or interact with Mr. Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington:
• As settler violence in the West Bank surged in the spring, for instance, he stymied embassy reporting suggesting that the Israeli government was failing to take action, according to the three officials. Instead the embassy sent a cable to Washington, viewed by The New York Times, praising Israel for "cracking down" on the attacks.
• When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers' efforts to gain information, according to multiple officials briefed on the matter.

Mr. Milstein rewrote the cable to declare GHF's operation a success while overlooking the mass casualties, according to people who saw the cable and were briefed on the editing process.
Troubled by glaring discrepancies between news coverage and the embassy's official reports, White House and State Department officials seeking a clearer picture of events bypassed standard channels at least twice to communicate directly with embassy staff, according to two officials briefed on the outreach and an internal communication from late this summer seen by The Times.
Veteran American diplomats said that withholding or twisting the information sent to Washington should raise serious concerns.
"The embassy ought to tell Washington everything — the good, the bad and the ugly," said Dan Kurtzer, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. "If they're not doing so, they are damaging the policy-making process and possibly undermining the president's policies."
Mr. Milstein also questioned several colleagues on whether they were "pro-Israel" or "pro-Hamas," according to four officials, who found the question inappropriate and said it made some people fearful of speaking freely.

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Ankit Panda @nktpnd.bsky.social · 14h

"South Korea's top military officer said Thursday that the United States has restricted some intelligence sharing on North Korea, but that the limits have not affected the South Korean military's overall readiness posture." www.koreaherald.com/article/1089...

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JCS says some US intelligence sharing restricted but readiness unaffected

South Korea's top military officer said Thursday that the United States has restricted some intelligence sharing on North Korea, but that the limits have not af

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

Using phone calls, travel movements and location data, Der Spiegel has traced the recent drone attack on a German airport back to the elite SSD unit of the Russian military intelligence service GRU. When are the authorities going to start saying we’re at war and have been for a long time?

spiegel.de

(S+) Leipziger Flughafen: Das sollen die Männer hinter der Drohnen-Attacke sein

Ermittler meinen zu wissen, wer den Leipziger Flughafen mit Drohnen angegriffen hat. Ihren Auftrag erhielten die Verdächtigen nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen wohl von einer Spezialeinheit des russischen Gehei...

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 14h

Two more individuals with ties to a white nationalist group have turned up in Mike Collins' orbit.

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Still More Extremists Surface in Senate Candidate Mike Collins’ Orbit

How Many of These Guys Are There? The latest report about far-right...

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 16h

i do feel like trump saying he doesnt care if they nuke california is somthing i've heard expressed in spirit by basically every republican ive spoken with for any length of time. california and new york arent america is just a stated and unstated background belief my entire life

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 23h

This was a pretty small protest, but it honestly seemed incredibly effective. I don’t think that they’ve done this before, the only time I’ve been to a protest at this building was on a weekend. I really don’t think these workers liked being shamed!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Not beating the eugenics accusations

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the vice president's guy, no? This should be every headline, it should lead every newscast and EVERY REPUBLICAN SHOULD BE ASKED ABOUT IT.

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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

the Vice President of the United States has gone on record citing this man as one of his biggest intellectual influences if you didn't know this, it's probably because for some reason literally no mainstream political media outlets think it's worth mentioning

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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors

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BlackskyNews 🗞️ @blackskynews.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

...At the first juvenile detention facility for Black children in the U.S. South, created to get Black youth out of adult prisons,...boys were forced to work without food, disciplined by white guards with a "brass-studded belt," and leased to neighboring farms, with the facility taking their pay.

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