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@Tonina_MDC

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Cat lover, feminist, mom and spouse, fan of football and baseball, anime/animation nerd, book lover. If any of that bothers you, go away.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5m
The NY Fed examines how tariffs affected inflation and finds that, without them, goods prices would have declined as of last February. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2026/10/how-...
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 5h
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens. We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts. The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported. projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h
Article 1 is Congress. The presidency comes second, in Article 2, and explicitly requires the president to faithfully execute the law as passed by Congress. But that structure implies that the president can break laws without consequence. Or, well, at least this one can. -Sam Alito, paraphrased
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
“.. U.S. trade deficit blew out to $105.6 billion in August ... up significantly from the prior month and now up by $34.4 billion in the past two months. .. Outside of the Liberation Day swings, this is a record.” - Schwab
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Maggie Hendricks @maggiehendricks.bsky.social · 14h
One of the first features I ever wrote was for the Mizzou football game program. It was a big deal as a student worker in sports info to get to write it. Who is being robbed of this opportunity by this nonsense?
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 9h
I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h
Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.
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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’
Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.
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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · 7h
Attacking the lamp
Grey cat batting ineffectually at the hanging cord of a Tiffany style lamp.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15h
Ed Martin says that Tina Peters met with Trump in the Oval Office today to discuss election integrity and “the plans” for the upcoming midterms elections.
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Players can’t be in bed with gambling outfits” should be perfectly and completely obvious to anyone with a shred of sense and integrity, but so should “leagues can’t be in bed with gambling outfits.”
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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 14h
You do not have to be a parent to feel anger at the details in the latest investigation by @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social and @samanthamichaels.bsky.social. But the white-hot rage I felt as a dad reading this is going to stick with me for some time.
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 20h
A Texas pediatrician has already paid $15k in legal fees to counter requests from Ken Paxton's office about her vaccine policy. She spoke to the NYT on background after prosecutors threatened this: "You are requested NOT to inform other entities of this request" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...
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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children (Gift Article)
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h
“.. The announcement comes as the US is grappling with one of the worst measles outbreaks in decades.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bovino left and many people stopped giving a shit.
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@Tonina_MDC @tonina-mdc.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes, my interest in “having control over my own body” and “not wanting to die from an ectopic pregnancy” is so very abstract.
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If someone breaks laws and you choose not to hold them accountable, you have effectively rescinded said laws. That applies to constitutions as well. This is an immutable, non-negotiable fact. Any analysis of what Democrats should do once they regain power that does not acknowledge this is worthless
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ICE has disclosed another detainee who died We know: -After 17yrs, he'd only ever been busted for... *an expired car tag.* He was in a camp run by for-profit w/ history medical neglect An American died at one of its jails *after strep-throat.* austinkocher.substack.com/p/julian-cur...
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Julian Curo-Churata Is the 37th Person to Die in ICE Custody This Fiscal Year, Capping Off the Agency’s Deadliest Year on Record
According to ICE, 47-year-old Peruvian national Julian Curo-Churata died in Louisiana on Tuesday, September 29.
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Weather forecasting for North American mid latitudes is worse today than just a couple of years ago. I see it, and, anecdotally, complaints about model guidance from colleagues in my profession are multiplying. Empirically, the American GFS model’s skill is back to 2019 levels 📉
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A goal of this administration being achieved: “American pre-tax corporate earnings have grown by $1.2trn, or 30%. … And yet taxes on corporate profits have collapsed.” www.economist.com/finance-and-... h/t @talsmith.bsky.social
The unplucked goose
US, revenue from corporate-income taxes, $bn
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I saw him pointing and followed it to his ankle and OH GOD NO NO NO NO NO NO
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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Running with our tail between our legs from a UK airbase? We're so totally winning! bsky.app/profile/nyti...
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New York Times/Siena polls find Dems gaining the governors offices in Alaska, Iowa, Texas, and Ohio. That would give Dems control over election admin in Alaska and Texas. It’s a sign that Dems could also win for secretary of state in Iowa and Ohio in this environment www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
Chart of Siena poll results in five governor's races, showing each candidate's estimated support with margin-of-error bars. Democrats lead in Iowa (Sand 52%, Lahn 41%), Alaska (Kreiss-Tomkins 52, Wilson 48), Texas (Hinojosa 49, Abbott 46) and Ohio (Acton 49, Ramaswamy 45). The Republican leads in Kansas (Masterson 49, Holscher 44)
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Senate results rightly got a lot of attention, but these gubernatorial polls from NYT-Siena are just as stark. Hinojosa by 3! Sand by 11!! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...
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Democrats Lead Governor Races Deep in Republican Territory, Polls Show
Democratic advantages in the races for governor in Texas, Iowa, Ohio and Alaska reflect deep unhappiness with President Trump and the economy. A Republican leads in Kansas.
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@Tonina_MDC @tonina-mdc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh yes, I’m sure they’d go even better than the reflecting pool and the east wing!
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When was the last time the press ran a story about republicans making intemperate remarks about democrats? Fretting about whether republicans are doing enough to be bipartisan, to reach out to the forgotten voters who favor the democrats?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
HASSETT: If people were unhappy, it'd show up in the data TAPPER: It seems to be showing up in the data, just not the data you're looking at
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
First Lady Natalie Harp returns to the White House late last night after traveling all day with the president #TravelWithNatalie (Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty)
pic of Natalie walking, bag in hand
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Andrea Grimes @andreagrimes.com · 03/10/2026
what the entire fucking fuck
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just a reminder that the few remaining experts at the CDC's food-borne illness division identified Taylor Farms as the source of the cyclospora outbreak very early on, but because the owner of Taylor Farms is a big Trump donor, he was able to prevent a recall for weeks as thousands fell ill.
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Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says
Announcement from US officials comes after CDC declared end to outbreak that infected nearly 13,000 people
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
So confusing why this guy doesn't want the rest of the Epstein Files released.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Trump wants to do something illegal with taxpayer money, like not spend it for an appropriated purpose, withhold it from blue states, or spend it for a non-appropriated purpose, who does he turn to? Russ Vought and OMB General Counsel Mark Paoletta, who raid the DHS piggybank.
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Collins Watch @collinswatch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: Susan Collins team bragging in its canvassing materials about her having "delivered" the conservative Supreme Court majority that overturned Roe. tinyurl.com/3mxnybe7 #MEpolitics
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Literal No Kings. Either Article I means something or it doesn't.
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is as close as anything to the molten core of modern democracy: can legislators and laws bind executives? That question has been the motive force of a lot of revolutions, democratic collapses, and democratization
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Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 02/10/2026
Tanya the Evil claims the final weekly top spot, with Draw This, Then Die! close behind. In the cumulative, The Cat and the Dragon and Dara-san of Reiwa both edge up four places to close out the season.
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Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Pusheen @pusheen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With the merging of these two iconic companies, Skydance is ready to soar into the future!
The Hindenburg explosion
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Jessica Luther @jessicawluther.com · 02/10/2026
Another moment when sports is useful, when it gets right at the truth of things. People want so damn badly to move on from reports of harm, from having to even think about the harm that men have done to women. Playing well in a game allows that. It's crude, yes, but it's common. ANYTHING to move on.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The problem isn’t that they’re moving past it—it’s that they’re trying to rehabilitate it. Would be better for everyone if people who don’t want to engage with the facts just talked about the play on the field and left it at that.
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Dawn @502eire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
trying to imagine the rage I would have felt seeing photos on the timeline of Deshaun Watson wearing pink for October and it might have burst a major vessel so thank you to the NFL for not even paying lip service to that shit anymore
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Jared Rutecki @jaredrutecki.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Amazing work by @propublica.org and partners illustrating the lack of regulations around microschools in some states. www.propublica.org/article/prop...
In Arkansas, all it took was a few clicks on the Arkansas secretary of state website, $45 and an American flag to form a bona fide private school with the Arkansas Times.
We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school's name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
And with The Assembly in North Carolina, we filed an online notice of intent to open a private school at Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, while perched on its metal bar stools, eyeing glasses of a crisp kolsch.
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WIRED @wired.com · 02/10/2026
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration. www.wired.com/story/health...
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Health Care Workers Are Tired of Cleaning Up Palantir’s Mess
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the new software is causing errors, burnout, and frustration.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You mean when the Trump administration called off a major SEC investigation of Justin Sun after he bought huge amounts of Trump crypto?
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