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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 15h

Not to mention that we could’ve gotten plenty of diesel fuel-and cheaper, too-without helping Putin kill innocent Ukrainians. But now, the stain of their blood will forever remain on the hands of Trump and his soulless, hypocritical acolytes in the Republican party May they rot in hell

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22h

This looks like a carjacking. I think any reasonable person would hit the gas.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21h

Legal experts say Christa Pike is the first person in the United States to survive one dose — let alone two — of lethal injection drugs. “There is nothing in the execution process that states are incapable of getting wrong,” said one death penalty expert.

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Why Tennessee’s Botched Death Row Execution Could Happen Anywhere

The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10/10/2026

RUSSIA TARGETED A BUS FULL OF CIVILIANS AND MULTIPLE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THIS WEEK ALONE. Maybe the ingrate is the guy who made the decision to fund that terrorism by purchasing oil in a last ditch attempt to boost his poll numbers?

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Blake105 🇨🇦🇫🇮🇺🇦 🇲🇽 @blake105.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just got back from Norway. 98% electric. Drivers pull up to electric “pumps” like we pull up to gas pumps. We are so freaking behind!

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The Weekend on MS NOW @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"The people of Mississippi...said they're ready for a new direction. They're ready for a fight...and that's why we're going to win," Dem Senate Candidate @scolom.bsky.social on his party's plan for victory in a red state that has not elected a Democrat to the Senate in decades.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

More like a badge of honor. - A proud half Norwegian, American citizen Trump: "This is an indelible stain on the country of Norway," www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Donald Trump says Nobel Peace Prize decision leaves 'stain' on Norway

The US president told a rally he had "never heard of" the winner, former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Japan declares cyber space emergency as attacks soar: “Masaaki Taira, head of the NCSH, declared that Japan was in ‘a state of emergency in cyber space.’ Japanese cyber security minister Toshiharu Furukawa said the situation was ‘extremely critical.’” (These attacks are likely AI enabled.)

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Japan declares cyber space emergency as attacks soar

Dozens of targets including car rental operators, barbecue chains and rail group JR East disclose data leaks

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I thought the headline in the post below meant he was volunteering to be executed. Guess not: "Van Orden sent out a series of posts this week, suggesting he would volunteer to take part in the execution of Nidal Hasan.. On Oct 5, Van Orden posted..he would free up his schedule.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23h

Darline Graham makes the "China threat" the centerpiece of her campaign. Now WaPo discovers that her husband's business is entirely predicated on China trade, and that's what she lives off. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Darline Graham opposes Chinese manufacturing. Her husband’s job relies on it.

The senator and sister of the late Lindsey Graham has said the U.S. must “stop depending on Communist China for things America can make ourselves.”

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The Trump Admin has ramped up ICE activities in Oregon, less than one month away from a gubernatorial election where Republican Christine Drazan is tied in the polls. A Republican hasn’t won a governor’s race in OR since 1982. Trump is basically giving a campaign donation to Tina Kotek. Bizarre.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10/10/2026

🚨 UPD: The death toll from a Russian airstrike on Zaporizhzhia has risen to 20 people, including three children, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service. Rescue operations continue at the site.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 23h

Despite ongoing lawsuit seeking to stop Trump overhaul of DC's East Potomac Park, the National Park Service has notified the court that it's going to take down nearly 530 trees at the site Team Trump is pursuing plan to redevelop the golf course on site

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10/10/2026

⚡️ "This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia," said EU High Representative Kaja Kallas as the European Union prepares to approve major new sanctions.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump said he would bring back public executions in 2023 this isn’t new . White academics, non Black activists, and podcasters keep resetting the clock to “raise awareness” because it hides how BLATANT the warnings were www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Trump Plans to Bring Back Firing Squads, Group Executions if He Retakes White House

The former president wants to expand the use of the death penalty, and expand the federal government's options for carrying out death sentences.

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Urban Larson @urbanlarson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am stunned by how many people are so numbed by the horrors of Trump II that they are not shocked that the regime plans to livestream the execution by firing squad of a man in a wheelchair. That’s what ISIS does.

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Urban Larson @urbanlarson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thanks. American football has always been a mystery to me

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Urban Larson @urbanlarson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I still don’t understand. Maybe it’s a sports thing.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nailed it. 🔨

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

As he evolves in is second childhood, Trump spews vulgarities and racist and misogynistic insults with abandon. And US corporate media cleans up after him. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We've seen two hospitals close here in Eau Claire. Labor and delivery closed in Menomonie — that was before the OBBB. Then, Derrick Van Orden voted to cut our health care even more. Vote for Rebecca Cooke for #WI03

Image of the candidate on the campaign trail.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

More Trump administration corruption At the request of lobbyists Continental Strategy, Susie Wiles-Trump’s Chief of Staff-met a Putin aligned member of Bosnia’s presidential delegation at the White House Why is this significant Because her daughter-Katie Wiles-is a partner at Continental Strategy

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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Mullin: Saying there have been many ICE involved shootings is absolutely false. You guys don't cover all our other arrests, just these ones (There have been at least 25 shootings involving immigration officers in Trump's second term.) Guess he has no problem shooting those he deems to be unworthy.

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 10/10/2026

US envoys warned Ukraine in Miami that Washington could cut intelligence sharing unless Kyiv halts strikes on Russian oil refineries. A US official said refinery attacks harm American consumers and erode goodwill with Donald Trump. www.kyivpost.com/post/86671

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I agree that this is a BFD. But I think it gives Trump too much agency. This was baked in for quite some time and I expect Lindsey Graham's death is what accelerated it. Putin is no doubt offering Trump a way out of his Iran disaster, which ALWAYS required scapegoating Ukraine.

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 10/10/2026

In a call with Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin rejected resuming peace talks and vowed to fight until all goals are achieved, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said. Putin claimed Ukraine’s resistance is futile and asked Trump to relay Kremlin signals to Kyiv. www.kyivpost.com/post/86665

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I can see Putin’s personal interests. I can see benefits for certain American business groups. But can someone explain what the national interest of the United States is in all this? Because "a few people will make a lot of money" is a rather modest answer for a country with global ambitions.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

1/ Russian sources expect that as well as purchasing Russian oil and diesel, Donald Trump will provide Russia with spare parts to repair the refineries damaged by Ukrainian drone strikes. They anticipate that Trump's fuel deal will lead to a Russian victory. ⬇️

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The Media and Democracy Project @mediaanddemocracy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A massive Fourth Estate failure that “I can do anything I want” was not national news. Sanewashing by omission. Do corporate media leaders have no sense of civic duty to defend the Constitution? Cartoon h/t @anntelnaes.bsky.social

Cartoon “the enemies from within” by Ann Telnaes lady liberty w rats crawling on her. “Ignorance” “fear” and Holds tablet of “sanewashing”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dangerous lunacy, transparent con.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And yet, we are supposed to treat him trying to fire the first black woman on the Federal Reserve, as somehow a neutral act of an impartial observer?

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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The mission has cost more than $100 million, the study said. A recent visit found nearly 450 government employees and zero detainees. “This comes at a significant cost to taxpayers and undermines military readiness,” the report said. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...

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Senate Fact Finders Decry Costs of Immigrant Detention at Guantánamo

The setup has cost more than $100 million, the study said. A recent inspection found nearly 450 government employees and zero detainees.

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Judi Brown @judiwgs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Good summary👀🧵

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Political scientists have found that nonviolent rebellion is the most reliable path from dictatorship to democracy. Decades of research point to four steps that successful rebellions follow."

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Democrats are the Party of Perpetual Worry, but they really shouldn’t fret about the GOP narrowing the race through campaign cash or Tump’s attempt to buy off voters.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This. He’s making it clear that these are NOT ordinary political times. That MAGA isn’t part of our “party system.” That we MUST be speaking to the truth and horrors of this moment—NOT dragging politics-as-normal habits into it.

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Rev Debra @revdebra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Seen on FB. History tells us this is true. We must resist toxic cruelty

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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

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Senator Sheldon Whitehouse @whitehouse.senate.gov · 09/10/2026

Putin throws lifeline to try to save Trump in the midterms. In return, American dollars go to Russia and get put toward killing innocent Ukrainians. Trump/Russia right out in the open. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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Putin throws Trump midterm lifeline as Russia agrees to supply diesel

Donald Trump announced today that Vladimir Putin has agreed to supply the US with hundreds of thousands of tons of diesel.

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