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God's away on business...

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Rhuta Bhayga
@rhutabhayga.bsky.social

Another 1st for this putrid administration: blanket pardons for staffers.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Trump White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers — as Trump allies press the administration to protect lower-ranked officials from prosecution and other legal challenges, according to two sources familiar with the conversations.

washingtonsun.comWhite House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior StaffConservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.

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Hell Frasier: Bloodline
@babadooknukem.bsky.social

We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

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@mraulston.word.expert

The priority seems to be making as many Americans as possible sick with preventable diseases, in the hopes that at least some will die.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social

The CDC denied a request from California, Hawaiʻi, Oregon, and Washington to validate a high-volume measles test, citing “other priorities.” 🤨

theguardian.comCDC denies approval for high-volume measles test, citing ‘other priorities’California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii health officials ask CDC, ‘prioritizing emerging technologies’, to reconsider
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@mraulston.word.expert

So, while the oligarchy smashes and grabs everything that's not nailed down, we're supposed to be grateful we'll be allowed to sleep in our cars in sub-zero temps? Capitalism. YEAH.

Jason Chavez@jchavezmpls.bsky.social

Yesterday, our safe outdoor parking ordinance passed out of the Business, Housing, and Zoning Committee on a 6–1 vote. I’m proud to be authoring this alongside CM @aishaforward10.com, CM @aurinmpls.bsky.social, and CM @sorenwithward8.bsky.social. 1/ www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

mprnews.orgMinneapolis City Council plan would let unsheltered people sleep overnight in cars in supervised lotsMinneapolis City Council members on Tuesday pushed forward on their plan to let unsheltered people sleep overnight in their cars at designated parking lots. If approved by the full council next week, ...

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
@portlandken.bsky.social

Replying to @portlandken.bsky.social

Here's one article about it. Because the memorial wall is on the inside of the building, main stream media don't seen to be noticing. steadystate1.substack.com/p/the-flags-...

steadystate1.substack.comThe Flags Are Up. The Fallen Are Hidden.Nearly 200 American flags now conceal the names of 321 fallen diplomats. This is not a tribute to American greatness; it is a failure to honor those who served it.

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David Rothkopf
@djrothkopf.bsky.social

This may be the most outrageous, disgusting, offensive thing Trump has ever said. If not, it is tied for the honor. Russia has been fine on Ukraine. It makes me want to puke.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Trump: "Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine."

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Raw Story
@rawstory.com

President Donald Trump is fighting to keep former special counsel Jack Smith from testifying in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the BBC, setting up a new legal showdown over the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

bit.lyJack Smith emerges as surprise witness who could expose secret evidence in Trump's lawsuitPresident Donald Trump is fighting to keep former special counsel Jack Smith from testifying in his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation, setting up a new legal showdown over the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.The BBC subpoenaed Smith for a deposition as part of its def...
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@mraulston.word.expert

They never tire of the "they were using the car as a weapon" defense. A baby should not be dead because a woman stole a pack of diapers. This is an absolute miscarriage of justice. And I am not surprised at all to see Rupublicans making excuses for shooting a baby - very on-brand.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social

JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday. Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.

mississippifreepress.orgKohen Wiley Shooting ‘Was Justified,’ Mississippi AG SaysThe police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s…

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.
@qasimrashid.com

Click on this link and let your voice be heard: act.link/gi-pZFw44 I PROMISE I'm not being alarmist so please believe me when I tell you that they are trying to rig the 2030 census. And most people have no idea it's happening. Click on the link and take action.

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Nancy Levine Stearns
@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

Replying to @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social

"America's two largest private prison companies, CoreCivic and GEO Group, are reporting a combined $1.4 billion in quarterly revenue over the spring as immigration detention closes in on record levels." Do not profit from ICE abuse. Abolish ICE. Divest $GEO $CXW www.npr.org/2026/08/08/n...

npr.orgPrivate prisons announce $1.4 billion in revenue as immigration detentions climbThat revenue does not include net proceeds of $1.6 billion made by CoreCivic after the recent sale of four of their facilities to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

In 2025, a majority of S&P 500 CEOs made more in 1 day than the median US worker made the entire year. Meanwhile, the median US worker would need to work 43,154 years to earn what Trump made in 2025 thanks to his crypto scams & various grifts. When I say the system is broken, this is what I mean.

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Raw Story
@rawstory.com

Alarm as 'low-flying helicopters' and simulated gunfire to engulf DC in drill: 'Red flags'

bit.lyAlarm as 'low-flying helicopters' and simulated gunfire to engulf DC in drill: 'Red flags'Critics raised “red flags” after the U.S. Capitol Police gave just one day’s notice of a Sunday “training exercise” at the U.S. Capitol featuring “low-flying helicopters,” emergency vehicles and the “simulated sound of gunfire” just weeks before the midterms.“Uhhhh. What,” asked Brendan Karet, a for...
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@mraulston.word.expert

I remediate these types of documents for a living and I can tell you that public input MATTERS. I have seen projects scrapped or reworked because of objections raised by the public, including inadequate review by agencies of impacts on air, water, infrastucture we ALL share. tinyurl.com/yf2nkc4d

tinyurl.comTrump has largely deprived the US public of a voice on environmental policyHis administration routinely undermines the comment process, stifles input, and skirts federal law.

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Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist
@jim-stewartson.bsky.social

Totalitarians, theocrats, and the promoters of artificial superintelligence share a common motivation: the subordination of humans to a manufactured construct. I wrote about the rise of Anti-Humanism, why it’s happening, and what we need to do about it. www.mind-war.com/p/anti-human...

mind-war.comAnti-HumanismHow widely different groups share a core ideological project—subordination of humans to a manufactured authority—and how to resist it
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@mraulston.word.expert

Ossoff is THE MODEL for how every politician should be speaking about the assholes running our country. Speaking plainly and from the moral high ground. Not the mumbling bullshit and strongly worded letters of Schumer and Jeffries. THIS TIMES A THOUSAND.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "I suspect many of you are here today b/c you're so deeply troubled by the pain that many of our fellow human beings are enduring right now. The terror of a child watching ICE take away his mother. The despair of a cancer patient losing coverage mid-treatment... we're all in this together"

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Ezra Levin ❌👑
@ezralevin.bsky.social

Update: without explanation, and after being suspended for more than an hour during peak mobilization time, Zuckerberg's Instagram restored the No Kings account but we still lack admin access. More to come. Rest assured we will not stop organizing against this regime and its collaborators.

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this. Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.

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Rachel Maddow
@maddow.bsky.social

“It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency...” "It’s also a weapon that the government will likely use against not only undocumented immigrants, but everyone else, too. That includes political enemies, intelligence experts said... prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...

prospect.orgICE Planning $100 Million ‘Nightmare’ Domestic Spy Program - The American ProspectUnder ERO ONE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire 142 intelligence contractors with top secret clearances and deploy them in cities across the country.

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Jenny Cohn
@jennycohn.bsky.social

“Brazil’s Lula wins electoral court challenge against Meta for alleged pro-Bolsonaro algorithm bias *** A judge ruled that the tech company must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff.” share.google/AyNwzT9NX2wm...

share.googleBrazil’s Lula wins electoral court challenge against Meta for alleged pro-Bolsonaro algorithm biasA judge ruled that the tech company must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff.

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JoinJeremy
@joinjeremy.org

Jeremy wrote for @karenhunter.bsky.social's TheHub about how the nasty food and contaminated water in prison isn't just due to neglect. It forces incarcerated people to make profiteers richer by spending money on overpriced commissary products.

thehub.newsIn Prisons and ICE Jails, Neglect Forces Incarcerated People to Overpay for BasicsThe medical neglect and contaminated drinking water experienced by detained TikTok journalist Carlitos Ricardo Parias in ICE detention are part of a problem that stretches beyond punitive government p...

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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

As I have said for years, the NYT is just Facebook. Same ratcheting effect pushing “moderates” right, same delegation of all editorial authority to fascists who game things by falsely claiming they’re being silenced. Same use of text content to support their actual monetization elsewhere.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

nytimes.comVideo: A Reader on What He Thinks We Get Wrong About TrumpIn this first installment of “Sound Off,” Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for The New York Times, speaks with Mark Jacob, former metro editor for The Chicago Tribune, who shares his criticism...
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@mraulston.word.expert

There will be some sort of blue wave, but it seems like every other article is "Trump underwater" when I think the real barometer of change is wheter racism, bigotry, bro culture, AI worship, transphobia, islamaphonia,income inequality, etc are underwater. If not, nothing has really changed.

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David DeWitt
@daviddewitt.bsky.social

Ohio’s Cincinnati Public Schools is the first district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go to at night and sleep in their cars, and has served more than 300 people since opening this past spring ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/14/c...

ohiocapitaljournal.comCincinnati Public Schools has served hundreds with first-in-the-nation sleep lot for families • Ohio Capital JournalCincinnati Public Schools is the first school district in the nation to own and operate a parking lot where families experiencing homelessness can go at night and sleep in their cars.
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@mraulston.word.expert

People! Attending a No Kings rally while funding the oligarchy, including paying for them to surveil you, is just stupid. If you don't want kings, stop giving asking the kings to mediate your life.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net

No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.