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yris.yira.orgPutin And USAID: The Makings Of A Grip Too Tight On Power - The Yale Review Of International StudiesIn September 2012, the Russian government, headed by President Vladimir Putin, mandated that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) cease

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Why kill USAID? Timeline: 1. Putin hated USAID yris.yira.org/column/putin... 2. Musk agrees to buy Twitter for more than it was worth www.cnbc.com/2022/05/12/t... 3. Musk attempted to backout but failed www.pbs.org/newshour/eco...

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Raider

@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

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ICE is moving deeper into the Bay Area. Community defense starts now—stay sharp, protect each other, and fight back.

"The pen was still in working order (figure 2)."

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ms.nowHouse Judiciary Democrats release 50-page report on Trump’s alleged involvement in Epstein filesThe report — issued just eight days before the election — makes multiple, uncorroborated allegations against the president while also detailing discrepancies in his statements about Epstein.

@msnownews.bsky.social describes "multiple, uncorroborated allegations," overlooking that multiple claims corroborate any single allegation. Propensity evidence, for law nerds. After dozens of public sexual abuse & rape claims, those bricks build their own wall.

Mike Walker@newnarrative.bsky.social

House Judiciary Democrats release 50-page report on Trump’s alleged involvement in Epstein files www.ms.now/news/house-j...

That day, someday, when he grovels in his 6x8 isolation cell waiting for the jury to give him the wall.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

veritenews.orgImmigrants in ICE detention have no due process rights under US Constitution, federal appeals court saysThe 5th Circuit ruling affects tens of thousands of people in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, where immigrant detention is growing.

We certainly know who to impeach and convict.

Big John@dcbigjohn.bsky.social

my god the 5th circuit is just full of shitty monsters veritenews.org/2026/10/23/i...

Let's do it right now. Delete your Facebook account.

The Alternate Histoween 🎃@althistorian.bsky.social

Break-up Meta in 2029.

That would actually be calling the 12-year-old girl who made the substantiated allegation a liar.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

thetonearm.comAllison de Groot and Rich Ruth Coax the Banjo into OrbitOn their self-titled debut, Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth talk through old-time music’s rigidity, influences from Joanna Newsom to Steve Reich, and two-second banjo loops as the pulse of the record.

Liz giving everybody hope.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

She is also one of the people who proudly held up one of the Epstein binders she got from Pam Bondi with a big smile for the cameras. This is who gets special access from Trump’s DOJ.

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On their self-titled debut, Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth talk through old-time music’s rigidity, influences from Joanna Newsom to Steve Reich, and two-second banjo loops as the pulse of the record. The Tonearm’s Sam Bradley hits repeat. Allison de Groot and Rich Ruth Coax the Banjo into Orbit:

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Mark Ruffalo

@markruffalo.bsky.social

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What ally of the US detains our politicians and gets away with it with such impunity? None. Israel is a rogue and hostile nation to Americans. Americans are being killed, harassed and beaten there by the IDF and we act like it’s nothing. There is no other country that could get away with this.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News

Bad decision makers should not be making bad decisions. I'm grateful they've made this decision on their own.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“I’ve checked out.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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@froomkin.bsky.social

Tragically, some reporters are headlining the ad’s message and calling it “controversial“ or even “risky”. No. It’s a new low in political attack ads, impugning a well-documented incident of child rape and putting forth the mother who chose the rapist over her own children as a voice to be trusted.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social

How it’s playing in Ohio:

One day, when we have power again, we will shut off their satellites, take their weapons, expel their ambassadors, protect the Palestinians, and turn Israel into a pariah state.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

The IDF just detained the man who’s about to be elected US Congressman for NY’s 10th district, per his social media.

They do everything with violence

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

A grandfather was brutally kidnapped by ICE goons in front of his grandson in Airway Heights, WA

Oh Bubba

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"

Maybe, Susan, that raping women may have indicated that he did not respect women?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Susan Collins on Kavanaugh: "I'm very disappointed in his his vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. There was no way for me to anticipate that."

Impeach both the president and vice president and the speaker of the house becomes president. If we have enough Dems who aren't Vichy, we can crush them.

VoteHub@votehub.com

Democrats have reached an all-time high in KPOW, driven by a rise in their U.S. Senate majority odds to 65%, also a new high. The latest movement reflects growing market confidence in Democratic prospects for control of U.S. Congress ahead of November's midterms.

It ain't bloodless. Strap on the steel toes, invoke our right to self-defense, and let us now find our Lexington Green.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

In 2024, Heritage Foundation chief Kevin Roberts made a classic fascist threat: “We are in the process of the 2nd American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Then Trump took over, unleashing ICE to execute people in the streets. Republicans rule through violence.

Moral injury is real. I've spent my career fighting abusive authority, and it will chew you up. The only relief is staying in the trench....

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Grateful. But the best litigation will be criminal litigation, when they are held accountable for their conspiracy against rights resulting in death, a capital offense. 18 USC 241.

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social

Think our effort to address the damage done by DOGE Is over? Not at all! We just won summary judgment proving that they abused our data And we are also litigating in fed court on behalf of the countless people they injured at USAID

Adam Mockler@adammockler.com

Trump is going completely mask off on Ukraine and this guy sat there trying to excuse it.

talkingpointsmemo.comDemocrats Have Big Plans for Elon MuskDemocrats Get Ready to Probe DOGE Ahead of the 2024 election, Elon...

The publicly announced endpoint goal should be 18 USC 241, conspiracy against rights resulting in death, subjecting him to the possibility of capital punishment. Make him afraid.

John Light@johnalight.bsky.social

Democrats say they are planning to extensively probe the DOGE rampage that kicked off Donald Trump's second term if they retake a chamber of Congress and obtain subpoena power.

theguardian.comICE agents broke US citizen’s arm as they detained him in California, officials sayRicardo Gonzalez was injured and taken to hospital after confrontation in Long Beach, according to officials

"If they furnish the skulls someday, I'll pass out the guns and clubs." -Woody Guthrie

SpacemanSpiff@veganspacemanspiff.bsky.social

Dear MAGA imbeciles, YOU'RE BEING TREAD ON! With extreme contempt, I remain, yours most hatefully. Oh, and congratulations, Schlitz Kavanaugh, you must be so proud. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I would also demand indivisible dump fash and fash-adjacent social media services. You know they can read all your shit, right?

Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org

In the middle of #NoKings day, Meta suspended the @nkcoalition.bsky.social Instagram account. Tell Congress to investigate Meta's pattern of political suppression and hold tech giants accountable for any attempts to interfere in our elections: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...

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Will Bunch

@willbunch.bsky.social

To Beltway elites, folks like Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham and Jim Clyburn symbolized the "Good Washington" that was soiled by the uncouth Trump But here they are in steakhouses ripping off taxpayers with bogus contracts in return for campaign cash Yo, pundits, your life is based around a lie

talkingpointsmemo.comData That Would Measure the Effectiveness of Key Trump, GOP Policies Has Gone Missing Ahead of the MidtermsMost American households were not eagerly awaiting a set of tax data...

Roaches hate light

John Light@johnalight.bsky.social

Data that would have told us what impact the One Big Beautiful Bill had on Americans — scheduled for release by the IRS in July — never became public.

When a defendant agrees to cooperate w/ the government, they trade "substantial" investigation assistance for sentence reductions. "Substantial assistance" means briefing agents on every crime they committed, know of, naming everyone involved. Every white collar cooperates every time.

ProPublica@propublica.org

4/ That’s not all Kao confessed. Facing prison for fraud, he was hoping to reduce his sentence. His entire business model consisted of bribing officials in exchange for government contracts, he told the FBI. What’s more, the research Navatek was providing was often worthless.

$8b ÷ $6.50 = 1.23b gal. In the US, we burn about 120m gal per day. His plan is 10 days of diesel.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Trump has a new scheme to bribe farmers in swing states with welfare checks of taxpayer money because fuel has gone up so much because of his war. But only money for them, not for anyone else in the country. No, we have to keep paying higher prices AND we pay Trump’s voters.

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Christopher Webb

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Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch, who just determined that a white police officer was justified in fatally shooting 1-year-old Kohen Wiley, has quite a record. Let’s review: 🚩 ROE V. WADE: Led the Supreme Court challenge that overturned Roe, ending nearly 50 years of abortion protections 🧵

mediaite.comJames Carville Says He’d Rather GOP Win House by 5 Seats Than Dems Win by 5: They’d Be ‘Hostage to DSA’Carville argued that the size of a Democratic victory in November could matter almost as much as winning control outright.

Carville is Vichy

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social

In case you needed any more evidence that Carville is a Republican

chicagoreader.comCharlie Parr laments modern woes in timeless folk blues - Chicago ReaderCharlie Parr has been making stark, arresting music for two and a half decades, and he seems to be able to summon the aesthetic of any era he wants.

Charlie is one of the best songwriters alive.

Chicago Reader@chicagoreader.com

Charlie Parr has been making stark, arresting music for two and a half decades, and he seems to be able to summon the aesthetic of any era he wants. https://bit.ly/4jpCXy3

I'm certainly open to property tax reform. Protect from speculatively high real estate values & from losing shelter to tax seizure if they cannot afford a tax assessed on non-luxury homes. But this revolt is just Boomer greed shouted and echoed from the middle of their McMansions. Fuck them.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

"whats wrong with the younger generation why is no one having kids anymore" like 5 seconds after they cut all the school buses and fired half the teachers because there's no property tax revenue to fund them anymore

cbsnews.comTrump says he's "negotiating Peace" as Ukraine launches 1,000 drones at Russia amid continued back-and-forth strikesThe strikes came as tensions between Ukraine and Washington deepened.

CBS attempting to frame the blame on UKR for not surrendering.

BanmarNJ@banmarnj.bsky.social

Trump says he's "negotiating Peace" as Ukraine launches 1,000 drones at Russia amid continued back-and-forth strikes

newsweek.comAlleged USAID probe into Starlink raises Elon Musk conflict concernsIn 2022, USAID and Starlink collaborated to provide 5,000 Starlink terminals to Ukraine amid its ongoing war against Russia.

In 2024, after Fash-Wagon Willie had sold out to the Russians and throttled Ukr sats during a major assault, USAID opened an investigation. Three months later, Willie killed USAID. www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-m...

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com

So the United States Secretary of State doesn’t know anything about global warfare satellites besides what he reads in the paper?

A vote for a Republican on November 3rd is a vote to deport the one good restaurant in every rural Missouri town, the one that's always full and is everyone's favorite. The only non-Mexican restaurant is Casey's General Store, which sells mountain dew and corn chips and heat lamp pizza.

Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social

A vote for a Republican on November 3 is a vote against your local public school…

@stevevladeck.bsky.social

Burn them all.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

The United States continues to help Putin murder civilians in Ukraine

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Steve Vladeck

Yeah, the problem with the tweet *wasn’t* that it violated “CBS News standards.”

hollywoodreporter.comTikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Ad Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.

Roaches hate light.

Alex Gibney@alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube

Socrates was in the room.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

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@jesseltaylor.bsky.social

typically, the primary condition of winning a war is that the enemy doesn't get a vote

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

DOKOUPIL: I have one big question on Iran -- why haven't we won decisively? JD VANCE: Well, I would say in some ways we have won decisively, but the enemy gets a vote here

Tech and media. Carve it up.

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

Time for an era of tech trust-busting?

It's easy to criticize. Sure fucking is.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "I see what Abdul El-Sayed says about the war in Iran. I see him criticizing decisions the president has made, the military has made. But fundamentally we are where we are.I'd like to know what's Abdul El-Sayed's solution for the problem we have right now? It's easy to criticize"

Democratic capitalism doesn't exist. There's the illusion of democracy, while capital makes all the decisions.

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

I acknowledge that this last action by our oligarchic overlords has sent my inner social democrat on a rampage. But history does suggests some social democracy is necessary to correct and save democratic capitalism.

No one should use meta for anything.

Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

The first subpoena from the new Democratic Congress should be to Mark Zuckerberg, for taking down the No Kings Instagram account in the middle of one of the largest days of civic activism in American history. No Kings. No Courtiers.

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Ossoff: "Maybe you saw Trump so desperate that he's begging Putin for diesel. But listen to this -- at the very same time, the White House is brokering the sale of billions in Russian energy assets to people who fund the Trump family and the Trump campaign. Y'all remember Jared Kushner?"