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The Right's Race Reckoning Tucker Carlson’s friendly sit-down with racist Nick Fuentes has touched off a reckoning inside the conservative movement, forcing its leaders to confront the ugly monster they helped create.

"Years of tolerance and even embrace of conspiracy theories, election lies, and bigotry have reshaped the MAGA base and its media ecosystem, giving credence to radical voices that have pushed the party...deeper into grievance and hate," @passantino.bsky.social writes. www.status.news/p/tucker-car...

Paxlovid from Pfizer costs $15 to make and now retails for $1500.

Insane

Ouch.

Elections are always about you.

Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

societal suicide www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

The economy is in tatters and the gop government shutdown to cover up the Epstein files is in full swing but….

Have you checked out Trump’s new shit room? Your taxes paid for that.

Judges should also demand that federal agents stop using the word “police” on their uniforms. There is no federal police force and they are in essence masquerading as police, the way Fox News pretends it is a news organization.

Mike Johnson is a truly horrible human being.

If professor Hotez says they don’t care about your family. Then they DON’T CARE!
I know it’s rude to shout Sorry.
Thank you @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social

REV. BLACK (who was shot in the head with a pepper ball): “If this is what they’re doing to pastors, journalists, teachers, mothers, and the elderly gathered to sing and pray outside ICE facilities… what might they be doing to our neighbors who are behind those walls?”

The Walton family surely does

I have lived no further than 75 miles from the city for 50.5 of my 52 years, and talked to probably hundreds of thousands of locals in that time. This is by far the most Philly accent I have ever heard.

Important new story from @jenafifield.bsky.social

One year later: an absolute authoritarian takeover of the US
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Breaking on MSNBC:

Two federal prosecutors have been placed on leave at the direction of the White House after filing a sentencing memo seeking 27 months in prison for a pardoned Jan. 6 rioter who brought illegal guns and ammunition to President Obama's house in 2023.

Going in I naively wondered if she would find herself in the awkward position of having to either lie or misrepresent herself and her intentions but of course these guys couldn't tell the difference between a date and someone interviewing them.

I told him that I was born in Russia and was a writer. He showed me a list he’d written of his favourite desserts in the city. It was a sober hobby he’d started during the pandemic, going to restaurants by himself, sampling sweets. He made a lot of lists, he said, most of them food-related. I asked what other kinds he made. “Lists of lies liberal white women tell about Donald Trump,” he replied. Suddenly, his leg was shaking. He grabbed the edges of the table and raised his voice: “White, liberal women are a plague on our society.” He proceeded to drink 11 iced coffees.

A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

The spoiled brats of a country with no sense of history or decency.

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

Partnership for Public Service, a good government group, has been tracking all the people that Trump has forced out of federal jobs in his 2nd term.

In the last month, 10,295 more people have left, either because of layoffs or by choice amid demoralizing work conditions.

In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

Basically, shelving people that make us uncomfortable since we cannot figure out how to fix a difficult issue that was, really, escalated when Reagan threw people out of care. This feels like it will be a huge investigation into abuse story in 5 years in the NYT too: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

I'd need to know more about whether the minister shot in the face with a chemical agent from point-blank range before weighing in on it. Maybe it was good that it happened.

From my front stoop I can see neighbors whose native languages are Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Polish, and Tagalog and I can assure you that our block parties are better than anything J.D. Vance has ever attended.

Humanity is on path toward 'climate chaos,' scientists warn Global use of fossil fuels rose to a new record last year, releasing even more greenhouse gases. Humanity is 'hurtling toward climate chaos,' scientists warn.

The burning of fossil fuels reached a new record last year.

"Avoiding every fraction of a degree of warming is critically important." @williamripple.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @petergleick.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org @sejorg.bsky.social

Trump administration moves to overrule state laws protecting credit reports from medical debt The Trump administration is moving to overrule state laws that protect consumers’ credit reports from medical debt.

"The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that Americans owe roughly $220 billion in medical debt. In Republican-controlled states like South Dakota, Mississippi, West Virginia and Georgia, roughly one in six Americans have outstanding medical debt, according to the KFF." apnews.com/article/medi...

The U.S. Is Preparing for War in Venezuela More U.S.-military firepower is headed to the Caribbean as Trump escalates his anti-Maduro rhetoric.

Admiral Alvin Halsey left his post atop the Pentagon’s Southern Command after a tense meeting with Hegseth over Caribbean boat strikes

Since then, the U.S. has moved far closer to war in Venezuela. The next step could be attacks on land www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Another bell-ringer by the tireless @willbunch.bsky.social. God, I love columnists who know what they believe and express it with clarity and without fear.

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