Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

"Much of the US federal enterprise uses F5 products, including the departments of Agriculture, Justice, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs ... Defense elements, including the Marine Corps and Naval Surface Warfare Center, also have contracts for their products..." www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

How to Use Millions(!) of Historic Maps Ian Spangler: itspangler.com 200,000 maps digitized and available to use at the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center: www.leventhalmap.org Allmpas, an open source library for creating editing and curating maps: allmaps.org #NACIS2025

I have said it many times, but the conservative movement has always been an anti-majoritarian movement, existing solely to insulate power and wealth from democracy.

Not clear what the recourse is here. It would really be a coup. I don’t know how the majority of people in America accept a government they can’t change or influence. Doesn’t seem good. I will also note tho that Democrats had a trifecta and couldn’t get a bill passed banning gerrymandering

Donald Trump campaigning in 2024: "You won't have to vote anymore!" This was always the plan.

That IS the point of the litigation. I'm so certain of the outcome, I am going to bet money on it.

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Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few. Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

The plaque honoring the law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was commissioned by Congress in 2022, remains in storage. Mike Johnson has refused to place it on the wall, as was intended. That "deed" speaks pretty loudly.

A U.S. Marine says his parents were detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials after they visited Camp Pendleton and one of them was later deported.

USAF B-52 bombers are flying in and out of the airspace near Venezuela. This is one in a screenshot I took, but there were two others in another screenshot I saw on X:

Speculative context:

BREAKING “The Trump administration has secretly authorized the C.I.A. to conduct covert action in Venezuela, according to U.S. officials, stepping up a campaign against Nicolás Maduro, the country’s authoritarian leader.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Bank Voles are exactly what you want when choosing a campsite They live underground so choose soil that doesn’t get waterlogged at any time The piles of logs & their spacing is practical, not aesthetic, as designed to catch fallen trees, so we are not crushed in our sleep

I was told that Trump had achieved peace in the Middle East

Deadwood is not dead

Drew Struzan has passed. His oil paintings defined pop culture for many of us. Rest well, Sir.

Mother nature did not disappoint this morning. #sunrise #bluesky

Some of you still have no clue. It’s not about MY bad experience with your religion. It’s about the fact that your religion has produced, and harbors, people that want to kill me and my kind. It’s about the fact that this has been going on for thousands of years.

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Upon launching, MASTER PLAN has just become the #1 book in its category on the world's largest bookseller. This is an amazing moment for independent media - and a sign of readers' interest in the never-before-reported documents exposing the secret plot to legalize corruption.

Trump destroys energy projects across the country, so yeah prices will continue to go up. Maybe blackouts and brownouts too!

“Anyone who has any critique of Trump is potentially in the crosshairs,” says @mark-bray.bsky.social, a Rutgers professor who fled the country with his family after receiving death threats for his antifa scholarship.

A snowy egret and its #reflection for #BirdOfTheDay. #birds #photography

President Trump created two similarly named orgs connected to his presidential library. One has shut down without explanation. And because their are no disclosure requirements, the public does not know who is donating to them or how the money being used. www.opensecrets.org/news/2025/10...

Meanwhile at pedo largo..

This morning, the justices will hear oral arguments in a case that could represent a fatal blow to the load-bearing pillar of American multi-racial democracy: The 1965 Voting Rights Act.

They are very nervous, and it shows (on all the tv channels, in interviews) !!! I hope this might make people locked into a right-wing ecosystems investigate to find out what the protests are about.

If the plants were allowed to naturally evolve in a normal cycle of climate change-adjustment, this would not be necessary. This is only a question because of human actions that has accelerated the normal process far beyond the planet's ability to adapt in such a short time frame.

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ― Terry Pratchett

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

There are hundreds of prepaid phone plans, but they all borrow from the same few mobile networks. Here’s what you need to know when shopping for cell service in the US.

NEW: A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild the region. Some of these companies say they had absolutely no idea they were mentioned.

Trump kept his business interests Then used public office to enrich himself From foreign money to crypto schemes I call it what it is: corruption—& the most corrupt presidency in modern history I explain on ABC Australia's Chasing Trump’s Billions 👇 - TN www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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Day 269 Wednesday, October 15, 2025 1193 days until Inauguration January 20, 2029 383 days until Midterm Elections on Nov 3, 2026

Right-wing media are conflating lawfully present immigrants, who can qualify for some health benefits, with undocumented immigrants, who can’t. They’ve joined the Trump administration's campaign to dismantle the American health care system: www.mediamatters.org/health-care/...

Here's an article about the pilot: he usually does charity tributes and charity flights! skiesmag.com/news/halifax...

This is some excellent aviation (check thread for recording playback)

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism. Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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In the middle of a lake, I took a photo of the sun without looking at it, and ended up with this

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes. Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

You might be losing your health care, but don’t worry — Republicans are hard at work wining and dining billionaires to fund Trump’s new ballroom.