techcrunch.com/2025/10/16/a... yeeeeeah

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton. I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

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These teams consistently did some of the best reporting at the network. 💔

NEW: A plan circulated among Trump officials and the Netanyahu government for rebuilding Gaza includes some 30 companies as part of the proposal. Turns out, many of them tell @wired.com they have no involvement. @carolinehaskins.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/a-plan...

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You need to see this: “The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait. At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

"Report on Soros Cited by Justice Dept. Does Not Show Funding for Terrorism: The head of a conservative watchdog organization acknowledged that its report did not find evidence that the network of liberal billionaire George Soros had broken the law." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June)

White House response is measured as always:

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Venezuela's María Corina Machado www.nbcnews.com/world/europe...

Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000. nfap.com/research/new...

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I’m the Foreign Minister of Poland. This Is How to Negotiate With Putin. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

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Weber State University in Utah was set to host a conference this week on "Navigating the Complexities of Censorship.” Then, the conference got ... censored. 1/2 www.sltrib.com/amplify-utah...

“ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — With weeks to go in New Jersey’s high-stakes governor’s race, key members of Democrats’ diverse coalition, including union and Black leaders, have been raising concerns — even when they’re not supposed to.” apnews.com/article/new-...

Raskin: "It's not lost on anyone that shutting the government down allows them not swear in our new colleague, Ms Grijalva from Arizona, who would be the 218th signature to discharge the Epstein files and to put a vote on that on the House floor."

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Economic anxiety grows under Trump, creating a new political liability for the GOP www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Sisters of Charity nuns criticize Cardinal Dolan’s comments likening Charlie Kirk to a saint www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... @corkysiemaszko.bsky.social