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aahaake.bsky.social @aahaake.bsky.social · 4h

What about the House. Get back to work

aahaake.bsky.social @aahaake.bsky.social · 4h

Epstein files

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 4h

Donald Trump shared a video of what appeared to be a strike on a vessel.

Donald Trump Posts Video of New Strike on Venezuela Boat

www.newsweek.com

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 4h

TOMORROW: SCOTUS will hear oral arguments in a case that could eliminate a key voting protection for minority voters to elect their preferred representatives. With fair elections and congressional control on the line, here's what you need to know:

Fair Elections — and Perhaps Control of Congress — at Stake as SCOTUS Hears Challenge to VRA

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 4h

The Supreme Court is about to take up a redistricting case that could rewrite voting rights law – and shift the balance of power in Congress.

Louisiana v. Callais asks: can states use race to ensure fair representation, or is that unconstitutional?

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#polisky

Supreme Court redistricting ruling could upend decades of voting rights law – and tilt the balance of power in Washington

A case being argued at the US Supreme Court could undo one of the last remaining protections for minority voters in a Civil Rights-era voting law.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19h

Here's what prosecutors--PROSECUTORS!!!--said last week about why they had not given Sydney Reid video to her alleged assault of an FBI agent.

She's seeking to get her case thrown out before it goes to trial this week.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There can be little doubt that the government failed in its duties, first by failing to collect
contemporaneous statements and other information from the officers from the incident and then
by neglecting to supervise the collection of that information, by relying on the officers’ conclusion
as to what is relevant and not relevant. Still, the government persists in trying to blame the defense.
Even at the hearing, the government deflected blame: “The ambiguity, I think, that arises here is
that we are trying to construct a very mundane incident three months after it happened involving,
I guess for lack of a better word, middle-aged people who just aren't great with technology, just
like everyone else in this courtroom.” Tr. at 10/10/25 at 14

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 6h

Just when you thought it was impossible for American corporate media to fail any harder than it already has for a decade now, it went and called a peace deal worthy of celebration something that was neither a peace deal nor even actually a deal nor really anything that meant anything lasting at all

'It's Not A Peace Deal': BBC Expert Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Donald Trump Over Gaza

Jeremy Bowen said the accord signed by the president was "almost devoid of content".

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 6h

This is the result of almost 10 years of Trumpism. The GOP wasn’t like this under McCain or Romney. A sad evolution

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9h

Sadists. Truly sick people.

ICE is thoroughly un-American.

Don't you want to know—as I do—how many of these armed, masked, warrantless, insignia-less, nameless, essentially untrained Big Government goons are Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters and other J6 runoff? apnews.com/article/immi...

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

apnews.com

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 7h

Leaked messages from leaders of Young Republican groups obtained by Politico:

They referred to Black people as monkeys and "the watermelon people" and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

www.politico.com

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 8h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

ARIZONA AG: “.. Arizona’s right to a full delegation, and the right of the residents of CD 7 to representation from the person they recently voted for, are not up for debate ..”

@politico.com #AZ07
www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 1d

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva announces her election results will be OFFICIALLY certified tomorrow, destroying Mike Johnson’s last excuse to delay her swearing in.

“Mike Johnson needs to do his job so I can do mine.”

No more lies.
No more delays.
Swear her in!

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 15h

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy.
Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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OKNova @okaynova.bsky.social · 1d

Tom Kean Jr, we have witnessed you being AWOL far longer than this. How do you rationalize taking pay for a no-show job while government workers are locked out and being unjustifiably fired? How do rationalize not showing up, destroying healthcare, harming millions in the process?
#ShameonKean

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Newfie912 @newfie912.bsky.social · 2d

No particular reason

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Nightbird @nightbird39.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder Tom Holman former ICE Director accepted cash gifts from undercover FBI agents for Special treatment in Contract awarding. Those FBI Agents were fired and the investigations stopped #BiberyCoverupByRepublicans

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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 1d

Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...

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tweety @bluskypolitics.bsky.social · 2d

📌 Pam Bondage needs to be

held accountable 🐥 Prison ‼️

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 1d

ICE is terrorizing people in the United States of America. Why would you call it anything else? That's exactly what it is.

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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 1d

There isn’t another side to the argument. Every actor in the system—from defense attorneys to Justices on the Supreme Court—recognizes what is happening. The only question is how the criminal justice system should respond.”

open.substack.com/pub/harrylit...

The Irredeemable DOJ

Why James has an even stronger case of selective prosecution than Comey.

open.substack.com

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, wow, wow. This has always been legally possible but the law has virtually never been enforced — and now this is the SECOND case I've heard of in the last month (first involving a person with a green card) of a noncitizen being charged for failure to carry their papers.

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 1d

NEWS: ICE gave a Rogers Park man a $130 ticket for not having his papers on him. They rounded him up last week and eventually let him go, but not without a fine that some critics say is un-American. Trump admin enforcing little-used law
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/13/i...

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: ‘It’s not fair…I’m a resident’

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement fined Rueben Antonio Cruz $130 for not having his papers with him.

www.chicagotribune.com

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