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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 16h

I fully believe the theory that's going around that ICE has deliberately been recruiting from far-right militia groups, and the masking and refusal to identify ICE agents have been doing is an attempt to obscure that fact as opposed to being intended to "protect" them.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 49m

So simple, and yet it feels like we are on a too-small island of sanity with this take

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Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

A brief thread in 12 parts.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 6h

So there’s the billionaire in the White House who was born very rich and is now carrying out the pinnacle of his career as a fraud.

His campaign was largely funded by a billionaire who was born to owners of an emerald mine and made billions by lying for a decade about what his products could do.

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 1h

Same.
Do these people complain about having to brush their teeth daily?
Yes! You need to do this forever and ever, every single time!

Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 2h

I'm baffled by the number of people who seem *offended* by the idea that yes, you really have to keep on voting, in every election, forever.

That's what living in a democracy means! It's never done, you can't just sit back and ignore politics forever.

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 6h

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 8h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · 8h

Every idiot purist socialist on the internet all of the sudden has Pritzker thoughts, and I’m telling you RIGHT NOW

We are NOT doing this again in three years. I’m not playing their games

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Darius Smith🗽🇺🇸🎗 @dariuspsmith.bsky.social · 3h

Congrats to Madam Mayor-elect of New Orleans Helena Moreno!

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Actually Ghostface @vantablackpharaoh.bsky.social · 10h

I've said it before and will say it again:

If they TRULY plan for there to be no more elections and are "acting like there will be no elections", WHY ARE THEY GERRYMANDERING, TRYING TO RIG VOTING MACHINES, AND RETIRING?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 14h

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 16h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

Nice recap

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 7h

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places.

But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 5h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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NPR @npr.org · 19h

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 6h

Day 284 of my year of “every day, take a walk outside.”

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 9h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 7h

Smdh

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 7h

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 8h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16h

Their complaints that Dems oppose the “rural hospital fund” are so hilarious.

Kind of like: “I’m going to burn down your house and give you a chocolate chip cookie instead.”

“That sounds terrible.”

“What you don’t like chocolate chip cookies!?”

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20h

By the time of James' arraignment on October 24, DOJ will EITHER have dismissed Jim Comey's case, OR the evidence that Halligan was unlawfully appointed AND the evidence that EDVA knew they had no probable cause against Comey will be public.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/11/p...

Prosecutors Sucking Lemons in Their Vindictive Prosecution of Jim Comey - emptywheel

Unless prosecutors find a way to make the Jim Comey prosecution go away, in nine days, we'll get details (in the Vindictive and Selective Prosecution motion) of the efforts Trump has already made to p...

www.emptywheel.net

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Lisa Glass @lmplusg.bsky.social · 10h

“The worst of the worst”

Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 15h

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

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Alissa McLean @alissakmclean.bsky.social · 10h

No

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19h

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 21h

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 12h

Also, the US will never support accountability unless we can make this more toxic than it is now, which should involve a concerted effort to make Stephen Miller's pathologies visible, especially now that Trump is feeble and Wormtongue is pushing him to do especially illegal things.

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 22h

She be so quick with it. 🤣🤣🤣

Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

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