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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6h

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 8h

🚨🚨🚨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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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 6h

If the data doesn't confirm the unhinged despot's lies, the data has failed him and must be wrong, says Very Serious Intellectual JD Vance

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 11h

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 6h

obviously, criticizing Israel genocide is not antisemitic. when someone has a history of babbling about Jewish space lasers, though, it's fair to suspect that that may have an impact on the rest of their thinking.

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Kenny Stewart @kennystew.art · 2d

In a weird sort of way the left stealing frog memery from the right is one of the most encouraging things that’s happened politically in a while.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 9h

As we get more reports of ICE thugs detaining Americans, it should be noted that Timothy Snyder made it crystal clear from the onset of ICE raids that NO ONE would be safe.

People tell ICE: "I'm an American." They illegally detain us anyway.

Bc WE already let them erode due process for immigrants.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Ramon Zarate @oldsun.bsky.social · 11h

This is only 25km from where an Estonian security service officer was kidnapped in 2014 by the FSB in a raid across the border and jailed in Lefortovo prison

auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 1d

Estonia has closed off a road/border passing through Russia after larger than usual groups of troops have been spotted.

Comment: I am hard pressed to find any insignia on those filmed and SE news claims "little green men".

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7h

BBC News, "In this world of rubble, they're finding many more dead Palestinians in areas the Israelis left"

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 7h

Stark, in black and white, unadorned.

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 7h

Important to see this while the guilty, the complicit, and the fellow travelers congratulate themselves 👇

Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 8h

In tomorrow's paper: As Israel continues to deny genocide after the ceasefire, we publish the damning words from Israeli politicians and media showing how the atrocity came to pass.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 8h

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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Laura Webster @lauraewebster.bsky.social · 8h

In tomorrow's paper: As Israel continues to deny genocide after the ceasefire, we publish the damning words from Israeli politicians and media showing how the atrocity came to pass.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 8h

A first look at tomorrow's front page of The National 📰

How genocide happened

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 8h

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

trib.al

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

the killdozer guy became this only semi-ironic epic hero for the average man who will be oppressed no longer, which is funny, because if you read anything about the background it becomes like 100% clear that he was in the wrong. Which makes sense! His actions are not those of a reasonable person!

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 11h

Here is our full story that Vance is dismissing, with primary source documents showing Trump cabinet members with multiple primary-residence mortgages

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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Donna Ladd said what she said. 😘 @donnerkay.bsky.social · 7h

Read if you haven’t. Reported and written by teenagers of the @youthmediaproject.bsky.social.

Seriously, read to the end.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 2d

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 8h

She looks in the mirror and sees a dissident

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

pro Palestinian protestors were at the RNC. pro Palestinian protestors were just in DC. pro Palestinian protestors interrupted Trump's dinner a couple weeks ago.

you know you're in the wrong here, and you're spinning and thrashing. it's a bad look.

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 8h

Disgraceful display

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10h

In #Odesa, the choir and audience continued the performance in the shelter of the Philharmonic Theater despite a Russian attack.

📹: y.krasinskyi

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 11h

Another article that does not interview a single Palestinian.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/w...

A Test Now for Israel: Can It Repair Its Ties to Americans?

www.nytimes.com

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 11h

This is why they will never be satisfied by political power, no matter how absolute and unchecked it is. They will always be perpetually aggrieved against the mere existence of cultural trends and civil society they dislike, and thus even more determined to use the government to stamp them out.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 15h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 11h

this post is a lesson in how much effort with words goes into kissing ass in public, single-handedly taking on the bluesky 'mob'
not everyone has this sort of talent

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 12h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

Ian Black @balmachreuchie.bsky.social · 11h

'amazed' lol

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Carolyn Ownbey, PhD @carolynownbey.bsky.social · 13h

If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important.

The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.

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