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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2h

Bunts and intentional walks are so dishonorable.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2h

Be careful out there.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

This is AI.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 3h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

This is AI.

Jenn Budd @jennbudd.bsky.social · 3h

Seems like they are going after reporters who are women. They hit one w/pepper spray ammo in her car, the WGN reporter and now this.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2h

Bunting is for cowards. This is baseball. You're a professional hitter. Stand and deliver. I will die on this hill.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2h

Not a lawyer, so I'm not familiar with contemporary discourse on the topic, but there oughta be a cost imposed on law enforcement when an arrest doesn't result in charges.

It was a wrongful arrest. That should be illegal. THAT should result in charges against the arresting officers.

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 7h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3h

Gotta be

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3h

You would think maybe one media outlet could not only assert that this isn't true, but also make a big, multi-day story out of the fact the U.S. president believes a perfectly fine, major American city is a burning, dystopian hellscape

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h

This kind of partisan political message, under the guise of a public service announcement, is illegal on several levels.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 5h

It's really sad how people struggling to free or defend their countries, like Zelensky and this woman, have to repeatedly debase themselves in front of this man because there is no longer any responsible leader of the Free World.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5h

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h

Welcome to America, where peaceful protesters get tear-gassed and thrown to the ground like ragdolls.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 6h

That sound you hear is plaintiff lawyers popping champagne corks and DOJ lawyers groaning.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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Pam Spaulding @pamspaulding.bsky.social · 5h

This kind of kidnapping, whether it's otherwise law-abiding undocumented workers, or 🇺🇸 citizens, ICE thugs act like they get a bounty per head (they already get a $50K signing bonus), these goons would have been slave catchers back in the day.

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Bynum Demands End to ICE Raids After U.S. Citizen Allegedly Abducted by Masked Agents
Bynum compares ICE’s conduct to U.S. Marshals hunting down Black Americans under the Fugitive Slave Act.
By Anthony Effinger
October 09, 2025 3:34PM PDT

One of the ICE agents who apprehended Frank Miranda, a U.S. citizen, on Oct. 2, 2025 (courtesy of Frank Miranda). (Frank Miranda)

U.S. Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Ore.) called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop abducting her constituents, a week after ICE agents apprehended a Milwaukie man born in California on his way to work and detained him for part of the day.

“These ICE raids are reminiscent of the Fugitive Slave Act, when the U.S. Marshals would hunt down and kidnap Black Americans,” Bynum said in a statement. “That was a dark and shameful time in our nation’s history—we must not allow that to repeat. Masked federal agents aren’t welcome in our state and they can’t keep kidnapping Americans.”

https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/10/09/bynum-demands-end-to-ice-raids-after-us-citizen-allegedly-abducted-by-masked-agents/

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah. TikTok is out. It's an arm of the ruling fascist party at this point.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8h

Trump took money from my U.S. business through tariffs, then gave it directly to the Argentinian government. America First!
www.reuters.com/commentary/b...

Reuters: Argentina bailout imperils the U.S. purse either way
Oct 10 2025

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8h

Immigration was culturally patriotic not that long ago. Dems really need to seize on it. It's there.

Youngsters, listen to this and tell me you don't want to go wave the flag and welcome an immigrant.

Neil Diamond - America (From "The Jazz Singer" Soundtrack / Audio)

YouTube video by neildiamondVEVO

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8h

Agree. Then do the same with immigration.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8h

Democrats need to go as hard branding protest as patriotism as Republicans are labeling it all insurrection.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 8h

Business community just loving this

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 8h

Breaking: President Trump said he will hit China with an additional 100% tariff and impose new export controls on critical software products, starting Nov. 1.

Trump Hits China With Additional 100% Tariff, Citing Restrictions on Rare-Earth Elements

President Trump said there was “no reason” to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping after the country’s newest restrictions on rare-earth materials marked an escalation in trade negotiations.

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🧟‍♂️ Sharin’ Zombies 🧟 @sharonz.bsky.social · 8h

The people: make an appliance that lasts longer than 5 years! Give us perpetual cell phone battery service!

AI evangelists: plagiarism machine go brrrrrrr.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9h

Correction: The Virginia state candidate who cracked an extremely old joke

Clay Ranck @clayranck.bsky.social · 9h

Wait, the joke Jay Jones used that's from the 1950's? They're really crying about that? Republicans really are the softest, most fragile people on earth.

When owner Walter O’Malley announced in 1957 that he would move the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, many New Yorkers decided he was ‘a money-grubbing weasel who ripped the soul from their community.’ That’s how David Davis describes the enmity the move generated in his review of ‘Forever Blue: The True Story of Walter O’Malley, Baseball’s Most Controversial Owner, and the Dodgers of Brooklyn and Los Angeles’ by Michael D’Antonio.

D’Antonio makes the case, Davis says, that O’Malley was driven to leave New York by Robert Moses, who wouldn’t give him enough land for a new ballpark. But that rationale won’t satisfy those who repeat the joke, ‘If Stalin, Hitler and O’Malley are in a room and you only have two bullets, who do you shoot?’ (The answer: ‘O’Malley, twice.’)

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9h

Oh right. The Virginia state candidate who threatened to kill someone years ago or whatever. 🤷‍♂️

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9h

That's also not to say I'm the norm, either. But we are all very silo'ed off from each and consuming vastly different sets of news.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9h

Not a knock on Dave, but I have no idea who Jay Jones is

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 9h

My basic read on the politics here.

1) The Kirk assassination kicked off a "Dems are violent terrorists" campaign.

2) The Jimmy Kimmel debacle hurt that campaign; didn't have public buy-in for the idea that comedians were inciting violence.

3) The Jay Jones texts rebooted this campaign.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9h

I'll also just add: This has essentially been my theory of Democratic politics for years. There are two types of Democrats: Those who've had something stolen from them by Republicans and those who haven't. This is the dividing line between aggressive Dems and bipartisan, milquetoast Dems.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 9h

I don't know if this will result in a political revolution, but there's no doubt that Trump is radicalizing Americans at a far greater rate than Bush ever did. So we shall see what happens.

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