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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 8h

"When subsidies disappear, and a lot of these people find that their health insurance is suddenly unaffordable, you’re not going to have very many of them saying, 'It’s OK, because at least we’ve kept those illegal aliens from going to the emergency room.' They’re going to scream bloody murder."

Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene Tirade Wrecks Trump Shutdown Stance

As Greene admits the GOP is screwing the country on health care, a leading congressional scholar explains how Greene accidentally revealed the surprising weakness of Trump’s position in the shutdown standoff.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 8h

Leadership looks like repeating the truth again and again and refusing to back down to bullies and pressure.

It looks like using your platform and leverage-- whatever it may be -- for the larger good.

So grateful to Pritzker and everyone else modeling this now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "You just heard a tidal wave of lies from the VP. It's a bit shocking. And you heard over & over him just making things up. There's a reason why the judge here in federal court said that they admin lacks credibility and why even the Nobel committee chair said the admin lacks integrity."

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

At least 6 vehicles racing through a quiet suburban neighborhood; multiple agents, all of them armed and masked.

the excessive response plus the violence against this 15 year old girl is outrageous.

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Gloria Caryopter @caryopter.bsky.social · 8h

Local police car identified her home, then snuck away!

Where are the neighbors? Hiding in their homes and letting this happen to a 15-yr-old. Good Germans, every one of them.

Shame, shame, shame!

https://brucemulkey.com/2025/02/04/good-germans-good-americans/

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 8h

Reverend David Black, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying at the armed agents above him before being shot in the head with a pepper ball at least twice and falling to his knees.

Black said he could hear ICE laughing. trib.al/9Nstfnp

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical.

Thinking it isn’t, is.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 10h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

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Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 9h

The New York Times knows crime is not “out of control” in major U.S. cities — in fact, crime is way down from past years and decades — but NYT amplifies JD Vance’s lie without a fact check.
It’s journalism malpractice that helps the fascists.

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Gloria Caryopter @caryopter.bsky.social · 9h

OT, but when did "gaggle" become a verb? 🤔

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

The federal food program helping more than 1 in 4 young children access fresh produce, milk, and formula will run out of funding next week.

Over 5 million children could lose food assistance — all thanks to the Trump-Republican shutdown.

The cruelty is endless.

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Gloria Caryopter @caryopter.bsky.social · 9h

Can someone explain to me why, in economic hard times, Republicans want to cut food stamps? Why make it hard for families to feed their kids?

If they must cut the food stamp program, why not do it in good times, when fewer Americans would starve?

2014, during Great Recession: tinyurl.com/mwhpuap4

Ryan Budget Would Slash SNAP by $137 Billion Over Ten Years | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s budget plan includes cuts in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program) of $137 billion — 18...

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Justin Elliott @justinelliott.bsky.social · 14h

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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

Chicago not letting Portland have all the fun 🐧

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 16h

This is Trump's America

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Gloria Caryopter @caryopter.bsky.social · 16h

🗳️ PA voter? Pass it on!

Three Democratic justices—Christine Donohue, Kevin Dougherty, and David Wecht—are up for retention.

Republicans are mounting an unusual effort to oust them and deprive Democrats of the court majority they’ve enjoyed for the last decade.
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Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Chris Murphy: "Republicans are boycotting negotiations to reopen the govt bc they're desperate to raise premiums on people by 75% in order to finance their tax cut for the wealthy. The other reason House isn't in town? They're about to have enough votes to mandate the release of the Epstein files."

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like ICE again has a big, hot mess on its hands. This time with the arrest of a Chicago TV station employee.
Witnesses say Debbie Brockman was just standing nearby when ICE roared up. She was later released from custody without charge....now this:

Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

Border Patrol Chief Greg Bovino said today that Brockman has “charges pending.” He also posted a photo of her in the ICE minivan after she was detained.

I asked how she wasn’t charged right away if she assaulted officers and what the charges will be but he hasn’t replied.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 18h

Let's not let anyone get away with pretending ICE is at any disadvantage here. These guys travel in big packs- usually 6+ unmarked vehicles; carrying dozens of war zone ready men, masked and heavily armed. ICE is the predator going after regular people and peaceful protestors.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Jim Jordan after he's played clips from videos of ICE brutalizing people, including American citizens: "I don't know the specifics of those examples you gave. What I do know is these ICE agents are under tremendous pressure ... I think they're doing a good job."

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Gloria Caryopter @caryopter.bsky.social · 17h

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ripped President Donald Trump on Saturday over the ongoing government shutdown, saying government employees have been “used as hostages” by the president as Republicans and Democrats bicker over a deal.
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‘Used as Hostages!’: Chuck Schumer Shreds Trump Over Gov Worker Layoffs - NewsBreak

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said President Donald Trump has used government employees "as hostages" while Republicans and Democrats bicker over the shutdown

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Gloria Caryopter @caryopter.bsky.social · 17h

Former Vice President Kamala Harris ripped President Donald Trump’s Justice Department in a new MSNBC interview, accusing it of targeting people “because of who they are, or, for that matter, what they look like.”
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Kamala Harris Slams Trump DOJ In New MSNBC Interview: Targeting People For ‘What They Look Like’ - NewsBreak

Former Vice President Kamala Harris ripped President Donald Trump’s Justice Department in a new MSNBC interview, accusing it of targeting people “because o

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Gloria Caryopter @caryopter.bsky.social · 17h

"Bobby Kennedy is gonna kill more people than any cabinet secretary, maybe in history with his idiotic vaccine policy, which is the greatest public health innovation in the history of the world, vaccines.”
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James Carville Tells Fox News RFK Jr. ‘Is Going to Kill More People Than Any Cabinet Secretary Maybe in History’ - NewsBreak

Democratic strategist James Carville claimed on Fox News that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “going to kill more people than

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Gloria Caryopter @caryopter.bsky.social · 1d

I've often said to Dem campaign vols whose commitment wavered over a single issue: First we have to win. Then we hold their feet to the fire over on our own issues.

Now more than ever, we have to win. 💪

Gloria Caryopter @caryopter.bsky.social · 1d

VIDEO: ICE agents shoot Chicago pastor in head with pepper ball wgntv.com/news/video-i...

Shot in the head with pepper spray
This is Trump's America
Ann Telnaes Oct 11, 2025

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