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Dan Carney @dancarney.bsky.social · 9h

They are really shockingly fantastic. Completely reengineer a car with independent rear suspension and it is amazing what you can accomplish. Also the brakes are stellar. Absolutely track-ready.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 10h

The search on Mar-a-Lago happened in August 2022. Jack Smith was appointed Special Counsel in November 2022.

Time, how does it work

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

Fair point. When I send invoices for freelance pieces, I'm often asked to include whether I prefer to be paid through direct deposit, a paper check, or cold hard cash in a Cava bag at a pre-arranged drop site.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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NPR @npr.org · 10h

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

Need a laptop? This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10h

Steve Bannon: I think there are many different alternatives we’ll roll out after the midterms to make sure President Trump is on the ballot in 2028. And if he’s on the ballot, he’ll win.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10h

WSJ: “Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an ‘iron fist’, according to people who have heard the comments.

Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 13h

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.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

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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NPR @npr.org · 12h

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

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Will Beaman @greenbackbetter.bsky.social · 12h

It’s now routine for pundits to ask Mamdani, Pritzker etc. if they are afraid Trump will arrest them, kill them, etc.

And somehow it doesn’t disrupt the horse race bit—they ask it like it’s a government shutdown or poll numbers.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 12h

This is the definition of an ad hominem argument.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

STEPHANOPOULOS: ProPublica reported that several members of the Trump administation have similar questions about their mortgages

VANCE: ProPublica is basically a left-wing blog

S: Do you dispute the facts they reported?

VANCE: I haven't read it. I have no idea. I certainly question the source

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Dan Carney @dancarney.bsky.social · 14h

winning

Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 14h

Mali has announced that US nationals visiting the West African country will be required to post a bond of up to $10,000 (£7,500) for business and tourist visas, in response to a similar requirement the Trump administration has imposed on its citizens:

Mali imposes $10,000 visa bond on US visitors in reciprocal move

The West African state says it has introduced an "identical visa programme" for US travellers.

www.bbc.com

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Phase Blowly @phaseblowly.bsky.social · 14h

“IT’S OK, EVERYONE. I ALREADY BOUGHT THE DIP. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.”

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

“Don't worry about China, it will all be fine! Highly respected President Xi just had a bad moment.”

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 18h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 14h

Meritocracy under Trump

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Dan Carney @dancarney.bsky.social · 14h

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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 14h

Suzi Quatro, Detroit 1974, by Bob Gruen. #SuziQuatro

Suzi Quatro, Detroit 1974, holding her bass guitar

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 17h

I hate how accurate this is

Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 24d

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 24d

If this is what it took for you to be pushed into fascism you were probably already there

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Dan Carney @dancarney.bsky.social · 17h

Did it fall out a window?

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 17h

Friends,I've seen information regarding a possible accident on a Russian submarine.Does anyone have any updated information on the current location&state of that submarine?

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Dan Carney @dancarney.bsky.social · 19h

Hey, I did that too! I ultimately tracked down two cases of it.

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Dan Carney @dancarney.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Thanksgiving, cuz!

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 19h

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Argentina. Qatar. Trump is selling out America, piece by piece. Where did America First go?

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021."

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 1d

“This is the first time I’ve seen so many pregnant people in [ICE] detention,” said Tania Wolf, the Southeast advocacy manager at the National Immigration Project. interc.pt/48WWErA

A photo of a sign offering families help locating their relatives hanging outside of an immigrant detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, on Oct. 2, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "The Trump Administration Is Hiding How Many Pregnant People Are in ICE Detention," and the DEK, "The evidence indicates ICE is detaining pregnant women at alarming rates, in rapidly deteriorating conditions."

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Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @ramirez.house.gov · 1d

The greatest threat to public safety in our communities right now is ICE.

Recklessly driving and dragging women at gun point out of cars is not making anyone safer. They are putting all of us in harms way. ICE is a terror force. I am working to defund it.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Video: Suzie rizzio via X (@Suzierizzo1)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism.
They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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