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Don MacLeod @diamacleod.bsky.social · 3h

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 7h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

Don MacLeod @diamacleod.bsky.social · 3h

"Black is named as one of multiple clergy and faith-based demonstrators who, lawyers argue, have fallen victim to violence that violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act." religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

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Benjamin Wittes @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org · 7h

The Situation, October 9, 2025

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Situation: Three Thoughts on the Comey Arraignment

I’ve never seen an arraignment hearing quite like this one.

www.lawfaremedia.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Ardem Patapoutian @ardemp.bskyverified.social · 5h

"Immigrants, we get the job done"

www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 14h

Smotrich issues a preemptive statement about how he intends not to honor the peace deal that Trump has brokered.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2d

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 4d

She was arrested for holding a sign reading:

“I do not support the proscription of Palestine Action”

How that would warrant arrest is very unclear. I wonder if the police here even understand the boundaries of the bizarre law they’ve been forced to enforce.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

The only thing anyone needs to know about Bari Weiss is that she first came to national attention trying to get a Middle East Studies professor at Columbia fired for anti-Israel views, and yet somehow huge amounts of the US media elite think she is committed to "free speech" and "heterodoxy."

Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 3d

The NYT's Michael Grynbaum reported that this is the note that Bari Weiss sent to CBS News staffers this morning (1/2)

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 2d

"It is going to be disastrous if this continues"

Nobel Prize physics laureate John Clarke says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US scientific research

u.afp.com/SmAy

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Don MacLeod @diamacleod.bsky.social · 2d

...but thanks, chaps, the past half-century has been absolutely brilliant!

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

One of the most detailed accounts of the Nacht- und Nebel style raid at a Lakeshore Drive apartment building to appear thus far. southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Don MacLeod @diamacleod.bsky.social · 2d

"Separating them by race into vans" is one of a host of disturbing details

Don MacLeod @diamacleod.bsky.social · 2d

Intriguing, for sure: jwa.org/encyclopedia...

Ruth Nanda Anshen | Jewish Women's Archive

Ruth Nanda Anshen, twentieth-century philosopher, lecturer, and author, was an “intellectual instigator” for such writers of genius and eminent thinkers as physicist Albert Einstein, scientist Jonas S...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 2d

Aleksandr Dugin, Putin's brain, looks in the mirror and sees war, war and more war in Russia's future. And he's convinced this is a wonderful thing: “What awaits Russia in future? War awaits Russia. We must turn towards war. It is woven into the pattern of our destiny."

Putin's philosopher exalts war

“Russia’s War” is the latest literary offering from Russia’s favourite crank philosopher, Alexander Dugin. It is not a book about Russia’s war against Ukraine. It is a book about wars and warriors as ...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 2d

This is out of hand. These agents are there to cause trouble and violence, not to keep people safe. These are the scenes that play out in war torn, destitute countries - not America.

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Don MacLeod @diamacleod.bsky.social · 2d

Eloquent: "Science and expertise have taken a back seat to ideology and misinformation." wapo.st/3VTALll

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr.

We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 3d

this is a very very big story because of the apparently totally fake story ICE/DHS put out about what happened.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 3d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 3d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3d

Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”

Gov. JB Pritzker’s letter to the National Governors Association

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 3d

Stephen Miller is a dangerous madman living in a world of his own making. I really can’t believe there isn’t more discourse around the madness we are witnessing each day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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JakeForeverRandom ♾️ @jake4everrandom.bsky.social · 4d

Disgusting thing to say. Almost every vet I've met has agreed. We should have never been in Vietnam. 58,000+ U.S. deaths to "contain communism" aka 1–2 million civilian deaths across North and South Vietnam. Pure evil to say we should have done even more.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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