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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 10h

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 21h

somebody on twitter had collected (many) instances of this, where people (often western journalists) will find any ridiculous euphemism in the world to refer to Palestinian children in order to avoid saying outright that Israel imprisons children

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 21h

Epitome of the art form

Screenshot of a tweet by @Lowkey0nline with a pull quote above a SkyNews video in which the anchor says "Accidentally, a bullet found its way into the van and killed a 3- or 4-year-old young lady." The tweet goes on to say "He is describing Israel killing a Palestinian child."

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There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 8h

Not Israel. No way

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 21h

Netanyahu's mouthpiece, Amit Segal, casually admits on Twitter that his country has been holding 1,700 people from Gaza hostage, including children.

Among other things, according to the decision:

- 250 security prisoners will be released.
- 1,700 residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre will be released.
- 22 minors under the age of 18, residents of the Gaza Strip who were not involved in the events of October 7 and were arrested after the massacre, will be released.
- 360 bodies of terrorists will be returned.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 14h

Finally figured it out

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Daily Trix @dailytrix.bsky.social · 13h

Totally beside the point, but why the fuck are we paying for government employees to stay at a Ritz-Carlton?!

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12h

this guy? i don’t believe it

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qtcoffee.bsky.social @qtcoffee.bsky.social · 13h

Scumbags of a feather....

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

One way of thinking about the Trump administration is that the worst people in American government are pushing out the best people in American government
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Their interview, described in a federal lawsuit filed last week by Mr. Driscoll and two other recently fired senior FBI officials, began with benign questions about the gravest threats to the nation and possible adjustments to the FBI's structure, but then took a swerve: Who had Mr. Driscoll voted for? When did he start supporting President Donald J. Trump? And had he voted for a Democrat in the past five elections? He declined to answer those three, noting to the 29-year-old attorney and former podcaster that the questions were inappropriate and potentially violative of the Hatch Act.

Mr. Ingrassia asked another question that would in the ensuing weeks take on greater significance: Did Mr. Driscoll think the FBI agents who had "stormed" Mar-a-Lago in August 2022 should be held accountable? Mr. Driscoll said no, since they had been executing legal search warrants.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

"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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

"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...

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Jonathan @frakitall.bsky.social · 12h

Since when did Oregon start using the Policia?

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 15h

So Scott Leiendecker's company KNOWiNK has a lot more GOP operatives working for it at high levels than I've seen anyone report yet.

-The Chief Strategy Officer was a campaign GOP consultant, working for Mike Huckabee and others.
-More than one KNOWiNK employee worked on Ed Martin's 2012 campaign/

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 18h

Oh www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

CNN headline: Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting
Systems, says he'll push for paper ballots

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 10h

Missouri's Republican attorney general is trying to get the medical records of Planned Parenthood patients who've had abortions, officials who oversee clinics in Kansas City and St. Louis said in legal filings.

Abortion Providers Say Missouri's Attorney General Is Trying to Get Patient Records

The fight over subpoenas is playing out in a lawsuit filed last year

www.medpagetoday.com

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Hookcity - 🚫“War Plan” DMs Please 👊🏻🇺🇸🔥 🫣 @hookcity.bsky.social · 12h

#kristinoem back at it again. These videos really just write themselves at this point.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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The David Pakman Show @thedavidpakmanshow.bsky.social · 1d

Dick Durbin pressed Pam Bondi on the Epstein files and she fell apart trying to dodge

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 12h

9th Circuit just made anti-SLAPP laws (like the good ones in California and Nevada) a lot less effective. This is going to lead to a ton of suppressed speech. Stupid and dangerous. Especially now.

We need a federal anti-SLAPP law now. And we won't get one.

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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 12h

Mark Bray and Yesenia Barragan, and the family, have safely embarked on their trip to Spain after being questioned by DHS.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 19h

I want an unprecedented meltdown on the right so I want Greta Thunberg to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 14h

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.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h

Important discovery fight taking shape in Kilmar Abrego Garcia's criminal case.

The question: Can the government assert privilege to avoid handing over documents that may be relevant to a defendant's vindictive prosecution claim?

Abrego's counsel says no.

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

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 14h

“The Founders would never believe that it would ever come to pass that one state militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution”

THAT PART!

Thank you, Judge Perry.

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There Are Bot @diogeneslamp.bsky.social · 10h

* There are

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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