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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12h

Work harder and die

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · 21h

As someone whose professional interests have overlapped heavily with Przeworski's, I felt (and concurred with) this bit: "The brutal fact that we find it so difficult to predict what will happen under our current circumstances is evidence that we do not have theories we can rely on."

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6h

Translation: they gave him a plane and filled his family’s pockets

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 8h

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 10h

Sounds like Trump’s been reading My newsletter.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 20h

States need to start charging ICE officers with state crimes whenever they commit them, which appears to be constantly.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jun 21

"ICE" beating man during arrest in Santa Ana California.

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David Schwartz @davidschwartz.bsky.social · 21h

"Roei was murdered on October 7 and died yesterday." 💔

Nova survivor dies by suicide, 2 years after girlfriend was killed in front of him

Roei Shalev's body found in burning car soon after anniversary of Mapal Adam's October 7 murder; Nova organization urges awareness of mental toll on survivors, bereaved

www.timesofisrael.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 10h

My opponent voted against protecting the right to buy birth control.

Virginia, as Governor, I will sign the Right to Contraception Act into law.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Thinking this is wrong and untenable isn’t radical.

Thinking it isn’t, is.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 11h

There is no insurrection in Portland unless you consider an uptick of people wearing inflatable frog costumes an insurrection.

No one is falling for this absurd propaganda, and there is NO justification for deploying our troops against peaceful American citizens.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

WELKER: Are you looking at invoking the Insurrection Act?

VANCE: We have to remember we are talking about this bc crime has gotten out of control

W: Crime is down in both Chicago & Portland

V: Crime is down bc they are so overwhelmed at the local level they are not even keeping stats properly

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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 10h

Was this live? Why would they put this out? Also, given what’s suggested by his aggressive coverup of the Epstein files, yeah, there’s good reason for him to admit he’s never coming close to heaven.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10h

Follow ups and not tolerating lies and bullshit.

Imagine if corporate media did this for 10 years.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

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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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10h

He's got the Grim Reaper looking over one shoulder and the Ghost of Epstein Past looking over the other

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Dasha Burns said she talked with Trump on the phone 4 days ago. But now he doesn’t know who she is 🤔

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

This is a fantastic statement from the governor of Washington, but I can't get past the fact that the man who's standing up to the right-wing anti-immigrant machine is named ...

Bob Ferguson?

Seriously?

Does he have a daughter named Willa?

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 12h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17h

That is different from what the admin said. They claimed it was coming out of DOD R&D funds. Tariff money cannot be touched by the Trump Regime without congressional approval.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 11h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 19h

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h

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

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 11h

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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