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Conrad Lange Zbikowski @czbi.org · 1d

No Kings Twin Cities is this Saturday at The Commons park. Meet us at 1 pm and will march around 2 pm. Bring your unpaid family, friends, and co-conspirators along for a fun and family friendly event. I will definitely be wearing this goofy and nerdy inflatable unicorn costume. Let’s celebrate joy!

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 8h

Supercharged with racially-motivated quotas

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

I asked ICE why they couldn’t comment on their own arrest. The agent said to direct questions to DHS. And it appears DHS is making accusations via X to justify the abduction of a child.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 1d

A thing I have learned from being online since 1995:

If you're a writer, editor, journalist, academic, you have to be ready to go contrarian when you feel it. And if you're feeling it all the time, such that it's become your idenitity, that's a signal. You broke your mind.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

I make the Radio Rwanda comparison because my sense is that if a peaceful protester is killed by feds in Portland, OR; it seems more likely than not that Oregon Republicans would express little to no concern about it. They've so dehumanized Portlanders and "the left" that they'd shrug off murder.

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 1d

Did Zack not realize that conservatives have never actually cared about “free speech,” and have always actually worked to limit speech they don’t like?

Has Zack not been paying attention to - the world and the things these people say and do in it?

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

"While Trump came to office promising to restore free speech, particularly on college campuses and on social media, he's now engaged in a multi-front war over what people can say in the US," writes Zachary B. Wolf | Analysis
https://cnn.it/4q1uOkl

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 1d

No reason to pay attention to someone just realizing, or pretending to realize, that those arguments were in bad faith

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

I can't emphasize how important it is for people to understand that unless something FAR BIGGER than an election win happens, this is a pipe dream.

It would take quite a bit to get past qualified immunity.

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 2d

I can't emphasize enough how important it is that the next attorney general set a team to go through ICE records with a fine tooth comb and prosecute individual agents.

It's the only way to stop this from happening again.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 2d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 3d

Lincoln called out confederate revisionism before the war even ended.

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 3d

A city that burns down every night.

I mean, if we're just going to do this myth, Phoenix is *right there*

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 3d

If only that were true!

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 3d

The sooner we acknowledge that the rules for acceptable behavior for Democrats and Republicans are not the same, the faster we’ll get through the wasteland.

m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 3d

every political reporter knows that the jay jones text are on the tame end of how politicians talk in private, not to mention tamer than how trump and his associates talk in public

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 3d

We might soon have a Tienenman Square situation or maybe an Oklahoma City. Possibly some mixture, which I suppose would be a Kristallnacht. Maybe I should start a pool. Either way, I'll be there in Chicago on October 18 with a bright white shirt like Harvey Milk wore to rallies. We shall overcome.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Mike Johnson: "This hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they're all gonna gather on the Mall. It is an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes ... all this has gotta come to an end."

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Minnesota 50501 @mn50501.bsky.social · 3d

Fox has never been news, but it’s now essentially Trump state media, existing only to divide and deceive. Every lie they spread weakens our democracy and fuels hate.

We’re out in Eden Prairie every Saturday to show that truth still matters and the people won’t be silenced.

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 3d

i have ordered a frog costume for the science of finding out how size inclusive it is, i am NEVER intending on wearing it in public or attending a protest in it or doing anything unbecoming of a LADY

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 3d

guys can we do frogs everywhere? please i need a frog uprising

you know…before we croak

we need a jump in activism

a ribbit revolution

vive les grenouilles libres!

Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 3d

“Multiplying protest frogs” 🤣

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 4d

And, the most courageous, resilient

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 4d

in case you wanted to read something not from this administration about what antifa is and isn't

buttondown.com/theswordandt...

We Keep Us Safe: On Antifa

This past Saturday, Donald Trump announced that his administration would be deploying federal troops to Portland, OR, authorizing the military to use “full...

buttondown.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 6d

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3242):

"a cleansing"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5d

Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3243):

Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 5d

That's an unbelievably insane thing to punt on.

The fact that he can't say 'no' to what would be a clear authoritarian act is terrifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Eric Beckman @erbeckman.bsky.social · 5d

As my grandmother would say, this guy's a lying sack of shit

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5d

This Prime Day, when even reputable media does a blitz for you to buy, remember, remember Bartleby the Scrivener: you can always respond "I would prefer not to"

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5d

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Indivisible Twin Cities @indivistwincities.bsky.social · 6d

We’re tired of the bullsh**! See you at No Kings Twin Cities on Oct 18 in downtown Minneapolis. www.mobilize.us/indivisiblet... @womensmarchmn.bsky.social @mn50501.bsky.social @mnaflcio.org @indivisible.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d

The authoritarian threat is not just at the federal level

Robert Downen @robertdownen.bsky.social · 6d

Citing the “martyrdom” of Charlie Kirk, Texas AG Ken Paxton says his office is pursuing sweeping undercover investigations into “leftist” groups. “To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."

"Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people," said Attorney General Paxton. "The martyrdom of Charlie Kirk marks a turning point in America.
There can be no compromise with those who want us dead. To that end, I have directed my office to continue its efforts to identify, investigate, and infiltrate these leftist terror cells. To those demented souls who seek to kill, steal, and destroy our country, know this: you cannot hide, you cannot escape, and justice is coming."
The radical Left has incubated an environment where political violence is not only justified but celebrated and praised. In July, nearly two dozen armed leftists connected to various Texas-based Antifa-like groups ambushed an Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE") facility in Alvarado, Texas. On September 10, 2025, a leftist assassin connected to the radical transgender movement murdered Charlie Kirk because of Kirk's bold support for truth, love of country, and unshakable faith. Two weeks later, another deranged leftist opened fire at an ICE facility in Dallas.
President Donald Trump has officially designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and instructed his administration to "utilize all applicable authorities to investigate, disrupt, and dismantle any and all illegal operations — especially those involving terrorist actions — conducted by Antifa." Building on President Trump's bold actions, Attorney General Paxton has instructed his office to initiate sweeping investigations into radical leftist organizations engaged in or providing support to those performing political violence.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 6d

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 6d

One thing about American's widespread distrust and disapproval of the Supreme Court is that mainstream news coverage mostly doesn't dwell on stuff like standing, so people don't even begin to grasp how rigged the Court truly is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

www.nytimes.com

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