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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6h

Here's what prosecutors--PROSECUTORS!!!--said last week about why they had not given Sydney Reid video to her alleged assault of an FBI agent.

She's seeking to get her case thrown out before it goes to trial this week.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There can be little doubt that the government failed in its duties, first by failing to collect
contemporaneous statements and other information from the officers from the incident and then
by neglecting to supervise the collection of that information, by relying on the officers’ conclusion
as to what is relevant and not relevant. Still, the government persists in trying to blame the defense.
Even at the hearing, the government deflected blame: “The ambiguity, I think, that arises here is
that we are trying to construct a very mundane incident three months after it happened involving,
I guess for lack of a better word, middle-aged people who just aren't great with technology, just
like everyone else in this courtroom.” Tr. at 10/10/25 at 14

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 10h

I once got a youtube ad about how migrants should just turn themselves in to be deported. The fact they had an ad begging people to leave screams how little manpower they have

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 12h

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 11h

a near 15% increase of sales in hamburger helper jesus christ.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h

Arguably, Trump 2.0 is all about stochastic authoritarianism.

He lacks the ability to punish multiple cities with an iron fist. He can't even really punish all of ONE with an iron fist. ICE and associated unnamed Fed LEOs roam Chicago, but only strike a limited number of places at a time.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h

The lengths of self-protection Chicagoans have to undertake is criminal. What constant pulsing background fear that masked armed agenst raiding, say, schools does to kids and everyone else is real, and destructive.

But thin manpower gives room for real resistance--as we also see in Chicago.

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Craig R. Brittain @craigbrittain.com · 13h

Zohran Mamdani: For all those who say, our time is coming. My friends - our time is now.

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Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 12h

great!

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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 12h

Washington Post headline “Despite Democratic narrative, majority of Americans say groceries are not harder to afford than a year ago”

Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 12h

great!

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 12h

I love this for Russia

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

$WTI CRUDE IS NOW BELOW $60 A BARREL!

A chart showing that on October 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM, WTI Crude is priced at $58.37 a barrell, down $2.66 and 4.36 percent.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19h

yeah i don't think i ever appreciate how well constrained Trump was during his first term and how everyone kinda assumed that would happen again without putting in any of the work

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h

The siren call of electoral strategy and analysis partially crowded out work on things like law, organizational resistance, and protest. I blame myself, too

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 12h

In hindsight, it's clear COVID broke everyone's brains and that includes Trump and his goons. They have obsessed over 2020 as the "what I should have done" and it's consumed them that they're repeating all the bad moves and it's exploding in their faces.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12h

I actually think Trump himself was also significantly more constrained in his first term. He actually acted like a politician who believed in certain political gravities and got rid of people who made things a clown show.

He's basically diminished significantly and become a golem of insecurity

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 19h

yeah i don't think i ever appreciate how well constrained Trump was during his first term and how everyone kinda assumed that would happen again without putting in any of the work

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23h

The siren call of electoral strategy and analysis partially crowded out work on things like law, organizational resistance, and protest. I blame myself, too

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 16h

I can't help but notice that some of the people who loudly said it was slander to accuse them of helping Trump to harm Democrats as punishment for how they voted in the 16 primary are some of the strongest proponents of harming Red staters as punishment for how they voted in the 24 general.

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 19h

These types were happy when Trump won last year because it allowed them to say "see, liberals didn't really win in 2020, they just delayed an even worse disaster!" So when liberalism defeats Trump *again*, these guys will feel twice as humiliated, and they're preemptively taking it out on all of us.

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I Nied to drink your blood! 🧛 @nied.bsky.social · 15h

Among the many reasons why Democrats shouldn't abandon trans people is, as a coalition of many different vulnerable people, it's important to be able to credibly promise to protect coalition members & it turns out constantly threatening to underbus people for how they voted doesn't do that!

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Fascism Heckler @fascismheckler.bsky.social · 14h

Yep nothing screams they’re winning when airports decide to not play their propaganda

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 14h

Hell fucking yes.

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 16h

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown.

“We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 19h

No, the protesters aren’t being paid. Believe it or not, lots of people are genuinely upset about authoritarianism!

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/ahead-of-n...

Ahead of No Kings Protest, Trump and GOP Try to Delegitimize All Dissent

There is no such thing as genuine progressive public opinion, and therefore mass and mobilized opposition to Trump doesn't count.

paulwaldman.substack.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 19h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 19h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

Graphs showing coal production (left) and employment in coal (right) for the state of Wyoming from 1983 to 2020 from the linked website. Coal production was rapidly increasing until 2008 and has more or less steadily decreased since. Employment in coal likewise rapidly increased until 2009, was stable until 2012 and has rapidly decreased since.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 19h

It's just pathetic. But right-wing media has also worked hard for years to make Newsom a topic of derangement in a way that Abbott isn't on the left.

David Nir @davidnir.com · 19h

The gaslighting—from NC Republicans and many others—is really something else. They're just outright pretending that California launched this year's redistricting wars, even though it started with Texas. bergerpress.medium.com/general-asse...

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Daniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 19h

Im sure this absolutely will not be a risky move in what is expected to be a backlash year for the GOP and will also see a Dem powerhouse on the ballot running for an open senate seat

Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 19h

North Carolina Republicans just announced they plan to pass a more extreme congressional gerrymander for 2026.

Republicans re-gerrymandered this swing state's congressional map just last cycle to turn what had been 7 Dem - 7 Rep split into a 10-4 majority. Now they're going for an 11-3 edge

General Assembly Heeds President Trump’s Call to Thwart Blue State Attempts to Take Congress

Raleigh, N.C. — Today, legislative leaders agreed to hold votes during the previously scheduled October legislative session to block the…

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Alexander Hamizdat @alexhammy209.bsky.social · 18h

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Dan Shay @dfs4114.bsky.social · 18h

5\The legal pushback, for starters, would be massive. I would not be surprised if there were mass protests/strikes as well in response to literally *canceling* elections. Beyond that, I rather doubt most people have seriously imagined what happens. Like, truly, the "doomer" mindset stops there.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 18h

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 18h

Because it’s access journalism

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21h

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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