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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

"Let's hear it for antifa!" — Rick fucking Steves, everyone

Griff "Grza" Sombke @grza.bsky.social · 9h

Can confirm. Rick Steves is the president of Edmonds Antifa.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 7h

Another MAGA Nazi Enters The Chat
The Senate GOP Must Kill Paul Ingrassia's Nomination

open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Another MAGA Nazi Enters The Chat

The Senate GOP Must Kill Paul Ingrassia's Nomination

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 7h

American institutions don't crumble. But they can be destroyed.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 9h

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes.
“It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 7h

Oak Park resident Scott Sakiyama reports feds pointed weapons at him across from an elementary school today. They then arrested him and took him to Broadview. While in custody, he saw agents texting in a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2."

Full testimony: www.facebook.com/share/p/1GqB...

This morning masked ICE agents pulled me out of my car at gun-point, threw me in the back of a van and took me to their facility in Broadview. I had been following the van down Harvard honking my horn and blowing a whistle to alert the community that ICE was in the neighborhood.

Just across from Lincoln elementary school, where my daughter is in second grade, they jumped out of their van with guns drawn and threatened to smash my windows.

They removed me from my car and drove me to Broadview.

They tried to determine if I was an American citizen (I am). After sitting handcuffed in the van for about 30 minutes, they issued me a citation for "impeding" them, claiming I cut them off (which is not true). They then drove me back to my car. While in their van, I could see they were receiving text messages that were part of a group chat called "Chiraq Team 2." They also stated they also spoke to someone on their phone saying they were going to meet someone else near where they were dropping me off, and that they were going to proceed to conduct enforcement activities with that person.

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Greg Gardner @ggard4.bsky.social · 8h

By Peter Baker

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By Ross Douthat

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By Shane Goldmacher

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 8h

Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.

AI’s Invasive Species

The slop is winning.

www.theatlantic.com

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Greg Gardner @ggard4.bsky.social · 9h

#TexasMan

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 10h

Trump's AI video, showing himself as a pilot dumping shit on Americans, fits right in to a long authoritarian tradition

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Why Trump Turned to the Sewer

The president’s disturbing, excremental propaganda campaign

www.theatlantic.com

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12h

He’s spending millions for a ballroom while American soldiers go without pay…

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 11h

The Trump administration, in one image.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 10h

They want to do the -ism without being labeled an -ist. Rac-. Fasc-.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

my favorite thing about this story is he's like "I was just kidding about the nazi thing" and then they note that at several points he unironically says nazi shit like "The founding fathers were wrong that all men are created equal … We need to reject that part of our heritage,”

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11h

How many GOP Senators or Representatives will say a word about this profane destruction of American heritage?

My guess: Zero.

(Not counting "concern" from Susan Collins, "haven't seen it" from Mike Johnson, etc.)

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 13h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11h

1. I am happy these stories are getting written
2. None of them are the least bit surprising, least of all this one about edgelord too squeamish to use the real word so he uses an italian american substitute instead www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 11h

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

Full Story: politi.co/43tIMS2

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h

One of perverse dynamics of Trumpism, how a frequently toadyish establishment press undergirds a system in which Trumpists regularly accuse Democrats of being “the Nazis” and we have frequent revelations in which Trump insiders tell each other “we’re the Nazis”

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11h

2/ www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 12h

Been wrong before but demolishing part of the White House while prices rise, the government is shut down, and health premiums are about to go through the roof? Might break through

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Greg Gardner @ggard4.bsky.social · 11h

Reminds me of Robin Williams’ great line: “There’s a reason Walt didn’t give the mouse any thumbs. He wanted make sure he’d never pick up a check.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

you’re telling me that another thirtysomething republican has nazi beliefs. wow

Politico @politico.com · 12h

EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 11h

The dissent does an excellent job making the majority look like fools. cst.brightspotcdn.com/d9/44/ff61b3...

The district court’s factual findings, which the government does not
challenge on appeal, and which are not clearly erroneous in any event, fully resolve
this issue. In the two weeks leading up to the President’s September 27 social
media post, there had not been a single incident of protesters’ disrupting the
execution of the laws. Oregon, 2025 WL 2817646, at *10. I repeat: not a single
incident for two weeks. Here are summaries from police reports for the five days
preceding the President’s social media post.
September 22: Approx. 7-10 people. No calls.
September 23: Few people. No activity.
September 24: Approx. 10 people. No calls.
September 25: Approx. 20 people. No calls.
September 26: Approx. 15 people. Energy low, minimal activity.
No incidents.
A police officer’s report from September 26 stated: “Throughout the day we
observed approximately 8-15 people at any given time out front of ICE. Mostly
sitting in lawn chairs and walking around.”
It is hard to understand how a tiny protest causing no disruptions could
possibly satisfy the standard that the President is unable to execute the laws.

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Greg Gardner @ggard4.bsky.social · 11h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts

Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.

www.politico.com

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 11h

This is genuinely gut-wrenching. Anyone associated w this structure knows the endless ranks of people, over the decades, who have treated the structure and surroundings w respect—since they were symbols for traditions of America as a whole

Too apt a metaphor for Trump and US institutions overall

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 13h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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