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Democracy Dies in Dorkness @lizamazel.bsky.social · 11h

it's gibbering idiocy and severely desperate

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings is Hamas is quite a claim to make. I mean, we knew this was coming, but it’s still shocking to hear.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 17h

Idaho is about to become America’s Middle East. No biggie, just surprised Republicans are responsible.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 16h

I want them all prosecuted. Every last one of them.

Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 17h

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation.

A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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Cranthemius Gilderthorpe (he/him/his) @gilderthorpe.bsky.social · 14h

If you believe things like this, you're a piece of shit. If you're a columnist for the New York Times, and you choose to platform this, you're a piece of shit. And, the New York Times is shit. It's just fucking shit.

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 20h

Counterpoint:

You absolutely do not have to hand it to enslavers

Wilson: Now, one of the things I want to do is say: I’m really glad that slavery’s gone, and good riddance. And I want to say that the Southern slave owner, who read the books of Ephesians and Colossians and 1 Timothy and treated his slaves decently, remembering that he had a master in heaven who he studiously tried to obey — what Paul said slave owners were supposed to do — I would say he was not an orc, and he is part of the reason why slavery ended. In other words, I would say he’s a good guy.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 14h

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 15h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 17h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 23h

“we are telling you right now that we do not intend to honor anything we agree to” is certainly a negotiating position one can take

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Rescission are something Dems have said is a reason for a lack of trust. What rescissions are you discussing?

JOHNSON: We have more than $37t in debt. We're doing everything we can to get us back to sound fiscal responsibility. What does that include? A rescission package is part of our process

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 1d

Hey @wnba.com: pay them what you owe them!

We’re proud of our unions’ solidarity with the WNBPA as they fight for their fair share and a strong new contract ✊

The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together

For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports

www.theguardian.com

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 20h

"College football is money-hungry, exploitative of the players, and expert at creating miserable fan experiences, but at least it can't get any worse."
"Hold my-"
www.espn.com/college-spor...

Sources: Big Ten closes in on private equity deal

The Big Ten is approaching a vote on a private capital agreement and the formation of Big Ten Enterprises, which would infuse league schools with more than $2 billion, according to sources.

www.espn.com

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 23h

3. Growing food is no more noble a profession than providing child care. But when I say that we should subsidize child care more you tell me to shut up. But we're supposed to buy bushels of corn so some rich family in Idaho can vote to have their own employees deported?🤡

Make it make sense.

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Dave's Notes @ldsfn.bsky.social · 1d

Mormons are a little lower on Turning Point’s religious cleansing list than Hindus, but they are on the list.

AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

we told you, vivek.

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Cranthemius Gilderthorpe (he/him/his) @gilderthorpe.bsky.social · 1d

"Protect and Serve." Because we couldn't fit "The system is about numbers, and it's so much easier to trick children into committing victimless crimes than to stop actual fucking crime," on the doors of our cars.

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Cranthemius Gilderthorpe (he/him/his) @gilderthorpe.bsky.social · 1d

Reading the memos sent by well meaning officials of the Freedmen’s Bureau, in the early years following the Civil War, is like listening to a pizza buffet full of libertarians fight over the differences between the Austrian and Monetarist schools. 2/2

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Cranthemius Gilderthorpe (he/him/his) @gilderthorpe.bsky.social · 1d

The entire history of relations between black and white in this country, mostly, but not exclusively in the South, demonstrates the essential idiocy of the idea that humans are primarily economically rational actors. 1/2

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Cranthemius Gilderthorpe (he/him/his) @gilderthorpe.bsky.social · 1d

Systems designed to achieve white supremacist goals will continue to accomplish those purposes. Even if the machine were no longer operated by people who consciously want white supremacy.
At least that's the theory. Since it appears we have yet to achieve the second part, perhaps we'll never know.

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Clayton Oppenhuizen @csoppenhuizen.bsky.social · 1d

Catch all of these and more on the compilation album Now That's What I Call Authoritarianism Vol. 6!

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Liz Dye @lizdye.bsky.social · 1d

They make up lies about paid agitators doing violence, and attach them to the name of a prominent Jewish person. This is antisemitism, and it infects every part of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 1d

Can't un-fuck the duck, kids

Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

www.vulture.com

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Evangeline.Morin @evangelinemorin.bsky.social · 1d

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 2d

honestly fu** you if you think gazans are only allowed to ask for help to cover their very basic necessities when they’re starving or being killed, calling a gazan a grifter for trying to secure her education proves that you don’t see gazans as humans who deserve to live equally.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

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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Cranthemius Gilderthorpe (he/him/his) @gilderthorpe.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Barbaro is going to be absolutely flabbergasted to learn how little Amontillado Ross Douthat actually has in his basement.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 1d

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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