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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 5h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 13h

According to the victim's attorney, the body camera captured the officer saying, “Do something, bitch,” before leaping out of the car and shooting her multiple times. Another officer asked, “Hey, what happened?” The first pointed to his camera, “Hey, don’t speak. You’re good”
trib.al/KhKsfSb

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 8h

If you're horrified by this, complete the survey.
cc @niais.bsky.social
Thanks @dotsandlines.bsky.social for the HT
🧪 🔭

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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(◕ᴗ◕✿) 📷🚲⚾️ @gatodejazz.bsky.social · 8h

Houses that are beat up still selling for $700k is a crime

what else can you let fall apart and sell for more than you paid?

You can keep your car looking brand new and maintained perfectly and it still depreciates

houses, like event tickets, shouldn’t be allowed to be sold for more than was paid

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 9h

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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psheth.bsky.social @psheth.bsky.social · 14h

@jbpritzker.bsky.social could easily order ISP to just stay away from DHS/ICE facilities. It's a deliberate choice for ISP to be there providing crowd control for federal goons.

He's talked a good game but talk is cheap, and his actions are just as bad as every other elected Dem leader.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 15h

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 15h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 12h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 14h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 16h

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 12h

I get that no one wants things to escalate into anything resembling a civil war but as more time goes by and if the midterms don’t work out for Dems, restoring democracy will be exponentially more challenging and violent.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 13h

I am happy that more people see that the police state is a BIPARTISAN project.

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 23h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13h

illinois state police arrested eight additional people at broadview tonight for a total of 15 people arrested today, per an update from cook county sheriff’s office.

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 13h

So like JB, whats up? Is it all talk?

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 13h

illinois state police arrested eight additional people at broadview tonight for a total of 15 people arrested today, per an update from cook county sheriff’s office.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 22h

When the bailout for Argentina…is actually a bailout for the Treasury Secretary’s hedge fund billionaires.

They get richer…and it just gets harder for you.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Big Investors Await Windfall From Trump’s Argentina Bailout

www.nytimes.com

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 13h

Dansby Swanson couldn't make 12 identical glazed ring doughnuts and his tiered sweet bread was too stodgy. Eliminated after Week 4 in this season's Bake Off. He will return to his home in Stansted Mountfitchet.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 15h

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

Blinken:

(2/12) First, what changed to make this breakthrough possible? Hamas is finally and fully isolated. Arab states and Turkey have said “enough.” The misery Hamas provoked and would allow to persist has delegitimized it among most Gazans. And Hamas realized that the cavalry (Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthis) are not coming to the rescue.

(3/12) Israel has long since achieved its war aims -- destroying Hamas as an organized military force so October 7 can never be repeated and eliminating those responsible for its horrors – but at terrible cost to Palestinian civilians caught in a crossfire they did not start and were powerless to stop. Only the hostages remained. Israelis want them home and the war to end, putting pressure on the Israeli government to take the deal, not move the goalposts.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13h

Blinken should not be allowed in respectable company and should have been prosecuted as a war criminal.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 15h

Incredible that this man thinks he can gaslight us into thinking he couldn’t have stopped the genocide, that he wasn’t a collaborator par excellence.

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 13h

Just example after example that people who join ICE/DHS are total losers that are gleeful in their violence towards children, seniors, families, vulnerable folks.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 16h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 16h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 13h

Legit tho marijuana & marijuana products should be sold at grocery stores, bodegas, target, wallmart, costco… the weed dispensary model is just so stupid.

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 BREAKING: Illinois police attack & arrest ICE protesters outside Broadview Detention Center near Chicago. This occurred after a protest curfew imposed by city of Broadview passed. LIVE LINK ⬇️

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 16h

I’m honestly never going to forget flagging to my former office how disturbing their use of unanimous consent in the first few months was and their response was notifying the Capitol Police that I was a security threat.

Like what the fuck is wrong with these people.

Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 16h

They barely even attempted to stall Vought’s nomination, the Democrats helped plan Trump’s inauguration, and this shutdown started after literally months and months of
consolidation of power.

I’m furious at all of them.

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