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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 6h

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 7h

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 6h

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 6h

Congratulations to the happy couple

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 10h

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

Unicorn bride marries Kenny from South Park at Portland ICE protest

The couple in costumes said they wanted to bring joy to the protests and show that demonstrators are "fun loving people."

www.oregonlive.com

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Minnesota Indivisible Alliance @mnindivisible.bsky.social · 8h

Federal law requires ICE to provide access to their facilities when Congressional representatives request admission.

ICE’s failure to comply with this law, as well as their other failures to comply, paints a picture of a an agency beyond redemption.

Time to defund and abolish ICE.

Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 18h

Sens. Durbin and Duckworth visit Broadview ICE processing facility

Durbin said this was the fourth time they’ve requested to tour the facility with no response from ICE officials.

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/s...

Sens. Durbin and Duckworth visit Broadview ICE processing facility

U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth were on the ground in suburban Broadview on Friday, where they continued calls to tour the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing facility. ...

www.nbcchicago.com

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 17h

(See, e.g., when it comes to my fixation on this comparison:)

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · Jun 12

Mike Johnson sees himself not as leader of the co-equal branch of government that the Constitution designed, but rather as chair of a Supreme Soviet where he maintains lockstep party discipline in service of the leader.

He’s the faithful servant Trump needs, and nothing more.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · Jun 12

House Speaker Mike Johnson calls for the Senate to "censure" Alex Padilla after he was restrained and handcuffed by FBI agents at Kristi Noem's presser, adding that it is "wildly inappropriate behavior."

So it looks like Republicans want to escalate this!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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John Sheehan @jsheehan901.bsky.social · 18h

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 18h

Tomorrow, 10/11 in #SantaFe #NewMexico, @indivisiblesantafe.org is hosting its second Speakers’ Corner. Come on out to say your piece or just to show support for free speech. More info at indivisiblesantafe.org/speakers-cor... 1/

Speakers' Corner Diary, Number 1

We held the first Speakers’ Corner sponsored by Indivisible Santa Fe this past Saturday, October 4, 2025. A group of us set up our sign and stepstool-cum-soapbox in the Santa Fe Railyard Park, in betw...

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Quid Pro Qatar Quo

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

The Trump administration is REALLY allowing Qatar to build an air base in the US after they did a $5.5 billion golf resort deal with Trump and gave him a jet.

MAGA can take their ‘America First’ flags and wipe their asses with them. He is Trump First, and you are suckers.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 18h

Breaking: Supreme Court rules 6-3 that President Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

#Satire

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 18h

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 18h

It's a two-fer, you get your antisemitic conspiracy theory AND the insistence that there is no such thing as sincere progressive opinion, it couldn't possibly be that people are genuinely pissed off so they must have been paid to protest.

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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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 18h

Trump and Johnson are doing all they can to make people fear government force and reprisal is they say things Republican Fascists don’t like. This country was founded by people who spoke truth to power. I will be part of that tradition tomorrow. 3/3

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 18h

I will be speaking, probably about the way Trump and his lackeys, including Mike Johnson, will go down in history as having started a second American Civil War. 2/

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 18h

Tomorrow, 10/11 in #SantaFe #NewMexico, @indivisiblesantafe.org is hosting its second Speakers’ Corner. Come on out to say your piece or just to show support for free speech. More info at indivisiblesantafe.org/speakers-cor... 1/

Speakers' Corner Diary, Number 1

We held the first Speakers’ Corner sponsored by Indivisible Santa Fe this past Saturday, October 4, 2025. A group of us set up our sign and stepstool-cum-soapbox in the Santa Fe Railyard Park, in betw...

indivisiblesantafe.org

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.bsky.social · 18h

Mike Johnson tried tonight to characterize the upcoming No Kings 2.0 day on 10/18 as a “Hate America” movement. Wrong. Utterly wrong. To reject dictators, authoritarians, and tyrants is to love America, to love the very idea at the heart of it.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 19h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 18h

Law and order www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nearly half of FBI agents in major offices reassigned to immigration enforcement

Data shows stunning shift in law enforcement priorities that has raised public safety concerns

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Robert Rutledge @rerutled.bsky.social · 21h

I’m especially proud to be an MIT graduate, today.

Course 8 (physics) PhD ‘96

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago pastor attacked by ICE agents joins lawsuit against Trump administration
https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/10/10/chicago-pastor-attacked-by-ice-agents-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-administration/

Chicago pastor attacked by ICE agents joins lawsuit against Trump administration

Reverend David Black, a pastor from Chicago who was injured by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents last month, has joined a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration.

heartlandsignal.com

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 23h

You’ll never guess who is in charge of the Homeland Security Council….

(Miller. It’s Stephen Miller.)

Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: A senior ICE official testified today the WH Homeland Security Council — and not the State Department — informed him Uganda was the deportation target for Abrego Garcia.

DOJ then asserted presidential privilege over any other details about the call. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

DOJ asserts presidential privilege over details about how Uganda was selected in Abrego Garcia deportation case

A senior Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official said third-country designations are typically made by the State Department.

www.wusa9.com

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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 23h

Again this is how you do it. State universities are entities of their states, and when said states have branches governed by democrats that exercise authority over those universities, that authority needs to be used to protect them from the cowardice of their administrators

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 23h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

BREAKING: Sens. DURBIN, DUCKWORTH were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE Facility in Illinois, unable to conduct constitutional role of oversight.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 23h

WGN, this woman’s employer, is now reporting she was not charged with any crimes and was released.

DHS said earlier she was arrested for assault for throwing objects at agents.

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