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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, in 2020 not only was Biden not President, and Trump WAS President, but by this point Trump had fired the then current (GOP!) FBI director for the crime of doing his job and installed his own political lackey in the position, expressly to have him under Trump's control!

Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 6h

"If this is so, which it is"

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 6h

"If this is so, which it is"

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 7h

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t think Biden was president on J6.

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Dark Bedroom Enjoyer 7’4” 520 lb @dingbattitude.bsky.social · 9h

Celebrating Gavin Newsom signing SB79 at Los Angeles Lithuanian Days! May California continue to be a beacon for people from around the world. 🇱🇹 🇺🇸 🐻

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Homestar Screens @grapenutsrobot.graphics · 11h

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 12h

You can do meth and work 24-7 as a drywall installer whenever you want, what are these people chasing?

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 16h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Dan Pasternack @danpasternack.bsky.social · 21h

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

Dr. Demento

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 15h

incredible.

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 17h

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 18h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 17h

Great statement.

Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 18h

No “clean CR” exists when Trump defies Congress and unilaterally guts programs—from law enforcement to pediatric cancer research to clean energy projects.

Republicans want Democratic cover to keep breaking the law. Democrats won’t play along.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h

I can't emphasize how important it is for people to understand that unless something FAR BIGGER than an election win happens, this is a pipe dream.

It would take quite a bit to get past qualified immunity.

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 18h

I can't emphasize enough how important it is that the next attorney general set a team to go through ICE records with a fine tooth comb and prosecute individual agents.

It's the only way to stop this from happening again.

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 22h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 18h

Just destroy the agency entirely and dole it's responsibilities out to better operating agencies. Should have never existed in the first place.

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 18h

I can't emphasize how important it is for people to understand that unless something FAR BIGGER than an election win happens, this is a pipe dream.

It would take quite a bit to get past qualified immunity.

Jesse Berney Has a Skeleton Inside @jesseberney.com · 18h

I can't emphasize enough how important it is that the next attorney general set a team to go through ICE records with a fine tooth comb and prosecute individual agents.

It's the only way to stop this from happening again.

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 18h

Turns out @asmtasha.bsky.social managed to pass an anti-housing bill as well. Working to solve our homelessness problem by making it harder to build transient housing?

Not a surprise from her though, it's been tougher seeing Blakespear backrack.

calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202...

Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 18h

What I want from my opposition party is for them to already be in DC, on the doorstep of the House, as an entire party, with your new member there, ready to be sworn in, demanding the GOP reconvene and get to work.

But yes, sure, I will like the post.

Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 18h

We’re entering another week of Mike Johnson refusing to bring back House Republicans or swear in Adelita Grijalva.

Like this if you agree Republicans need to show up, do the work, or find new work.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

reason.com

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 20h

"Pedestrianize and wild the coastline" would be my ultimate coastal policy. Do 2 things simultaneously:

-reduce overall developed footprint
-increase overall zoned capacity on that footprint

Increase the size and breadth of natural preserves around estuaries.

Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 20h

In regards to housing, I think the "special treatment" should be higher tolerance for density and emphasis on maximizing the number of people who can make their home near it, with restrictions on sprawling estates and large SF parcels.

Colin Parent @colinparent.bsky.social · 20h

Hopeful commentary here from San Diego's representative on the Coastal Commission, Chula Vista Councilmember Jose Preciado.

I agree we can have special treatment of the coast, and still allow more inclusive growth and access. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/10/s...

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 20h

In regards to housing, I think the "special treatment" should be higher tolerance for density and emphasis on maximizing the number of people who can make their home near it, with restrictions on sprawling estates and large SF parcels.

Colin Parent @colinparent.bsky.social · 20h

Hopeful commentary here from San Diego's representative on the Coastal Commission, Chula Vista Councilmember Jose Preciado.

I agree we can have special treatment of the coast, and still allow more inclusive growth and access. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/10/s...

Sacramento Report: One Coastal Commissioner’s Take on Developing the Coast

The agency has been roiled in criticism for its power over housing development along California’s affluent coastline.

voiceofsandiego.org

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Colin Parent @colinparent.bsky.social · 20h

Hopeful commentary here from San Diego's representative on the Coastal Commission, Chula Vista Councilmember Jose Preciado.

I agree we can have special treatment of the coast, and still allow more inclusive growth and access. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/10/s...

Sacramento Report: One Coastal Commissioner’s Take on Developing the Coast

The agency has been roiled in criticism for its power over housing development along California’s affluent coastline.

voiceofsandiego.org

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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 20h

He posted a literal Trump quote regarding a shooting in response to a shooting, it's not in any way contestable that this is not a threat nor speech that can be restricted by government. Taibbi's of this world won't blink 2x at this arrest but would write War & Peace if (old)Twitter shut him down.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 21h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

reason.com/2025/10/10/t...

Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

reason.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

This is insane. I feel like I’m going insane when I’m watching this. Not just the fact that it’s clearly their fault, but the way a heavily-armed squad of masked thugs immediately jumps into the street and brutalizes the woman they just hit, despite having no idea who she is.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

By the way ICE in this video is driving a $100k luxury SUV. They’re literally gangsters with a $100 billion dollar budget, which, like any gangster, they have used to buy themselves luxury cars and guns. Pretty soon they’ll start gold-plating their weapons, because why not

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 21h

It is a good sign for us that the effective-for-our-side framing "Trump's Argentina Bailout" is how it's being referred to in NYT headlines. If that's the language being used we've already won the argument on the issue. Trump's Argentina Bailout

Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21h

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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Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 21h

In fact, a bunch of asshole center-left dipshits fucked things up real bad on this front after we'd just started making some progress on things. All the "crime crackdown" guys who pushed out reform prosecutors and sheriffs destroyed a necessary firewall, and they won't admit their errors.

Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 21h

This situation where Dems install converted GOP/NPP "tough on crime" people into LEO positions is a serious problem for any CA Democratic plan to resist Trump's authoritarian push. No one is talking about it, but getting trustworthy sheriffs in power is an unaddressed but critical need in '26.

Encinitas Highlands Surfer @highlandsurfer.bsky.social · 22h

This happened because we have a GOP prosecutor and sheriff.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 21h

One reason Dems should be sharing this and talking about it nonstop is because the key to dominating the public mind is media that evokes emotion. It’s how George Floyd started nationwide protests overnight. And it’s impossible to see this without feeling blind rage. Healthcare policy could never.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

ICE GOONS crash into car and then point weapons to kidnap man.

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