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Robert Hernandez @webjournalist.bsky.social · 19h

It’s tradition that when you see the frogs, you show them respect 🫡

(Someone should do the Creed cut with the footage)

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 18h

Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin have arrived at the Broadview ICE facility.

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AnneA @annenc.bsky.social · 18h

Stand Tall.
We Will Win.

A frog and others face ICE

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

"Who will be viewed retrospectively to have understood the challenge correctly? The one who said, 'If you come for my people, you come through me'? Or the one who pivoted to health-care subsidies?"

This @brianbeutler.bsky.social thought experiment is illuminating:
www.offmessage.net/p/how-to-rev...

How To Reverse The Tide

It's the gap between what's needed and what we have that keeps us up at night.

www.offmessage.net

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 19h

You should read @joanwalsh.bsky.social on the utter vindictiveness of the Tish James indictment

www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump’s Vendetta Prosecution of Letitia James Is a New Low

The New York attorney general has led the legal fight against Trump, and now he has mobilized the Justice Department to go after her.

www.thenation.com

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 20h

Earlier this year, AG Tish James told me we shouldn't be afraid to peacefully protest Trump, and promised to defend me herself if I got arrested. Our badass attorney general will not be intimidated by this: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Trump’s Vendetta Prosecution of Letitia James Is a New Low

The New York attorney general has led the legal fight against Trump, and now he has mobilized the Justice Department to go after her.

www.thenation.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh my god… I have no words.”

Listen to the emotional moment this year’s laureate Maria Corina ( finds out she has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kristian Berg Harpviken, Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, shared the news.

NobelPrize #NobelPeacePrize

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New York Working Families Party @nywfp.bsky.social · 1d

Tish James has always had New York’s back, and New Yorkers will always have hers.

Join us tomorrow at 5:30PM at Foley Square to stand with her.

Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/ny-wfp/event...

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 1d

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "was silence not an option"

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow, I had not seen that photo. Terrifying thanks for sharing.

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HazeDZ @hazydayz.bsky.social · 1d

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 1d

Wong came from Breitbart.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

It's pope vs. president now. "The Church, like a mother, accompanies those who are walking," the pontiff writes in the document, titled "Dilexi te" (I have loved you). "She knows that in every rejected migrant, it is Christ himself who knocks at the door of the community."

www.reuters.com

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Nebraska Humane Society @nehumanesociety.bsky.social · 1d

We're running out of available kennels! To help clear some space and in celebration of #AdoptAShelterDogMonth, we're having an adoption special! 💜

From Thursday through Sunday, all adult dogs 25lbs+ will be 'Pick your Price', which means YOU get to decide the adoption fee.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out, the MAGA Supreme Court is the one interested in converting your kids through the use of quack doctors with medically unsound practices based on no scientific evidence. "Every accusation is a confession" with them.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Supreme Court Wants to Convert Your Kids

During a hearing this week, the court’s theocrats made it clear that they’ll vote to end a ban on conversion therapy for minors.

www.thenation.com

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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 1d

If seeing the video of a pastor being shot in the head with a pepperball and pepper-sprayed in the face up close doesn't change this debate just a little, I don't know what will...Of course it's not on Fox or NewsMax...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Bovino, a nice anglo saxon name. Definitely came over on the mayflower. bsky.app/profile/talk...

TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 1d

In Los Angeles and now Chicago, the White House's aggressive deportation operations have one hype man: Greg Bovino.
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Greg Bovino Emerges as Trump’s Man For Conjuring Up a Blue-City Insurrection

Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1d

the question is really why Trump wants so badly to be seen as a peacemaker, not whether he is one (obviously not)

Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 1d

there was a ceasefire when trump came in. he let israel blow that up, let famine spread, let his goons murder starving people, before using the power he'd had since he took office. grotesque to call this peacemaking. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/us/politics/trump-mideast-visit-israel-gaza.html

(from the nyt obvi) With Mideast Deal, Trump Is on the Brink of a Major Diplomatic Accomplishment

For President Trump, success in brokering a cease-fire is the ultimate test of his self-described goal as a deal maker and a peacemaker.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

The Advantage program was a lifeline for New Yorkers like Kasha, a working mom struggling to get out of a shelter and into stable housing.

But when then-Gov. Cuomo slashed funding, homelessness surged.

These are political choices. We can choose differently.

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