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jswaneylaw @jswaneylaw.bsky.social · 1h

And repeating the lie that he will pay for any of it himself.

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 5h

Brooklyn friends, especially Bushwick and parts of Ridgewood, please keep an eye out for my friend’s dog Penny who ran away last night ❤️

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

"No planning. No proposals to the National Capital Planning Commission. No opportunity for notice and comment from the public. Just Trump’s whim—and a beloved national symbol tumbles to dust. It’s obscene."

@monacharen.bsky.social on Trump's White House demolition www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-mar-...

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 9h

You wouldn’t be so stressed about money if your kid was able to get free lunch. You wouldn’t be so stressed about your doctor if they hadn’t stopped taking your insurance. You wouldn’t be so stressed about rent if you had rent control. Your failure to engage in politics is *why* your life is hard

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jswaneylaw @jswaneylaw.bsky.social · 20h

It makes absolutely no sense. These nominees will be voted thru by R votes alone. Make them do it. Don’t put your stamp of approval on the next Trump judge that will ignore the constitution and allow him to put the military on our streets. These are the easiest no votes possible and they can’t do it

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jswaneylaw @jswaneylaw.bsky.social · 23h

Also it’s an easy purity test. Really shouldn’t be that hard to ace.

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 2d

At the shelter where I have once again lost control of a photo shoot. 😔 Last week they took in 28 CATS from a hoarding case, so they could really use some financial help right now! www.hsccvt.org/donate

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

It sounds like the Republicans should stop protecting Bill Clinton and release the Epstein files.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Comer: The evidence we gathered does not implicate President Trump in any way. Public reporting, survivor testimony, and official documents show that Bill Clinton had far closer ties to Epstein

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jswaneylaw @jswaneylaw.bsky.social · 1d

Showing up at a Congressman’s office unannounced demanding a meeting is unbelievable hubris. Not surprising though.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

NEW: 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants.

"What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral," they write. religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

(RNS) - Last Friday (Oct. 17), the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister in the Chicago area, stood alongside other protesters demonstrating outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Broadview, Illinois. As a line of Illinois State Police began marching toward her and other demonstrators, gripping wooden batons, footage shows the pastor with her hands raised in prayer.
Officers then pushed into the protesters, forcing them back.
One officer shifted his stance, reared back and began shoving his baton like a battering ram - jamming it repeatedly, Kardon says, into her leg. A few seconds later, the pastor was pulled from the crowd and thrown to the ground.
All the while, Kardon says, she never stopped praying. When officers began to arrest her, they tied her arms behind her back and placed her along the curb.
"I said, 'God, please help these people to know that what they're doing is wrong, and help them to turn around," Kardon, who leads United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, said in an interview. Her leg, she said, has developed visible bruises.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

“ICE uses bureaucracy and location transfers to isolate their detainees from both their families and their lawyers, limiting their ability to get out of their predicaments” and prove the government erred. [Emma Janssen, American Prospect]

How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers - The American Prospect

CHICAGO – On September 12, attorney Kevin Herrera walked up to Chicagoland’s main Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility in Broadview, Illinois, passed a crowd of protesters who ...

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jswaneylaw @jswaneylaw.bsky.social · 1d

DC Superior Ct operates on a separate budget but most of the staff, PDs, AUSAs, and I believe our judges aren’t getting paid. I have mixed feelings bc of course I don’t want my colleagues to have to deal with this financial pain but I also don’t want the Dems to cave. It’s just Rs dgaf and never do.

Jenn Burrill @jennburrill.bsky.social · 1d

The funding lapse will halt paychecks for court staff and employees within probation and federal defender offices

Furlough notices will be handed out on Oct. 20 “and orderly shutdown activities will commence"

Reports @bloomberg.com

US Courts Face First Furloughs Under Shutdown in 30 Years (2)

Federal courts across the US are preparing to furlough some staffers and curb operations as the judiciary prepares to run out of funding amid an ongoing government shutdown.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

This is the asymmetry in our politics and media. If this was the other way around, Biden had pardoned someone then charged with trying to kill Trump, it would be the biggest story in America and every Republican commentator, congressman, news outlet, would be screaming about it in unison.

Pardoned Capitol rioter charged with threatening to kill Hakeem Jeffries at NYC event this week

A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill the top House Democrat.

www.cbsnews.com

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 2d

Just because he's acting like he's never leaving is no reason for you to act like he's never leaving.

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 26d

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

the best part of the NYC mayoral race is of course Zohran

but a close second is watching everyone on the left adopt Curtis Sliwa as our Problematic Uncle Who Also Really Hates Andrew Cuomo

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 2d

New York Post editorial board calls on Republican mayoral nominee Curtis Sliwa to drop out to boost independent candidate Andrew Cuomo: nypost.com/2025/10/20/o...

Swallow the bitter pill, Curtis Sliwa — quit the race to stop Zohran Mamdani

It’s time for Curtis Sliwa to face reality, and admit that the city’s best hope to avoid the disaster of a Zohran Mamdani mayoralty is for him to drop out of the race.

nypost.com

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 2d

This is an ongoing thread I will be updating to post examples of violent rhetoric from prominent Republicans and media personalities. It's going to include a lot of material, so please send examples.

Donald Trump uses the most violent speech, but he's far from alone.

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Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a limit to the “imagine if Obama” retort but Christ on a cracker the man is *literally* demolishing the White House!

Craig Harrington @craigipedia.bsky.social · 2d

If Obama or Biden or Clinton had demolished a significant part of the White House to build a privately funded edition that they commissioned and approved without public input they would have been summarily impeached.

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2d

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

It's not some technicality. He is disqualified because he did the one thing that puts you outside of legitimate politics: betraying your oath by violently attempting to destroy the constitutional order itself. That's breaking the rules in a way that gets you kicked out of the game, by necessity.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 2d

Shockingly, the facts do not support the Trump administration’s claims about its lethal strikes in the Caribbean.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Officials, locals undercut Trump claims about Venezuela drug boats

Trump says the U.S. is blowing up boats carrying deadly fentanyl to the United States. U.S. and other officials say the route under attack carries cocaine and marijuana to Europe and Africa.

www.washingtonpost.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Russ Vought set out to ensure a second Trump term would not be hampered by checks and balances: “I don’t want President Trump having to lose a moment of time having fights in the Oval Office about whether something is legal or doable or moral.”

By @andykroll.bsky.social, with @newyorker.com

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President

From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Rand Paul: "When you kill someone, if you're not in a declared war, you really need to know someone's name at least. You have to accuse them of something. You have to present evidence. So all of these people have been blown up without any evidence of a crime."

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3d

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

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Drew Abides @drewabides.bsky.social · 5d

I’m just sick. One of my students-a sweet, kind freshman came to my office yesterday. Through the sobs she told me how her brother, a 22 year old dreamer, brought to this country from Guatemala when he was a child, was abducted by three men on his way to work. They don’t know where he is.

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jswaneylaw @jswaneylaw.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to share a gift link. I wish they would note that the majority of the alleged Venezuelan gang members weren’t, you know, in any gang but I guess there’s only so much room for the administration’s lies to be corrected.

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

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