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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous.

This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.
"I wasn't planning on letting her stay, but I didn't know what the hell was going on," the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.
"I didn't want them to take her," said the man, who didn't want to be named because he fears he'll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.
"I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her,
'Just stay there. Don't open, don't, shh, just stay quiet," he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

Fair point. When I send invoices for freelance pieces, I'm often asked to include whether I prefer to be paid through direct deposit, a paper check, or cold hard cash in a Cava bag at a pre-arranged drop site.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Did Tom Homan give the $50,000 back?

VANCE: He did not take a bribe. It's a ridiculous smear

STEPHANOPOULOS: You didn't answer the question

VANCE: Did he accept $50,000? I'm sure that in the course of Homan's life, he's been paid more than $50k for services.

(So, no, he didn't)

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 20h

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 16h

anyway, incomplete list of popular ai videos:
- woman reporter with 3 arms being arrested
- golden retriever eating wedding cake
- possum eating halloween candy
- MTG putting up Trump Epstein letter outside her office
- cat saving baby from bear
- SEVERAL Portland frog videos not from the protest

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 2h

I was only reminded of them recently because people were posting about a podcast episode they were both on.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5h

Trump has expropriated TikTok U.S. (banned under the law) and is now on the verge of forcing its sale at a below-market price to cronies of his choosing. What could go wrong? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h

OCTOBER 18TH across 🇺🇸 & Tennessee

Republicans are calling them “Hate America” rallies, but as with most things they say it’s exactly the opposite. 🇺🇸 #NoKings 👑

Find one: www.nokings.org

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 6h

What about Travis Kalanick vs Jason Calacanis? I guess it's not that important to distinguish them if they're both bad.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 19h

RFK Jr when he was running for president: "I'm gonna say to NIH scientists, God bless you all. Thank you for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years."
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious disease research

www.nbcnews.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

The US has finalized its $20 billion bailout for Argentina.

Too bad it only benefits one American: a billionaire hedge fund manager, who has placed large bets on the future of the Argentine economy.

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

www.motherjones.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 3d

I spent more than a decade at The Post. It was good to me and I was proud to work there. I’ve largely refrained from being critical since I left. But this framing of the special counsel probe is embarrassing and flatly wrong. Stunning, but not. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Jack Smith’s lawfare and James Comey’s arraignment on pathetically weak charges

Good people will be deterred from public service if they see a meaningful risk of winding up in jail afterward.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 7d

ICE and CBP agents seized the phone of an immigration lawyer at Logan Airport while he was returning from vacation even though—let's face it, probably *because*—the phone contains privileged information about his clients.

Regime grabs immigration lawyer's phone at Logan

A federal judge today ordered Customs and Homeland Security to keep their mitts off a phone their agents grabbed last week from an immigration lawyer returning to Logan Airport from a trip to Aruba, a...

www.universalhub.com

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

It's Greenwaldian: "The shutdown, which I do not support, is allowing us to do all these great things."

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

A trend I’ve noticed after having watched too many of these despicable ICE arrest videos is when bystanders demand they let detainee go, an officer suggests they’re being picked up for a serious crime to try and deter help. But we know that’s not true of a vast majority of people and the jig is up.

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Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist here

I’m interested in talking to a federal agency scientist who was fired, then rehired. I can keep you anonymous. I’m on Signal ginnyg.04

Reposts are appreciated!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 1d

If the "drug recognition evaluator" thinks that doing evaluation is a waste of time, why does he have a job? And of course even if the person's condition had been drug-related, it would still need to be treated, not ignored.

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 2d

And Vought said specifically that that was his intention. He wants to abuse people in government so that they hate their jobs and quit.

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Alex Koma @alexkoma.bsky.social · 3d

Quite the ethics case here: An MPD officer got caught working his second job at Giant while he was also on duty (including posting on Insta about going to the movies while he was theoretically working).

He got charged with fraud, but acquitted. Now he faces $10,500 in fines...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 2d

I was thinking about Gabbard too. I remember when I first heard of her she was bad, and then somehow for a while she was supposed to be good (just because she endorsed Bernie?), and then she became really bad. Khanna is following the same trajectory, though somehow he stayed "good" for longer.

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spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 2d

If I were a DC reporter, I’d consider maybe pressing Johnson on how he reconciles these two statements.

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Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, l'm a very patient guy, but l've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ..."

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Mike Johnson: "People have got to stop framing simple policy disagreements in terms of existential threats to our democracy. You can't call the other side fascists and enemies of the state and not understand that there are some deranged people in our society who will take that as cues to act."

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 3d

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2d

It was almost four years ago that Nina Larson was killed by a driver as she crossed Columbia Road NW in Adams Morgan. (Story: dcist.com/story/21/11/...) It took until this week for the driver to be found guilty of two misdemeanor offenses.

24-Year-Old Aspiring Opera Singer, Restaurant Worker Killed By Driver In Adams Morgan

Nina Larson was an aspiring opera singer, American University graduate, and employee at Mintwood Place in Adams Morgan.

dcist.com

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