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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not Catholic and I'm not even sure there is a God, but man this language is powerful. Calling out evil like this is good.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2h

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 33m

It’s no wonder that Trump has such a twisted view of war and sacrifice. And the utility of bribes.

Donald was seven years old, and his father was brought before a U.S. Senate committee investigating abuses in a housing program for war veterans and middle class families. President Eisenhower had been outraged to learn of the bribes that developers paid to bureaucrats and of the alleged profiteering practiced by Trump and others. Ike called them "sons of bitches."
As federal investigators had discovered, the elder Trump had collected an extra $1.7 million in rent-equivalent to $15 million today-before beginning to pay back his low-cost government loan. He was able to do this because a bureaucrat named Clyde Powell approved the paperwork.
Powell, who had never been paid more than a modest government salary, had mysteriously amassed a small fortune. (While it was clear Powell accepted bribes, the sources were never officially identified.) In addition to collecting the extra rent, Trump paid himself a substantial architect's fee. And he charged inflated rents based on an estimate of construction costs that was far greater than what he actually spent. All of this was legal, even if it did victimize taxpayers, veterans, and other renters.

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 2h

I can't get over how the CDC layoffs are coming less than two months after the attempted mass shooting. The agency is being taken apart brick by brick. The public servants there do not deserve this.

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🎃 Trick or Pete 🎃 Lucier @peterlucier.bsky.social · 58m

The most frustrating part of this is that a federal judge literally made a finding of fact of the evidence presented by the administration, a judge appointed by Trump, and that judge called the narrative untethered to facts, and the narrator, unreliable.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1h

Or as the New York Times puts it: “Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox…”

Mr. Trump's budgetary maneuvering appeared unorthodox, even though it may spare more than 1 million active-duty service members from the financial hardship of missing a paycheck next week. It was not clear how much money the administration had at its disposal, and how long it could rely on accounting moves to pay troops during the shutdown.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1h

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”.

The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 7h

John Roberts is like if the captain of the Titanic wanted ice cubes for his soda and started steering right at the iceberg.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2h

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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Redsky @redsky.pirhoo.com · 5h

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams Im 15! as Man Kneels on Her Neck

www.reddit.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

Statement from Afghan Ministry of Defence: “The Armed Forces of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan carried out successful retaliatory operations against Pakistani security forces along the Durand Line in response to repeated airspace violations and airstrikes on Afghan soil by the Pakistani army.

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 3h

MAGA's big takeaway from the poem Ozymandias would be that the statue never would've fallen over if Trump had built it.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 3h

They'll say it's an investment or something. Why can't they invest in this country and it's health?

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 3h

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

After Pakistan bombed Taliban figures a couple of days ago, Taliban reinforcements are now moving toward the front lines along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9h

Imagine that

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Rep. Dan Goldman @repdangoldman.bsky.social · 4h

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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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4h

Illinois law requires all registered vehicles to display front and back license plates, without exception. But to evade accountability, masked federal immigration agents are driving around in unmarked cars without plates.
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...?

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4h

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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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 4h

1) In a press conference yesterday, Trump justified calling troops into Chicago by saying, "Do you know they had over 4000 people killed in Chicago... they had 4000 people murdered over a very short period of time."

www.reddit.com/r/illinois/c...

Where did he get that number? Funny answer...

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 5h

Yes! And the Boston Tea Party, a well-known exception to the "shitposting is usually lost to history" rule, used a warped memefication of "American identity" to protest British aura-farming:

The purposes of the acts were to

raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain,
Create more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations,
punish the Province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and
establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.[4]

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Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 5h

At this point anyone still interested in all that will be waiting for the rights to be sold to some billionaire-owned entity that will use AI to finish the last two books. Everyone should probably just move on!

Spooky Laminariales Fax Machine 📠 @kelpkelpkelp.bsky.social · 5h

Like Bannon said, the Republican Party is just a big ceremonial rubber stamp for whatever Trump's Convalescent Nursing Cabinet wants to do.

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