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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 8h

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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knewsy.bsky.social @knewsy.bsky.social · 1h

Who really made this decision? Was it Miller? Vought? Hegseth? Trump just does what his handlers tell him to do and say

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stroligus.bsky.social @stroligus.bsky.social · 7h

Of course, the press has totally missed this rather simple point. No one takes these types of boats that distance over the ocean. He’s just killing people for sport and no one says a damn thing about it.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

I remember when Joe Biden traveled to 8 cities for 14 appearances in 9 days after the June debate and then did a 90 minute UN brief but the media still relentlessly hounded him. Where's that media? At a Jake Tapper book talk?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump had a lot of travel the last two days and he looked it today (Getty)

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 14h

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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knewsy.bsky.social @knewsy.bsky.social · 1h

“Featuring a guest appearance of measles” 😆😆

knewsy.bsky.social @knewsy.bsky.social · 1h

Oh yes. When they use the language of the propagandist, they’ve lost the ability for critical thinking

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knewsy.bsky.social @knewsy.bsky.social · 1h

Are there any Republicans with any morals left?

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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 7h

A conversation with Jack Smith: youtu.be/DR79GW6SvxE?...

The State of the United States: A Conversation with Jack Smith

YouTube video by UCL Laws

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knewsy.bsky.social @knewsy.bsky.social · 6h

Dear god this man wants to destroy the world - for what? Making sure his kids have loads of money? Is there anyone around him that even care they will be known as the ones who took down the United States???

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knewsy.bsky.social @knewsy.bsky.social · 7h

Something like this could be used to track journalists in a war zone like Gaza for nefarious governments to “accidentally” bomb their location.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9h

8/Your encrypted apps are vulnerable.

"If your phone is on, and connected to a cellular network, you're fair game." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 9h

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 7h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 9h

A major ramp-up of aid needed to ease famine and suffering in Gaza has yet to happen, the Red Cross and UN agencies said, after Israel pledged 600 trucks a day after the ceasefire reut.rs/4n6cC6a

No aid scale-up yet in Gaza, aid agencies say

A major ramp-up of aid needed to ease famine and suffering in Gaza after two years of war has yet to happen, the Red Cross and U.N. agencies said on Tuesday, as Israeli authorities warned of slower aid flows as the southern Rafah crossing remained shut.

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knewsy.bsky.social @knewsy.bsky.social · 9h

Wannabes just like him

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 9h

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 2d

He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 1d

Holy shit the AG ordered an arrest of a mayor independent of his actions

emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

"She wants to grab him," Ricky Patel said before he had had any exchange w/Ras Baraka. Even after Baraka left the facility, Patel said, "I’m going to place the Mayor in handcuffs. We are arresting the Mayor, per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States."

www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/s...

"She Wants to Grab Him:" The Premeditated Detention of Ras Baraka - emptywheel

Even before anyone had spoken with Ras Baraka on May 9 at Delaney Hall, someone had decided "she" wanted to "grab" Newark's Mayor.

www.emptywheel.net

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Scott Sakiyama @scottsakiyama.bsky.social · 11d

Same guy this morning ran into a protestor and told him he would slam him to the fucking ground.

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knewsy.bsky.social @knewsy.bsky.social · 1d

What a creepy old man

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Meloni doesn't exactly looked thrilled as Trump calls her "beautiful"