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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6h

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 5h

Good point—Comey said no, so Alberto G then went to Ashcroft’s hospital room to try to pressure a sick man into approving it. No dice.

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 5h

Man, it would suck to live in a country where an aging leader continues to cling to power, even as his nation faces unrest, corruption, and calls for change.

NPR @npr.org · 5h

At 92, Cameroon's President aul Biya is running for an eighth term on Sunday — a reminder of how Africa's aging leaders continue to cling to power, even as their nations face unrest, corruption, and calls for change.

Africa's oldest leader isn't ready to retire - and he's not the only one defying age

At 92, Cameroon's President aul Biya is running for an eighth term on Sunday — a reminder of how Africa's aging leaders continue to cling to power, even as their nations face unrest, corruption, and calls for change.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 12h

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this*

They don't give their opinion to the media

They don't criticize how SCOTUS works

This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

www.nytimes.com

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 8h

Remember when *John Ashcroft,* bad as he was in many ways, roused himself from his sick bed to say no to warrantless wiretapping?

www.cato.org/blog/what-as...

That’s how bad things are now. We have to be nostalgic about John Ashcroft.

What the Ashcroft 'Hospital Showdown' Was About

Was the famed “showdown” at AG Ashcroft’s hospital bed about broad Internet metadata-gathering?

www.cato.org

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 8h

And then the Attorney General of the US is a lying sack of crap on top of enthusiastically supporting destruction of the rule of law. “Antifa” isn’t even a thing that exists. The Minnesota gunman was a Trumpist who murdered two Democrats. But sure, just both-sides it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 10h

Our government is currently run by the worst people we could find. Yes, screw those disabled children. We need that money to build something for the Qatari military and buy more masks for our loyal racist thugs.

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 13h

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 11h

It’s not just “fodder” when there’s direct evidence out of the president’s own mouth that the prosecutions are vindictive and selective. Hard to see how you get better evidence than that.

Forbes @forbes.com · 1d

Trump’s public urging for Letitia James and James Comey to be indicted could give the defendants fodder to have their cases thrown out.

Here’s How Trump’s Attacks On His Political Opponents Could Backfire On Him

Trump’s public urging for Letitia James and James Comey to be indicted could give the defendants fodder to have their cases thrown out.

www.forbes.com

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 14h

This is the reason for the shutdown. Another justification for dismantling most of the federal government and purging what remains of anyone who isn’t a Trumpist.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: How many layoffs have you authorized?

TRUMP: It'll be a lot. And it'll be Democrat-oriented.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

George was just trying to get to work.

ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process.

This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

"They put me on suicide watch and they put me in the cell, I'm naked, in like a hospital dress and just a concrete bed with like a mattress, like a thin mattress and, they leave the light on 24/7."

@timmiller.bsky.social talked to a veteran who ICE wrongly detained and brutalized

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 14h

And he *doesn’t* have to hire hundreds more officers to make the area secure. It’s not in the Tenderloin. It’s a normal area with offices and people just going about their business. He’s just lying.

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 14h

Outlets are reporting this without saying whether the call even happened or what she said if it did. She reportedly said on Twitter that she “dedicated” the prize to “the people of Venezuela and to Donald Trump for his support of our cause,” but that’s not saying he should’ve won.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

I knew this looked familiar.

NYT 1931: HITLER CONDEMNS RIOTS.; He Says They Were Provoked by Paid Agents in Germany.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 1d

Planning to triumph over what? Democracy?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

it's giving Germania

"On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland 🐸

@oregonian.com
www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 1d

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I'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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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

{ gift article } www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone other than them is lying, of course. Strange how that so consistently happens.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 2d

Right, he was praying directly at them. The agents simply acted in self-defense. They had to defend themselves from the prayers he was praying at them. National Guard support has been requested due to the ongoing prayer violence.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

Reverend David Black, the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying at the armed agents above him before being shot in the head with a pepper ball at least twice and falling to his knees.

Black said he could hear ICE laughing. trib.al/y6RQqAa

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Lowering the Bar @loweringthebar.bsky.social · 2d

Back in the day people used to move *to* the US from Europe to escape fascist threats. Now it’s the other way around.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 2d

A Rutgers University history professor who teaches about antifascism is moving out of the U.S. just a month into the fall semester after facing a stream of death threats and a petition demanding his firing from a conservative student group.

Professor who teaches about antifascism moves to Europe after death threats

A Rutgers University professor who wrote a book about antifa received the threats after he commented on President Donald Trump designating the movement a “domestic terrorist organization.”

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