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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 5h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 9h

a quick reminder that Sally Jenkins wrote defenses of both Joe Paterno and Lance Armstrong in Common Era 2012

so, y'know, Bari Weiss and Caitlin Flanagan are in great company

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 14h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 13h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 8h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

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. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 16h

his biggest claim to infamy was participating with a group of young conservatives from the Stanford Review in a campaign of harassment against a gay Resident Fellow in one of the Freshman dorms, all before he came out, decades later, of course

he is an unprincipled and cruel human, from his youth

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Matt Thompson @mvthomster.bsky.social · 16h

David Sacks also participated

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Ira 'Bluebeard Homer' Goldman @kdbyproxy.bsky.social · 12h

Not that Trump/Vought/Hegseth gaf, but among other ways in which the law says this may NOT be done:
A) The part of 8005 I've underlined in green says money transferred to another account is "available… for the same time period" as that other account; that other acc't expired on Sept 30.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 10h

Exit polls for Portugal’s nationwide local elections today show the top candidates neck-and-neck in Lisbon and Porto, with the far-right Chega party failing to conquer any major cities.

Portugal election exit polls show Lisbon, Porto too close to call

The far-right Chega party is expected to take over city halls in the country’s interior, but has failed to win outright in major cities.

www.politico.eu

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 11h

Jim got his job by not looking into things.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

BASH: Are you gonna look into the way ICE is conducting itself?

JIM JORDAN: We're going to look into the whole situation where you have these mayors--

BASH: So you'll only look into that side and not federal law enforcement?

JORDAN: Wuh wuh wuh we'll look into all this

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 13h

Professional makeup artists are amazing.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14h

Supreme Court Justice hawking her book on a media outlet that is effectively an extension of the administration she is charged with overseeing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

Andrew Cuomo is incapable of speaking clearly and directly about Trump’s authoritarianism.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 14h

Portland, OR, 2025

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 14h

If violating oath of office is criminal offense… nevermind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said Pritzker should be in jail. Do you think he has committed a crime?

VANCE: I think Pritzker has certainly failed to keep the people of Illinois safe

S: It's a yes or no question

V: I certainly think he has violated his fundamental oath. That seems pretty criminal to me

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 16h

Our last couple reading group books haven’t been great. The last one was 500 pages of telling not showing. Literally 3 cites for dominant tradition she said she was challenging.

It was great to read a banger.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 14h

We’re in control of a three branches of government, Trump has 97% approval rating, Pete can do 1000 pushups, but THEY have forced us to this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

WELKER: During the 2019 shutdown when Trump was president, no federal workers were laid off. Why are these firings necessary?

VANCE: Who do we care more about- federal bureaucrats or the troops getting the payment they need?

WELKER: But layoffs are a priority?

VANCE: They have forced us to choose

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 17h

If you want to read 20,000 or so more words on how Trump has assaulted Congress’s power of the purse, and how Congress should fight back, I’ve got the law review article for you: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Crisis of Appropriations Law

<p><span>Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation principle

papers.ssrn.com

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Rev. Benjamin Cremer @brcremer.bsky.social · 17h

Many of us grew up in the church being taught to root for Moses, Daniel, and John the Baptist in the Bible, only to grow up and have our churches question our faith for not cheering on the Pharaohs, Nebuchadnezzars, and Herods in our world today.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 16h

If politics is guide…he has blackmail on people.

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Cadence ”Sewer Game Use Badwater” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 19d

I want him to drink raw milk and suffer

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 16h

Our last couple reading group books haven’t been great. The last one was 500 pages of telling not showing. Literally 3 cites for dominant tradition she said she was challenging.

It was great to read a banger.

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Mary Joy @maryjoy.bsky.social · 17h

Mars awaits.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 17h

Eugenics are a common ideological thread that hold together MAGA from MAHA to the tech right to Voight.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Special education staff decimated after Trump administration shutdown firings: Sources

The nation’s special education services have been significantly damaged after Fridays’s mass layoffs within the Department of Education, sources told ABC News.

abcnews.go.com

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 17h

Citing an imagined left-wing conspiracy, the president is threatening any person or group holding any one of a broad array of disfavored views with investigation and prosecution. bit.ly/4330Su2

Trump’s Orders Targeting Antifascism Aim to Criminalize Opposition

Purporting to go after “domestic terrorism,” the president presents an imagined left-wing conspiracy and authorizes punishments for even tenuous connections to speech the administration doesn’t like.

www.brennancenter.org

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