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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

You know there are about a dozen despicable trash people in DHS and ICE and the administration working to find out who this guy is so they can go after him.

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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Monica Carmean @monicacarmean.com · 5h

Amazon prime frog costumes are sold out. Good job, America.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 6h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 50m

But Ezra Klein was doing aura farming the Right Way

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11h

Guillotines

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 14h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 9h

Oh that’s one of those Democrat programs, because only Democrats have children with special needs

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Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 1d

There’s this scene in the movie Virtuosity (1995) where they figure out the android serial killer, Sid 6.7, is an amalgam of all serial killer personalities battling it out inside him.

I imagine all LLMs are just that, but it’s Reddit vs LinkedIn vs Twitter vs Facebook vs Weibo vs Rick Astley.

Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 1d

Occasionally you come across the odd screenshot from LinkedIn and realize where ChatGPT got its cringe

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Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 1d

The next liberal President of the United States should order the army to invade cities nationwide… and build housing for all the homeless.

Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 1d

Wow, I took my pills this morning, and I got a refund for ten doses!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

AI videos being sent to him by Miller, Noem et al, right?

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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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile in #Portland

Kermit faces off with Hopper in The Muppet Movie

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 1d

Whomever is doing Cuomo's social media hates him, has concealed this hatred for months, and relishes every dime they get paid by him to sabotage his campaign.

Hopefully they have a tell-all book in them:

"Tell Andrew It Was Me"

Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 1d

[Me, a poor, on the subway, glowering jealously at all those fat cat, fancy pants rich people on the public bus]

Andrew Cuomo tweet:

@ZohranKMamdani's "plan" provides no relief for working families who take the subway, and unnecessary benefits to wealthy New Yorkers who take the bus and can afford the fare.

I focus on working families, while @ZohranKMamdani the mansion boy focuses on helping the rich.

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Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 1d

Mainstream Media: saved

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

Calling No Kings a 'hate America rally' when having no kings was a precondition for having a United States of America

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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Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 1d

Yup. You can look at so many graphs of any corollary with extremism—right wing terrorism, use of racist language, whatever—and it all goes way up and to the right starting in 2008.

Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 1d

This is just good game balance.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

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 · 1d

“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.”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

Legacy media is such a fucking joke.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

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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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Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 2d

@cestdommage.bsky.social I found your alt account

Stephen 🇵🇸 @tgk.bsky.social · 2d

I'd rather be dead in Philadelphia than alive in Los Angeles

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Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 2d

The peace, they just won’t be able to handle it, so much peace, more peace than anywhere

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 2d

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

www.theguardian.com

Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 2d

There certainly wasn’t a Rebel Alliance right away

Matt of the French 75 @mattagnello.com · 2d

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