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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 5h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 17h

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11h

Echoes of a very dark past.

From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

Exactly.

Emily Galvin-Almanza @galvinalmanza.bsky.social · 11h

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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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 11h

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

Amen

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 7h

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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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 3h

“The Heritage Foundation [which spearheaded Project 2025] says it will ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors over alleged bias.“ 9/18/25 … 1/ www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

The right wing is coming for Wikipedia

The Heritage Foundation says it will "identify and target" Wikipedia editors over alleged bias. What does that mean for Wikipedia’s future?

www.wbur.org

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 8h

Qatari soldiers in Idaho will have better access to health care than Americans.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 5h

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 3h

“ICE kidnapped a community member here,” reads one. “Never forget/no nos olvidamos,” says another.

The signs have appeared across some of D.C.’s heavily immigrant neighborhoods where federal immigration arrests have escalated.

Signs popping up around D.C. note: ‘ICE kidnapping happened here’

The signs range in style and mark numerous locations where people have been taken by federal agents.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Speaker Mike Johnson,

We the PEOPLE think Congress, especially those of us you TARGET, should have WORK REQUIREMENTS. Since you have sent everyone home since 9/19 (last time House was in session) it should be retroactive for any member NOT in the chamber.

Fondly,
AMERICA

PS YOU WORK FOR US!😡

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Representative Becca Balint @balint.house.gov · 1d

Today is a beautiful day for Speaker Mike Johnson to swear in Adelita Grijalva.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/ice-raids-myth-vs-fact/

MYTH: My grandmother was deported to El Salvador.

FACT: No one really knows where she was deported to.

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for mine to stop growing so I can start buying sweaters.

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1d

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Russ Vought v @russvought
The RIFs have begun.
12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 1d

If the Dems bail out a guy who is firing furloughed workers while he has his ballroom built on the taxpayers dollar and is sending 20B to Argentina and constructing an air base for Qatar in Idaho during the shutdown

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 1d

lord have mercy. how out of touch are these folks? Bad Bunny has an audience more than 100 times larger than Lee Greenwood.

Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 3d

Hahaha....Lee fucking Greenwood.

Mike Johnson is like an SNL parody of a youth minister.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2d

I knew Fox News was theater. I just didn't realize it was a repertory theater that recycles actors for different roles.

You'd think a company that had to pay $787,000,000 for deceiving its viewers would be a little more careful about blatantly continuing the practice.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d

This is good, from Hakeem Jeffries. More of this please, in every conceivable forum:

"Sycophants who aid and abet the President’s vengeful schemes will not be able to hide from the serious legal consequences of their behavior. They will be held accountable."

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

“We’re going to hold them fairly to account, and by that we mean we’ll use the propaganda term they invented and not the legal name for the department. In short, MAGA.”

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 3d

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

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