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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

“Largely ceremonial” does feel like the most honest way to talk about the U.S. Congress in 2025

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“.. Inside the White House, top advisers joke that they are ruling Congress with an “iron fist,” according to people who have heard the comments. Steve Bannon, the influential Trump ally, likened Congress to the Duma, the Russian assembly that is largely ceremonial.”

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8h

Also, he’s been a rising influential voice on the right for the minute.

I’ve been trying to tell y’all. religionnews.com/2024/05/31/t...

The second coming of Doug Wilson

(RNS) — Conservatives are elevating long-controversial Idaho pastor Doug Wilson, framing him as a champion of a relatively moderate form of Christian nationalism — but critics say his ideas remain ext...

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 8h

I think part of why DSA has made such inroads in cities is that they actually canvas pretty proactively.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 10h

Hell yeah Saucony

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 10h

Pretty sure I read a book about this as a schoolboy

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 14h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 11h

Haha I like it.

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Alyssa Katz @alykatzz.bsky.social · 20h

Some of the most fervent volunteers for Andrew Cuomo's mayoral campaign are Republicans who voted for and still embrace Trump.

Cuomo’s Last-Minute Push Takes Him Into MAGA Territory

The former governor courts Trump fans, finding common ground in dire warnings about a future under Mayor Mamdani.

www.thecity.nyc

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 14h

pepe is trans. pass it on.

Kentucky Hills @meliakelley.bsky.social · 14h

Frogs can also naturally change genders, based on environmental pressures or unbalanced sex ratios. Not that fascist versus anti-fascist has anything to do with genders, but frogs are adaptable creatures and I love that about them.

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 14h

'Living room with my sister,' (1847) is one of several Adolph Menzel painted of rooms in his house at 18 Schöneberger Strasse in Berlin - private experiments in capturing different light sources, moonlight, late sun filtered through curtains and in this case, artificial light.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 15h

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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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 15h

Durbin is retiring but yeah.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 18h

Er how could it be the Democrats fault that the suburbs are (supposedly) overbuilt? Aren't NJ suburbs fairly conservative like in Illinois?

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Kate Duguid @kateduguid.bsky.social · 19h

If you missed it earlier this week, here's Claire's piece on what's happening in the room at Bessent's Fed chair interviews www.ft.com/content/6875...

Scott Bessent grilled Fed chair candidates on rates and quantitative easing

Trump administration ends first round of interviews to find replacement for Jay Powell

www.ft.com

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Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 19h

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 19h

reel gud brah, reel gud

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 20h

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 · 23h

“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.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire 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.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 22h

De minimis: "UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems: Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance" www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 22h

Booming business at Chicago Housing Authority — a total of almost $22M — for the boyfriend, sister and daughter of longtime CHA board member Debra Parker.

My new investigation for @wbez.org and @chicago.suntimes.com chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...

Chicago Housing Authority pays $22 million to companies tied to board member

The three vendors include longtime CHA Commissioner Debra Parker’s daughter, sister and boyfriend, shows a WBEZ investigation, but Parker says she hasn’t helped them.

chicago.suntimes.com

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 1d

feds have been all over chicagoland today.

reports of people abducted from back of the yards, cicero, rogers park, hermosa, barrington, batavia, and bridgeview.

feds are out in force in aurora. not sharing video, but residents have likewise turned out in force—and they aren't happy.

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uncle of the second class @nerves.bsky.social · 1d

I somewhat agree here, the degree to which there was a backlash against progressives, versus simply a backlash against progress *in general* isn't always clear.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

This is what they signed up for!

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 1d

Without provocation, masked federal agents indiscriminately shoot peaceful protesters with rubber bullets from the rooftop of the Portland ICE facility.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/

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