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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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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 3h

Efficiency!

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.”

By @megomatz.bsky.social & @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 14h

That seems exactly right. They're willing to overlook one "transgression" related to identity as long as you're just a messenger and not trying to exercise any political power. Core to the ideology is the question of who has a legitimate claim to wield that power.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

Don't threaten me with a good time

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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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 1d

It's notable that Hsiao is a career DOJ attorney. She isn't (or at least doesn't appear) to be some random hack they brought in to run the office. www.linkedin.com/in/hsiao-lis...

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Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social · 3d

Whoa big if true say more

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 3d

Replacing the crosswalk with a line of statues of Confederate generals and gay bashers, I assume?

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 3d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 3d

I'm directing the release of 100,000 gallons of Yikeses from our Strategic Yikes Reserve.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

thank you brett kavanaugh!

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 4d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 4d

Wait now I really need that feature that allows me to delete one of someone else's posts

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 5d

Oh good.

Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 5d

The CA5 Ten Commandments in school case goes en banc tonight.

The 3-judge (Haynes, Ramirez, Dennis) panel had affirmed the injunction against the law.

www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

www.ca5.uscourts.gov

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 5d

This, to me, is so telling. When proven wrong, Bari Weiss invites her critic on a podcast. The rotten fruit of the "debate" tree, the fetishization of debate as a conversation in which one "wins" or "loses," "owns" or is "owned." A side-effect of capitalism's anti-intellectual higher ed arms race.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 7d

(there aren't many rules about where cats do and don't belong in my house but "not on the cutting board" is definitely one)

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 7d

Two days into this trip and he's already running roughshod over the cat sitters. Got them wrapped around his paw.

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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 8d

Oh gee what an inconvenience to not be able to use a bathroom

What could that possibly feel like

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8d

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

We fought a revolution so that we would not be subject to the rule of a king who could make law by decree.

An executive order does not overturn the Constitution.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 8d

Trump calls for ICE and other cops to enforce his executive order banning flag burning, something that’s blatantly unconstitutional given Texas v Johnson (1989), which established flag burning as protected speech.

To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025
Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison. You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
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Texas Monthly @texasmonthly.bsky.social · 7d

David Barton calls church-state separation a myth. He’s now an adviser on state social studies curricula. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/david-barton-texas-public-school-curricula/

He Calls Church-State Separation a Myth. He’s Now Weighing In on Public School Curricula.

David Barton, far-right Christian activist and founder of Wallbuilders, has been appointed by Texas's board of education to advise on social studies instruction.

www.texasmonthly.com

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 8d

Awful convenient for Kristi Noem that her god cares more about who is performing at a football game and not about her ripping families apart, enabling the systemic abuse of children, and murdering innocent fishermen. Oh and her personally killing dogs.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 8d

Kristi Noem’s message to the NFL for selecting Bad Bunny for the halftime show:

“The NFL sucks and we’ll win and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe…”

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 8d

*4chan

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 8d

reddit occupied government

Ken Dilanian
@DilanianMSNBC
Follow
The challenge coins being handed out by @FBIDirectorKash. Seems someone put a lot of thought into this.

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Nick Fish @nickfish.me · 8d

Democrats, civil society, church-state advocates, and human rights groups were right.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 8d

OPINION by @stevebenen.com:

“A year later, we now know that Democrats were right.”

READ MORE:
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Trump picks a convenient time to change his tune about the Project 2025 agenda

Remember last year when Trump feigned ignorance about the right-wing governing blueprint? A year later, the president no longer bothers with the pretense.

www.msnbc.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 9d

I really need all of us to abandon any impostor syndrome. It’s time.

Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 9d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

www.mediaite.com

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