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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

The sentiments we encounter in this group chat are not all that different from the kind of shit the more right-leaning Young Republicans in the Goldwater/Nixon era were saying. What's different is that there is no one left in the party willing to discipline these freaks. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 9h

“The upcoming No Kings has set off klaxons for Republican lawmakers…Some in party leadership are going further by branding it a pro-terrorism demonstration—an unambiguously false allegation meant to get ahead of a potentially massive protest against the president.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/no-kings-r...

‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray

Why GOP lawmakers are spreading fear about the upcoming rally.

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 6h

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 11h

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 11h

Fox News has intentionally jettisoned every last vestiage of journalistic integrity over the past 15 years, and to great effect. Now CBS News will compliment its status as a global shill for corporate authoritarianism and the politics that enable such.

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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 11h

ICE agents detained Masuma Khan during a check-in as the Trump administration's mass deportations continue.

ICE Holds Mom Petitioning for Green Card After Nearly 30 Years in US—Family

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 1d

Caveat emptor and all that.

"Regulators have begun opening the door for 401(k) savers to put money into semiliquid private-equity and credit funds."

🎁 The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929? | New York Times #finance #economy

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 1d

Caveat emptor and all that.

"Regulators have begun opening the door for 401(k) savers to put money into semiliquid private-equity and credit funds."

🎁 The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929? | New York Times #finance #economy

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?

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Dan Mihalopoulos @dmihalopoulos.bsky.social · 1d

This version is confirmed, by Hoffman Estates police, puncturing the official DHS statement.

At this point, there is a statement from DHS re 🧊 activities in the Chicago area that’s refuted in similar fashion on nearly a daily basis at a minimum over the past week

Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @congressmanraja.bsky.social · 1d

Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 1d

Crazed and dazed, almost on the level of Kash Patel.

Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI the current regime in DC, which brandishes Christianity as a defining feature, is precluding access to the Eucharist in its facilities. Are all federal prisons next?

Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility | America Magazine

Eucharistic procession turned back by feds at Broadview ICE detention facility

Jesuits and other Catholic and Christian clergy were turned back by ICE when they tried to bring the Eucharist to detained immigrants in Broadview, Ill.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump took office with a Israel-Hamas ceasefire in place, then announced a vision for Gaza as a US-owned resort, with most Palestinians living there gone. Israel restarted military ops in March and imposed famine. Thousands of dead Palestinians later, the Trump admin helped broker another ceasefire.

Opinion | Trump’s Nobel peace prize campaign is the least important part of the Gaza deal

If the ceasefire holds, the administration deserves much credit. But the fixation on Trump getting a prize distracts from things that actually matter.

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 1d

"The accelerating pace of coastal erosion and sea-level rise underscores an urgent need to explore managed retreat and other long-term adaptation strategies."

National report focuses on Oahu’s North Shore, calls for urgent action on coastlines | Honolulu Star-Advertiser @surfrider.org

National report focuses on Oahu’s North Shore, calls for urgent action on coastlines | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

A new national report from the Surfrider Foundation is spotlighting Oahu’s North Shore as a leading example of how communities can take the lead in confronting climate change — and calls for more urge...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

"Residents in Chicago and Portland are living in a police state where masked armed forces kidnap who they want to kidnap, where they have to listen to public officials routinely lie about what is happening in their neighborhoods." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 1d

"No gift of love is ever wasted."

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 1d

"When religion gets too cozy with political power it loses its prophetic voice... Religion at its best challenges the powers that be. Our calling as Christians is the demolition of domination...."

A New Way to Think About Religion and Politics @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social

A New Way to Think About Religion and Politics with James Talarico | American Conversations

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 1d

Starting at about the 4'50" mark: "We're in a complete crisis and collapse of American values.... We are losing a sense of the common good... We're on the verge of an imperial presidency..." And then there is the question of which Jesus American Christians follow...

Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 1d

Even though it was recorded six years ago, this conversation between Oprah Winfrey and Sister Joan Chittister is still very timely and speaks to the deep crises of these times.

"We are in trouble America."

Sister Joan Chittister: “The Time is Now” | Super Soul Sunday

Sister Joan Chittister: “The Time is Now” | Super Soul Sunday S9E8 | Full Episode | OWN

YouTube video by OWN

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Phil Mandelbaum @philmandelbaum.bsky.social · 2d

CDC layoffs mean an even greater need for *neighborhood* public health and safety solutions.

“Aim to build communities of people with longstanding friendships and experience acting together” - @crimethinc.com

www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/05/i...

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

Today I wrote about the importance of not falling into the trap of allowing career prosecutors to legitimize political prosecutions. Become a Democracy Docket member to receive all of my writings and other exclusive content while also supporting independent, pro-democracy media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

China begins charging port fees for US ships, exempts China-built ones reut.rs/4pZObdk

China begins charging port fees for US ships, exempts China-built ones

China has officially started collecting special port fees from U.S.-owned, operated, built, or flagged vessels on Tuesday but said Chinese-built ships would be exempted from it, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

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Nikos Leverenz @nikosleverenz.bsky.social · 1d

"If each person is not fundamentally separate from other beings, it follows that the suffering of others is also one’s own suffering, that the violence of others is also one’s own violence." --Kenneth Kraft #quotes @tricyclemag.bsky.social

We Are Not Separate

If each person is not fundamentally separate from other beings, it follows that the suffering of others is also one’s own suffering, that the violence of

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton’s “9 to 5 and Odd Jobs” includes a cover of Woody Guthrie’s “Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos),” written about a deportation flight crash that killed 28 migrant farm workers in 1948.

🎶 They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves 🎶

Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs on vinyl

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