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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 13h

the 65-year-old:

🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 13h

an administration ruling Congress with an “iron fist” would be able to pass a budget. Johnson is keeping the House in recess because things are going to go completely off the rails once Grijalva gets sworn in, and he knows it

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

“.. 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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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 14h

Senator Cassidy, go to hell

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 14h

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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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 14h

every part of this story is infuriating, but especially the part where the city argues that a man actively experiencing a stroke didn’t clearly explain he was having one and therefore the cops who arrested him aren’t responsible for his death in custody www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 15h

Democratic Senate candidate in Maine responds to WH defying Collins on RIFs

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Marxist-Glonzoist @primaryschool.bsky.social · 15h

I'm not sure how to amicably coexist in a country where half of my neighbors are this guy and the other half voted for this raid to happen

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15h

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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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 18h

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 16h

I do not think Halligan is going to be able to practice law at the end of this

Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 18h

INBOX: National Bar Association President Ashley L. Upkins calls the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James “unjust and dangerous” and a representation of "the continued weaponization of our nation’s justice system for political gain."

Full statement below:

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Tyler McBrien @tylermcbrien.com · 18h

INBOX: National Bar Association President Ashley L. Upkins calls the charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James “unjust and dangerous” and a representation of "the continued weaponization of our nation’s justice system for political gain."

Full statement below:

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h

Mamdani: This is a shameless act of political retribution. And instead of prosecuting Tish James for doing her job, Donald Trump should be doing his.…

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ti zhang @zerochilltea.bsky.social · 2d

so the frog is 卖娃青蛙。https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_23101624 it was designed by a mom with the last name Tong in Nanjing, inspired by the toad in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabas.... it is a mascot of 躺平culture (lay-flat, against capitalism)

Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 2d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1d

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 22h

Speaker Johnson just declared the House will remain in recess all next week. This will mark a full month off; the chamber has not been in session since September 19.

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 22h

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 23h

what

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 23h

I really do not want to hear that Democrats are the ones who don’t give a shit about federal workers as the House GOP extends their vacation

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 23h

House GOP just said they won't be back in Washington next week, so the shutdown probably goes at least until the week of Oct 20th.

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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 23h

America's unions will see you in court.

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M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray.bsky.social · 23h

Ladies and gentlemen, we did it. SB 79 has been signed.

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 23h

*violations of

🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 23h

it is extremely on-brand for this administration to try to execute RIFs they could have performed at any time between January and now during a period where they are legally prohibited from doing so. it is also typical of Vought to act like he has the authority to order gv’t-wide RIFs when he doesn’t

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 23h

obviously the administration won’t prosecute itself, but Democratic politicians should make clear that there is no statute of limitations for violations the Antideficiency Act, which carries criminal penalties

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 23h

since Russ Vought has declared government layoffs are underway, here’s @repwalkinshaw.bsky.social making it clear that the administration is prohibited by the Antideficiency Act from conducting RIFs during a shutdown: www.nextgov.com/people/2025/...

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spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 1d

If I were a DC reporter, I’d consider maybe pressing Johnson on how he reconciles these two statements.

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Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, l'm a very patient guy, but l'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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Mike Johnson: "People have got to stop framing simple policy disagreements in terms of existential threats to our democracy. You can't call the other side fascists and enemies of the state and not understand that there are some deranged people in our society who will take that as cues to act."

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 1d

you would never know from the way these shitheads talk that they are describing 75 million Americans

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🧨 primary everybody 🧨 🌻 @prowhaledad.bsky.social · 1d

they’re just taking their cues from Johnson, who earlier this morning went on Fox News to call the October 18th protests a “hate America” rally that is “pro-Hamas”

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Speaker Mike Johnson, standing next to Emmer here, urged Democrats less than a month ago to "turn down their rhetoric," saying, "Nazis and fascists is not helpful."

As such, striking to see him stand quietly as a fellow Republican insists there is a "terrorist wing" of the Democratic Party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "This is about one thing and one thing alone -- to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week."

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