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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 5h

"I tried to buy an inflatable frog costume for No Kings next weekend but they're backlogged. I'm taking this as a good sign."

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Axios @axios.com · 4h

About 600 CDC staff in offices dealing with health statistics, injury and violence prevention, congressional outreach and human resources are out of work as a result of the Trump administration's mass layoffs of agency workers Friday, sources familiar said.

CDC purge hits 600 workers in key offices despite reversals

The casualties include employees working on health statistics, injury and violence prevention, congressional outreach and human resources.

www.axios.com

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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 8h

Canadians will be protesting in solidarity with our American friends on October 18th at No Tyrants rallies in Vancouver, BC, as well as in Toronto and Ottawa, Ontario. Stronger together.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 8h

Work harder and die

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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 2h

Can someone do us a favor and tell Congress to stop being accomplices to the Trump Epstein scandal!

No more shutdown. No more cuts. No more hiding from the truth.

Tell Congress: Fully investigate the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case

Contact Congress today!

actionnetwork.org

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3h

The WH is laughing at Republicans in Congress, because they know they’re dog walking them.

Trump’s top advisers joke about ruling Congress w/an “iron fist.” Bannon compared the GOP-controlled House to the Russian Duma, a ceremonial rubber stamp.

They’re Trump’s puppets, and everyone knows it.

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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 2h

💪💪💪💪💪

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3h

ICE GOONS, laughing and pepper spraying Pastor after shooting him in the face with pepper balls, proceeded to gas the crowd who were trying to protect him.

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 5h

I can’t wait for Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem to tell us that this 13 year old boy was a very dangerous member of Tren de Aragua

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 4h

Why it's back in the news. Not even the corrupt Supreme Court wants to touch it.

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 9h

There is no amount of open corruption that will wake up Americans. That family has realized this crucial truth. They broke Senate, media and Supreme Court. Nobody dares to stand up. We live in a Republic of fear and cowardice.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 7h

If someone ever makes a documentary about Benny Johnson, I hope they call it "Dumb and Duma." www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Well-known right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation, U.S. prosecutors say

The accusations mark the third straight presidential election in which U.S. authorities have unveiled politically charged details about the Kremlin's attempted interference in U.S. politics.

www.pbs.org

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 10h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

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Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social · 2h

Trump fired most of the Department if Education office that oversees education for students with disabilities.

Just in case you wondered how the new eugenics movement was shaping up.

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ShoeHog @shoehog.bsky.social · 3h

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 4h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 11h

And that's how you do it

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Diane @dianesf.bsky.social · 9h

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 9h

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 7h

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

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Jacqs @fooyoo2.bsky.social · 4h

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 6h

That asshole fired all the people who help kids with disabilities in education.

Fuck him. Fuck everyone who enabled him

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h

We should mandate a work requirement for House Republicans to get their health care. How about they have to work at least one week a month to keep their government health insurance?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

if we are going to have a supreme court that is as powerful as it is, i basically think justices should be forbidden from public comment on their work as well as any supplemental source of income while they are on the bench. (they should also ride circuit again but that's a bit separate.)

Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12h

The substance of what she's saying is bad and unconvincing, but more fundamentally, I really don't think Supreme Court justices should be going on book tours where they publicly comment on their work and respond to criticism of it. Either put it in a written opinion or hold your peace.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 9h

Federal mortgage-fraud prosecutions are exceptionally rare. The amount allegedly at issue in the Letitia James case is so paltry that it would not normally draw the attention of federal prosecutors, @ruthmarcus.bsky.social writes.

The Indictment of Letitia James and the Collapse of Impartial Justice

The question raised by the prosecution of James is: would any other federal prosecutor have brought this case against any other defendant? The answer seems to be no.

www.newyorker.com

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