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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 11h

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 14h

Live from the Emergency Naked Bike Ride 🚲 where the crowd hase just erupted in cheers with the arrival of the Unipipier

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Kevin Sarver @kevinasarver.bsky.social · 10h

Our happy and goofy and lanky nephew Goose was over tonight. Dad Guy was giving out lots of treatums. 😊

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joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · 9h

Joyce Carol Oates, Sadie Stein, and Rachel Syme: A Celebration of Daphne du Maurier at the 92nd St. Y, NYC, October 15 at 7:30 PM.
looking forward to an exciting discussion of Daphne du Maurier with a focus on the Collected Short Stories.
hoping that some of you will join us.

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 9h

Don't tell me he hasn't recently been given a poor prognosis:

"I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven – I really don't. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

Donald Trump

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 10h

FWIW ICE is probably the least accessible federal agency I’ve ever covered, and that includes the CIA.

Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 10h

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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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h

"We expect veto power over the free exercise of the franchise by those we swore to serve and protect."

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 8h

I stand with Gov. Bob Ferguson and the state of Washington.

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 16h

🚨🚨🚨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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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 8h

Pursue objectivity, not neutrality – and certainly not propaganda. Support independent journalists.

Oscar&Felix @oscar-felix.bsky.social · 11h

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 7h

These are Crimes Against Humanity. Moreover, this is also wanton sadism. And sadism never exists in isolation – it's always accompanied by sociopathy-psychopathy (ASPD). The Republican party is institutionalizing-normalizing Antisocial Personality Disorder.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14h

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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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 12h

"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." Great essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Ellen Fitzpatrick @vaughnglenwood.bsky.social · 13h

There are stories I want to read, which I would think would be the authors' goal, but the publisher monetizes my personal information instead. So, an unread author.

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Kevin Sarver @kevinasarver.bsky.social · 14h

Dad Guy said to sit and to look as cute as possible. Think I nailed them both. 😊

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 14h

We’re starting yet another week where House Republicans are on paid vacation instead of in Washington working with us to end this shutdown.

Our health care system is about to go off a cliff. Get back here and help us find a solution.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 20h

Massive insider trading. Thirty minutes before Trump’s China tariff announcement, a crypto “whale” opened a $100M+ short on Bitcoin.

4:30 PM: Whale opens $100M+ BTC short
4:50 PM: Trump announces 100% tariffs on China
5:20 PM: $19.3 B in liquidations hit the market
The whale’s profit: $192 million

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14h

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill.

And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants.

Cashing in on cruelty.

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Ellen Fitzpatrick @vaughnglenwood.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans are not only okay with this, they want every Democrat dead or disappeared.

This is bloodlust.

Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

How it's going in Chicago

After ICE arrested US citizen and WGN Producer Debbie Brockman

Agents driving the white van cut off and hit another car, swarmed the vehicle at gunpoint, dragged out the driver-who is ALSO a citizen-and arrested her, too

Straight up fascism

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Agentes de ICE chocan contra el vehículo de una mujer y después la sacan a la fuerza para arrestarla. N Paulina St & W Schubert Ave, Chicago, IL 60614

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

How it's going in Chicago

After ICE arrested US citizen and WGN Producer Debbie Brockman

Agents driving the white van cut off and hit another car, swarmed the vehicle at gunpoint, dragged out the driver-who is ALSO a citizen-and arrested her, too

Straight up fascism

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8APPaBL/

Agentes de ICE chocan contra el vehículo de una mujer y después la sacan a la fuerza para arrestarla. N Paulina St & W Schubert Ave, Chicago, IL 60614

TikTok video by ¿ Qué Pasa ?

www.tiktok.com

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Ellen Fitzpatrick @vaughnglenwood.bsky.social · 16h

And Clarence Thomas says precedent doesn't matter.

If what has been adjudicated in the past has no value and what you do today doesn't answer the question, what's the value of your opinion?

John Roberts has a lot of help in bastardizing the Used-To-Be-Supreme Court.

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 17h

Commenting on the appearance of prominent women is generally bad, but what's with the Trump Look glowup with the wavy hair and makeup? All that's missing is the plumped lips.

Also they're using the shadow docket so they can give Trump anything he wants then retract it all for the next Dem president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

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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Ellen Fitzpatrick @vaughnglenwood.bsky.social · 19h

You listen to these Republicans and you know the sheer, unabashed lies are going to burst out of them like nesting monsters. Unfortunately, the Republicans seem to survive the infestation of evil. The truth is not in them, stinking seplechures.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19h

1) I once again take this opportunity to remind you: to keep its basic functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

2) is...is it happening?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back